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Xiangrui Meng commented on SPARK-2552:
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PR: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1493
> Stabilize the computation of logistic function in pyspark
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> Key: SPARK-2552
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2552
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: MLlib, PySpark
> Reporter: Xiangrui Meng
> Labels: Starter
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> exp(1000) throws an error in python. For logistic function, we can use either
> 1 / ( 1 + exp( -x ) ) or 1 - 1 / (1 + exp( x ) ) to compute its value which
> ensuring exp always takes a negative value.
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