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Chhavi Bansal edited comment on SPARK-15041 at 6/13/24 7:43 AM:
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Are there plans to have imputers for Categorical string type columns? What is 
the recommended way to handle such scenarios? 


was (Author: JIRAUSER304338):
Are there plans to have imputations for Categorical string type columns? What 
is the recommended way to handle such scenarios? 

> adding mode strategy for ml.feature.Imputer for categorical features
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-15041
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15041
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: ML
>            Reporter: yuhao yang
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: bulk-closed
>
> Adding mode strategy for ml.feature.Imputer for categorical features. This 
> need to wait until PR for SPARK-13568 gets merged.
> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/11601
> From comments of jkbradley and Nick Pentreath in the PR
> {quote}
> Investigate efficiency of approaches using DataFrame/Dataset and/or approx 
> approaches such as frequentItems or Count-Min Sketch (will require an update 
> to CMS to return "heavy-hitters").
> investigate if we can use metadata to only allow mode for categorical 
> features (or perhaps as an easier alternative, allow mode for only Int/Long 
> columns)
> {quote}



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