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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
h7a376b83bb8c52c6
Venue
CIDR
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.00016725463
Overall Rank
538 | 96.40%
DOI
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@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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