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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-1255:
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I know how the testing inspired this change, but it still bugs the hell out of
me.
> Change BallKMeans weighting to use log(weight)
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> Key: MAHOUT-1255
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1255
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.8
> Reporter: Dan Filimon
> Assignee: Dan Filimon
> Priority: Minor
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> Weirdness is happening in the reducer when doing k-means++ sampling by
> weights.
> Change from multiplying the probability with the weight to multiplying by 2 *
> log(weight).
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