Hi everyone again

Can anyone confirm this? Is The V matrix persisted by the Lanczos algorithm
already scaled by (1/eigenvalues)?

Thanks in advance,

Fernando.

El 2 de diciembre de 2010 17:54, Fernando Fernández <
[email protected]> escribió:

> Hi again,
>
>
>
> I have a question regarding the output of the solver. Is it really the V
> matrix or is it already V*S(-1). Jake said that I needed to scale the
> vectors by (1/eigenvalue), but when I do this programatically and serialize
> the output to the hdfs and check the results, I see that the V*S(-1) vectors
> that I built and the V that the solve method (or mahout svd command)
> persists has almost the same values, so it seems to be already scaled by
> (1/eigenvalues). Is this true?
>
> For example:
>
> Eigenvectors persisted by the solve method to the hdfs (A portion):
>
> 2    elts: {00:0.00969523384177557, 01:-0.1509405313358042,
> 02:-0.15402428299469786,
>
> Eigenvalue asociated: 0.35597101584493984
>
>
> When I take the V matrix from the solve method at execution time and scale
> by (1/eigenvalue):
>
> 2    elts: {00:0.009036918423663949, 01:-0.15711902318788887,
> 02:-0.14878245692981582
>
> If I multiply the first element by the eigenvalue (re-scale to obtain V
> again) I would obtain something like 0.00321688, very far from the
> 0.00969523384177557 that is persisted to the hdfs by the solve method.
>
> Can someone throw some light on this?
>
>
> Best,
> Fernando.
>
> El 26 de noviembre de 2010 09:49, Fernando Fernández <
> [email protected]> escribió:
>
> Yes, I'm checking the error today with some colleagues and seems that we
>> broke something trying to fix other errors... now SVD doesn't work even on
>> the command line, I'll write again if I get back to the situation where the
>> command line worked and I got ClassNotFoundExceptions...
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> 2010/11/26 Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
>>
>> Ahh... the problem is not that classes are missing.  It is that the code
>>> that is reading the
>>> matrix wants to see a LongWritable for the row number and is getting an
>>> IntWritable instead.
>>>
>>> I think that your file containing your matrix was somehow created
>>> incorrectly.  This isn't necessarily
>>> your error, but I think that the error exists.
>>>
>>> 2010/11/25 Fernando Fernández <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> > java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.io.IOException: wrong key class:
>>> > org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable is not class
>>> > org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>

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