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Cake for Classification

Classify text, images, or tabular records with high precision using open-source tools for training, evaluation, and deployment. Cake provides a modular, cloud-agnostic stack for running classification models at scale.

 

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Overview

Classification is one of the most common and critical machine learning tasks. Whether you’re routing tickets, flagging fraud, detecting sentiment, or tagging customer records, classification models help teams turn messy data into actionable signals.

With Cake, you can quickly build and deploy classification models using proven open-source components. Train using frameworks like PyTorch or XGBoost, manage experiments in MLflow, serve models through scalable endpoints with KServe or Triton, and monitor performance over time. Everything runs through Cake-native workflows for end-to-end orchestration.

Because everything is modular and cloud agnostic, you get full control over your stack without vendor lock-in. And with built-in support for lineage, versioning, and compliance, your models are easier to trust, reproduce, and improve over time.

Key benefits

  • Accelerate model deployment: Go from experimentation to production faster using pre-integrated open-source tools.

  • Adapt to your domain: Choose the best classification models and frameworks for your use case.

  • Run anywhere: Deploy across cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments with no lock-in.

  • Monitor performance and drift: Track metrics over time and surface when predictions start to degrade.

  • Build with compliance in mind: Capture model lineage, enable audits, and manage data access securely.

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Increase in
MLOps productivity

 

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Faster model deployment
to production

 

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Annual savings per
LLM project

THE CAKE DIFFERENCE

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From basic classifiers to production-grade
decision systems

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One-size-fits-all classifiers

Easy to spin up, hard to trust at scale: Generic models miss edge cases, drift quickly, and lack visibility.

  • Limited feature tuning and poor performance on domain-specific data
  • No explainability or confidence thresholds for high-stakes use cases
  • Hard to detect drift or retrain when labels evolve
  • Difficult to meet governance or compliance requirements
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Classification with Cake

Custom models with full visibility and lifecycle control: Cake gives teams the tools to train, evaluate, and serve high-accuracy classifiers in production environments.

  • Support for binary, multi-class, and multi-label classification
  • Built-in evals, monitoring, and model versioning
  • Integrates with real-time or batch systems for predictions
  • Role-based access control and audit logging out of the box

EXAMPLE USE CASES

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Teams use Cake’s classification stack to
automate decisions across structured
and unstructured data

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Customer sentiment analysis

Label incoming messages, emails, or reviews as positive, neutral, or negative to guide routing and prioritization.

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Support ticket triage

Automatically classify issues by topic, urgency, or product line to speed up response time and reduce manual overhead.

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Document or image categorization

Assign predefined tags to scanned forms, photos, or PDFs to streamline indexing and search.

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Fraudulent transaction detection

Classify financial transactions as legitimate or potentially fraudulent based on patterns in user behavior and payment data.

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Customer intent detection

Classify user messages or queries to determine intent (e.g., support request, complaint, sales inquiry) and route accordingly.

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Credit risk assessment

Classify loan applicants into risk tiers based on financial history, behavior, and demographic factors.

OBSERVABILITY

Track model accuracy and drift over time

Classification models need continuous monitoring to stay reliable. Learn how Cake’s observability stack helps teams trace predictions, detect degradation, and improve outcomes without manual guesswork.

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Go from training to production (but without the glue code)

Classification is just one part of the pipeline. See how Cake helps teams deploy models, route inference, and manage performance using open-source tools and a modular AI stack.

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"Our partnership with Cake has been a clear strategic choice – we're achieving the impact of two to three technical hires with the equivalent investment of half an FTE."

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Scott Stafford
Chief Enterprise Architect at Ping

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"With Cake we are conservatively saving at least half a million dollars purely on headcount."

CEO
InsureTech Company

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"Cake powers our complex, highly scaled AI infrastructure. Their platform accelerates our model development and deployment both on-prem and in the cloud"

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Felix Baldauf-Lenschen
CEO and Founder

Frequently asked questions

What is classification in machine learning?

Classification is a supervised learning task used to predict categories or labels. It powers use cases like spam detection, fraud prevention, sentiment analysis, document tagging, and customer segmentation.

How does Cake support classification models?

Can I run classification models across multiple environments?

How do I monitor classification performance?

Is Cake compliant for regulated industries?

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