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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3330:
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Github user thvasilo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1587#discussion_r51910120
--- Diff:
flink-libraries/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/optimization/GradientDescent.scala
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@@ -192,10 +190,18 @@ abstract class GradientDescent extends
IterativeSolver {
(left, right) =>
val (leftGradVector, leftCount) = left
val (rightGradVector, rightCount) = right
- // Add the left gradient to the right one
- BLAS.axpy(1.0, leftGradVector.weights, rightGradVector.weights)
+
+ // make the left gradient dense so that the following reduce
operations (left fold) reuse
+ // it. This strongly depends on the underlying implementation of
the ReduceDriver
--- End diff --
Hey @tillrohrmann could you explain what you mean by "strongly depends on
the underlying implementation of the ReduceDriver"?
> Add SparseVector support to BLAS library in FlinkML
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-3330
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3330
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Machine Learning Library
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Chiwan Park
> Assignee: Chiwan Park
>
> A user reported the problem using {{GradientDescent}} algorithm with
> {{SparseVector}}.
> (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-user/201602.mbox/%3CCAMJxVsiNRy_B349tuRpC%2BY%2BfyW7j2SHcyVfhqnz3BGOwEHXHpg%40mail.gmail.com%3E)
> It seems lack of SparseVector support in {{BLAS.axpy}}.
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