Actually SGD is just this for classification. It is (pretty) scalable and definitely not normally parallel.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > There are no non-distributed counterparts for clustering and > classification. > It's not symmetric, and it would be better if it were, but it's perhaps no > big sin. The benefits have outweighed the negatives, I think. Of course > nobody would mind developing a scalable non-distributed clusterer / > classifier -- but in all things, it's a question of whether anyone cares > enough to write it and maintain it. >
