Scaling up Machine Learning

Parallel and Distributed Approaches

Ron Bekkerman, Mikhail Bilenko, John Langford

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780521192248
• eBook ISBN: 9781139210409
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
• Index: Computer Science

This book presents an integrated collection of representative approaches for scaling up machine learning and data mining methods on parallel and distributed computing platforms. Demand for parallelizing learning algorithms is highly task-specific: in some settings it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, in others by model complexity or by real-time performance requirements. Making task-appropriate algorithm and platform choices for large-scale machine learning requires understanding the benefits, trade-offs and constraints of the available options. Solutions presented in the book cover a range of parallelization platforms from FPGAs and GPUs to multi-core systems and commodity clusters, concurrent programming frameworks including CUDA, MPI, MapReduce and DryadLINQ, and learning settings (supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised and online learning). Extensive coverage of parallelization of boosted trees, SVMs, spectral clustering, belief propagation and other popular learning algorithms, and deep dives into several applications, make the book equally useful for researchers, students and practitioners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Scaling Up Machine Learning
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 Scaling Up Machine Learning: Introduction
• PART ONE I Frameworks for Scaling Up Machine Learning
• PART TWO Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Algorithms
• PART THREE Alternative Learning Settings
• PART FOUR Applications
• Subject Index