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Approximation And Relaxation Approaches For Parallel And Distributed Machine Learning, Stephen Tyree
Approximation And Relaxation Approaches For Parallel And Distributed Machine Learning, Stephen Tyree
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Large scale machine learning requires tradeoffs. Commonly this tradeoff has led practitioners to choose simpler, less powerful models, e.g. linear models, in order to process more training examples in a limited time. In this work, we introduce parallelism to the training of non-linear models by leveraging a different tradeoff--approximation. We demonstrate various techniques by which non-linear models can be made amenable to larger data sets and significantly more training parallelism by strategically introducing approximation in certain optimization steps.
For gradient boosted regression tree ensembles, we replace precise selection of tree splits with a coarse-grained, approximate split selection, yielding both faster …