Major Description
Proposal: Make most of the Param traits in sharedParams.scala public. Mark them as DeveloperApi.
Pros:
- Sharing the Param traits helps to encourage standardized Param names and documentation.
Cons:
- Users have to be careful since parameters can have different meanings for different algorithms.
- If the shared Params are public, then implementations could test for the traits. It is unclear if we want users to rely on these traits, which are somewhat experimental.
Currently, the shared params are private.
UPDATED proposal
- Some Params are clearly safe to make public. We will do so.
- Some Params could be made public but may require caveats in the trait doc.
- Some Params have turned out not to be shared in practice. We can move those Params to the classes which use them.
Public shared params:
- I/O column params
- HasFeaturesCol
- HasInputCol
- HasInputCols
- HasLabelCol
- HasOutputCol
- HasPredictionCol
- HasProbabilityCol
- HasRawPredictionCol
- HasVarianceCol
- HasWeightCol
- Algorithm settings
- HasCheckpointInterval
- HasElasticNetParam
- HasFitIntercept
- HasMaxIter
- HasRegParam
- HasSeed
- HasStandardization (less common)
- HasStepSize
- HasTol
Questionable params:
- HasHandleInvalid (only used in StringIndexer, but might be more widely used later on)
- HasSolver (used in LinearRegression and GeneralizedLinearRegression, but same meaning as Optimizer in LDA)
Params to be removed from sharedParams:
- HasThreshold (only used in LogisticRegression)
- HasThresholds (only used in ProbabilisticClassifier)
Attachments
Issue Links
- is duplicated by
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SPARK-12751 Traits generated by SharedParamsCodeGen should not be private
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- Closed
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- relates to
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SPARK-5874 How to improve the current ML pipeline API?
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- Resolved
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- Resolved
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- links to
