srowen commented on a change in pull request #32734:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/32734#discussion_r646227659



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File path: 
mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/distributed/RowMatrix.scala
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@@ -438,8 +443,8 @@ class RowMatrix @Since("1.0.0") (
     require(m > 1, s"RowMatrix.computeCovariance called on matrix with only $m 
rows." +
       "  Cannot compute the covariance of a RowMatrix with <= 1 row.")
     val mean = Vectors.fromML(summary.mean)
-
-    if (rows.first().isInstanceOf[DenseVector]) {
+    // If all the rows are sparse vectors, then compute based on 
`computeSparseVectorCovariance`.
+    if (!isSparseMatrix) {
       computeDenseVectorCovariance(mean, n, m)

Review comment:
       No I think the change is reasonable. Just wondering why it ever treated 
these two paths so differently. But that is not the issue here.




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