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Low Latency, Scalable Model Management and Serving with Velox [pdf] (arxiv.org)
9 points by stats_lly on Nov 19, 2014 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Velox is a system that takes models trained offline on huge datasets and hands them to apps as fast, always-current predictions, updating and re-weighting them as new data arrives. Unlike the usual train-then-forget setup, it keeps models fresh and ready to serve at scale.

Abstract · The Missing Piece in Complex Analytics: Low Latency, Scalable Model Management and Serving with Velox

To support complex data-intensive applications such as personalized recommendations, targeted advertising, and intelligent services, the data management community has focused heavily on the design of systems to support training complex models on large datasets. Unfortunately, the design of these systems largely ignores a critical component of the overall analytics process: the deployment and serving of models at scale. In this work, we present Velox, a new component of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack. Velox is a data management system for facilitating the next steps in real-world, large-scale analytics pipelines: online model management, maintenance, and serving. Velox provides end-user applications and services with a low-latency, intuitive interface to models, transforming the raw statistical models currently trained using existing offline large-scale compute frameworks into full-blown, end-to-end data products capable of recommending products, targeting advertisements, and personalizing web content. To provide up-to-date results for these complex models, Velox also facilitates lightweight online model maintenance and selection (i.e., dynamic weighting). In this paper, we describe the challenges and architectural considerations required to achieve this functionality, including the abilities to span online and offline systems, to adaptively adjust model materialization strategies, and to exploit inherent statistical properties such as model error tolerance, all while operating at "Big Data" scale.

Daniel Crankshaw, Peter Bailis, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Haoyuan Li, Zhao Zhang, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Michael I. Jordan
arXiv:1409.3809 · cs.DB · submitted Sep 12, 2014 · updated Dec 1, 2014
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