4 Automatic differentiation is the primary means of obtaining analytic5 derivatives from a numerical model given as a computer program. There-6 fore, it is an essential productivi...
In recent years the computing power of graphics cards has increased significantly. Indeed, the growth in the computing power of these graphics cards is now several orders of magn...
All Netflix Prize algorithms proposed so far are prohibitively costly for large-scale production systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient dataflow implementation of a coll...
Srivatsava Daruru, Nena M. Marin, Matt Walker, Joy...
The Cross-Entropy (CE) method is a modern and effective optimization method well suited to parallel implementations. There is a vast array of problems today, some of which are hig...
Gareth E. Evans, Jonathan M. Keith, Dirk P. Kroese
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...