Description
Techniques reviewed in <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4061">Halko, Martinsson, and Tropp</a>.
The basic idea of the implementation is as follows: if the input matrix is represented as a DistributedSparseRowMatrix (backed by a sequence-file of <Writable,VectorWritable> - the values of which should be SequentialAccessSparseVector instances for best performance), and you optionally have a kernel function f(v) which maps sparse numColumns-dimensional (here numColumns is unconstrained in size) vectors to sparse numKernelizedFeatures-dimensional (also unconstrained in size) vectors (in the case where you want to do kernel-PCA, for example, for a kernel k(u,v) = f(u).dot( f(v) )), then take the MurmurHash (from MAHOUT-228) and maps the numKernelizedFeatures-dimensional vectors and projects down to some numHashedFeatures-dimensional space (reasonably-sized - no more than a 10^2 to 10^4).
This is all done in the Mapper, and there are two outputs: the numHashedFeatures-dimensional vector itself (if the left-singular vectors are ever desired), which does not need to be Reduced, and the outer-product of this vector with itself, where the Reducer/Combiner just does the matrix sum on the partial outputs, eventually producing the kernel / gram matrix of your hashed features, which can then be run through a simple eigen-decomposition, the ((1/eigenvalue)-scaled) eigenvectors of which can be applied to project the (optional) numHashedFeatures-dimensional outputs mentioned earlier in this paragraph to get the left-singular vectors / reduced projections (which can be then run through clustering, etc...).
Good fun will be had by all.
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- is blocked by
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MAHOUT-228 Need sequential logistic regression implementation using SGD techniques
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- Closed
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- is duplicated by
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MAHOUT-376 Implement Map-reduce version of stochastic SVD
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- Closed
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