Large Scale Machine Learning and Other Animals

Last month I was vising Toyota Technological Institure in Chicago, where I was generously hosted by Tamir Hazan and Joseph Keshet . I heard...

This blog post is outdated. The new SVD instructions have moved here: http://docs.graphlab.org/collaborative_filtering.html

As you may now, SVD is a topic which constantly comes up in my blog. This is a chicken and egg problem: as more I work on SVD, I get more re...

A few days ago I asked a physicist friend of mine, Doron Naveh, from the Nano Dept at CMU which is the best MPI based package for solving e...

As I am getting more questions about using GraphLab SVD I thought about elaborating some more. This is an email I got from Ehtsham Elahi, ...

Here is an interesting blog post from Igor Carron, which tries to answer my question: is it possible to implement a large scale randomized...

It seems I struck some nerve, since I am getting a lot of comments about this blog post. First, here is an email I got from Bryan , Resear...

About two weeks ago, I got a note from Tom Mitchell , head of the Machine Learning Dept. at Carnegie Mellon University, that he is looking f...

A while ago, I examined Mahout's parallel machine learning toolbox mailing list, and found out that a majority of the questions where a...

In the last couple of months, we are working on increasing compatibility of GraphLab large scale machine learning project, with Apache Mahou...

I have now implemented the Lanczos algorithm in GraphLab, as part of GraphLab's collaborative filtering library . Here are some perf...

One of the interesting questions is: "what are the most useful machine learning algorithms?". I did a little survey by looking at...

I was testing Mahout's SVD code and I encountered some subtleties. I wonder if I am missing anything or is there a bug in the code? 1...

Converting Mahout's SVD Distributed Matrix Factorization Solver Output Format into CSV format Purpose The code below, shows how to co...

Converting Input Format into Mahout's SVD Distributed Matrix Factorization Solver Purpose The code below, converts a matrix from csv ...