Sean,
Anything I can do to help prep. an RC?
-Grant
On May 9, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Sebastian Schelter wrote:
> There is an implementation of an algorithm called ALS-WR which was developed for the
Netflix-Prize. It contains a parallelized matrix factorization, but the algorithm itself is
iterative which is not a good fit for the MapReduce paradigm, so this implementation should
be considered experimental at best currently.
>
> --sebastian
>
>
> On 09.05.2011 19:26, Sean Owen wrote
>> What you see in trunk now is basically what you'll get.
>> I know Sebastian has done a lot of work on this piece since 0.4, yes,
>> so I imagine the answer is 'yes' it's new and different and perhaps
>> better for your purpose.
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James James<recommendersystem@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if the new release 0.5 will include the new implementation of
a
>>> SVD-based recommender? I know there exists an old implementation in Mahout, but
>>> it does not really scalable.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Sean Owen<srowen@gmail.com>
>>> To: Mahout Dev List<dev@mahout.apache.org>
>>> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 4:30:34 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Code freeze for 0.5 release May 20
>>>
>>> OK, hearing no objections in a few hours, this will have passed. If
>>> so, only fixes related to 0.5, or test/doc/checkstyle improvements,
>>> from here to release.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sean Owen<srowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5%22+AND+status+%3D+Resolved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide
>>>> e
>>>>
>>>> 127 issues resolved for 0.5, and 6 months since 0.4 was released. Yep,
>>>> pretty good time for 0.5.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest we enter a code freeze upon passing of this vote. The only
>>>> changes will be fixes, more tests, doc improvements. I'll act as
>>>> release engineer then to head up the release (with helping hands along
>>>> the way) per https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-release.html
>>>> targeting a release on May 20.
>>>>
>>>> What say?
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>
>
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