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Efficient learning of neighbor representations for boundary trees and forests
Tharindu Adikari, Stark C. Draper
We introduce a semiparametric approach to neighbor-based classification. We build off the recently proposed Boundary Trees algorithm by Mathy et al.(2015) which enables fast neighb…
Anytime Stochastic Gradient Descent: A Time to Hear from all the Workers
Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper
In this paper, we focus on approaches to parallelizing stochastic gradient descent (SGD) wherein data is farmed out to a set of workers, the results of which, after a number of upd…
Exploitation of Stragglers in Coded Computation
Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark C. Draper
In cloud computing systems slow processing nodes, often referred to as "stragglers", can significantly extend the computation time. Recent results have shown that error correction…
Hierarchical Coded Computation
Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper
Coded computation is a method to mitigate "stragglers" in distributed computing systems through the use of error correction coding that has lately received significant attention. F…