MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System

Summary: MLbase offers a declarative interface and high-level operators so ML researchers can implement scalable algorithms without low-level distributed-systems expertise. Novelty: an optimizer that selects and dynamically adapts learning algorithms and an operator-aware runtime tuned to their data-access patterns. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 185
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00017072641
Overall Rank: 532 | 96.36%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
2. Ameet Talwalkar (University of California, Berkeley)
3. John Duchi (University of California, Berkeley)
4. Rean Griffith (VMware)
5. Michael J. Franklin (University of California, Berkeley)
6. Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kraska_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Kraska, Tim and Talwalkar, Ameet and Duchi, John and Griffith, Rean and Franklin, Michael J. and Jordan, Michael},
        year = {2013}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
518	Towards a Unified Architecture for in-RDBMS Analytics	2012	SIGMOD	0.00017167492
2,177	The Case for Predictive Database Systems: Opportunities and Challenges	2011	CIDR	9.0159844e-05
4,055	Hybrid In-Database Inference for Declarative Information Extraction	2011	SIGMOD	6.9349546e-05

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