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by Mike Staszel

Vowpal Wabbit Docker Image

Vowpal Wabbit is a really fast machine learning system.

A few months ago I put together a Docker image of Vowpal Wabbit, making it easy to run on any platform. It’s been sitting up on Github and the Docker Hub, but I forgot to write a blog post! So here it is:

https://github.com/mikestaszel/vowpal_wabbit_docker

You can download and run Vowpal Wabbit with one command – here is an example:

docker run --rm --volume=$(pwd):/data -t crimsonredmk/vw /data/click.train.vw -f /data/click.model.vw --loss_function logistic --link logistic --passes 1 --cache_file /data/click.cache.vw

Enjoy!

 
by Mike Staszel

Vowpal Wabbit – Ramdisk vs. EBS-Optimized SSD

Recently I started playing around with Vowpal Wabbit and various data sets. Vowpal Wabbit promises to be really fast, so much so that disk IO is one of the most common bottlenecks according to the author. I did a quick test to see if using a RAM disk would make Vowpal Wabbit’s training faster. However, a RAM disk is not a silver bullet that will make Vowpal Wabbit faster, at least in my quick testing.

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