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Commit 4d9e560b authored by Yuhao Yang's avatar Yuhao Yang Committed by Joseph K. Bradley
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[SPARK-7090] [MLLIB] Introduce LDAOptimizer to LDA to further improve extensibility

jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7090

LDA was implemented with extensibility in mind. And with the development of OnlineLDA and Gibbs Sampling, we are collecting more detailed requirements from different algorithms.
As Joseph Bradley jkbradley proposed in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4807 and with some further discussion, we'd like to adjust the code structure a little to present the common interface and extension point clearly.
Basically class LDA would be a common entrance for LDA computing. And each LDA object will refer to a LDAOptimizer for the concrete algorithm implementation. Users can customize LDAOptimizer with specific parameters and assign it to LDA.

Concrete changes:

1. Add a trait `LDAOptimizer`, which defines the common iterface for concrete implementations. Each subClass is a wrapper for a specific LDA algorithm.

2. Move EMOptimizer to file LDAOptimizer and inherits from LDAOptimizer, rename to EMLDAOptimizer. (in case a more generic EMOptimizer comes in the future)
        -adjust the constructor of EMOptimizer, since all the parameters should be passed in through initialState method. This can avoid unwanted confusion or overwrite.
        -move the code from LDA.initalState to initalState of EMLDAOptimizer

3. Add property ldaOptimizer to LDA and its getter/setter, and EMLDAOptimizer is the default Optimizer.

4. Change the return type of LDA.run from DistributedLDAModel to LDAModel.

Further work:
add OnlineLDAOptimizer and other possible Optimizers once ready.

Author: Yuhao Yang <hhbyyh@gmail.com>

Closes #5661 from hhbyyh/ldaRefactor and squashes the following commits:

0e2e006 [Yuhao Yang] respond to review comments
08a45da [Yuhao Yang] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into ldaRefactor
e756ce4 [Yuhao Yang] solve mima exception
d74fd8f [Yuhao Yang] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into ldaRefactor
0bb8400 [Yuhao Yang] refactor LDA with Optimizer
ec2f857 [Yuhao Yang] protoptype for discussion
parent 62888a4d
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