Github user mengxr commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4459#discussion_r24436973 --- Diff: mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/linalg/BLAS.scala --- @@ -235,12 +235,23 @@ private[spark] object BLAS extends Serializable with Logging { * @param x the vector x that contains the n elements. * @param A the symmetric matrix A. Size of n x n. */ - def syr(alpha: Double, x: DenseVector, A: DenseMatrix) { + + // Wrapper around the dense and sparse methods. + def syr(alpha: Double, x: Vector, A: DenseMatrix) { val mA = A.numRows val nA = A.numCols - require(mA == nA, s"A is not a symmetric matrix. A: $mA x $nA") + require(mA == nA, s"A is not a square matrix (and hence is not symmetric). A: $mA x $nA") require(mA == x.size, s"The size of x doesn't match the rank of A. A: $mA x $nA, x: ${x.size}") + x match { + case dv: DenseVector => syr(alpha, dv, A, mA, nA) + case sv: SparseVector => syr(alpha, sv, A, nA) + case _ => + throw new IllegalArgumentException(s"syr doesn't support vector type ${x.getClass}.") + } + } + + private def syr(alpha: Double, x: DenseVector, A: DenseMatrix, mA: Int, nA: Int) { --- End diff -- If `mA == nA`, I don't think we need `mA` and `nA` here. We don't support submatrix slicing at this time, so the API should be `syr(alpha, x, A)`. Scala should recognize overloaded methods correctly.
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