Elements of Learning Systems

Wednesday, June 23, 4:20PM UTC

Tianqi Chen, Assistant Professor, ML & CS Department, Carnegie Mellon University | CTO, OctoML | Creator of Apache TVM, XGBoost, and the co-creator of Apache MXNet

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Data, models, and computing are the three pillars that enable machine learning to solve real-world problems at scale. Making progress on these three domains requires not only disruptive algorithmic advances but also systems innovations that can continue to squeeze more efficiency out of modern hardware. Learning systems are at the center of every intelligent application nowadays. However, the ever-growing demand for applications and hardware specialization creates a huge engineering burden for these systems, most of which rely on heuristics or manual optimization. In this talk, I will discuss approaches to reduce these manual efforts. I will cover several aspects of such learning systems, including scalability, ease of use, and more automation. I will discuss these elements using the real-world learning systems that I built -- XGBoost and Apache TVM.

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Tianqi Chen

Assistant Professor, ML & CS Department, Carnegie Mellon University | CTO, OctoML | Creator of Apache TVM, XGBoost, and the co-creator of Apache MXNet

Tianqi Chen is currently an Assistant Professor at the Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the CTO of OctoML. He received his PhD. from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He has created many major learning systems that are widely adopted: XGBoost, TVM, and MXNet(co-creator).