On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:

> Empty clusters are not that uncommon with k-means if you specify too large a
> value for k.

Still, it shouldn't be an error condition, right?


> 
> Arshad,  can you say more about what data you are clustering?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Can you share the parameters you used to get this?  Does it happen every
>> time?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Arshad Khan wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello All
>>> 
>>> While using Mahout 0.3 KMeansDriver I am encountering an exception
>>> indicating an empty cluster. This happens sometimes while re-running the
>>> clustering on the same data set. Is there a way to prevent this error?
>> The
>>> exception trace is follows:
>>> 
>>> java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93)
>>>       at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:354)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307)
>>>       at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:176)
>>> Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>>>       at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor39.invoke(Unknown Source)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88)
>>>       ... 5 more
>>> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93)
>>>       at
>>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
>>>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.configure(MapRunner.java:34)
>>>       ... 9 more
>>> Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>>>       at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor39.invoke(Unknown Source)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>>       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88)
>>>       ... 12 more
>>> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cluster is empty!
>>>       at
>>> 
>> org.apache.mahout.clustering.kmeans.KMeansClusterMapper.configure(KMeansClusterMapper.java:73)
>>>       ... 16 more
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Arshad
>> 
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