It will introduce problems if the object in dict/list/tuple can not support by py4j, such as Vector.
Also, pickle may have better performance for larger object (less RPC).

In some cases that the object in dict/list can not be pickled (such as JavaObject), we should still use MapConvert/ListConvert.

This PR should be ported into branch-1.2

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #4023 from davies/listconvert and squashes the following commits:

55d4ab2 [Davies Liu] fix MapConverter and ListConverter in MLlib

The Pyrolite is pretty slow (comparing to the adhoc serializer in 1.1), it cause much performance regression in 1.2, because we cache the serialized Python object in JVM, deserialize them into Java object in each step.

This PR change to cache the deserialized JavaRDD instead of PythonRDD to avoid the deserialization of Pyrolite. It should have similar memory usage as before, but much faster.

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #3397 from davies/cache and squashes the following commits:

7f6e6ce [Davies Liu] Update -> Updater
4b52edd [Davies Liu] using named argument
63b984e [Davies Liu] fix
7da0332 [Davies Liu] add unpersist()
dff33e1 [Davies Liu] address comments
c2bdfc2 [Davies Liu] refactor
d572f00 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' into cache
f1063e1 [Davies Liu] cache serialized java object

```
pyspark.mllib.stat.StatisticschiSqTest(observed, expected=None)
    :: Experimental ::

    If `observed` is Vector, conduct Pearson's chi-squared goodness
    of fit test of the observed data against the expected distribution,
    or againt the uniform distribution (by default), with each category
    having an expected frequency of `1 / len(observed)`.
    (Note: `observed` cannot contain negative values)

    If `observed` is matrix, conduct Pearson's independence test on the
    input contingency matrix, which cannot contain negative entries or
    columns or rows that sum up to 0.

    If `observed` is an RDD of LabeledPoint, conduct Pearson's independence
    test for every feature against the label across the input RDD.
    For each feature, the (feature, label) pairs are converted into a
    contingency matrix for which the chi-squared statistic is computed.
    All label and feature values must be categorical.

    :param observed: it could be a vector containing the observed categorical
                     counts/relative frequencies, or the contingency matrix
                     (containing either counts or relative frequencies),
                     or an RDD of LabeledPoint containing the labeled dataset
                     with categorical features. Real-valued features will be
                     treated as categorical for each distinct value.
    :param expected: Vector containing the expected categorical counts/relative
                     frequencies. `expected` is rescaled if the `expected` sum
                     differs from the `observed` sum.
    :return: ChiSquaredTest object containing the test statistic, degrees
             of freedom, p-value, the method used, and the null hypothesis.
```

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #3091 from davies/his and squashes the following commits:

145d16c [Davies Liu] address comments
0ab0764 [Davies Liu] fix float
5097d54 [Davies Liu] add Hypothesis test Python API

This PR simplify serializer, always use batched serializer (AutoBatchedSerializer as default), even batch size is 1.

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

This patch had conflicts when merged, resolved by
Committer: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>

Closes #2920 from davies/fix_autobatch and squashes the following commits:

e544ef9 [Davies Liu] revert unrelated change
6880b14 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into fix_autobatch
1d557fc [Davies Liu] fix tests
8180907 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into fix_autobatch
76abdce [Davies Liu] clean up
53fa60b [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into fix_autobatch
d7ac751 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into fix_autobatch
2cc2497 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into fix_autobatch
b4292ce [Davies Liu] fix bug in master
d79744c [Davies Liu] recover hive tests
be37ece [Davies Liu] refactor
eb3938d [Davies Liu] refactor serializer in scala
8d77ef2 [Davies Liu] simplify serializer, use AutoBatchedSerializer by default.

Create several helper functions to call MLlib Java API, convert the arguments to Java type and convert return value to Python object automatically, this simplify serialization in MLlib Python API very much.

After this, the MLlib Python API does not need to deal with serialization details anymore, it's easier to add new API.

cc mengxr

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #2995 from davies/cleanup and squashes the following commits:

8fa6ec6 [Davies Liu] address comments
16b85a0 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into cleanup
43743e5 [Davies Liu] bugfix
731331f [Davies Liu] simplify serialization in MLlib Python API