# LIBS2ML: A Library for Scalable Second Order Machine Learning Algorithms

## TL;DR

LIBS2ML is an open-source library that combines C++ and MATLAB/Octave to enable scalable second order machine learning algorithms for large-scale data problems, offering efficiency and ease of use.

## Contribution

It introduces a unique, scalable second order learning library based on MEX files, bridging the gap between speed of C++ and usability of MATLAB for large-scale machine learning.

## Key findings

- Provides a comprehensive environment for evaluating second order algorithms.
- Offers a highly efficient and scalable tool for large-scale learning.
- Facilitates research and practical applications in big data machine learning.

## Abstract

LIBS2ML is a library based on scalable second order learning algorithms for solving large-scale problems, i.e., big data problems in machine learning. LIBS2ML has been developed using MEX files, i.e., C++ with MATLAB/Octave interface to take the advantage of both the worlds, i.e., faster learning using C++ and easy I/O using MATLAB. Most of the available libraries are either in MATLAB/Python/R which are very slow and not suitable for large-scale learning, or are in C/C++ which does not have easy ways to take input and display results. So LIBS2ML is completely unique due to its focus on the scalable second order methods, the hot research topic, and being based on MEX files. Thus it provides researchers a comprehensive environment to evaluate their ideas and it also provides machine learning practitioners an effective tool to deal with the large-scale learning problems. LIBS2ML is an open-source, highly efficient, extensible, scalable, readable, portable and easy to use library. The library can be downloaded from the URL: \url{https://github.com/jmdvinodjmd/LIBS2ML}.