diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/__init__.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/__init__.py
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index 000000000000..cce3acad34a4
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+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/sklearn_side_inputs.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/sklearn_side_inputs.py
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+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/inference/side_input_examples/sklearn_side_inputs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# pylint: skip-file
+
+import argparse
+from typing import Iterable
+from typing import List
+from typing import Tuple
+
+import apache_beam as beam
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import KeyedModelHandler
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import PredictionResult
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import RunInference
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.sklearn_inference import SklearnModelHandlerNumpy
+from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import PipelineOptions
+from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import SetupOptions
+from apache_beam.transforms import window
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.utils import WatchFilePattern
+
+
+def process_input(row: str) -> Tuple[int, List[int]]:
+  data = row.split(',')
+  label, pixels = int(data[0]), data[1:]
+  pixels = [int(pixel) for pixel in pixels]
+  return label, pixels
+
+
+class PostProcessor(beam.DoFn):
+  """Process the PredictionResult to get the predicted label.
+  Returns a comma separated string with true label and predicted label.
+  """
+  def process(self, element: Tuple[int, PredictionResult]) -> Iterable[str]:
+    label, prediction_result = element
+    prediction = prediction_result.inference
+    yield '{},{}'.format(label, prediction)
+
+
+def run(argv=None, save_main_session=True, test_pipeline=None):
+  """Entry point for running the pipeline."""
+  known_args, pipeline_args = parse_known_args(argv)
+  pipeline_options = PipelineOptions(pipeline_args)
+  pipeline_options.view_as(SetupOptions).save_main_session = save_main_session
+
+  interval = known_args.interval
+  file_pattern = known_args.file_pattern
+
+  pipeline = test_pipeline
+  if not test_pipeline:
+    pipeline = beam.Pipeline(options=pipeline_options)
+
+  si_pcoll = pipeline | WatchFilePattern(
+      file_pattern=file_pattern,
+      interval=interval,
+      default_value=known_args.model_path)
+
+  model_handler = KeyedModelHandler(
+      SklearnModelHandlerNumpy(model_uri=known_args.model_path))
+
+  label_pixel_tuple = (
+      pipeline
+      | "ReadFromPubSub" >> beam.io.ReadFromPubSub(known_args.topic)
+      | "ApplyMainInputWindow" >> beam.WindowInto(
+          beam.transforms.window.FixedWindows(interval))
+      | "Decode" >> beam.Map(lambda x: x.decode('utf-8'))
+      | "PreProcessInputs" >> beam.Map(process_input))
+
+  predictions = (
+      label_pixel_tuple
+      | "RunInference" >> RunInference(
+          model_handler=model_handler, model_path_pcoll=si_pcoll)
+      | "PostProcessOutputs" >> beam.ParDo(PostProcessor()))
+
+  predictions | beam.Map(print)
+
+  # _ = predictions | "WriteOutput" >> beam.io.WriteToText(
+  #     known_args.output, shard_name_template='', append_trailing_newlines=True)
+
+  result = pipeline.run().wait_until_finish()
+  return result
+
+
+def parse_known_args(argv):
+  """Parses args for the workflow."""
+  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--input',
+      dest='input',
+      required=True,
+      help='text file with comma separated int values.')
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--output',
+      dest='output',
+      required=True,
+      help='Path to save output predictions.')
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--model_path',
+      dest='model_path',
+      required=True,
+      help='Path to load the Sklearn model for Inference.')
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--topic',
+      default='projects/apache-beam-testing/topics/anandinguva-model-updates',
+      help='Path to Pub/Sub topic.')
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--file_pattern',
+      default='gs://apache-beam-ml/tmp/side_input_test/*.pickle',
+      help='Glob pattern to watch for an update.')
+  parser.add_argument(
+      '--interval',
+      default=360,
+      type=int,
+      help='interval used to look for updates on a given file_pattern.')
+  return parser.parse_known_args(argv)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  run()
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/utils.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/utils.py
index f30d8a8f6486..db41a00fde99 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/utils.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/utils.py
@@ -19,13 +19,27 @@
 """
 Util/helper functions used in apache_beam.ml.inference.
 """
+import os
+from functools import partial
 from typing import Any
 from typing import Dict
 from typing import Iterable
+from typing import List
 from typing import Optional
+from typing import Tuple
 from typing import Union
 
+import apache_beam as beam
+from apache_beam.io.fileio import MatchContinuously
+from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import ModelMetdata
 from apache_beam.ml.inference.base import PredictionResult
+from apache_beam.transforms import window
+from apache_beam.transforms import trigger
+from apache_beam.transforms.userstate import CombiningValueStateSpec
+from apache_beam.utils.timestamp import MAX_TIMESTAMP
+from apache_beam.utils.timestamp import Timestamp
+
+_START_TIME_STAMP = Timestamp.now()
 
 
 def _convert_to_result(
@@ -46,3 +60,109 @@ def _convert_to_result(
         y in zip(batch, predictions_per_tensor)
     ]
   return [PredictionResult(x, y, model_id) for x, y in zip(batch, predictions)]
+
+
+class _CoverIterToSingleton(beam.DoFn):
+  """
+  Internal only; No backwards compatibility.
+
+  The MatchContinuously transform examines all files present in a given
+  directory and returns those that have timestamps older than the
+  pipeline's start time. This can produce an Iterable rather than a
+  Singleton. This class only returns the file path when it is first
+  encountered, and it is cached as part of the side input caching mechanism.
+  If the path is seen again, it will not return anything.
+  By doing this, we can ensure that the output of this transform can be wrapped
+  with beam.pvalue.AsSingleton().
+  """
+  COUNT_STATE = CombiningValueStateSpec('count', combine_fn=sum)
+
+  def process(self, element, count_state=beam.DoFn.StateParam(COUNT_STATE)):
+    counter = count_state.read()
+    if counter == 0:
+      count_state.add(1)
+      yield element[1]
+
+
+class _GetLatestFileByTimeStamp(beam.DoFn):
+  """
+  Internal only; No backwards compatibility.
+
+  This DoFn checks the timestamps of files against the time that the pipeline
+  began running. It returns the files that were modified after the pipeline
+  started. If no such files are found, it returns a default file as fallback.
+
+  """
+  TIME_STATE = CombiningValueStateSpec(
+      'count', combine_fn=partial(max, default=_START_TIME_STAMP))
+
+  def __init__(self, default_value):
+    self._default_value = default_value
+
+  def process(
+      self, element, time_state=beam.DoFn.StateParam(TIME_STATE)
+  ) -> List[Tuple[str, ModelMetdata]]:
+    path, file_metadata = element
+    new_ts = file_metadata.last_updated_in_seconds
+    old_ts = time_state.read()
+    if new_ts > old_ts:
+      time_state.clear()
+      time_state.add(new_ts)
+      return [(
+          path,
+          ModelMetdata(
+              model_id=file_metadata.path,
+              model_name=os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(
+                  file_metadata.path))[0]))]
+    else:
+      path_short_name = None
+      if self._default_value:
+        path_short_name = os.path.splitext(
+            os.path.basename(self._default_value))[0]
+      return [(
+          self._default_value,
+          ModelMetdata(
+              model_id=self._default_value, model_name=path_short_name))]
+
+
+class WatchFilePattern(beam.PTransform):
+  def __init__(
+      self,
+      file_pattern,
+      interval=360,
+      stop_timestamp=MAX_TIMESTAMP,
+      default_value=None,
+  ):
+    """
+    Watch for updates using the file pattern using MatchContinuously transform.
+
+    Note: Start timestamp will be defaulted to timestamp when pipeline was run.
+      All the files matching file_pattern, that are uploaded before the
+      pipeline started will be discarded.
+
+      Args:
+        file_pattern: The file path to read from.
+        interval: Interval at which to check for files in seconds.
+        stop_timestamp: Timestamp after which no more files will be checked.
+    """
+    self.file_pattern = file_pattern
+    self.interval = interval
+    self.stop_timestamp = stop_timestamp
+    self._latest_timestamp = None
+    self._default_value = default_value
+
+  def expand(self, pcoll) -> beam.PCollection[ModelMetdata]:
+    return (
+        pcoll
+        | 'MatchContinuously' >> MatchContinuously(
+            file_pattern=self.file_pattern,
+            interval=self.interval,
+            stop_timestamp=self.stop_timestamp)
+        | "AttachKey" >> beam.Map(lambda x: (x.path, x))
+        | "GetLatestFileMetaData" >> beam.ParDo(
+            _GetLatestFileByTimeStamp(default_value=self._default_value))
+        | "AcceptNewSideInputOnly" >> beam.ParDo(_CoverIterToSingleton())
+        | 'ApplyGlobalWindow' >> beam.transforms.WindowInto(
+            window.GlobalWindows(),
+            trigger=trigger.AfterProcessingTime(1),
+            accumulation_mode=trigger.AccumulationMode.DISCARDING))