: Alexander Ulanov, A Scalable Implementation of Deep Learning on Spark

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are one of the popular models of machine learning, in particular for deep learning. The models that are used in practice for image classification and speech recognition contain huge number of weights and are trained with big datasets. Training such models is challenging in terms of computation and data processing. We propose a scalable implementation of deep neural networks for Spark. We address the computational challenge by batch operations, using BLAS for vector and matri