Open Sourcing Photon ML

Our vision is to have industry-wide impact on how people build and apply machine learning technology. To realize this vision, we have to be a part of the machine learning community -- we have to share our code. While there are many open source machine learning libraries currently available, we feel that Photon ML is an important addition because of the direction we intend to take the library toward: generalized additive mixed effect models (GAME), described in more detail below. Currently, the GAME implementation in Photon ML supports generalized linear mixed effect models (GLMix), a subset of the algorithms we intend to one day support in GAME. A GLMix model consists of a fixed effect component and multiple random effects.