Thanks guys, I have some reading to do :-)

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The reference is to the web site in general.
>
> If anything, this blog is closest:
>
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.177.3514&rep=rep1&type=pdf
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I think this is the one. Yes, I don't see this paper referenced in the
> > code sorry about that.
> > http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/compstat-2010.pdf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:51 PM, Frank Scholten <
> > fr...@frankscholten.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Do you know which paper it is? He has quite a few publications. I don't
> see
> > any mention of one of his papers in the code. I only see
> > www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/papers/combined-ranking-and-regression.pdfin
> > MixedGradient but this is something different.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Mahout's impl is based off of Leon Bottou's paper on this subject.  I
> > > don't gave the link handy but it's referenced in the code or try google
> > > search
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Frank Scholten <fr...@frankscholten.nl>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I followed the Coursera Machine Learning course quite a while ago
> and I
> > > am
> > > > trying to find out how Mahout implements the Logistic Regression cost
> > > > function in the code surrounding AbstractOnlineLogisticRegression.
> > > >
> > > > I am looking at the train method in AbstractOnlineLogisticRegression
> > and
> > > I
> > > > see online gradient descent step where the beta matrix is updated but
> > to
> > > me
> > > > its unclear how matches with the cost function described at:
> > > > http://www.holehouse.org/mlclass/06_Logistic_Regression.html
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps Mahout uses an optimized approach for that does not directly
> > map
> > > > into the formula at that link?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Frank
> > >
> >
>

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