Academics think of themselves as trailblazers, explorers - seekers of the truth. (more…)

Different approaches for improving performance and lowering power in ML systems. (more…)

If you’re like me, you’ve heard a lot about Gradient Descent. You’ve heard that it is a foundational algorithm for optimising functions which all self respecting Machine Learning techniques employ … (more…)

Google's Ali Rahimi put it bluntly in his NIPS presentation: “Machine learning has become alchemy." The words triggered Facebook's Yann LeCun to fight back. (more…)

This blog post introduces several improvements to PySpark that facilitate the development of custom ML algorithms and 3rd-party ML packages using Python. After introducing the main algorithm APIs in MLlib, we discuss current challenges in building custom ... (more…)