P2LSA and P2LSA+: Two paralleled probabilistic latent semantic analysis algorithms based on the MapReduce model

Yan Jin, Yang Gao, Yinghuan Shi, Lin Shang, Ruili Wang, Yubin Yang

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Abstract

Two novel paralleled Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) algorithms based on the MapReduce model are proposed, which are P2LSA and P2LSA+, respectively. When dealing with a large-scale data set, P2LSA and P2LSA+ can improve the computing speed with the Hadoop platform. The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is often used in the traditional PLSA method to estimate two hidden parameter vectors, while the parallel PLSA is to implement the EM algorithm in parallel. The EM algorithm includes two steps: E-step and M-step. In P2LSA, the Map function is adopted to perform the E-step and the Reduce function is adopted to perform the M-step. However, all the intermediate results computed in the E-step need to be sent to the M-step. Transferring a large amount of data between the E-step and the M-step increases the burden on the network and the overall running time. Different from P2LSA, the Map function in P2LSA+ performs the E-step and M-step simultaneously. Therefore, the data transferred between the E-step and M-step is reduced and the performance is improved. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performances of P2LSA and P 2LSA+. The data set includes 20000 users and 10927 goods. The speedup curves show that the overall running time decrease as the number of computing nodes increases.Also, the overall running time demonstrates that P 2LSA+ is about 3 times faster than P2LSA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2011 - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages385-393
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2011 - Norwich, United Kingdom
Duration: 7 Sept 20119 Sept 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6936 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityNorwich
Period7/09/119/09/11

Keywords

  • MapReduce
  • Paralleled PLSA
  • PLSA

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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