Is this something people would find useful?

How would you like to sparsify the matrix? Using a threshold, or something else 
like target number of elements per row?

On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:

> No.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Dan Brickley (Commented) (JIRA) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>   [
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-880?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13161562#comment-13161562]
>> 
>> Dan Brickley commented on MAHOUT-880:
>> -------------------------------------
>> 
>> Does Mahout yet have a method to take a large full matrix, and convert it
>> sparse matrix format (losing zero values or perhaps if it makes sense,
>> near-zero values also...)?
>> 
>>> Add some matrix method(like addition, subtraction, norm ... etc) to
>> DistributedRowMatrix
>>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>>                Key: MAHOUT-880
>>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-880
>>>            Project: Mahout
>>>         Issue Type: New Feature
>>>         Components: Math
>>>   Affects Versions: 0.6
>>>           Reporter: Wangda Tan
>>>           Priority: Minor
>>>             Labels: DistributedRowMatrix
>>>        Attachments: MAHOUT-880.patch
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm a new to Mahout, I didn't find some basic matrix functions. This
>> make users cannot do many tasks by CLI or API, if user get some result
>> through existing map-reduce matrix operation (like svd), he cannot do
>> farther steps. I make a list for it:
>>> 1) Addition, Subtraction
>>> 2) Norm (like norm-1, norm-2, norm-frobenius)
>>> 3) Matrix compare
>>> 4) Get lower triangle, upper triangle and diagonal
>>> 5) Get identity and zero matrix
>>> 6) Put two or matrix to together: A = [A1, A2]
>>> 7) More linear equations solver method, like Gaussian elimination (maybe
>> it's hard to implement)
>>> 8) import and export CSV, ARFF ... (this will very useful when user want
>> to reuse result from or to other applications like MATLAB)
>>> I want to know is there any plan to do this, if so, I can make some
>> efforts to implement these.
>> 
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