GitHub user coderxiang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1026
SPARK-2085: [MLlikb] Apply user-specific regularization instead of uniform regularization in ALS The current implementation of ALS takes a single regularization parameter and apply it on both of the user factors and the product factors. This kind of regularization can be less effective while users number is significantly larger than the number of products (and vice versa). For example, if we have 10M users and 1K product, regularization on user factors will dominate. Following the discussion in [this thread](http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/possible-bug-in-Spark-s-ALS-implementation-tt2567.html#a2704), the implementation in this PR will regularize each factor vector by #ratings * lambda. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/coderxiang/spark als-reg Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1026.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1026 ---- commit c28d1f9a7ec8b812300b83187199ef7043a5b15c Author: Shuo Xiang <sxi...@twitter.com> Date: 2014-06-09T22:13:25Z Apply user-specific regularization instead of uniform regularization in Alternating Least Squares (ALS) ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---