Currently it's not supported, but is on the roadmap: see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13025
The most recent attempt is to start with simple linear regression, as here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21386 On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 at 08:36 Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > We were able to set initial weights on > https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.1.0/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.mllib.classification.LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS > > How can we set the initial weights on > https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.2.0/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegression > similar to above > > Trying to migrate some code from mllib version to the ml version >