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=== Things to remember ===
 
=== Things to remember ===
  
* TBA
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* Architecture of a generic parameter server (PS), with get/put access to parameters
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* Pros/cons of asynchronous ''vs'' bounded asynchronous ''vs'' fully synchronous PS
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* Pros/cons of PS model versus Hadoop plus IPM
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* Stale synchronous parallel (SSP) computation model
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* Data-parallel versus model-parallel algorithms
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** Data-parallel example: SGD on sharded data
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** Model-parallel example: Lasso accounting for parameter dependencies and parameter importance

Revision as of 18:17, 28 November 2016

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Machine Learning with Large Datasets 10-605 in Fall_2016.

Slides


Quiz

Optional Readings

Things to remember

  • Architecture of a generic parameter server (PS), with get/put access to parameters
  • Pros/cons of asynchronous vs bounded asynchronous vs fully synchronous PS
  • Pros/cons of PS model versus Hadoop plus IPM
  • Stale synchronous parallel (SSP) computation model
  • Data-parallel versus model-parallel algorithms
    • Data-parallel example: SGD on sharded data
    • Model-parallel example: Lasso accounting for parameter dependencies and parameter importance