Title
A parameter-level parallel optimization algorithm for large-scale spatio-temporal data mining
Abstract
The goal of spatio-temporal data mining is to discover previously unknown but useful patterns from the spatial and temporal data. However, explosive growth of the spatiotemporal data emphasizes the need for developing novel computationally efficient methods for large-scale data mining applications. Since lots of spatiotemporal data mining problems can be converted to an optimization problem, in this paper, we propose an efficient parameter-level parallel optimization algorithm for large-scale spatiotemporal data mining. In detail, most of previous optimization methods are based on gradient descent methods, which iteratively update the model and provide model-level convergence control for all parameters. Namely, they treat all parameters equally and keep updating all parameters until every parameter has converged. However, we find that during the iterative process, the convergence rates of model parameters are different from each other. This may cause redundant computation and reduce the performance. To solve this problem, we propose a parameter-level stochastic gradient descent (plpSGD), in which the convergence of each parameter is considered independently and only unconvergent parameters are updated in each iteration. Moreover, the updating of model parameters are parallelized in plpSGD to further improve the performance of SGD. We have conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of plpSGD. The experimental results show that compared to previous SGD methods, plpSGD can significantly accelerate the convergence of SGD and achieve the excellent scalability with little sacrifice of the solution accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10619-020-07287-x
DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Spatio-temporal data mining,Stochastic gradient descent,Block,Convergent rate,Redundant update
Journal
38.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP3
0926-8782
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiqiang Liu110.35
Xuanhua Shi257157.87
Ligang He354256.73
Dongxiao Yu436556.90
Hai Jin56544644.63
Chen Yu630225.39
Hulin Dai710.35
Zezhao Feng810.35