On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Also, note that the row keys in Mahout are not actually stored in the
> > matrices that we manipulate.
>
>
> They are. I am not sure about DistributedRowMatrix class for mapreduce, but
> in sparkbindings they are. they are intimately relevant to all algebra and
> especially transposition rewrites.
>
> Even in-core matrices support column/row labels, although nobody seems to
> be using it.
>

Are you saying that the values in the matrix are non-numbers?

Or simply that rows and columns are labeled?

I was trying to say the latter and add that the core of the matrix is
entirely numerical.  This is certainly true of the in-core math.

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