All - to help illustrate the issue, I've put together my mahout cvb script
and some truncated output files here for your review with real data:

https://gist.github.com/momer/3ddaaa0c291a91d25709

Not sure if this is frowned upon, but to expedite some eyes on this issue,
I'll donate $200 to the Apache foundation if we can figure this out by the
end of the week; and, $100 if we can figure it out by the end of next week!

Thank you,

Mo


On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Mohammed Omer <beancinematics@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All - I'm having the same issue as mentioned at
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.mahout.user/18889 on Mahout
> 0.9. My CVB clusters describe my corpus well; however, the mapping file
> generated by mahout's `rowid` seems to be wayyyyyy off.
>
> For example, there's a very obvious cluster which has keywords like "beer,
> stout, pale" - the only cluster to contain these keywords. In my vectordump
> for the p(term | topic) this cluster is at line 217. Vector dump generated
> by:
>
> echo `date` ": Dumping the p(term | topic) vectors to local filesystem..."
> $mahout_bin/mahout vectordump -i results/cvb_results/to_out \
>   --dictionary results/seq2sparse_results/dictionary.file-0 \
>   --vectorSize $NUM_KEYWORDS -sort results/cvb_results/to_out \
>   -o $OUTPUT_DIR/$PTOPIC_TERM_FILE -dt sequencefile
>
> And, while the results of dumping out the p(doc | topic) group all of the
> documents which contain the words "beer, stout, pale" together - it dumps
> them into cluster number 8. The dump is created via:
>
> echo `date` ": Dumping the p(doc | topic) vectors to local filesystem..."
> $mahout_bin/mahout vectordump -i results/cvb_results/do_out \
>   -sort results/cvb_results/do_out \
>   -o $OUTPUT_DIR/$PDOC_TOPIC_FILE -p true -c csv -n true -u true
>
> IE: the result from the p(doc | topic) dump will result in:
>
> 123    0.001,...,0.60,...
>
> Where 123 maps to a document about "beer, stout, pale" and where 0.60 is
> the 9th comma separated value -- thus belonging to cluster id#8 (at zero
> index).
>
> However, if we look at the p(term | topic) file dumped earlier, cluster
> id#8 has nothing to do with this document.
>
> Additionally, I wrote a script to review all of the documents belonging to
> any given cluster; and, all of the documents in cluster #8 actually map to
> the p(term|topic) entry described by cluster #217. That is to say, these
> are the only documents containing the ngrams / keywords that cluster #217
> shows as describing it.
>
> I can't figure out where the gap is: Is it in the rowid docIndex/matrix I
> have? I've tried dumping the above two files without sorting as I figured
> that might be rearranging the ordering of cluster probabilities in the
> p(doc | topic) dump, but that turned up inconclusive I believe.
>
> I would love any ideas - I've been stumped on this for a little while now.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mo
>