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Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) platforms require re liable automation across data ingestion, cleaning, feature engi neering, model development, deployment, and post-deployment monitoring. However, existing LLM-based data science agents and AutoML systems mainly focus on isolated workflow stages, leaving limited support for lifecycle-level orchestration, artifact governance, human oversight, and drift-aware adaptation. This paper proposes a trustworthy self-composable BDaaS frame work based on LLM-orchestrated multi-agent collaboration. The proposed architecture decomposes the BDaaS lifecycle into specialized agents for data ingestion, data cleaning, feature engineering, AutoML training, model evaluation, MLOps de ployment, monitoring, and drift detection. A central LLM or chestration layer coordinates agent execution, validates interme diate outputs, manages workflow context, and enables dynamic workflow composition. The framework also incorporates shared artifact governance, reproducibility support, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and drift-aware feedback loops. A prototype-based evaluation is conducted using controlled tabular benchmark datasets with missing values, categorical variables, outliers, class imbalance, and simulated covariate drift. Compared with manual ML, AutoML-only, and single-agent LLM baselines, the pro posed multi-agent BDaaS pipeline achieves competitive predictive performance while improving lifecycle-level reliability, including workflow completion, artifact traceability, deployment readiness, reproducibility, and drift recovery. The results suggest that LLM-orchestrated multi-agent systems can extend conventional AutoML toward trustworthy, adaptive, and production-oriented BDaaS lifecycle automation.
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Why this is worth your attention
This paper is less about making a smarter model and more about automating the messy operating layer around data products: ingestion, cleaning, model selection, deployment packaging, monitoring, approvals, and rollback. If the approach works outside a controlled prototype, BDaaS and AutoML offerings will be judged less by leaderboard performance and more by whether they can run a governed lifecycle with auditable handoffs and drift response. The evidence is promising but early: the reported gains are strongest on workflow reliability, while the tests remain small, tabular, and simulated rather than production-grade.
- The predictive lift over AutoML is modest, but the bigger claim is operational: fewer broken handoffs, complete artifact trails, and deployment-ready outputs. Treat this as a challenge to the assumption that AutoML value is mainly about choosing a better model.
- For BDaaS, AutoML, or agent-platform vendors, ask how they manage artifacts, approvals, rollback, and lineage across the full pipeline—not just whether they can generate code or train a model. The paper’s architecture makes governance a product requirement, not an after-the-fact compliance layer.
- The most business-relevant test is whether these systems can detect data drift, route the right approvals, retrain or recalibrate, and document the change without turning into a manual fire drill. Here, that worked in simulation; real adoption should require the same loop on live enterprise data.
- If this pattern holds, data and ML teams spend less time stitching pipelines and more time approving high-risk decisions such as feature removal, deployment release, and drift response. That changes staffing needs: process design, auditability, and exception handling become as important as notebook-level modeling skill.
- The evidence comes from a controlled local prototype on tabular benchmarks, with simulated drift and no production-scale cost, latency, security, or integration testing. The full pipeline was also slower than simpler baselines in the prototype, so the business case depends on reduced rework and governance gains, not raw runtime.
Evidence ledger
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The framework uses a central LLM orchestrator to coordinate specialized agents across data ingestion, cleaning, feature engineering, AutoML, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and drift detection.
The prototype shows modest predictive-performance gains over AutoML-only and single-agent LLM baselines on classification benchmarks.
The largest reported gains are in lifecycle reliability metrics such as completion, traceability, and deployment readiness.
The evaluation is not yet strong evidence for production deployment across varied enterprise data and infrastructure environments.
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