Next question: Is the audience for PMML programmers or could it be folks that 
can script?  I'm wondering how this intersects with a simple spark like DSL , 
could Mahout implement an intersection between the two?  If there's interest I 
can go into examples.

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> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Musselman <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Sure, those would be options.
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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: [email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> 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 <[email protected]
>>> 
>>>> 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 <
>>>>> [email protected]> 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
>> 
>> 

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