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The Relational Data Borg is Learning
Summary: Recasts machine learning on relational data as query processing: feature extraction plus group-by aggregates. An algebraic, statistical, and systems toolbox exploits data structure, specialization, sharing, and parallelism to reduce learning complexity and constants.
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Paper ID
ha397f72c41e48f25
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.7700593e-05
Overall Rank
4,161 | 72.03%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415572
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@article{olteanu_vldb20,
title = {{The Relational Data Borg is Learning}},
author = {Olteanu, Dan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {3502--3515},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415572},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415572},
year = {2020}
}
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