Re: question about customize kmeans distance measure

2015-05-19 Thread Xiangrui Meng
MLlib only supports Euclidean distance for k-means. You can find
Bregman divergence support in Derrick's package:
http://spark-packages.org/package/derrickburns/generalized-kmeans-clustering.
Which distance measure do you want to use? -Xiangrui

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:23 PM, June zhuman.priv...@yahoo.com.invalid wrote:
 Dear list,



 I am new to spark, and I want to use the kmeans algorithm in mllib package.

 I am wondering whether it is possible to customize the distance measure used
 by kmeans, and how?



 Many thanks!



 June

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question about customize kmeans distance measure

2015-05-12 Thread June
Dear list,

 

I am new to spark, and I want to use the kmeans algorithm in mllib package. 

I am wondering whether it is possible to customize the distance measure used
by kmeans, and how?

 

Many thanks!

 

June