zhengruifeng commented on a change in pull request #27758:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/27758#discussion_r411884957



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File path: 
mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/DistanceMeasure.scala
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@@ -154,22 +255,81 @@ object DistanceMeasure {
 }
 
 private[spark] class EuclideanDistanceMeasure extends DistanceMeasure {
+
+  /**
+   * Statistics used in triangle inequality to obtain useful bounds to find 
closest centers.
+   * @see <a 
href="https://www.aaai.org/Papers/ICML/2003/ICML03-022.pdf";>Charles Elkan,
+   *      Using the Triangle Inequality to Accelerate k-Means</a>
+   *
+   * @return One element used in statistics matrix to make matrix(i)(j) 
represents:
+   *         1, squared radii of the center i, if i==j. If distance between 
point x and center i
+   *         is less than the radius of center i, then center i is the closest 
center to point x.
+   *         For Euclidean distance, radius of center i is half of the 
distance between center i
+   *         and its closest center;
+   *         2, a lower bound r=matrix(i)(j) to help avoiding unnecessary 
distance computation.
+   *         Given point x, let i be current closest center, and d be current 
best squared
+   *         distance, if d < r, then we no longer need to compute the 
distance to center j.
+   */
+  override def computeStatistics(distance: Double): Double = {
+    0.25 * distance * distance
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return the index of the closest center to the given point, as well as 
the cost.
+   */
+  override def findClosest(
+      centers: Array[VectorWithNorm],
+      statistics: Array[Double],
+      point: VectorWithNorm): (Int, Double) = {
+    var bestDistance = 
EuclideanDistanceMeasure.fastSquaredDistance(centers(0), point)

Review comment:
       do you mean:
   ```scala
   if (bestDistance < statistics(0)) {
         return (0, bestDistance)
       }
   ```
   
   yes, `statistics(0)` here is just equal to 
`statistics(indexUpperTriangular(k, 0, 0))`




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