Do you have more than 2 billion users/products? If not, you can pair each user/product id with an integer (check RDD.zipWithUniqueId), use them in ALS, and then join the original bigInt IDs back after training. -Xiangrui
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:12 PM, nishanthps <nishant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The userId's and productId's in my data are bigInts, what is the best way to > run collaborative filtering on this data. Should I modify MLlib's > implementation to support more types? or is there an easy way. > > Thanks!, > Nishanth > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/How-to-use-BigInteger-for-userId-and-productId-in-collaborative-Filtering-tp21072.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org