In any event i hope you could review stuff going on there. There are
problems that need answers.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Raphael Cendrillon <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Dmitriy. I certainly understand.
>
> Perhaps I can find some other areas to contribute.
>
> On 28 Nov, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote:
>
> > I think it is certainly ok for you to try and your thoughts are even more
> > appreciated because optimization of this stuff for big data that is also
> > accurate seem to take more than one head to review.
> >
> > However, I've already planned on doing 817 in the next two months and
> > finish it in Q1 if I can work out existing issues.
> > The existing issues are both flow and performance and IMO require a tad
> > more contemplation w.r.t. to existing flow pecularities before reliable
> > flow could be figured.
> > On top of it, at the point I am primary maintainer of SSVD code and I
> think
> > you should know that introducing modifications which at this point seem
> > fairly sizable may make it more difficult for me to maintain it --
> > especially given we haven't considered effect on existing power
> iterations
> > yet and future issue of introducing Cholesky option (there's a  pending
> > issue for that as well). But I think you can catalyze that process, you
> > already did a lot.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Raphael Cendrillon <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dmitriy,
> >>
> >> If it's OK with you I'd like to try implementing this decoration.
> >>
> >> Any advice or guidance would be very much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Raphael.
> >>
> >> On 27 Nov, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov (Commented) (JIRA) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dmitriy Lyubimov commented on MAHOUT-817:
> >>> -----------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> For the column mean bruteforce approach is probably the simplest, we 'd
> >> have to decorate input of A with mean subtraction.
> >>>
> >>>> Add PCA options to SSVD code
> >>>> ----------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>>               Key: MAHOUT-817
> >>>>               URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-817
> >>>>           Project: Mahout
> >>>>        Issue Type: New Feature
> >>>>  Affects Versions: 0.6
> >>>>          Reporter: Dmitriy Lyubimov
> >>>>          Assignee: Dmitriy Lyubimov
> >>>>           Fix For: Backlog
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> It seems that a simple solution should exist to integrate PCA mean
> >> subtraction into SSVD algorithm without making it a pre-requisite step
> and
> >> also avoiding densifying the big input.
> >>>> Several approaches were suggested:
> >>>> 1) subtract mean off B
> >>>> 2) propagate mean vector deeper into algorithm algebraically where the
> >> data is already collapsed to smaller matrices
> >>>> 3) --?
> >>>> It needs some math done first . I'll take a stab at 1 and 2 but
> >> thoughts and math are welcome.
> >>>
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