Does MATLAB support the parallelization of supervised machine learning algorithms?

Hi,

up to now I have used RapidMiner for some data/text mining tasks, but there are huge performance issues. Now I want to transfer the tasks to a high performance cluster by using MATLAB. I did not find any information that the Parallel Computation Toolbox supports e.g. SVM.

Now I have to decide if MATLAB or any additional libraries support the parallization of supervised machine learning respectively data/text mining algorithms. Or should I use any other tools? Any recommendations?

Best regards, Mark

Answer 1

[Eric Lin]

As far as available tools within MATLAB, the following doc sections describe parallel-supported ML functions, which include some SVM and k-means algorithms:

Speed Up Statistical Computations

Quick Start Parallel Computing for Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

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[mark]

As far as I know there is no parallel-supported functionality for SVM- unfortunately I cannot find any information about it based on your given links.