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Poster

Cyclades: Conflict-free Asynchronous Machine Learning

Xinghao Pan · Maximilian Lam · Stephen Tu · Dimitris Papailiopoulos · Ce Zhang · Michael Jordan · Kannan Ramchandran · Christopher RĂ© · Benjamin Recht

Area 5+6+7+8 #98

Keywords: [ Large Scale Learning and Big Data ] [ (Other) Optimization ]


Abstract:

We present Cyclades, a general framework for parallelizing stochastic optimization algorithms in a shared memory setting. Cyclades is asynchronous during model updates, and requires no memory locking mechanisms, similar to Hogwild!-type algorithms. Unlike Hogwild!, Cyclades introduces no conflicts during parallel execution, and offers a black-box analysis for provable speedups across a large family of algorithms. Due to its inherent cache locality and conflict-free nature, our multi-core implementation of Cyclades consistently outperforms Hogwild!-type algorithms on sufficiently sparse datasets, leading to up to 40% speedup gains compared to Hogwild!, and up to 5\times gains over asynchronous implementations of variance reduction algorithms.

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