A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques

This paper presents a selective review of statistical computation methods for massive data analysis. A huge amount of statistical methods for massive data computation have been rapidly developed in the past decades. In this work, we focus on three categories of statistical computation methods: (1) d...

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Main Authors: Xuetong Li, Yuan Gao, Hong Chang, Danyang Huang, Yingying Ma, Rui Pan, Haobo Qi, Feifei Wang, Shuyuan Wu, Ke Xu, Jing Zhou, Xuening Zhu, Yingqiu Zhu, Hansheng Wang
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-04-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/24754269.2024.2343151
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author Xuetong Li
Yuan Gao
Hong Chang
Danyang Huang
Yingying Ma
Rui Pan
Haobo Qi
Feifei Wang
Shuyuan Wu
Ke Xu
Jing Zhou
Xuening Zhu
Yingqiu Zhu
Hansheng Wang
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Yuan Gao
Hong Chang
Danyang Huang
Yingying Ma
Rui Pan
Haobo Qi
Feifei Wang
Shuyuan Wu
Ke Xu
Jing Zhou
Xuening Zhu
Yingqiu Zhu
Hansheng Wang
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description This paper presents a selective review of statistical computation methods for massive data analysis. A huge amount of statistical methods for massive data computation have been rapidly developed in the past decades. In this work, we focus on three categories of statistical computation methods: (1) distributed computing, (2) subsampling methods, and (3) minibatch gradient techniques. The first class of literature is about distributed computing and focuses on the situation, where the dataset size is too huge to be comfortably handled by one single computer. In this case, a distributed computation system with multiple computers has to be utilized. The second class of literature is about subsampling methods and concerns about the situation, where the blacksample size of dataset is small enough to be placed on one single computer but too large to be easily processed by its memory as a whole. The last class of literature studies those minibatch gradient related optimization techniques, which have been extensively used for optimizing various deep learning models.
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spelling doaj.art-88f77d041db947be8d00ebfb9ea8dcc22024-04-23T18:43:37ZengTaylor & Francis GroupStatistical Theory and Related Fields2475-42692475-42772024-04-0112310.1080/24754269.2024.2343151A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniquesXuetong Li0Yuan Gao1Hong Chang2Danyang Huang3Yingying Ma4Rui Pan5Haobo Qi6Feifei Wang7Shuyuan Wu8Ke Xu9Jing Zhou10Xuening Zhu11Yingqiu Zhu12Hansheng Wang13Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaGuanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaGuanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaCenter for Applied Statistics and School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Statistics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaCenter for Applied Statistics and School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaCenter for Applied Statistics and School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Data Science and MOE Laboratory for National Development and Intelligent Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of ChinaSchool of Statistics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaGuanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaThis paper presents a selective review of statistical computation methods for massive data analysis. A huge amount of statistical methods for massive data computation have been rapidly developed in the past decades. In this work, we focus on three categories of statistical computation methods: (1) distributed computing, (2) subsampling methods, and (3) minibatch gradient techniques. The first class of literature is about distributed computing and focuses on the situation, where the dataset size is too huge to be comfortably handled by one single computer. In this case, a distributed computation system with multiple computers has to be utilized. The second class of literature is about subsampling methods and concerns about the situation, where the blacksample size of dataset is small enough to be placed on one single computer but too large to be easily processed by its memory as a whole. The last class of literature studies those minibatch gradient related optimization techniques, which have been extensively used for optimizing various deep learning models.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/24754269.2024.2343151Distributed computingmassive data analysisminibatch techniquesstochastic optimizationsubsampling methods
spellingShingle Xuetong Li
Yuan Gao
Hong Chang
Danyang Huang
Yingying Ma
Rui Pan
Haobo Qi
Feifei Wang
Shuyuan Wu
Ke Xu
Jing Zhou
Xuening Zhu
Yingqiu Zhu
Hansheng Wang
A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
Statistical Theory and Related Fields
Distributed computing
massive data analysis
minibatch techniques
stochastic optimization
subsampling methods
title A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
title_full A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
title_fullStr A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
title_full_unstemmed A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
title_short A selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation: distributed computing, subsampling, and minibatch techniques
title_sort selective review on statistical methods for massive data computation distributed computing subsampling and minibatch techniques
topic Distributed computing
massive data analysis
minibatch techniques
stochastic optimization
subsampling methods
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/24754269.2024.2343151
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