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* patcher part of core repo

* readme

* tests that adhere to newly opened issue

* tests
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Fwumious Wabbit is actively used in Outbrain for offline research, as well as for some production flows. It
enables "high bandwidth research" when doing feature engineering, feature
selection, hyperparameter tuning, and the like.
Fwumious Wabbit is actively used in Outbrain for offline research, as well as for some production flows. It
enables "high bandwidth research" when doing feature engineering, feature
selection, hyperparameter tuning, and the like.

Data scientists can train hundreds of models over hundreds of millions of examples in
Data scientists can train hundreds of models over hundreds of millions of examples in
a matter of hours on a single machine.

For our tested scenarios it is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
fastest Tensorflow implementation of Logistic Regression and FFMs that we could
For our tested scenarios it is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
fastest Tensorflow implementation of Logistic Regression and FFMs that we could
come up with. It is an order of magnitude faster than Vowpal Wabbit for some specific use-cases.

Check out our [benchmark](BENCHMARK.md), here's a teaser:
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- Written in Rust with heavy use of code specialization (via macros and traits)
- Special emphasis on efficiency of sparse operations and serving


# Weight patching
This repo also contains the patching algorithm that enables very fast weight diff computation see `weight_patcher` for more details.
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