why rbm was removed from mahout?

2014-11-09 Thread zhonghong...@yy.com
Can anyone tell me why the Restricted Boltzmann Machines algorithm was removed ?

Re: Re: why rbm was removed from mahout?

2014-11-09 Thread zhonghong...@yy.com
So is there any scalable rbms available ? I'm going to implement a recommender based on it. From: Ted Dunning Date: 2014-11-10 15:34 To: user@mahout.apache.org Subject: Re: why rbm was removed from mahout? The algorithm wasn't particularly scalable. Nobody was around to support it. Nobody

Re: why rbm was removed from mahout?

2014-11-09 Thread Suneel Marthi
The algorithm never made it to the codebase and remained a patch for sometime when the original author recalled the patch while we were working on 0.8. It wasn't scalable and the author didn't think it was worth committing to trunk. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Ted Dunning

Re: Re: why rbm was removed from mahout?

2014-11-09 Thread Ted Dunning
: why rbm was removed from mahout? The algorithm wasn't particularly scalable. Nobody was around to support it. Nobody complained about the many warnings that it would be removed, nor the deprecation. Nor even the removal. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:20 AM, zhonghong...@yy.com zhonghong