Yeah... you can probably do this. It will involve storing your matrices as vectors and probably requires that they be the same size.
Can you say more about the matrices in terms of size and how you compute distance? On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:42 AM, gaurav singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I can see that kmeans can be used to create clusters of vectors but can we > somehow use kmeans of mahout to create clusters of matrices. In other words > do we already have distance calculation functionality between matrices in > mahout and does kmeans implementation support that? > > I wish to be able to convert certain sequences into markov model and > generate 2d arrays. I would like to cluster these sequences on the basis of > the distance between different markov matrices. I would wish them to be > dense matrices and I also know that we have hadoop writable DenseMatrix in > class in mahout. > > I just wish to know if it can be directly used with kmeans or I will have > to write or customize kmeans for my purpose? > > Thanks for any help offered! > > -- > Regards > Gaurav Singh >
