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Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2009-12-30 · latest 2017-10-28

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  1. The vowpal wabbit library provides an active learning setup https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/active_le... I think you launch an active learning server, and the Python application interacts with it. You may be able to run…
    comment by charlescearl · 2017-10-28 · in A tutorial on active learning (2009) [pdf]
  2. …a great deal less. It's C++ but with bindings for many languages. It's very poorly documented. https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Learning%... I've never taken a gander at Facebook's fastText.
    comment by Cybiote · 2017-07-26 · in Deep Learning for NLP Best Practices
  3. …a POS tagger that is blazingly fast and production ready (learning to search interface). [1] [1]: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
    comment by botexpert · 2016-10-25 · in Microsoft Cognitive Services
  4. …Turk to do this. 3. Use [Weka]( http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ ) or [Vowpal Wabbit]( https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki ) to run some preliminary estimations on the model. Weka and VW are great tools as they come with…
    comment by fnbr · 2016-10-09 · in Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos
  5. …His VW script does do bootstrapping ('--bootstrap 16') but he doesn't report it anywhere I see. https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/using-vw-... seems to not report any sort of p-value or confidence interval which might be…
    comment by aab0 · 2016-08-13 · in Machine Learning and Ketosis
  6. …modified Stochastic Gradient Descent to handle the data typically seen with this sort of analysis. https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Learning-...
    comment by Terribledactyl · 2016-08-13 · in Machine Learning and Ketosis
  7. …regression model. Anybody know what learning algorithm it uses (eg random forest?) Here's the link: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
    comment by mbrundle · 2016-08-13 · in Machine Learning and Ketosis
  8. …many text classification tasks that's fine. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12063296 [2]: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit [3]: https://github.com/BIDData/BIDMach [4]: https://github.com/BIDData/BIDMach/wiki/Benchmark…
    comment by Smerity · 2016-08-04 · in FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
  9. …positional and ordering information but for many text classification tasks that's fine. [1]: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki [2]: https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/751208719145328640
    comment by Smerity · 2016-07-09 · in Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
  10. …production-ready scalable matrix factorization which can fit on a 1 million dataset on a laptop: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/tree/master/de... ) and of customers actually running Matlab based recommendation engines on…
    comment by compbio · 2015-07-07 · in The Netflix Prize and Production Machine Learning Systems: An Insider Look
  11. Did they basically just put a wrapper around VW[1] ? [1] https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit
    comment by discardorama · 2015-04-09 · in Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
  12. …http://www.mimno.org/articles/malletplans/ . Of note also is the Vowpal Wabbit variational Bayes https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Latent-Di... implementation. Spark includes a parallel LDA in the 1.3 release of mllib.
    comment by charlescearl · 2015-03-11 · in Automatic Topic-Modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  13. …build an LDA model with a fixed memory footprint. I've had a lot of success using this tool. [0] https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit
    comment by datahipster · 2014-09-08 · in Latent Dirichlet Allocation on Tweets
  14. …[3] https://mahout.apache.org/ [4] http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ [5] https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki [6] http://www.mlbase.org/ [7] http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Status-o... [8] www.arti
    comment by MoOmer · 2014-05-30 · in Apache Spark 1.0.0
  15. There's waffles http://waffles.sourceforge.net/ and vowpal wabbit https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
    comment by dickler · 2013-11-04 · in PredictionIO, a machine learning server for software developers & data engineers
  16. …correct 2) Try new algorithms - Try online learning algorithm first like vowpal wabbit here https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/ 3) HPC - Apache Spark http://spark.incubator.apache.org/ or GraphLab http://graphlab.org/ or (if…
    comment by HamSession · 2013-09-19 · in Support Vector Machines and Hadoop: Theory vs. Practice
  17. …performance in a fraction of time compared to other traditional approaches like liblinear et. al. https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
    comment by ashish01 · 2013-04-03 · in Abusing hash kernels for wildly unprincipled machine learning
  18. …"command-line" tools for machine learning include: http://scikit-learn.org http://www.r-project.org https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki These all happen to be open source, but are probably not as pretty-looking as bigml's…
    comment by shoo · 2013-01-31 · in A command-line tool for Machine Learning
  19. …compression scheme which is being widely adopted (e.g. in Mahout, and also in sofia-ml above). https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
    comment by MLnick · 2011-04-21 · in LIBSVM - A Library for Support Vector Machines
  20. This is the github page: http://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit
    comment by marketer · 2009-12-30 · in Vowpal Wabbit: fast, scalable, useful learning algorithm