Sean, Anything I can do to help prep. an RC?
-Grant On May 9, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Sebastian Schelter wrote: > There is an implementation of an algorithm called ALS-WR which was developed > for the Netflix-Prize. It contains a parallelized matrix factorization, but > the algorithm itself is iterative which is not a good fit for the MapReduce > paradigm, so this implementation should be considered experimental at best > currently. > > --sebastian > > > On 09.05.2011 19:26, Sean Owen wrote >> What you see in trunk now is basically what you'll get. >> I know Sebastian has done a lot of work on this piece since 0.4, yes, >> so I imagine the answer is 'yes' it's new and different and perhaps >> better for your purpose. >> >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James James<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was wondering if the new release 0.5 will include the new implementation >>> of a >>> SVD-based recommender? I know there exists an old implementation in Mahout, >>> but >>> it does not really scalable. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Sean Owen<[email protected]> >>> To: Mahout Dev List<[email protected]> >>> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 4:30:34 AM >>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Code freeze for 0.5 release May 20 >>> >>> OK, hearing no objections in a few hours, this will have passed. If >>> so, only fixes related to 0.5, or test/doc/checkstyle improvements, >>> from here to release. >>> >>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sean Owen<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5%22+AND+status+%3D+Resolved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide >>>> e >>>> >>>> 127 issues resolved for 0.5, and 6 months since 0.4 was released. Yep, >>>> pretty good time for 0.5. >>>> >>>> I suggest we enter a code freeze upon passing of this vote. The only >>>> changes will be fixes, more tests, doc improvements. I'll act as >>>> release engineer then to head up the release (with helping hands along >>>> the way) per https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-release.html >>>> targeting a release on May 20. >>>> >>>> What say? >>>> >>>> Sean >>>> >>> > -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll Lucene Revolution -- Lucene and Solr User Conference May 25-26 in San Francisco www.lucenerevolution.org
