The document discusses distributed implementations of generalized linear models (GLMs) on the H2O platform. GLMs generalize linear regression by adding a link function to transform the response variable and allow the noise variance to vary. The H2O implementation solves GLMs using an inner-outer loop approach, with the inner loop using an alternating direction method of multipliers solver and the outer loop averaging results across nodes. Regularization is added through elastic net penalties to avoid overfitting and obtain sparse solutions.