I think you have sparse and dense reversed in your head. 

And the questions about size and distance remain unanswered. 

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On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:08 AM, gaurav singh <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Gaurav Singh

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