* Update doc for PySpark ```HasCheckpointInterval``` that users can understand how to disable checkpoint.
* Update doc for PySpark ```cacheNodeIds``` of ```DecisionTreeParams``` to notify the relationship between ```cacheNodeIds``` and ```checkpointInterval```.

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #9856 from yanboliang/spark-11875.

[SPARK-10668](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10668) has provided ```WeightedLeastSquares``` solver("normal") in ```LinearRegression``` with L2 regularization in Scala and R, Python ML ```LinearRegression``` should also support setting solver("auto", "normal", "l-bfgs")

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #9328 from yanboliang/spark-11367.

Namely "." shows up in some places in the template when using the param docstring and not in others

Author: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>

Closes #9017 from holdenk/SPARK-10767-Make-pyspark-shared-params-codegen-more-consistent.

Add the Python API for isotonicregression.

Author: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>

Closes #8214 from holdenk/SPARK-9774-add-python-api-for-ml-regression-isotonicregression.

LinearRegression and LogisticRegression lack of some Params for Python, and some Params are not shared classes which lead we need to write them for each class. These kinds of Params are list here:
```scala
HasElasticNetParam
HasFitIntercept
HasStandardization
HasThresholds
```
Here we implement them in shared params at Python side and make LinearRegression/LogisticRegression parameters peer with Scala one.

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #8508 from yanboliang/spark-10026.

Missing method of ml.feature are listed here:
```StringIndexer``` lacks of parameter ```handleInvalid```.
```StringIndexerModel``` lacks of method ```labels```.
```VectorIndexerModel``` lacks of methods ```numFeatures``` and ```categoryMaps```.

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #8313 from yanboliang/spark-10027.

Set a default value for `outputCol` instead of forcing users to name it. This is useful for intermediate transformers in the pipeline. jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #6289 from mengxr/SPARK-7762 and squashes the following commits:

54edebc [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
bff8667 [Xiangrui Meng] update unit test
171246b [Xiangrui Meng] add unit test for outputCol
a4321bd [Xiangrui Meng] set default value for outputCol

[SPARK-7511] [MLLIB] pyspark ml seed param should be random by default or 42 is quite funny but not very random

Author: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>

Closes #6139 from holdenk/SPARK-7511-pyspark-ml-seed-param-should-be-random-by-default-or-42-is-quite-funny-but-not-very-random and squashes the following commits:

591f8e5 [Holden Karau] specify old seed for doc tests
2470004 [Holden Karau] Fix a bunch of seeds with default values to have None as the default which will then result in using the hash of the class name
cbad96d [Holden Karau] Add the setParams function that is used in the real code
423b8d7 [Holden Karau] Switch the test code to behave slightly more like production code. also don't check the param map value only check for key existence
140d25d [Holden Karau] remove extra space
926165a [Holden Karau] Add some missing newlines for pep8 style
8616751 [Holden Karau] merge in master
58532e6 [Holden Karau] its the __name__ method, also treat None values as not set
56ef24a [Holden Karau] fix test and regenerate base
afdaa5c [Holden Karau] make sure different classes have different results
68eb528 [Holden Karau] switch default seed to hash of type of self
89c4611 [Holden Karau] Merge branch 'master' into SPARK-7511-pyspark-ml-seed-param-should-be-random-by-default-or-42-is-quite-funny-but-not-very-random
31cd96f [Holden Karau] specify the seed to randomforestregressor test
e1b947f [Holden Karau] Style fixes
ce90ec8 [Holden Karau] merge in master
bcdf3c9 [Holden Karau] update docstring seeds to none and some other default seeds from 42
65eba21 [Holden Karau] pep8 fixes
0e3797e [Holden Karau] Make seed default to random in more places
213a543 [Holden Karau] Simplify the generated code to only include set default if there is a default rather than having None is note None in the generated code
1ff17c2 [Holden Karau] Make the seed random for HasSeed in python

This PR makes pipeline stages in Python copyable and hence simplifies some implementations. It also includes the following changes:

1. Rename `paramMap` and `defaultParamMap` to `_paramMap` and `_defaultParamMap`, respectively.
2. Accept a list of param maps in `fit`.
3. Use parent uid and name to identify param.

jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>
Author: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>

Closes #6088 from mengxr/SPARK-7380 and squashes the following commits:

413c463 [Xiangrui Meng] remove unnecessary doc
4159f35 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-7380
611c719 [Xiangrui Meng] fix python style
68862b8 [Xiangrui Meng] update _java_obj initialization
927ad19 [Xiangrui Meng] fix ml/tests.py
0138fc3 [Xiangrui Meng] update feature transformers and fix a bug in RegexTokenizer
9ca44fb [Xiangrui Meng] simplify Java wrappers and add tests
c7d84ef [Xiangrui Meng] update ml/tests.py to test copy params
7e0d27f [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
46840fb [Xiangrui Meng] update wrappers
b6db1ed [Xiangrui Meng] update all self.paramMap to self._paramMap
46cb6ed [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
a163413 [Xiangrui Meng] fix style
1042e80 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-7380
9630eae [Xiangrui Meng] fix Identifiable._randomUID
13bd70a [Xiangrui Meng] update ml/tests.py
64a536c [Xiangrui Meng] use _fit/_transform/_evaluate to simplify the impl
02abf13 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into copyable-python
66ce18c [Joseph K. Bradley] some cleanups before sending to Xiangrui
7431272 [Joseph K. Bradley] Rebased with master

The missing pieces in ml.classification for Python!

cc mengxr

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>

Closes #6106 from brkyvz/ml-class and squashes the following commits:

dd78237 [Burak Yavuz] fix style
1048e29 [Burak Yavuz] ready for PR

Added LinearRegression Python API

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>

Closes #6016 from brkyvz/ml-reg and squashes the following commits:

11c9ef9 [Burak Yavuz] address comments
1027a40 [Burak Yavuz] fix typo
4c699ad [Burak Yavuz] added tree regressor api
8afead2 [Burak Yavuz] made mixin for DT
fa51c74 [Burak Yavuz] save additions
0640d48 [Burak Yavuz] added ml.regression
82aac48 [Burak Yavuz] added linear regression

Modified 2 files:
python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py
python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py

Generated shared.py on Linux using Python 2.6.6 on Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6.
python _shared_params_code_gen.py > shared.py

Only changed maxIter, regParam, rawPredictionCol based on strings from SharedParamsCodeGen.scala.  Note warning was displayed when committing shared.py:
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py.

Author: Glenn Weidner <gweidner@us.ibm.com>

Closes #6023 from gweidner/br-7427 and squashes the following commits:

db72e32 [Glenn Weidner] [SPARK-7427] [PySpark] Make sharedParams match in Scala, Python
825e4a9 [Glenn Weidner] [SPARK-7427] [PySpark] Make sharedParams match in Scala, Python
e6a865e [Glenn Weidner] [SPARK-7427] [PySpark] Make sharedParams match in Scala, Python
1eee702 [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
1ac10e5 [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
cafd104 [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
9bea1eb [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
4a35c20 [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
9790cbe [Glenn Weidner] Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
d9c30f4 [Glenn Weidner] [SPARK-7275] [SQL] [WIP] Make LogicalRelation public

Adds Python Api for `ALS` under `ml.recommendation` in PySpark. Also adds seed as a settable parameter in the Scala Implementation of ALS.

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>

Closes #6015 from brkyvz/ml-rec and squashes the following commits:

be6e931 [Burak Yavuz] addressed comments
eaed879 [Burak Yavuz] readd numFeatures
0bd66b1 [Burak Yavuz] fixed seed
7f6d964 [Burak Yavuz] merged master
52e2bda [Burak Yavuz] added ALS

Implemented python wrappers for Scala functions that don't exist in `ml.features`

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>

Closes #5991 from brkyvz/ml-feat-PR and squashes the following commits:

adcca55 [Burak Yavuz] add regex tokenizer to __all__
b91cb44 [Burak Yavuz] addressed comments
bd39fd2 [Burak Yavuz] remove addition
b82bd7c [Burak Yavuz] Parity in PySpark for ml.features

The wrapper required the implementation of the `ArrayParam`, because `Array[T]` is hard to obtain from Python. `ArrayParam` has an extra function called `wCast` which is an internal function to obtain `Array[T]` from `Seq[T]`

Author: Burak Yavuz <brkyvz@gmail.com>
Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #5930 from brkyvz/ml-feat and squashes the following commits:

73e745f [Burak Yavuz] Merge pull request #3 from mengxr/SPARK-7388
c221db9 [Xiangrui Meng] overload StringArrayParam.w
c81072d [Burak Yavuz] addressed comments
99c2ebf [Burak Yavuz] add to python_shared_params
39ecb07 [Burak Yavuz] fix scalastyle
7f7ea2a [Burak Yavuz] [SPARK-7388][SPARK-7383] wrapper for VectorAssembler in Python

This PR adds `BinaryClassificationEvaluator` to Python ML Pipelines API, which is a simple wrapper of the Scala implementation. oefirouz

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #5885 from mengxr/SPARK-7333 and squashes the following commits:

25d7451 [Xiangrui Meng] fix tests in python 3
babdde7 [Xiangrui Meng] fix doc
cb51e6a [Xiangrui Meng] add BinaryClassificationEvaluator in PySpark

This PR update PySpark to support Python 3 (tested with 3.4).

Known issue: unpickle array from Pyrolite is broken in Python 3, those tests are skipped.

TODO: ec2/spark-ec2.py is not fully tested with python3.

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>
Author: twneale <twneale@gmail.com>
Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #5173 from davies/python3 and squashes the following commits:

d7d6323 [Davies Liu] fix tests
6c52a98 [Davies Liu] fix mllib test
99e334f [Davies Liu] update timeout
b716610 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
cafd5ec [Davies Liu] adddress comments from @mengxr
bf225d7 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
179fc8d [Davies Liu] tuning flaky tests
8c8b957 [Davies Liu] fix ResourceWarning in Python 3
5c57c95 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
4006829 [Davies Liu] fix test
2fc0066 [Davies Liu] add python3 path
71535e9 [Davies Liu] fix xrange and divide
5a55ab4 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
125f12c [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
ed498c8 [Davies Liu] fix compatibility with python 3
820e649 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
e8ce8c9 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
ad7c374 [Davies Liu] fix mllib test and warning
ef1fc2f [Davies Liu] fix tests
4eee14a [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
20112ff [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
59bb492 [Davies Liu] fix tests
1da268c [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
ca0fdd3 [Davies Liu] fix code style
9563a15 [Davies Liu] add imap back for python 2
0b1ec04 [Davies Liu] make python examples work with Python 3
d2fd566 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
a716d34 [Davies Liu] test with python 3.4
f1700e8 [Davies Liu] fix test in python3
671b1db [Davies Liu] fix test in python3
692ff47 [Davies Liu] fix flaky test
7b9699f [Davies Liu] invalidate import cache for Python 3.3+
9c58497 [Davies Liu] fix kill worker
309bfbf [Davies Liu] keep compatibility
5707476 [Davies Liu] cleanup, fix hash of string in 3.3+
8662d5b [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into python3
f53e1f0 [Davies Liu] fix tests
70b6b73 [Davies Liu] compile ec2/spark_ec2.py in python 3
a39167e [Davies Liu] support customize class in __main__
814c77b [Davies Liu] run unittests with python 3
7f4476e [Davies Liu] mllib tests passed
d737924 [Davies Liu] pass ml tests
375ea17 [Davies Liu] SQL tests pass
6cc42a9 [Davies Liu] rename
431a8de [Davies Liu] streaming tests pass
78901a7 [Davies Liu] fix hash of serializer in Python 3
24b2f2e [Davies Liu] pass all RDD tests
35f48fe [Davies Liu] run future again
1eebac2 [Davies Liu] fix conflict in ec2/spark_ec2.py
6e3c21d [Davies Liu] make cloudpickle work with Python3
2fb2db3 [Josh Rosen] Guard more changes behind sys.version; still doesn't run
1aa5e8f [twneale] Turned out `pickle.DictionaryType is dict` == True, so swapped it out
7354371 [twneale] buffer --> memoryview  I'm not super sure if this a valid change, but the 2.7 docs recommend using memoryview over buffer where possible, so hoping it'll work.
b69ccdf [twneale] Uses the pure python pickle._Pickler instead of c-extension _pickle.Pickler. It appears pyspark 2.7 uses the pure python pickler as well, so this shouldn't degrade pickling performance (?).
f40d925 [twneale] xrange --> range
e104215 [twneale] Replaces 2.7 types.InstsanceType with 3.4 `object`....could be horribly wrong depending on how types.InstanceType is used elsewhere in the package--see http://bugs.python.org/issue8206
79de9d0 [twneale] Replaces python2.7 `file` with 3.4 _io.TextIOWrapper
2adb42d [Josh Rosen] Fix up some import differences between Python 2 and 3
854be27 [Josh Rosen] Run `futurize` on Python code:
7c5b4ce [Josh Rosen] Remove Python 3 check in shell.py.

Same as #5431 but for Python. jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #5534 from mengxr/SPARK-6893 and squashes the following commits:

d3b519b [Xiangrui Meng] address comments
ebaccc6 [Xiangrui Meng] style update
fce244e [Xiangrui Meng] update explainParams with test
4d6b07a [Xiangrui Meng] add tests
5294500 [Xiangrui Meng] update default param handling in python

This PR adds Python API for ML pipeline and parameters. The design doc can be found on the JIRA page. It includes transformers and an estimator to demo the simple text classification example code.

TODO:
- [x] handle parameters in LRModel
- [x] unit tests
- [x] missing some docs

CC: davies jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>
Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #4151 from mengxr/SPARK-4586 and squashes the following commits:

415268e [Xiangrui Meng] remove inherit_doc from __init__
edbd6fe [Xiangrui Meng] move Identifiable to ml.util
44c2405 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge pull request #2 from davies/ml
dd1256b [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
14ae7e2 [Davies Liu] fix docs
54ca7df [Davies Liu] fix tests
78638df [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'SPARK-4586' of github.com:mengxr/spark into ml
fc59a02 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
1dca16a [Davies Liu] refactor
090b3a3 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into ml
0882513 [Xiangrui Meng] update doc style
a4f4dbf [Xiangrui Meng] add unit test for LR
7521d1c [Xiangrui Meng] add unit tests to HashingTF and Tokenizer
ba0ba1e [Xiangrui Meng] add unit tests for pipeline
0586c7b [Xiangrui Meng] add more comments to the example
5153cff [Xiangrui Meng] simplify java models
036ca04 [Xiangrui Meng] gen numFeatures
46fa147 [Xiangrui Meng] update mllib/pom.xml to include python files in the assembly
1dcc17e [Xiangrui Meng] update code gen and make param appear in the doc
f66ba0c [Xiangrui Meng] make params a property
d5efd34 [Xiangrui Meng] update doc conf and move embedded param map to instance attribute
f4d0fe6 [Xiangrui Meng] use LabeledDocument and Document in example
05e3e40 [Xiangrui Meng] update example
d3e8dbe [Xiangrui Meng] more docs optimize pipeline.fit impl
56de571 [Xiangrui Meng] fix style
d0c5bb8 [Xiangrui Meng] a working copy
bce72f4 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
17ecfb9 [Xiangrui Meng] code gen for shared params
d9ea77c [Xiangrui Meng] update doc
c18dca1 [Xiangrui Meng] make the example working
dadd84e [Xiangrui Meng] add base classes and docs
a3015cf [Xiangrui Meng] add Estimator and Transformer
46eea43 [Xiangrui Meng] a pipeline in python
33b68e0 [Xiangrui Meng] a working LR