LIBS2ML: A Library for Scalable Second Order Machine Learning Algorithms
This provides researchers and practitioners with a unique tool for handling big data problems in machine learning, though it is incremental as it builds on existing second-order methods and interface techniques.
The authors tackled the problem of slow and inefficient libraries for large-scale machine learning by developing LIBS2ML, a library that uses scalable second-order algorithms and MEX files to combine fast C++ learning with easy MATLAB/Octave I/O, resulting in an open-source tool that is efficient, extensible, and portable.
LIBS2ML is a library based on scalable second order learning algorithms for solving large-scale problems, i.e., big data problems in machine learning. LIBS2ML has been developed using MEX files, i.e., C++ with MATLAB/Octave interface to take the advantage of both the worlds, i.e., faster learning using C++ and easy I/O using MATLAB. Most of the available libraries are either in MATLAB/Python/R which are very slow and not suitable for large-scale learning, or are in C/C++ which does not have easy ways to take input and display results. So LIBS2ML is completely unique due to its focus on the scalable second order methods, the hot research topic, and being based on MEX files. Thus it provides researchers a comprehensive environment to evaluate their ideas and it also provides machine learning practitioners an effective tool to deal with the large-scale learning problems. LIBS2ML is an open-source, highly efficient, extensible, scalable, readable, portable and easy to use library. The library can be downloaded from the URL: \url{https://github.com/jmdvinodjmd/LIBS2ML}.