FWIW, this paper talks about the equivalence of Logistic Regression and Maxent
http://www.win-vector.com/dfiles/LogisticRegressionMaxEnt.pdf ________________________________ From: Jörn Kottmann <kottm...@gmail.com> To: user@mahout.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Could OpenNLP use Mahout for classification? Thanks for your response, I will give it a try, our follow up jira issue is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-574 Jörn On 04/10/2013 05:04 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > Hi Jörn, > > > On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:12:47 PM Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> Logistic Regression (is that similar to our maxent ?) >> Online Passive Aggressive >> HMM >> The datasets we are training OpenNLP are usually rather small and can >> easily be processed with a single CPU, does Mahout support training on >> small scale datasets as well? > In particular the Logistic Regression and HMM stuff should be well suitable > even for smaller data sets. You can find the JavaDoc for each there: > > <https://builds.apache.org//job/Mahout- > Quality/javadoc/org/apache/mahout/classifier/sgd/package-summary.html > and here: > > <https://builds.apache.org//job/Mahout- > Quality/javadoc/org/apache/mahout/classifier/sequencelearning/hmm/package- > summary.html> > > Both have versions that can run standalone on a single box - they may come > with Hadoop as a dependency, mainly for serializing vectors and matrices to > disk but not for computation distribution. > > > Isabel >
