Optional. The user-provided custom service account to use to do the model upload. If empty, Vertex AI service Agent will be used to access resources needed to upload the model. This account must belong to the target project where the model is uploaded to, i.e., the project specified in the parent field of this request and have necessary read permissions (to Google Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry, etc.).
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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