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Sean Owen commented on MAHOUT-308:
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Going once going twice, is this commitable? or will anyone be able to get it
ready within the next month or so?
> Improve Lanczos to handle extremely large feature sets (without hashing)
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> Key: MAHOUT-308
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-308
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Math
> Affects Versions: 0.3
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Jake Mannix
> Assignee: Jake Mannix
> Fix For: 0.5
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> Attachments: MAHOUT-308.patch
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> DistributedLanczosSolver currently keeps all Lanczos vectors in memory on the
> driver (client) computer while Hadoop is iterating. The memory requirements
> of this is (desiredRank) * (numColumnsOfInput) * 8bytes, which for
> desiredRank = a few hundred, starts to cap out usefulness at
> some-small-number * millions of columns for most commodity hardware.
> The solution (without doing stochastic decomposition) is to persist the
> Lanczos basis to disk, except for the most recent two vectors. Some care
> must be taken in the "orthogonalizeAgainstBasis()" method call, which uses
> the entire basis. This part would be slower this way.
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