Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache Spark
Search
Eric Weinstein
October 25, 2016
Technology
1
440
Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache Spark
Slides for my EuroClojure 2016 talk on machine learning.
Eric Weinstein
October 25, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Eric Weinstein
See All by Eric Weinstein
Interview Them Where They Are
ericqweinstein
0
140
Value Your Types!
ericqweinstein
0
100
Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine Ethics
ericqweinstein
1
2k
What If...?: Ruby 3
ericqweinstein
1
230
Infinite State Machine
ericqweinstein
1
150
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Dance Music?
ericqweinstein
1
120
Machine Learning with Elixir and Phoenix
ericqweinstein
1
980
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto: Machine Learning with Ruby
ericqweinstein
1
1.5k
A Nil Device, A Lonely Operator, and a Voyage to the Void Star
ericqweinstein
1
1k
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
ブロックテーマでサイトをリニューアルした話 / 2026-01-31 Kansai WordPress Meetup
torounit
0
450
Introduction to Sansan, inc / Sansan Global Development Center, Inc.
sansan33
PRO
0
3k
仕様書駆動AI開発の実践: Issue→Skill→PRテンプレで 再現性を作る
knishioka
2
590
【5分でわかる】セーフィー エンジニア向け会社紹介
safie_recruit
0
42k
usermode linux without MMU - fosdem2026 kernel devroom
thehajime
0
220
月間数億レコードのアクセスログ基盤を無停止・低コストでAWS移行せよ!アプリケーションエンジニアのSREチャレンジ💪
miyamu
0
810
What happened to RubyGems and what can we learn?
mikemcquaid
0
250
GSIが複数キー対応したことで、俺達はいったい何が嬉しいのか?
smt7174
3
140
日本の85%が使う公共SaaSは、どう育ったのか
taketakekaho
1
140
Embedded SREの終わりを設計する 「なんとなく」から計画的な自立支援へ
sansantech
PRO
3
2.2k
プロダクト成長を支える開発基盤とスケールに伴う課題
yuu26
4
1.3k
小さく始めるBCP ― 多プロダクト環境で始める最初の一歩
kekke_n
1
350
Featured
See All Featured
Responsive Adventures: Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners of Front-End
smashingmag
254
22k
The Hidden Cost of Media on the Web [PixelPalooza 2025]
tammyeverts
2
170
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
88
Game over? The fight for quality and originality in the time of robots
wayneb77
1
110
RailsConf 2023
tenderlove
30
1.3k
Navigating Team Friction
lara
192
16k
SEO Brein meetup: CTRL+C is not how to scale international SEO
lindahogenes
0
2.3k
Keith and Marios Guide to Fast Websites
keithpitt
413
23k
<Decoding/> the Language of Devs - We Love SEO 2024
nikkihalliwell
1
120
技術選定の審美眼(2025年版) / Understanding the Spiral of Technologies 2025 edition
twada
PRO
117
110k
DevOps and Value Stream Thinking: Enabling flow, efficiency and business value
helenjbeal
1
90
Data-driven link building: lessons from a $708K investment (BrightonSEO talk)
szymonslowik
1
910
Transcript
Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache Spark ;; Eric Weinstein
;; EuroClojure 2016 ;; Bratislava, Slovakia ;; 25 October 2016
for Joshua
Part 0: Hello!
About Me (def eric-weinstein {:employer "Hulu" :github "ericqweinstein" :twitter "ericqweinstein"
:website "ericweinste.in"}) 30% off with EURORUBY30!
Agenda • Machine learning • Apache Spark • Flambo vs.
Sparkling • DL4J, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks
Part 1: ⚡✨
What’s machine learning?
In a word:
Generalization
What’s Supervised Learning? Classification or regression, generalizing from labeled data
to unlabeled data
What’s Apache Spark? Apache Spark is an open-source cluster computing
framework; its parallelism makes it ideal for processing large data sets, and in ML, the more data, the better!
Some Spark Terminology • RDD: Resilient Distributed Dataset • Dataset:
RDD + Spark SQL execution engine • DataFrame: Dataset organized into named columns
Our Data • Police stop data for the city of
Los Angeles, California in 2015 • 4 features, ~600,000 instances • http://bit.ly/2f9jVwn
Features && Labels • Sex (Male | Female) • Race
(American Indian | Asian | Black | Hispanic | White | Other) • Stop type (Pedestrian | Vehicle) • Post-stop activity (Yes | No)
Features && Labels • Sex (Male | Female) • Race
(American Indian | Asian | Black | Hispanic | White | Other) • Stop type (Pedestrian | Vehicle) • Post-stop activity (Yes | No)
Decision Trees X[0] <= 0.5 gini = 0.4033 samples =
139572 value = [100477, 39095] X[1] <= 5.5 gini = 0.4318 samples = 102419 value = [70118, 32301] True X[1] <= 5.5 gini = 0.2989 samples = 37153 value = [30359, 6794] False X[1] <= 4.5 gini = 0.4399 samples = 96665 value = [65083, 31582] gini = 0.2187 samples = 5754 value = [5035, 719] X[1] <= 3.5 gini = 0.4483 samples = 78400 value = [51805, 26595] gini = 0.397 samples = 18265 value = [13278, 4987] X[1] <= 2.5 gini = 0.4324 samples = 51662 value = [35328, 16334] gini = 0.473 samples = 26738 value = [16477, 10261] X[1] <= 0.5 gini = 0.4406 samples = 48927 value = [32894, 16033] gini = 0.1959 samples = 2735 value = [2434, 301] gini = 0.4658 samples = 65 value = [41, 24] gini = 0.4406 samples = 48862 value = [32853, 16009] X[1] <= 3.5 gini = 0.3067 samples = 34817 value = [28234, 6583] gini = 0.1643 samples = 2336 value = [2125, 211] X[1] <= 2.5 gini = 0.2796 samples = 15786 value = [13133, 2653] X[1] <= 4.5 gini = 0.3277 samples = 19031 value = [15101, 3930] X[1] <= 0.5 gini = 0.2921 samples = 13985 value = [11501, 2484] gini = 0.1701 samples = 1801 value = [1632, 169] gini = 0.426 samples = 26 value = [18, 8] gini = 0.2918 samples = 13959 value = [11483, 2476] gini = 0.3747 samples = 9522 value = [7144, 2378] gini = 0.2732 samples = 9509 value = [7957, 1552]
Part 2: A Tale of Two DSLs vs. ✨✨ Image
credit: Adventure Time
Flambo Example (defn make-spark-context "Creates the Apache Spark context using
the Flambo DSL." [] (-> (conf/spark-conf) (conf/master "local") (conf/app-name "euroclojure") (f/spark-context)))
Sparkling Example (defn make-spark-context "Creates the Apache Spark context using
the Sparkling DSL." [] (-> (conf/spark-conf) (conf/master "local") (conf/app-name "euroclojure") (spark/spark-context)))
Straight Spark (def model (DecisionTree/trainClassifier training 2 categorical-features- info "gini"
5 32)) ; max depth: 5, max leaves: 32 (defn predict [p] ; LabeledPoint (let [prediction (.predict model (.features p))] [(.label p) prediction]))
Accuracy: 0.77352
Part 3: Deep Learning
What’s Deep Learning? • Neural networks (computational architecture modeled after
the human brain) • Neural networks with many layers (> 1 hidden layer, but in practice, can be hundreds) • The vanishing/exploding gradient problem
Vanishing && Gradients
Image credit for all ConvNet images: https://deeplearning4j.org/convolutionalnets
Max Pooling/Downsampling
Alternating Layers
Our Data Image credit: http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/
What’s DL4J? • DL4J == Deep Learning 4 Java, a
library (for Java, unsurprisingly) • Examples on GitHub: https://github.com/ deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j • ConvNet worked example: http://bit.ly/2eBM8ss
DL4J Example (def nn-conf (-> (NeuralNetConfiguration$Builder.) ;; Some values omitted
for space (.activation "relu") (.learningRate 0.0001) (.weightInit (WeightInit/XAVIER)) (.optimizationAlgo OptimizationAlgorithm/STOCHASTIC_GRADIENT_DESCENT) (.updater Updater/RMSPROP) (.momentum 0.9) (.list) (.layer 0 conv-init) (.layer 1 (max-pool "maxpool1" (int-array [2 2]))) (.layer 2 (conv-5x5 "cnn2" 100 (int-array [5 5]) (int-array [1 1]) 0)) (.layer 3 (max-pool "maxpool2" (int-array [2 2]))) (.layer 4 (fully-connected 500)) (.layer 5 output-layer) (.build)))
How’d We Do? • Accuracy: 0.375 • Precision: 0.3333 •
Recall: 0.375 • F1 Score: 0.3529
Summary • Clojure + Spark = • Flambo and Sparkling
are roughly equally powerful • Deep learning is super doable with Clojure (though Java interop is kind of a pain)
Takeaways (TL;DPA) • Contribute to Flambo and/or Sparkling! • Let’s
build or contribute to a nicer DSL for DL4J • https://github.com/ericqweinstein/euroclojure
None