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Reynold Xin commented on SPARK-6710:
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[~michaelmalak] would you like to submit a pull request for this?
> Wrong initial bias in GraphX SVDPlusPlus
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> Key: SPARK-6710
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6710
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: GraphX
> Affects Versions: 1.3.0
> Reporter: Michael Malak
> Labels: easyfix
> Original Estimate: 2h
> Remaining Estimate: 2h
>
> In the initialization portion of GraphX SVDPlusPluS, the initialization of
> biases appears to be incorrect. Specifically, in line
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/lib/SVDPlusPlus.scala#L96
>
> instead of
> (vd._1, vd._2, msg.get._2 / msg.get._1, 1.0 / scala.math.sqrt(msg.get._1))
> it should probably be
> (vd._1, vd._2, msg.get._2 / msg.get._1 - u, 1.0 /
> scala.math.sqrt(msg.get._1))
> That is, the biases bu and bi (both represented as the third component of the
> Tuple4[] above, depending on whether the vertex is a user or an item),
> described in equation (1) of the Koren paper, are supposed to be small
> offsets to the mean (represented by the variable u, signifying the Greek
> letter mu) to account for peculiarities of individual users and items.
> Initializing these biases to wrong values should theoretically not matter
> given enough iterations of the algorithm, but some quick empirical testing
> shows it has trouble converging at all, even after many orders of magnitude
> additional iterations.
> This perhaps could be the source of previously reported trouble with
> SVDPlusPlus.
> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/GraphX-SVDPlusPlus-problem-td12885.html
>
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