Re: ALS mllib.recommendation vs ml.recommendation

2015-12-15 Thread Bryan Cutler
Hi Roberto, 1. How do they differ in terms of performance? They both use alternating least squares matrix factorization, the main difference is ml.recommendation.ALS uses DataFrames as input which has built-in optimizations and should give better performance 2. Am I correct to assume ml.recommen

ALS mllib.recommendation vs ml.recommendation

2015-12-14 Thread Roberto Pagliari
Currently, there are two implementations of ALS available: ml.recommendation.ALS and mllib.recommendation.ALS