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Petuum: A New Platform for Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data

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Xing, Eric P., Ho, Qirong, Dai, Wei, Kim, Jin Kyu, Wei, Jinliang, Lee, Seunghak, Zheng, Xun, Xie, Pengtao, Kumar, Abhimanu, Yu, Yaoliang·2015·IEEE Transactions on Big Data

Abstract

What is a systematic way to efficiently apply a wide spectrum of advanced ML programs to industrial scale problems, using Big Models (up to 100 s of billions of parameters) on Big Data (up to terabytes or petabytes)? Modern parallelization strategies employ fine-grained operations and scheduling beyond the classic bulk-synchronous processing paradigm popularized by MapReduce, or even specialized graph-based execution that relies on graph representations of ML programs. The variety of approaches tends to pull systems and algorithms design in different directions, and it remains difficult to find a universal platform applicable to a wide range of ML programs at scale. We propose a general-purpose framework, Petuum, that systematically addresses data- and model-parallel challenges in large-scale ML, by observing that many ML programs are fundamentally optimization-centric and admit error-tolerant, iterative-convergent algorithmic solutions. This presents unique opportunities for an integrative system design, such as bounded-error network synchronization and dynamic scheduling based on ML program structure. We demonstrate the efficacy of these system designs versus well-known implementations of modern ML algorithms, showing that Petuum allows ML programs to run in much less time and at considerably larger model sizes, even on modestly-sized compute clusters.

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Authors
Xing, E. P., Ho, Q., Dai, W., Kim, J. K., Wei, J., Lee, S., Zheng, X., Xie, P., Kumar, A., & Yu, Y.
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Big Data
Published
2015-06-01
Volume
1
Issue
2
Pages
49-67
ISSN
2332-7790 (ISSN-L)
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388
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105.41
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journal article
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en
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Xing, E. P., Ho, Q., Dai, W., Kim, J. K., Wei, J., Lee, S., Zheng, X., Xie, P., Kumar, A., & Yu, Y. (2015). Petuum: A New Platform for Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbdata.2015.2472014

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