For linear SVM, gradient descent is a fine algorithm.  If you go into this
work, I would recommend that you implement an all-reduce operation since
iterated map-reduce is very inefficient.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Aditya Sarawgi
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks Todd for the pointer. I actually had one more paper in mind, and its
> from
> the original author of SVM
> http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/nips-2004c.pdf
>
> I think this makes more sense for mapreduce. I am open to other suggestions
> or
> algorithms.
>
> Thanks
> Aditya Sarawgi
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Todd Johnson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > The authors of that paper don't believe their algorithm is a good
> candidate
> > for mapreduce. See:
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/psvm/browse_thread/thread/cedd3a6caef0f9c9#
> >
> > todd.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Aditya Sarawgi <
> [email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am looking to implement psvm for Mahout as a part of of my
> coursework.
> > > The reference paper is
> > > http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips20/NIPS2007_0435.pdf
> > > and there is a implementation over http://code.google.com/p/psvm/which
> > > uses MPI.
> > > Any ideas, pointers are much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Aditya Sarawgi
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Aditya Sarawgi
>

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