diff --git a/assembly/pom.xml b/assembly/pom.xml
index 9e8525dd46157429d51572eb1345df3f045db138..31a01e4d8e1dea59a4e76aafea25e65e589336da 100644
--- a/assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/assembly/pom.xml
@@ -146,10 +146,6 @@
                     <exclude>com/google/common/base/Present*</exclude>
                   </excludes>
                 </relocation>
-                <relocation>
-                  <pattern>org.apache.commons.math3</pattern>
-                  <shadedPattern>org.spark-project.commons.math3</shadedPattern>
-                </relocation>
               </relocations>
               <transformers>
                 <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
diff --git a/mllib/pom.xml b/mllib/pom.xml
index de062a490159690895e73d2bf76f0d8b6cecd5ae..fb7239e779aaebc9cacc7b03ce82f47ef7639cc4 100644
--- a/mllib/pom.xml
+++ b/mllib/pom.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+          <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 61a508a0ea5929802df5d2c70040a5abf109e06e..6191cd3a541e25d536ced3892d3c79b3ec099c8d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@
     <aws.java.sdk.version>1.8.3</aws.java.sdk.version>
     <aws.kinesis.client.version>1.1.0</aws.kinesis.client.version>
     <commons.httpclient.version>4.2.6</commons.httpclient.version>
+    <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
 
     <PermGen>64m</PermGen>
     <MaxPermGen>512m</MaxPermGen>
@@ -318,7 +319,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>
-        <version>3.3</version>
+        <version>${commons.math3.version}</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
@@ -1175,6 +1176,10 @@
 
     <!-- A series of build profiles where customizations for particular Hadoop releases can be made -->
 
+    <!-- Hadoop-a.b.c dependencies can be found at
+    http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/ra.b.c/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/dependency-analysis.html
+    -->
+
     <profile>
       <id>hadoop-0.23</id>
       <!-- SPARK-1121: Adds an explicit dependency on Avro to work around a Hadoop 0.23.X issue -->
@@ -1204,6 +1209,7 @@
         <hadoop.version>2.3.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
         <jets3t.version>0.9.0</jets3t.version>
+        <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
       </properties>
     </profile>
@@ -1214,6 +1220,7 @@
         <hadoop.version>2.4.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
         <jets3t.version>0.9.0</jets3t.version>
+        <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
       </properties>
     </profile>