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More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server

Qirong Ho,James Cipar,6 Authors,E. Xing

2013 · DBLP: conf/nips/HoCCLKGGGX13
Neural Information Processing Systems · 796 Citations

TLDR

A parameter server system for distributed ML, which follows a Stale Synchronous Parallel (SSP) model of computation that maximizes the time computational workers spend doing useful work on ML algorithms, while still providing correctness guarantees.