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Xiangrui Meng reassigned SPARK-13097:
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    Assignee: Xiangrui Meng

> Extend Binarizer to allow Double AND Vector inputs
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>                 Key: SPARK-13097
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13097
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ML
>            Reporter: Mike Seddon
>            Assignee: Xiangrui Meng
>            Priority: Minor
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> To enhance the existing SparkML Binarizer [SPARK-5891] to allow Vector in 
> addition to the existing Double input column type.
> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/10976
> A use case for this enhancement is for when a user wants to Binarize many 
> similar feature columns at once using the same threshold value.
> A real-world example for this would be where the authors of one of the 
> leading MNIST handwriting character recognition entries converts 784 
> grayscale (0-255) pixels (28x28 pixel images) to binary if the pixel's 
> grayscale exceeds 127.5: (http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0358). With this 
> modification the user is able to: VectorAssembler(784 
> columns)->Binarizer(127.5)->Classifier as all the pixels are of a similar 
> type. 
> This approach also allows much easier use of the ParamGridBuilder to test 
> multiple theshold values.
> I have already written the code and unit tests and have tested in a 
> Multilayer perceptron classifier workflow.



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