IBM Snap Machine Learning
Channel: IBM Research
Date: 20/03/2018

In a newly published benchmark by IBM researchers, using an online advertising dataset released by Criteo Labs with over 4 billion training examples, we train a logistic regression classifier in 91.5 seconds. This training time is 46x faster than the best result that has been previously reported, which used TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform to train the same model in 70 minutes.

The AI software behind the speed-up is a new library developed over the past two years by our team at IBM Research in Zurich called IBM Snap Machine Learning (Snap ML) – because it trains models faster than you can snap your fingers.