diff --git a/data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt b/data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index bd22bea3a5..0000000000
--- a/data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
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-0,2 0 0
-0,3 0 0
-0,4 0 0
-1,0 1 0
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diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
index 2b17dbb963..f4ec04b0c6 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ public class JavaNaiveBayesExample {
     SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaNaiveBayesExample");
     JavaSparkContext jsc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
     // $example on$
-    String path = "data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt";
+    String path = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt";
     JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> inputData = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(jsc.sc(), path).toJavaRDD();
-    JavaRDD<LabeledPoint>[] tmp = inputData.randomSplit(new double[]{0.6, 0.4}, 12345);
+    JavaRDD<LabeledPoint>[] tmp = inputData.randomSplit(new double[]{0.6, 0.4});
     JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> training = tmp[0]; // training set
     JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> test = tmp[1]; // test set
     final NaiveBayesModel model = NaiveBayes.train(training.rdd(), 1.0);
diff --git a/examples/src/main/python/mllib/naive_bayes_example.py b/examples/src/main/python/mllib/naive_bayes_example.py
index 35724f7d6a..749353b20e 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/python/mllib/naive_bayes_example.py
+++ b/examples/src/main/python/mllib/naive_bayes_example.py
@@ -29,15 +29,9 @@ import shutil
 from pyspark import SparkContext
 # $example on$
 from pyspark.mllib.classification import NaiveBayes, NaiveBayesModel
-from pyspark.mllib.linalg import Vectors
-from pyspark.mllib.regression import LabeledPoint
+from pyspark.mllib.util import MLUtils
 
 
-def parseLine(line):
-    parts = line.split(',')
-    label = float(parts[0])
-    features = Vectors.dense([float(x) for x in parts[1].split(' ')])
-    return LabeledPoint(label, features)
 # $example off$
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -45,10 +39,11 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     sc = SparkContext(appName="PythonNaiveBayesExample")
 
     # $example on$
-    data = sc.textFile('data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt').map(parseLine)
+    # Load and parse the data file.
+    data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt")
 
     # Split data approximately into training (60%) and test (40%)
-    training, test = data.randomSplit([0.6, 0.4], seed=0)
+    training, test = data.randomSplit([0.6, 0.4])
 
     # Train a naive Bayes model.
     model = NaiveBayes.train(training, 1.0)
diff --git a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/NaiveBayesExample.scala b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/NaiveBayesExample.scala
index 0187ad603a..b321d8e127 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/NaiveBayesExample.scala
+++ b/examples/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/NaiveBayesExample.scala
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.spark.examples.mllib
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
 // $example on$
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.classification.{NaiveBayes, NaiveBayesModel}
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vectors
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils
 // $example off$
 
 object NaiveBayesExample {
@@ -31,16 +30,11 @@ object NaiveBayesExample {
     val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("NaiveBayesExample")
     val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
     // $example on$
-    val data = sc.textFile("data/mllib/sample_naive_bayes_data.txt")
-    val parsedData = data.map { line =>
-      val parts = line.split(',')
-      LabeledPoint(parts(0).toDouble, Vectors.dense(parts(1).split(' ').map(_.toDouble)))
-    }
+    // Load and parse the data file.
+    val data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt")
 
     // Split data into training (60%) and test (40%).
-    val splits = parsedData.randomSplit(Array(0.6, 0.4), seed = 11L)
-    val training = splits(0)
-    val test = splits(1)
+    val Array(training, test) = data.randomSplit(Array(0.6, 0.4))
 
     val model = NaiveBayes.train(training, lambda = 1.0, modelType = "multinomial")