libvw-dev

fast and scalable online machine learning algorithm - development files


Vowpal Wabbit is a fast online machine learning algorithm. The core algorithm is specialist gradient descent (GD) on a loss function (several are available). VW features:

  • flexible input data specification
  • speedy learning
  • scalability (bounded memory footprint, suitable for distributed computation)
  • feature pairing

This package contains development files needed to compile and link programs which use vowpal-wabbit’s libraries.

Related packages: libvw0, vowpal-wabbit, vowpal-wabbit-dbg, vowpal-wabbit-doc


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