Github user gaborhermann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2542#discussion_r87354805 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/recommendation/ALS.scala --- @@ -535,8 +581,17 @@ object ALS { itemOut: DataSet[(Int, OutBlockInformation)], userIn: DataSet[(Int, InBlockInformation)], factors: Int, - lambda: Double, blockIDPartitioner: FlinkPartitioner[Int]): + lambda: Double, blockIDPartitioner: FlinkPartitioner[Int], + implicitPrefs: Boolean, + alpha: Double): DataSet[(Int, Array[Array[Double]])] = { + // retrieve broadcast XtX matrix in implicit case + val XtXtoBroadcast = if (implicitPrefs) { --- End diff -- I tried to fit the notation of the explicit ALS code, as it uses `userXtX` notation in the `updateFactors` function. I think it might be confusing to use two different notations is the code, even if the paper uses another notation.
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