Class meeting for 10-605 2013 02 13

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Machine Learning with Large Datasets 10-605 in Spring_2013.

Slides

• Map-reduce-like frameworks and wrappers
  • Slides in Powerpoint

• Stochastic gradient descent for logistic regression
  • Slides in Powerpoint

Readings for the Class

• Pigs Bees and Elephants (web page)
• William's notes on SGD
• Lazy Sparse Stochastic Gradient Descent for Regularized Multinomial Logistic Regression, Carpenter, Bob. 2008. See also his blog post on logistic regression.

Optional readings

• I also recommend Charles Elkan's notes on logistic regression (local saved copy).