If you are doing a student project, it may be best for you to do this as a separate github project that *depends* on Mahout rather than trying to build a modification to Mahout in the first instance.
The reasons that I say this include: a) the Apache process will probably be foreign to you at first and will significantly slow you down as a result. b) the enthusiasm for your code by the community will depend very much on whether you can convince us that your code will be high quality and you will be around to help maintain it. Purely because this is a student project, you will have a very hard time doing this this. That will also slow down your progress. c) the level of review for your code will be variable, but it you are able to get reviews, they are likely to be more stringent than you are used to. This can be disheartening and, again, can slow you down. d) the best route to guarantee the success for your school project is to get something working well as soon as possible. This implies that (a-c) can seriously decrease your success rate. Taking all of this together, what I suggest is that you start by developing as a separate project. This will let you get started instantly and make progress immediately. Being separate does not mean that you will lack support from the Mahout community, you can still invite reviews and commentary on your approach and your code. All it means is that you won't be slowed down by the whole community process and are more likely to have a successful project. If your project is successful and if your code fits into the Mahout style and structure, then moving from a separate project into the mahout mainline is relatively easy for a self-contained project like a neural network implementation. All of this said, you should look at the archives of the mailing list. Yexi just recently put up some code to do much of what you suggest and you should comment on the code review. You should also decide how that code affects your project. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Sushanth Bhat(MT2012147) < sushanth.b...@iiitb.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to implement Neural networks algorithm in Mahout. We are > doing as a part of Machine Learning course project. As we don't have much > knowledge about Mahout, can anyone please help us how to get start with > implementation of algorithm. > > Thanks and regards, > Sushanth Bhat > IIIT-Bangalore >
