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Commit 57221934 authored by DB Tsai's avatar DB Tsai
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[SPARK-8700][ML] Disable feature scaling in Logistic Regression

All compressed sensing applications, and some of the regression use-cases will have better result by turning the feature scaling off. However, if we implement this naively by training the dataset without doing any standardization, the rate of convergency will not be good. This can be implemented by still standardizing the training dataset but we penalize each component differently to get effectively the same objective function but a better numerical problem. As a result, for those columns with high variances, they will be penalized less, and vice versa. Without this, since all the features are standardized, so they will be penalized the same.

In R, there is an option for this.
`standardize`
Logical flag for x variable standardization, prior to fitting the model sequence. The coefficients are always returned on the original scale. Default is standardize=TRUE. If variables are in the same units already, you might not wish to standardize. See details below for y standardization with family="gaussian".

+cc holdenk mengxr jkbradley

Author: DB Tsai <dbt@netflix.com>

Closes #7080 from dbtsai/lors and squashes the following commits:

877e6c7 [DB Tsai] repahse the doc
7cf45f2 [DB Tsai] address feedback
78d75c9 [DB Tsai] small change
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