PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce

Summary: PLANET leverages MapReduce to train tree ensembles on massive datasets using commodity hardware. It frames tree learning as distributed MapReduce steps, enabling scalable construction of classification/regression trees and ensembles on commodity clusters, demonstrated on computational advertising. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10096
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 8.4143663e-05
Overall Rank: 2,560 | 82.44%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687632

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Authors

1. Biswanath Panda (Google)
2. Joshua S. Herbach (Google)
3. Sugato Basu (Google)
4. Roberto J. Bayardo (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{panda_vldb09,
        title = {{PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce}},
        author = {Panda, Biswanath and Herbach, Joshua S. and Basu, Sugato and Bayardo, Roberto J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        volume = {2},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1426--1437},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687632},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687632},
        year = {2009}
}

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2,159	Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment	2011	SIGMOD	9.061086e-05
2,273	SliceLine: Fast, Linear-Algebra-based Slice Finding for ML Model Debugging	2021	SIGMOD	8.8230899e-05
2,347	Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database	2020	SIGMOD	8.7157552e-05
2,539	Minimal MapReduce Algorithms	2013	SIGMOD	8.4526595e-05
4,023	Smurf: Self-Service String Matching Using Random Forests	2019	VLDB	6.949387e-05
7,168	Optimization for iterative queries on MapReduce	2014	VLDB	5.6841364e-05
7,170	Lowering the Latency of Data Processing Pipelines Through FPGA based Hardware Acceleration	2020	VLDB	5.6840081e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
443	Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00018373044
1,485	SPRINT: A Scalable Parallel Classifier for Data Mining	1996	VLDB	0.00010628998
1,994	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.3409624e-05
2,810	BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction	1999	SIGMOD	8.0985732e-05

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