Github user yinxusen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/458#issuecomment-41148756
@coderxiang I do some experiments on your dataset.
* For MLlib, you should first rewrite your labels {+1, -1} into {+1, 0}.
[Reference
here](http://54.82.240.23:4000/mllib-linear-methods.html#binary-classification)
* For Lasso, you need preprocess your dataset, and make it with zero mean
and unit norm. [Reference
here](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/19523/need-for-centering-and-standardizing-data-in-regression).
@mengxr just removed the former preprocessing because it is not elegant.
I open a [JIRA issue](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1585) to
explain the reason why `Infinity` occurs. IMHO, I prefer rewriting [this line](
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/optimization/Gradient.scala#L127)
into
`brzAxpy(2.0 * diff / weights.size, brzData, cumGradient.toBreeze)`
to do average, since the gradient is used for updating each single element
of weights. But I am not sure of that, maybe @mengxr and @etrain could give us
some suggestions.
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