On distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities. The opinions on this site are my own. This paper surveys the design approaches used in distributed machine learning (ML) platforms and proposes future research directions. This is joint work with my students Kuo Zhang and Salem Alqahtani. We wrote this paper in Fall 2016, and I will be going to ICCCN'17 (Vancouver) to present this paper
![A Comparison of Distributed Machine Learning Platforms](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/98ca64532b56c670db536767f7efce97371bd732/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_KxjkVBsznQ%2FWX6pcFQ7C5I%2FAAAAAAAAGbo%2FGYdLBgVqY78ZEllZ971WoHmBAbnDRayAgCK4BGAYYCw%2Fw1200-h630-p-k-no-nu%2Fapache.png)