Yes. It is the Stanford optimization algorithm.
On Saturday, August 17, 2013, Nat wrote: > Hi, > > I am tempted to think it is from > http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/papers/pdf/admm_slides.pdf > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Ameet Talwalkar > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> Our upcoming release will include the Alternating Least Squares algorithm >> for Collaborative filtering. There are of course several other techniques >> for CF (e.g., SGD-based, trace-norm, neighborhood methods, >> divide-and-conquer approaches, etc.), and we hope that some of these >> methods will be added, with initial implementations facilitated by the >> high-level abstractions provided by the MLI. >> >> We are looking into adding neural network functionality (as noted in my >> previous email). >> >> Could you explain what you mean by "ADM" -- I'm not familiar with that >> acronym? >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Gowtham N >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> > wrote: >> >>> Is anyone working on neural networks, ADM, Collaborative Filtering etc? >>> >>> >> > -- Gowtham Natarajan
