[scikit-learn] Using GPU in scikit learn

[Andreas Mueller]

My lab had a GPU library for Random Forests on Images.

It was pretty fast but probably needs some updates:

https://github.com/deeplearningais/curfil


On 8/8/18 10:01 PM, Tommy Tracy wrote:
> Dear Ta Hoang,
>
> Accelerating decision tree ensembles (including Random Forest) is 
> actually a current area of computer architecture research; in fact it 
> is a principle component of my dissertation. Like Sebastian Raschka 
> said, the GPU is not an ideal architecture for decision tree inference 
> because at its core it is a pointer-chasing algorithm (low computation 
> per memory access) that shows low memory locality. Scikit-Learn has 
> done an excellent job with their von Neumann implementation utilizing 
> things like predication and vectorization. If you're looking to go 
> beyond what the CPU can give you, I would point you to FPGAs. If 
> you're interested in discussing this further, let me know.
>
> --
> --
>          Sincerely,
> Tommy James Tracy II
>      Ph.D Candidate
> Computer Engineering
> UniversityofVirginia
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:50 PM, hoang trung Ta <tahoangtrung at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tahoangtrung at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all members,
>
>     I am using Random forest for classification satellite images. I
>     have a bunch of images, thus the processing is quite slow. I
>     searched on the Internet and they said that GPU can accelerate the
>     process.
>
>     I have GPU NDVIA Geforce GTX 1080 Ti installed in the computer
>
>     Do you know how to use GPU in Scikit learn, I mean the packages to
>     use and sample code that used GPU in random forest classification?
>
>     Thank you very much
>
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