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Sean Owen updated SPARK-6323:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.4.0)

> Large rank matrix factorization with Nonlinear loss and constraints
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>                 Key: SPARK-6323
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6323
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: ML, MLlib
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Debasish Das
>   Original Estimate: 672h
>  Remaining Estimate: 672h
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> Currently ml.recommendation.ALS is optimized for gram matrix generation which 
> scales to modest ranks. The problems that we can solve are in the normal 
> equation/quadratic form: 0.5x'Hx + c'x + g(z)
> g(z) can be one of the constraints from Breeze proximal library:
> https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/blob/master/math/src/main/scala/breeze/optimize/proximal/Proximal.scala
> In this PR we will re-use ml.recommendation.ALS design and come up with 
> ml.recommendation.ALM (Alternating Minimization). Thanks to [~mengxr] recent 
> changes, it's straightforward to do it now !
> ALM will be capable of solving the following problems: min f ( x ) + g ( z )
> 1. Loss function f ( x ) can be LeastSquareLoss and LoglikelihoodLoss. Most 
> likely we will re-use the Gradient interfaces already defined and implement 
> LoglikelihoodLoss
> 2. Constraints g ( z ) supported are same as above except that we don't 
> support affine + bounds yet Aeq x = beq , lb <= x <= ub yet. Most likely we 
> don't need that for ML applications
> 3. For solver we will use breeze.optimize.proximal.NonlinearMinimizer which 
> in turn uses projection based solver (SPG) or proximal solvers (ADMM) based 
> on convergence speed.
> https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/blob/master/math/src/main/scala/breeze/optimize/proximal/NonlinearMinimizer.scala
> 4. The factors will be SparseVector so that we keep shuffle size in check. 
> For example we will run with 10K ranks but we will force factors to be 
> 100-sparse.
> This is closely related to Sparse LDA 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5564 with the difference that we 
> are not using graph representation here.
> As we do scaling experiments, we will understand which flow is more suited as 
> ratings get denser (my understanding is that since we already scaled ALS to 2 
> billion ratings and we will keep sparsity in check, the same 2 billion flow 
> will scale to 10K ranks as well)...
> This JIRA is intended to extend the capabilities of ml recommendation to 
> generalized loss function.



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