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DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics

Summary: Study of main-memory statistical analytics on NUMA; compares row- vs column-order access and data/model sharing granularity. Uncovers hardware-statistical efficiency tradeoffs; prototype runs popular tasks (SVM, LR, Gibbs, NN) up to 100x faster across five architectures. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hc98b16f3aea1db73
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00011729888
Overall Rank
1,167 | 92.16%
DOI
10.14778/2732977.2732988

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb14,
        title = {{DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics}},
        author = {Zhang, Ce and Ré, Christopher},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1283--1294},
        doi = {10.14778/2732977.2732988},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732977.2732988},
        year = {2014}
}

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