yes mahout has stochastic svd and pca which are described at length in the samsara book. The book examples in Andrew Palumbo's github also contain an example of computing k-means|| sketch.
if you mean _probabilistic_ algorithms, although i have done some things outside the public domain, nothing has been contributed. You are very welcome to try something if you don't have big constraints on oss contribution. -d On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Khurrum Nasim <khurrum.na...@useitc.com> wrote: > Hey All, > > I’d like to know if Mahout uses any randomized algorithms. I’m thinking > it probably does. Can somebody point me to the packages that utilized > randomized algos. > > Thanks, > > Khurrum > >