Yucheng Low

Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

GHC 8219
y...@cs.cmu.edu

I am a Fifth year Phd student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Carlos Guestrin. My current work is on abstractions for Large Scale Parallel / Distributed Machine Learning. We have an open source (Apache license) project called GraphLab.

Publications

• Residual Splash for Optimally Parallelizing Belief Propagation,
  Joseph Gonzalez, Yucheng Low and Carlos Guestrin.
  In Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2009). [pdf]
  • [Code]
• Distributed Parallel Inference on Large Factor Graphs ,
  Joseph Gonzalez, Yucheng Low, Carlos Guestrin and David O'Hallaron
  In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2009). [pdf]
  • [Code]
• GraphLab: A New Parallel Framework for Machine Learning ,
  Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, Aapo Kyrola, Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin, and Joseph M. Hellerstein
  In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2010) [pdf]
  • [Code]
• Parallel Gibbs Sampling: From Colored Fields to Thin Junction Trees ,
  Joseph Gonzalez, Yucheng Low, Arthur Gretton, Carlos Guestrin
  In Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2011). [Draft Proceedings]
• Kernel Belief Propagation ,
  Le Song, Arthur Gretton, Danny Bickson, Yucheng Low and Carlos Guestrin
  In Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2011) [Draft Proceedings]
• Multiple Domain User Personalization ,
  Yucheng Low, Deepak Agarwal and Alex Smola [pdf] [Talk]
  In KDD 2011
• Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning in the Cloud ,
  Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, Aapo Kyrola, Danny Bickson, Carlos Guestrin, and Joseph M. Hellerstein
  In Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB 2012) [pdf] [talk]
• Fast Top-K Similarity Queries Via Matrix Compression ,
  Yucheng Low and Alice Zheng
  In Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) [Long Version MSR-TR-2012-81] [code is coming!]
• PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs ,
  Joseph E. Gonzalez, Yucheng Low, Haijie Gu, Danny Bickson, and Carlos Guestrin
  Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2012). [pdf] [code]