Namit, I think the theory behind Mahout’s logistic regression is stochastic gradient descent, rather than maximum likelihood.
Best Regards, Peng Zhang On May 22, 2014, at 2:29 PM, namit maheshwari <namitmaheshwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Could anyone please let me know the algorithm used behind > LogisticRegression in Mahout. Also AdaptiveLogisticRegression mentions an > *annealing* schedule. > > I would be grateful if someone could guide me towards the theory behind it. > > Thanks > Namit
