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Auto-Differentiation of Relational Computations for Very Large Scale Machine Learning
Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 202:33581-33598, 2023.
Abstract
The relational data model was designed to facilitate large-scale data management and analytics. We consider the problem of how to differentiate computations expressed relationally. We show experimentally that a relational engine running an auto-differentiated relational algorithm can easily scale to very large datasets, and is competitive with state-of-the-art, special-purpose systems for large-scale distributed machine learning.