Have a look at the code maybe? https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/classification/NaiveBayes.scala
Yes there is a smoothing parameter, and yes from the looks of it it is simply additive / Laplace smoothing. It's been in there for a while. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Rahul Bhojwani <rahulbhojwani2...@gmail.com > wrote: > The discussion is in context for spark 0.9.1 > Does MLlib Naive Bayes implementation incorporates Laplase smoothing? Or > any other smoothing? Or it doesn't encorporates any smoothing?? Please > inform? > > Thanks, > -- > Rahul K Bhojwani > 3rd Year B.Tech > Computer Science and Engineering > National Institute of Technology, Karnataka >
