The growth of data on the web has made it harder to employ many machine learning algorithms on the full data sets. For personalization problems in particular, where data sampling is often not an option, innovating on distributed algorithm design is necessary to allow us to scale to these constantly growing data sets. Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the important areas where this applies. CF
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