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Yanbo Liang commented on SPARK-17824:
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[~sethah] That's cool. Let's work together and I will wait your PR firstly, and 
then send my PR. 

> QR solver for WeightedLeastSquares
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>                 Key: SPARK-17824
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17824
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: ML
>            Reporter: Yanbo Liang
>            Assignee: Yanbo Liang
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> Cholesky decomposition is unstable (for near-singular and rank deficient 
> matrices) and only works on positive definite matrices which can not be 
> guaranteed in all cases, it was often used when matrix A is very large and 
> sparse due to faster calculation. QR decomposition has better numerical 
> properties than Cholesky and can works on matrices which are not positive 
> definite. Spark MLlib {{WeightedLeastSquares}} use Cholesky decomposition to 
> solve normal equation currently, we should also support or move to QR solver 
> for better stability. I'm preparing to send a PR.
> cc [~dbtsai] [~sethah]



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