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Telecom ML Framework

Production-Ready Framework for Telecom AI/ML Solutions

XGBoost LightGBM SHAP Optuna Pandas Seaborn Pydantic Cookiecutter
2024 - 2025
Python 3.11
ML Framework & Portfolio

Overview

Telecom ML Framework is a production-ready framework for building AI/ML solutions to real-world telecom challenges, emphasizing domain expertise and practical problem-solving. It provides 6 production-ready ML project templates covering the most common telecom AI/ML use cases with complete technical specifications.

The framework includes domain-informed data generators embedding real telecom physics (SINR, QoE, congestion patterns), unified technical standards ensuring consistency across projects (dependencies, plotting, interpretability), and portfolio documentation demonstrating domain expertise and ML problem-solving approach.

This is a FRAMEWORK, not an implementation. It serves as both a project template generator for rapid ML project creation and a portfolio documentation hub showcasing telecom domain expertise applied to ML. All templates enforce SHAP-compatible versions and unified plotting standards.

Key Achievement: Created comprehensive ML framework with 6 fully-specified use cases, production-ready templates, and domain-informed data generation, demonstrating end-to-end ML thinking from problem framing to business impact

Key Metrics & Results

6
Use Cases
100%
Template Coverage
SHAP
Compatible
Domain
Informed

Problem Statement

Telecom professionals transitioning to AI/ML need structured project templates. Data scientists entering telecom domain need problem framing guidance. ML engineers building telecom analytics solutions need domain-informed data generators. Portfolio builders need to demonstrate end-to-end ML thinking.

Business Context

Building production ML solutions requires proper problem framing, domain expertise, and technical standards. Off-the-shelf synthetic data lacks telecom physics. Inconsistent project structures hinder collaboration. Missing interpretability prevents business adoption.

Technical Challenges

Solution Architecture

A framework architecture: (1) 6 Use Case Specifications with problem framing, data requirements, model architectures, (2) Project Template with Python package structure, notebook templates, data generators, (3) Domain-Informed Data Generators embedding telecom physics, (4) Unified Technical Standards (SHAP compatibility, plotting, testing), (5) Portfolio Documentation demonstrating domain expertise.

System Components

Six Use Case Specifications

Complete specs for: Churn Prediction, Root Cause Analysis, Anomaly Detection, QoE Prediction, Capacity Forecasting, Network Optimization. Each includes problem framing, ML approach, key challenges, and outputs.

Production-Ready Project Template

Python package structure with config.py, data_generator.py, features.py, models.py. Includes notebook templates, test templates, and pyproject.toml with SHAP-compatible dependencies.

Domain-Informed Data Generators

Hand-crafted generators embedding real telecom physics: SINR, Shannon capacity, congestion patterns. Control data quality and realism while maintaining interpretability.

Unified Technical Standards

Enforces Python 3.11+, uv dependency management, SHAP-compatible versions (numpy<2.0, xgboost<2.0), unified Seaborn plotting, pytest testing, Ruff linting.

Technology Stack Rationale

Python 3.11+ for modern language features. uv for fast, deterministic dependency management. SHAP-compatible versions ensure interpretability. Seaborn with context switching for notebook vs presentation. Domain-informed generators demonstrate expertise vs generic synthetic data.

Implementation Highlights

Key Features

Detailed Code Documentation

Deep dive into the technical implementation with annotated code examples

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Challenges & Solutions

Challenge 1

Framing business problems as well-defined ML tasks

Solution

Created detailed use case specifications with problem framing, ML approach, key challenges, and expected outputs. Each spec includes forbidden data (temporal leakage prevention) and label definitions.

Challenge 2

Generating realistic telecom data with proper physics

Solution

Built hand-crafted data generators embedding real telecom physics: SINR calculations, Shannon capacity, congestion patterns. Every data point has clear causal story, maintaining interpretability.

Challenge 3

Ensuring consistency across ML projects

Solution

Enforced unified technical standards: Python 3.11+, uv dependency management, SHAP-compatible versions, unified Seaborn plotting, pytest testing. Template provides consistent structure.

Challenge 4

Preventing temporal leakage in time-series problems

Solution

Specifications explicitly define forbidden data (future information). Template includes temporal cross-validation guidance. Data generators respect temporal ordering.

Results & Impact

Created comprehensive ML framework with 6 fully-specified use cases covering most common telecom ML problems. Production-ready templates enable rapid project creation. Domain-informed generators demonstrate expertise. Unified standards ensure consistency. Portfolio documentation showcases end-to-end ML thinking.

Production Performance

  • 6 use cases fully specified with problem framing and model recommendations
  • Production-ready project template with complete structure
  • Domain-informed data generators with telecom physics
  • Unified technical standards (SHAP compatibility, plotting, testing)
  • Complete documentation demonstrating domain expertise

Lessons Learned

What Worked Well

What I'd Do Differently

Future Enhancements

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