3 papers
cs.LG2020
Experimental Design for Bathymetry Editing
Julaiti Alafate, Yoav Freund, David T. Sandwell +1
We describe an application of machine learning to a real-world computer assisted labeling task. Our experimental results expose significant deviations from the IID assumption commo…
cs.LG2019
Faster Boosting with Smaller Memory
Julaiti Alafate, Yoav Freund
State-of-the-art implementations of boosting, such as XGBoost and LightGBM, can process large training sets extremely fast. However, this performance requires that the memory size…
cs.LG2018
Tell Me Something New: A New Framework for Asynchronous Parallel Learning
Julaiti Alafate, Yoav Freund
We present a novel approach for parallel computation in the context of machine learning that we call "Tell Me Something New" (TMSN). This approach involves a set of independent wor…