Ted Dunning wrote:
I see what you mean.To repeat in other words, the problems that need to be solved are: a) there are many uses already so adding attributes should be transparent to those who don't use them b) the encoding should not be ad hoc because this would be our second ad hoc encoding and only one should ever be allowed before using a standard
+1
Any preferences here? This might also impact other Mahout packages in the future, so everybody please weigh in. In general, it seems that having a common, public encoding for matrix and vector data would help users mix and match the Mahout services. What are the requirements of these other services? From inspection, it looks like only the clustering packages use them currently.So here is a (kind of) concrete proposal: a) use JSON or Thrift for concrete syntax
Jeff
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