The Rascally Vowpal Wabbit (2015) by Kai-Wei Chang, et al. (pdf of slides)
MLWave tweeted:
Latest Vowpal Wabbit Tutorial from NIPS 2015 (Learning to search + active learning + C# library + decision service)
Not the best organized slide deck but let me give you some performance numbers on Vowpal Wabbit (pages 26 in the pdf):
vw: 6 lines of code 10 seconds to train CRFsgd: 1068 lines 6 minutes CRF++: 777 lines hours Named entity recognition (200 thousand words)
vw: 30 lines of code 5 seconds to train CRFsgd: 1 minute (subopt accuracy) CRF++: 10 minutes (subopt accuracy) SVMstr: 876 lines 30 minutes (subopt accuracy)
Interested now?
Enjoy!