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Scala for Machine Learning, Second Edition

You're reading from   Scala for Machine Learning, Second Edition Build systems for data processing, machine learning, and deep learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122383
Length 740 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Patrick R. Nicolas Patrick R. Nicolas
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Pipelines 3. Data Preprocessing 4. Unsupervised Learning 5. Dimension Reduction 6. Naïve Bayes Classifiers 7. Sequential Data Models 8. Monte Carlo Inference 9. Regression and Regularization 10. Multilayer Perceptron 11. Deep Learning 12. Kernel Models and SVM 13. Evolutionary Computing 14. Multiarmed Bandits 15. Reinforcement Learning 16. Parallelism in Scala and Akka 17. Apache Spark MLlib A. Basic Concepts B. References Index

Chapter 16. Parallelism in Scala and Akka

Data analysts, scientists, and software engineers have been facing a serious challenge: the explosion of the amount of data required to build reliable models. After all, how valuable is a data mining application if the model does not scale?

The challenge of big data is addressed through a two-facet strategy: improving the efficiency of existing data mining and machine learning solutions, and leveraging scalable infrastructure (frameworks, programming languages, GPUs, and so on).

This chapter covers the Scala parallel collections, the Actor model, and the Akka framework. The next chapter introduces the Apache Spark framework and its collection of machine learning algorithms.

The following are the topics addressed in this chapter:

  • Introduction to Scala parallel collections
  • Evaluation of the performance of a parallel collection on a multicore CPU
  • The Actor model and reactive systems
  • Clustered and reliable distributed computing using Akka
  • Design of...
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