Hi Gang,

No admin is looking at our patch:( do you have some suggestions so that our
patch can get noticed by the admin?

Best regards,

Xiaokai


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Gang Bai [via Apache Spark Developers
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> Thanks Xiaokai,
>
> I’ve created a pull request to merge features in my PR to your repo.
> Please take a review here https://github.com/xwei-datageek/spark/pull/2 .
>
> As for GLMs, here at Sina, we are solving the problem of predicting the
> num of visitors who read a particular news article or watch an online
> sports live stream in a particular period. I’m trying to improve the
> prediction results by tuning features and incorporating new models. So I’ll
> try Gamma regression later. Thanks for the implementation.
>
> Cheers,
> -Gang
>
> On Jun 29, 2014, at 8:17 AM, xwei <[hidden email]
> <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7131&i=0>> wrote:
>
> > Hi Gang,
> >
> > No worries!
> >
> > I agree LBFGS would converge faster and your test suite is more
> comprehensive. I'd like to merge my branch with yours.
> >
> > I also agree with your viewpoint on the redundancy issue. For different
> GLMs, usually they only differ in gradient calculation but the
> ****regression.scala files are quite similar. For example,
> linearRegressionSGD, logisticRegressionSGD, RidgeRegressionSGD,
> poissonRegressionSGD all share quite a bit of common code in their class
> implementations. Since such redundancy is already there in the legacy code,
> simply merging Poisson and Gamma does not seem to help much. So I suggest
> we just leave them as separate classes for the time being.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Xiaokai
> >
> > On Jun 27, 2014, at 6:45 PM, Gang Bai [via Apache Spark Developers List]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Xiaokai,
> >>
> >> My bad. I didn't notice this before I created another PR for Poisson
> regression. The mails were buried in junk by the corp mail master. Also,
> thanks for considering my comments and advice in your PR.
> >>
> >> Adding my two cents here:
> >>
> >> * PoissonRegressionModel and GammaRegressionModel have the same fields
> and prediction method. Shall we use one instead of two redundant classes?
> Say, a LogLinearModel.
> >> * The LBFGS optimizer takes fewer iterations and results in better
> convergence than SGD. I implemented two GeneralizedLinearAlgorithm classes
> using LBFGS and SGD respectively. You may take a look into it. If it's OK
> to you, I'd be happy to send a PR to your branch.
> >> * In addition to the generated test data, We may use some real-world
> data for testing. In my implementation, I added the test data from
> https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat504/node/223. Please check my
> test suite.
> >>
> >> -Gang
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>> On 2014年6月27日, at 下午6:03, "xwei" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, that's what we did: adding two gradient functions to
> Gradient.scala and
> >>> create PoissonRegression and GammaRegression using these gradients. We
> made
> >>> a PR on this.
> >>>
> >>>
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