https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/How+To+Contribute has some tips, ideas, etc. It's usually best to start with a few small patches to get your feet wet w/ the development process.
On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Raphael Cendrillon wrote: > Hi Urun, > > I'm in a very similar situation. I have a background (PhD) in optimization > and signal processing and some experience with principal component analysis. > I'm fairly comfortable with Java. > > I'm also very interested in Mahout, and large scale problems. > > If we can find a suitable area I would be very happy to work together with > you. > > One area I've been reading more into lately is parallelization of SVM > training algorithms, although I'm not sure whether this is a worthwhile > direction. > > Any recommendations would be much appreciated! > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 1:04 PM, urun dogan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All; >> >> I want to give my congratulation to all of the contributors of the project. >> I found the idea of this project so nice and I want to contribute to the >> project. >> >> I am postdoctoral researcher who is involved on developing machine learning >> algorithms. During my PhD I have developed several multiclass SVM >> >> techniques and solvers. Now I am involved in a European Union project which >> deals with large scale machine learning problems. I have a 5-6 years of >> >> C++ development experience and I like developing and implementing new >> machine learning techniques (Yes I know that Mahout uses Java :) , I will >> try my best) . >> >> My main expertise are classification, regression and transfer learning. I >> have seen several open topics in http://mahout.apache.org/ and these are >> >> 1) Locally Weighted Linear Regression >> >> 2) Gaussian Discriminative Analysis >> >> 3) Independent Component Analysis >> >> 4) Principal Components Analysis >> >> 5) Classification with Perceptron or Winnow >> >> 6) Neural Network >> >> I am aware that in Jira there are also some open issues. I can work on >> anything. I think that before starting >> >> any kind of coding I need to take the comments of experts in this project? >> What do you recommend to me to start with? >> >> Cheers >> >> Ueruen -------------------------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com
