I think keeping it simple is best, try implementing one or two models in XML and then get fancy if it makes sense.
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Sure, those would be options. > > > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com > <javascript:;>> 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: andrew.mussel...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > >>> To: dev@mahout.apache.org <javascript:;> > >>> > >>> 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 > <javascript:;>> > >>> 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 <javascript:;> > >>> > >>>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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 > >> > >> >
