The JIRA will be the best place to talk about your strategy for implementation. Parallelization of NN training isn't a trivial problem. We should learn from recent experience of others.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Paritosh Ranjan <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll suggest to create a jira, mark it for 0.7 and submit the patch. > That's how I did it, and it worked. > > > Herta, Christian wrote: > >> Is there anybody else working on a Multilayer Perceptron (Neural Network) >> for >> Mahout? If not, I'm going to implement it.There is a gradient machine for >> classification. But I think the gradient machine is to restricted. Also, >> the >> implementation is stochastic gradient descent only. Therefore it's not >> possible >> to distribute the learning. >> >> What's the procedure to start? Do I have to create a jira issue with a >> description and a road map? >> > >
