This is a great paper about implementing an efficient large scale parallel version of L-BFGS algorithm in MapReduce.
http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5333-large-scale-l-bfgs-using-mapreduce.pdf
This is a great paper about implementing an efficient large scale parallel version of L-BFGS algorithm in MapReduce.
http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5333-large-scale-l-bfgs-using-mapreduce.pdf
This is an easy and well written tutorial for those who want to get a basic understanding of maximum likelihood estimation. Enjoy !
Tutorial on maximum likelihood estimation
Here are some additional papers