Hi,

The matrix if sparse can be very large like 1000 X 1000 but it will only
have at most 20 non-zero elements. That is the reason I specifically talked
in terms of DenseMatrix since a sparse matrix or Vector would waste a lot
of space and traversal time.



On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
>



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Regards
Gaurav Singh

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