Large Scale Machine Learning and Other Animals

Recently I have been working on implementing a clustering library on top of GraphLab. Currently we have K-means, Fuzzy K-means and LDA (La...

This post helps to understand Mahout's K-Means clustering implementation. Preliminaries: you should read first the explanation in the ...

In the last couple of months, we are working on increasing compatibility of GraphLab large scale machine learning project, with Apache Mahou...

One of the interesting questions is: "what are the most useful machine learning algorithms?". I did a little survey by looking at...

In this post I will share some of the insights I got when tuning Hadoop/Mahout on Amazon EC regular and high performance nodes. I was using ...

This post explains how to install Mahout ML framework on top of Amazon EC2 (CentOS/RedHat based machine). The notes are based on older Maho...

I was testing Mahout's SVD code and I encountered some subtleties. I wonder if I am missing anything or is there a bug in the code? 1...

I am working in the last couple of weeks on comparing the performance of GraphLab vs. Mahout on Alternaring least squares using Netflix data...

This post explains how to setup a development environment for Hadoop and Mahout. Prerequisites:  need to have Mahout and Hadoop sources. (...

Converting Mahout's SVD Distributed Matrix Factorization Solver Output Format into CSV format Purpose The code below, shows how to co...

Converting Input Format into Mahout's SVD Distributed Matrix Factorization Solver Purpose The code below, converts a matrix from csv ...

This post explains how to run Mahout on top of CMU OpenCloud. 1) log into the cloud login node ssh -L 8888:proxy.opencloud:8888 login.clo...

Following part 1 of this posting which explained how to install Mahout and Hadoop on Amazon EC2. We start by testing logistic regression ...

This post explains how to install Mahout ML framework on top of Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu based machine). The notes are based on older Mahout note...