what's new in apache mahout
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Apache Mahout is changing radically. Here is a report on what is coming, notably including an R like domain specific language that can use multiple computational engines such as Spark.TRANSCRIPT
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What’s New in Apache Mahout: A Preview of Mahout 1.0Ted Dunning21 May, 2014 Boulder/Denver Big Data Meet-up
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What’s New in Apache Mahout:A Preview of Mahout 1.0
21 May 2014 Boulder/Denver Big Data Meet-up #BDBDM
Ted Dunning, Chief Applications Architect MapR TechnologiesTwitter @Ted_Dunning Email [email protected] [email protected]
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There was just an explosion in Apache Mahout…
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Apache Mahout up to now…• Open source Apache project http://mahout.apache.org/• Mahout version is 0.9 released Feb 2014; included Scala
– Summary 0.9 blog at http://bit.ly/1rirUUL• Library of scalable algorithms for machine learning
– Some run on Apache Hadoop distributions; others do not require Hadoop– Some can be run at small scale– Some are run in parallel; others are sequential
• Includes the following main areas:– Clustering & related techniques– Classification– Recommendation– Mahout Math Library
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Roadmap to Mahout 1.0• Say good-bye to MapReduce
– New MR algorithms will not be accepted– Support for existing ones will continue for now
• Support for Apache Spark– Under construction; some features already available
• Support for h2o being explored• Support for Apache Stratosphere possibly in future
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Roadmap: Apache Mahout 1.0
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Apache Spark
• Apache Spark http://spark.apache.org/– Open source “fast and general engine for large scale data processing”– Especially fast in-memory– Made top level open Apache project
• Feb 2014 • http://spark.apache.org/ • over 100 committers
– Original developers have started company called Databricks (Berkeley CA) http://databricks.com/
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Mahout and Scala• Scala http://www.scala-lang.org/
– Open source; appeared in 2003 – Wiki describes as “object-functional programming and scripting
language”• Scala provides functional style
– Makes lazy evaluation much safer– Notationally compact– Minor syntax extensions allowed– Makes math much easier
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Here’s what DSL & Spark will mean for Mahout• Scala DSL provides convenient notation for expressing parallel
machine learning
• Spark (and other engines) provide execution environment
• Overview of Scala and Apache Spark bindings in Mahout can be found at
https://mahout.apache.org/users/sparkbindings/home.html
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What do clusters, Cap’n Crunch and Coco Puffs have in common?
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They’re part of the data in the new Mahout Spark shell tutorial…
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And you shouldn’t be eating them.
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Tutorial: Mahout- Spark Shell• Find it here http://bit.ly/RSTeMr• Early stage code - play with Mahout Scala’s DSL for linear
algebra and Mahout-Spark shell– Uses publicly available breakfast cereal data set– Challenge: Fit linear model that infers customer ratings from ingredients– Toy data set but load with Mahout to mimic a huge data set
• Mahout's linear algebra DSL has an abstraction called DistributedRowMatrix (DRM) – models a matrix that is partitioned by rows and stored in the memory of
a cluster of machines
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Dissecting the Model• Components
– Cereal ingredients are the features– Ratings are the target variables
• Linear regression assumes that target variable y is generated by linear combination of feature matrix X with parameter vector β plus the noise ε
y = Xβ + ε• Goal: Find estimate of parameter vector β that explains data
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What do you see in this matrix?
val drmData = drmParallelize(dense( (2, 2, 10.5, 10, 29.509541), // Apple Cinnamon Cheerios (1, 2, 12, 12, 18.042851), // Cap'n'Crunch (1, 1, 12, 13, 22.736446), // Cocoa Puffs (2, 1, 11, 13, 32.207582), // Froot Loops (1, 2, 12, 11, 21.871292), // Honey Graham Ohs (2, 1, 16, 8, 36.187559), // Wheaties Honey Gold (6, 2, 17, 1, 50.764999), // Cheerios (3, 2, 13, 7, 40.400208), // Clusters (3, 3, 13, 4, 45.811716)), // Great Grains Pecan numPartitions = 2);
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Add Bias Column
val drmX1 = drmX.mapBlock(ncol = drmX.ncol + 1) { case(keys, block) => // create a new block with an additional column val blockWithBiasColumn = block.like(block.nrow, block.ncol + 1) // copy data from current block into the new block blockWithBiasColumn(::, 0 until block.ncol) := block // last column consists of ones blockWithBiasColumn(::, block.ncol) := 1
keys -> blockWithBiasColumn}
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Solve Linear System, Compute Error
val XtX = (drmX1.t %*% drmX1).collectval Xty = (drmX1.t %*% y).collect(::, 0)
beta = solve(XtX, Xty)
val fittedY = (drmX1 %*% beta).collect(::, 0)error = (y - fittedY).norm(2)
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In R
all = matrix( c(2, 2, 10.5, 10, 29.509541, 1, 2, 12, 12, 18.042851, 1, 1, 12, 13, 22.736446, 2, 1, 11, 13, 32.207582, 1, 2, 12, 11, 21.871292, 2, 1, 16, 8, 36.187559, 6, 2, 17, 1, 50.764999, 3, 2, 13, 7, 40.400208, 3, 3, 13, 4, 45.811716), byrow=T, ncol=5)
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More R
a1 = cbind(a, 1)ata = t(a1) %*% a1aty = t(a1) %*% y
x1 = solve(a=ata, b=aty)
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Well, Actually
all = data.frame(all)
m = lm(X5 ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4, df)
plot(df$X5, predict(m))abline(lm(y ~ x, data.frame(x=df$X5, y=predict(m))), col='red’)
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R Wins
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R Wins … For Now
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R Wins … For Now … at Small Scale
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Recommendation
Behavior of a crowd helps us understand what individuals will do
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Recommendation
Alice got an apple and a puppyAlice
Charles got a bicycleCharles
Bob Bob got an apple
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Recommendation
Alice got an apple and a puppyAlice
Charles got a bicycleCharles
Bob Bob got an apple. What else would Bob like?
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Recommendation
Alice got an apple and a puppyAlice
Charles got a bicycleCharles
Bob A puppy!
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You get the idea of how recommenders work…
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By the way, like me, Bob also wants a pony…
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Recommendation
?
Alice
Bob
Charles
Amelia
What if everybody gets a pony?
What else would you recommend for new user Amelia?
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Recommendation
?
Alice
Bob
Charles
Amelia
If everybody gets a pony, it’s not a very good indicator of what to else predict...
What we want is anomalous co-occurrence
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Get Useful Indicators from Behaviors• Use log files to build history matrix of users x items
– Remember: this history of interactions will be sparse compared to all potential combinations
• Transform to a co-occurrence matrix of items x items• Look for useful co-occurrence by looking for anomalous co-
occurrences to make an indicator matrix– Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) can be helpful to judge which co-
occurrences can with confidence be used as indicators of preference– ItemSimilarityJob in Apache Mahout uses LLR
• (pony book said RowSimilarityJob,not as good )
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Model uses three matrices…
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History Matrix: Users x Items
Alice
Bob
Charles
✔ ✔ ✔✔ ✔
✔ ✔
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Co-Occurrence Matrix: Items x Items
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1 21 1
1
12 1
00
0 0
Use LLR test to turn co-occurrence into indicators of interesting co-occurrence
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Indicator Matrix: Anomalous Co-Occurrence
✔✔
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Which one is the anomalous co-occurrence?
A not AB 13 1000
not B 1000 100,000
A not AB 1 0
not B 0 10,000
A not AB 10 0
not B 0 100,000
A not AB 1 0
not B 0 20.90 1.95
4.52 14.3
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Collection of Documents: Insert Meta-Data
Search Technology
Item meta-data
Document for “puppy” id: t4
title: puppydesc: The sweetest little puppy ever.keywords: puppy, dog, pet
Ingest easily via NFS
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A Quick Simplification• Users who do h
• Also do
User-centric recommendations
Item-centric recommendations
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val drmA = sampleDownAndBinarize( drmARaw, randomSeed, maxNumInteractions).checkpoint()
val numUsers = drmA.nrow.toInt
// Compute number of interactions per thing in Aval csums = drmBroadcast(drmA.colSums)
// Compute co-occurrence matrix A'Aval drmAtA = drmA.t %*% drmA
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What’s New in Apache Mahout:A Preview of Mahout 1.0
21 May 2014 Boulder/Denver Big Data Meet-up #BDBDM
Ted Dunning, Chief Applications Architect MapR TechnologiesTwitter @Ted_Dunning Email [email protected] [email protected]
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Sandbox
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Going Further: Multi-Modal Recommendation
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Going Further: Multi-Modal Recommendation
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Better Long-Term Recommendations• Anti-flood
Avoid having too much of a good thing• Dithering
“When making it worse makes it better”
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Why Use Dithering?
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What’s New in Apache Mahout?A Preview of Mahout 1.0
21 May 2014 #BDBDMTed Dunning, Chief Applications Architect MapR Technologies
Twitter @Ted_Dunning Email [email protected] [email protected]
Apache Mahout https://mahout.apache.org/ Twitter @ApacheMahout
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Sample Music Log Files
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1193502834 BEACON 10113 7960061193502844 BEACON 10113 7960061193502854 BEACON 10113 7960061193502864 BEACON 10113 7960061193502874 BEACON 10113 7960061193502884 BEACON 10113 7960061193502894 BEACON 10113 79600611935028104 BEACON 10113 79600611935028109 FINISH 10113 79600611935028111 START 10113 589999
12011972121 BEACON 10113 58999912011972
Time
Event type
User ID
Artist ID
Track ID
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id 1710mbid 592a3b6d-c42b-4567-99c9-ecf63bd66499name Chuck Berryarea United Statesgender Maleindicator_artists 386685,875994,637954,3418,1344,789739,1460, …
id 541902mbid 983d4f8f-473e-4091-8394-415c105c4656name Charlie Winstonarea United Kingdomgender Noneindicator_artists 997727,815,830794,59588,900,2591,1344,696268, …
Documents for Music Recommendation
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Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation
28 April 2014 NoSQL Matters Conference #NoSQLMattersTed Dunning, Chief Applications Architect MapR Technologies
Twitter @Ted_Dunning Email [email protected] [email protected]
Apache Mahout https://mahout.apache.org/ Twitter @ApacheMahout
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