Hi Joseph, Thank you for your tips.
Thanks, Dzeno > On Dec 15, 2015, at 10:58 PM, Joseph Bradley <jos...@databricks.com> wrote: > > Hi Dzeno, > > I'm not familiar with the algorithm myself, but if you have an important use > case for it, you could open a JIRA to discuss it. However, if it is a less > common algorithm, I'd recommend first submitting it as a Spark package (but > publicizing the package on the user list). If it gains traction, then it > could become a higher priority item for MLlib. > > Thanks, > Joseph > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Dženan Softić <dzen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As a part of the project, we are trying to create parallel implementation of >> BIRCH clustering algorithm [1]. We are mostly getting idea how to do it from >> this paper, which used CUDA to make BIRCH parallel [2]. ([2] is short paper, >> just section 4. is relevant). >> >> We would like to implement BIRCH on Spark. Would this be an interesting >> contribution for MLlib? Is there anyone already who tried to implement BIRCH >> on Spark? >> >> Any suggestions for implementation itself would be very much appreciated! >> >> >> [1] http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/459/han/papers/zhang96.pdf >> [2] http://boyuan.global-optimization.com/Mypaper/IDEAL2013-88.pdf >> >> >> Best, >> Dzeno >
