招待講演: Strategies & Principles for Distributed Machine Learning
Eric Xing, カーネギーメロン大
The rise of Big Data has led to new demands for Machine Learning (ML) systems to learn complex models with millions to billions of parameters that promise adequate capacity to digest massive datasets and offer powerful predictive analytics (such as high-dimensional latent features, intermediate representations, and decision functions) thereupon. In order to run ML algorithms at such scales, on a distributed cluster with 10s to 1000s of machines, it is often the case that significant engineering efforts are required — and one might fairly ask if such engineering truly falls within the domain of ML research or not. Taking the view that Big ML systems can indeed benefit greatly from ML-rooted statistical and algorithmic insights — and that ML researchers should therefore not shy away from such systems design — we discuss a series of principles and strategies distilled from our resent effort on industrial-scale ML solutions that involve a continuum from application, to engineering, and to theoretical research and development of Big ML system and architecture, on how to make them efficient, general, and with convergence and scaling guarantees. These principles concern four key questions which traditionally receive little attention in ML research: How to distribute an ML program over a cluster? How to bridge ML computation with inter-machine communication? How to perform such communication? What should be communicated between machines? By exposing underlying statistical and algorithmic characteristics unique to ML programs but not typical in traditional computer programs, and by dissecting successful cases of how we harness these principles to design both high-performance distributed ML software and general-purpose ML framework, we present opportunities for ML researchers and practitioners to further shape and grow the area that lies between ML and systems.
企画セッション1: 統計理論
- 順序構造上の情報幾何的解析
大阪大学 杉山麿人
順序構造は,数学や計算機科学における本質的な階層構造のひとつ
順序構造上の確率分布がなす空間には,双対平坦な構造が自然に導
- 頻度論とベイズをつなぐ統計的信頼度
大阪大学 下平英寿
統計的仮説検定の頻度論的信頼度(p-値)は科学的方法において
- 低ランクテンソルの学習理論と計算理論
東京工業大学情報理工学院/JSTさきがけ 鈴木大慈
テンソルは複数のデータソース間の関係を記述するのに有用なデー