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Nick Pentreath commented on SPARK-14891:
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{{ALS.train}} is generic in the ID type, and so does actually support
{{String}} already. There is a note there about performance, but nothing about
that it can only be {{Long}} or {{Int}}. I've tested using {{String}} IDs and
it works fine (the model is a bit different because I think the partitioning is
different, but the RMSE on e.g. {{movielens-latest-small}} is the same between
the two with same parameters just changing ID type). cc [~mengxr]
> ALS in ML never validates input schema
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> Key: SPARK-14891
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14891
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ML
> Reporter: Nick Pentreath
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> Currently, {{ALS.fit}} never validates the input schema. There is a
> {{transformSchema}} impl that calls {{validateAndTransformSchema}}, but it is
> never called in either {{ALS.fit}} or {{ALSModel.transform}}.
> This was highlighted in SPARK-13857 (and failing PySpark tests
> [here|https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/jenkins/job/SparkPullRequestBuilder/56849/consoleFull])when
> adding a call to {{transformSchema}} in {{ALSModel.transform}} that actually
> validates the input schema. The PySpark docstring tests result in Long inputs
> by default, which fail validation as Int is required.
> Currently, the inputs for user and item ids are cast to Int, with no input
> type validation (or warning message). So users could pass in Long, Float,
> Double, etc. It's also not made clear anywhere in the docs that only Int
> types for user and item are supported.
> Enforcing validation seems the best option but might break user code that
> previously "just worked" especially in PySpark.
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