Question, is there a way to introduce PMML with using a more lightweight format
like yaml or json?
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 13:25:29 -0800
> Subject: Re: PMML
> From: andrew.mussel...@gmail.com
> To: dev@mahout.apache.org
>
> Yes, the limitations are often an issue for people doing things that aren't
> in the PMML spec yet; there could be room for suggesting new features in
> the spec by building them though, I suppose.
>
> Also agree that XML is a lousy/bloated way of representing stuff like this,
> but in the end it's just a choice of representation so there may be reason
> to use some other encoding and then provide an XML-export function.
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am willing to +1 any contribution at this point.
> >
> > my previous company used pmml to serialize simple stuff, but i don't
> > have first hand experience. Its flexibility is ultimately pretty
> > limited, isn't it? And xml is ultimately a media which is too ugly and
> > too verbose at the same time to represent models with any more or less
> > decent number of parameters?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Suneel Marthi <suneel.mar...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > It makes sense to support PMML for classification and clustering tasks to
> > > be able to share and distribute trained models. Sean, Pat, Dmitriy and
> > Ted
> > > please chime in.
> > >
> > > PMML support in Mahout was talked about for a long time now but never
> > > really got any traction to take off.
> > >
> > > +1 to build this.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Andrew Musselman <
> > > andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> How much interest is there in a mahout-pmml module, with a starting
> > point
> > >> to be able to export a few analytic/scoring jobs to PMML representation?
> > >>
> > >> I've seen a lot of interest at in being able to use PMML to translate
> > >> analytic work into production(though I think people talk about it more
> > than
> > >> they do it), and it could be a benchmark as part of a "definition of
> > done"
> > >> for any existing/new method we include since there's a spec to build to.
> > >>
> > >> Best
> > >> Andrew
> > >>
> >
