- General
- Developers
- Mahout-Samsara
- Algorithms
- List of algorithms
- Distributed Matrix Decomposition
- Cholesky QR
- SSVD
- Distributed ALS
- SPCA
- Recommendations
- Recommender Overview
- Intro to cooccurrence-based
recommendations with Spark - Classification
- Spark Naive Bayes
- MapReduce Basics
- List of algorithms
- Overview
- Working with text
- Creating vectors from text
- Collocations
- Dimensionality reduction
- Singular Value Decomposition
- Stochastic SVD
- Topic Models
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Mahout MapReduce
- Classification
- Naive Bayes
- Hidden Markov Models
- Logistic Regression (Single Machine)
- Random Forest
- Classification Examples
- Breiman example
- 20 newsgroups example
- SGD classifier bank marketing
- Wikipedia XML parser and classifier
- Clustering
- k-Means
- Canopy
- Fuzzy k-Means
- Streaming KMeans
- Spectral Clustering
- Clustering Commandline usage
- Options for k-Means
- Options for Canopy
- Options for Fuzzy k-Means
- Clustering Examples
- Synthetic data
- Cluster Post processing
- Cluster Dumper tool
- Cluster visualisation
- Recommendations
- First Timer FAQ
- A user-based recommender
in 5 minutes - Matrix factorization-based
recommenders - Overview
- Intro to item-based recommendations
with Hadoop - Intro to ALS recommendations
with Hadoop
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Overview of Mahout
Mahout’s goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. With scalable we mean:
- Scalable to reasonably large data sets. Our core algorithms for clustering, classification and batch based collaborative filtering are implemented on top of Apache Hadoop using the map/reduce paradigm. However we do not restrict contributions to Hadoop based implementations: Contributions that run on a single node or on a non-Hadoop cluster are welcome as well. The core libraries are highly optimized to allow for good performance also for non-distributed algorithms.
- Scalable to support your business case. Mahout is distributed under a commercially friendly Apache Software license.
- Scalable community. The goal of Mahout is to build a vibrant, responsive, diverse community to facilitate discussions not only on the project itself but also on potential use cases. Come to the mailing lists to find out more.
Currently Mahout supports mainly four use cases: Recommendation mining takes users’ behavior and from that tries to find items users might like. Clustering takes e.g. text documents and groups them into groups of topically related documents. Classification learns from exisiting categorized documents what documents of a specific category look like and is able to assign unlabelled documents to the (hopefully) correct category. Frequent itemset mining takes a set of item groups (terms in a query session, shopping cart content) and identifies, which individual items usually appear together.
Interested in helping? See the Wiki or send us an email. Also note, we are just getting off the ground, so please be patient as we get the various infrastructure pieces in place.