Abstract: A random binning featurization process method, system, and computer program product for a distributed random binning featurization process on one or more multicore systems with a hybrid two-level parallelism, the method including in a training phase, receiving a first data matrix dividing the random binning featurization process into two orthogonal levels, in a high-level generating a randomized number of high-dimension grids and evenly partitioning the grids into nodes in a parallel system, and in a low-level, evenly partitioning dimensions in each grid to construct look-up tables of index vectors and compute a local feature matrix for each node.

Abstract: A block coordinate descent method, system, and computer program product for partitioning a global feature matrix into blocks, each node of the nodes of the blocks having a block size of a number of the blocks over a number of the nodes, selecting, at each node, a subset of the blocks from the blocks, and in one of the nodes, launching a thread to simultaneously update a closed-form solution by minimizing a single coordinate in one of the blocks.