i noticed irregularities in the results of Colt version when compared
to other solvers as well at the time i looked at it. Something doesn't
add up there.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK.
>
> I have a first pass at converting the colt eigen solver to our math
> package.  It wasn't hard with the help of a few emacs macros, but in the
> process I found what really look like some bugs.  That throws the utility
> of the conversion into question.  At the same time I wrote a from-scratch
> version that is based on using SVD (only works on symmetric matrices).  I
> also started in on an idiomatic version of the Colt decomposer that users
> our vectorized operations.
>
> Next would be to build some test cases and figure out what is happening.  I
> may have to fall back to the JAMA or commons math libraries for inspiration
> if the Colt versions turn out flawed.
>
> Overall, this isn't any worse than I expected.
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> if reliable eigensolver is available, we can also get rid of
>> dependency on eigensolver from apache math in SSVD. Don't quite know
>> if that's the only dependency on apache math, i saw one somewhere else
>> as well.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I would like to take a stab at a collections/math merge and a deletion
>> if deprecated math stuff. The deletion will require me to write and eigen
>> solver to support some of Jake's old code.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Jeff Eastman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Currently there are 24 outstanding JIRAs targeted for 0.7, which is
>> intended to be a clean-up and housekeeping release. They are about evenly
>> split between high and low priority tasks. Seven are marked asPatch
>> Available. Now might be a good time to take a look at them to triage the
>> list and begin to wrap up the remaining issues.
>> >>
>> >> Jeff
>> >>
>> >> PS: I've completed my move to Erie PA and should have quite a bit more
>> time to devote to Mahout
>>

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