Scalable, Updatable Predictive Models for Sequence Data

The emergence of data rich domains has led to an exponential growth in the size and number of data repositories, offering exciting opportunities to learn from the data using machine learning algorithms. In particular, sequence data is being made available at a rapid rate. In many applications, the learning algorithm may not have direct access to the entire dataset because of a variety of reasons such as massive data size or bandwidth limitation. In such settings, there is a need for techniques that can learn predictive models (e.g., classifiers) from large datasets without direct access to the data.