- Jinliang Wei, Wei Dai, Abhimanu Kumar, Xun Zheng, Qirong Ho, E. Xing. 2013. Consistent Bounded-Asynchronous Parameter Servers for Distributed ML. Abstract: In distributed ML applications, shared parameters are usually replicated among computing nodes to minimize network overhead. Therefore, proper consistency model must be carefully chosen to ensure algorithm's correctness and provide high throughput. Existing consistency models used in general-purpose databases and modern distributed ML systems are either too loose to guarantee correctness of the ML algorithms or too strict and thus fail to fully exploit the computing power of the underlying distributed system. 
