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Parallel SGD: When does averaging help?
Jian Zhang, Christopher De Sa, Ioannis Mitliagkas +1
Consider a number of workers running SGD independently on the same pool of data and averaging the models every once in a while -- a common but not well understood practice. We stud…
cs.LG2016
Scan Order in Gibbs Sampling: Models in Which it Matters and Bounds on How Much
Bryan He, Christopher De Sa, Ioannis Mitliagkas +1
Gibbs sampling is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling technique that iteratively samples variables from their conditional distributions. There are two common scan orders for the va…