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Explain Predictions using gpu?

sherlocksherlock Member Posts: 24 Contributor II
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Is there a way the "Explain Predictions" Operator could benefit from gpu (NVIDIA RTX A4000 with CUDA installed)?
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  • sherlocksherlock Member Posts: 24 Contributor II
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    Hi,

    thanks, indeed this is the answer I feared from someone having deeper insights into the algorithm than me ;-). Makes sense, so I will have to go with it or optimize on hardware level.  I'm using Intel i9 currently, any experience whether speed would benefit from the highly praised Mac M1?

    Cheers
    Erwin

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  • MartinLiebigMartinLiebig Administrator, Moderator, Employee-RapidMiner, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, University Professor Posts: 3,533 RM Data Scientist
    Hi,

    why should GPU be better than CPU here?

    And the answer is no, Explain Predictions is CPU only.

    BR,
    Martin
    - Sr. Director Data Solutions, Altair RapidMiner -
    Dortmund, Germany
  • sherlocksherlock Member Posts: 24 Contributor II
    Hi,

    thanks for your quick reply. Maybe it's a bit naive, the idea was just whether gpu could speed up the calculation.

    Best
    Erwin

  • MartinLiebigMartinLiebig Administrator, Moderator, Employee-RapidMiner, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, University Professor Posts: 3,533 RM Data Scientist
    Hi,
    GPU only speeds up certain calculations - usually those with heavy matrix multiplications. I do not see a how Tree inference, which is likely the expensive part of most interpretation algorithms, would benefit from it.
    Cheers,
    Martin
    - Sr. Director Data Solutions, Altair RapidMiner -
    Dortmund, Germany
  • passtere9passtere9 Member Posts: 2 Learner I
    thanks for your quick reply.
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