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Forest Packing: Fast Parallel, Decision Forests

Authors: James Browne; Disa Mhembere; Tyler M. Tomita; Joshua T. Vogelstein; Randal C. Burns;

Forest Packing: Fast Parallel, Decision Forests

Abstract

Machine learning has an emerging critical role in high-performance computing to modulate simulations, extract knowledge from massive data, and replace numerical models with efficient approximations. Decision forests are a critical tool because they provide insight into model operation that is critical to interpreting learned results. While decision forests are trivially parallelizable, the traversals of tree data structures incur many random memory accesses and are very slow. We present memory packing techniques that reorganize learned forests to minimize cache misses during classification. The resulting layout is hierarchical. At low levels, we pack the nodes of multiple trees into contiguous memory blocks so that each memory access fetches data for multiple trees. At higher levels, we use leaf cardinality to identify the most popular paths through a tree and collocate those paths in cache lines. We extend this layout with out-of-order execution and cache-line prefetching to increase memory throughput. Together, these optimizations increase the performance of classification in ensembles by a factor of four over an optimized C++ implementation and a actor of 50 over a popular R language implementation.

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Performance (cs.PF), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Performance, Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

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