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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-792:
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But my response has always been, if you have input thinner than projection,
then why even use projection?
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Because it is cheaper to process a thin dense matrix than a wide sparse one.
Likewise, even if B is bigger than A, it can be much cheaper to compute the SVD
of B than of A if only because the Cholesky trick works on the skinny dense
case. If the Cholesky decomposition loses some accuracy then a QR or LQ
decomposition could be used the same way.
> Add new stochastic decomposition code
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> Key: MAHOUT-792
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-792
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Ted Dunning
> Attachments: MAHOUT-792.patch, MAHOUT-792.patch, sd-2.pdf
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> I have figured out some simplification for our SSVD algorithms. This
> eliminates the QR decomposition and makes life easier.
> I will produce a patch that contains the following:
> - a CholeskyDecomposition implementation that does pivoting (and thus
> rank-revealing) or not. This should actually be useful for solution of large
> out-of-core least squares problems.
> - an in-memory SSVD implementation that should work for matrices up to
> about 1/3 of available memory.
> - an out-of-core SSVD threaded implementation that should work for very
> large matrices. It should take time about equal to the cost of reading the
> input matrix 4 times and will require working disk roughly equal to the size
> of the input.
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