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Xiangrui Meng 4b736dbab3 [SPARK-3530][MLLIB] pipeline and parameters with examples
This PR adds package "org.apache.spark.ml" with pipeline and parameters, as discussed on the JIRA. This is a joint work of jkbradley etrain shivaram and many others who helped on the design, also with help from  marmbrus and liancheng on the Spark SQL side. The design doc can be found at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVwXRjWKfIb-7PI6b86ipytwbUH7irSNLF1_6dLmh8o/edit?usp=sharing

**org.apache.spark.ml**

This is a new package with new set of ML APIs that address practical machine learning pipelines. (Sorry for taking so long!) It will be an alpha component, so this is definitely not something set in stone. The new set of APIs, inspired by the MLI project from AMPLab and scikit-learn, takes leverage on Spark SQL's schema support and execution plan optimization. It introduces the following components that help build a practical pipeline:

1. Transformer, which transforms a dataset into another
2. Estimator, which fits models to data, where models are transformers
3. Evaluator, which evaluates model output and returns a scalar metric
4. Pipeline, a simple pipeline that consists of transformers and estimators

Parameters could be supplied at fit/transform or embedded with components.

1. Param: a strong-typed parameter key with self-contained doc
2. ParamMap: a param -> value map
3. Params: trait for components with parameters

For any component that implements `Params`, user can easily check the doc by calling `explainParams`:

~~~
> val lr = new LogisticRegression
> lr.explainParams
maxIter: max number of iterations (default: 100)
regParam: regularization constant (default: 0.1)
labelCol: label column name (default: label)
featuresCol: features column name (default: features)
~~~

or user can check individual param:

~~~
> lr.maxIter
maxIter: max number of iterations (default: 100)
~~~

**Please start with the example code in test suites and under `org.apache.spark.examples.ml`, where I put several examples:**

1. run a simple logistic regression job

~~~
    val lr = new LogisticRegression()
      .setMaxIter(10)
      .setRegParam(1.0)
    val model = lr.fit(dataset)
    model.transform(dataset, model.threshold -> 0.8) // overwrite threshold
      .select('label, 'score, 'prediction).collect()
      .foreach(println)
~~~

2. run logistic regression with cross-validation and grid search using areaUnderROC (default) as the metric

~~~
    val lr = new LogisticRegression
    val lrParamMaps = new ParamGridBuilder()
      .addGrid(lr.regParam, Array(0.1, 100.0))
      .addGrid(lr.maxIter, Array(0, 5))
      .build()
    val eval = new BinaryClassificationEvaluator
    val cv = new CrossValidator()
      .setEstimator(lr)
      .setEstimatorParamMaps(lrParamMaps)
      .setEvaluator(eval)
      .setNumFolds(3)
    val bestModel = cv.fit(dataset)
~~~

3. run a pipeline that consists of a standard scaler and a logistic regression component

~~~
    val scaler = new StandardScaler()
      .setInputCol("features")
      .setOutputCol("scaledFeatures")
    val lr = new LogisticRegression()
      .setFeaturesCol(scaler.getOutputCol)
    val pipeline = new Pipeline()
      .setStages(Array(scaler, lr))
    val model = pipeline.fit(dataset)
    val predictions = model.transform(dataset)
      .select('label, 'score, 'prediction)
      .collect()
      .foreach(println)
~~~

4. a simple text classification pipeline, which recognizes "spark":

~~~
    val training = sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(
      LabeledDocument(0L, "a b c d e spark", 1.0),
      LabeledDocument(1L, "b d", 0.0),
      LabeledDocument(2L, "spark f g h", 1.0),
      LabeledDocument(3L, "hadoop mapreduce", 0.0)))
    val tokenizer = new Tokenizer()
      .setInputCol("text")
      .setOutputCol("words")
    val hashingTF = new HashingTF()
      .setInputCol(tokenizer.getOutputCol)
      .setOutputCol("features")
    val lr = new LogisticRegression()
      .setMaxIter(10)
    val pipeline = new Pipeline()
      .setStages(Array(tokenizer, hashingTF, lr))
    val model = pipeline.fit(training)
    val test = sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(
      Document(4L, "spark i j k"),
      Document(5L, "l m"),
      Document(6L, "mapreduce spark"),
      Document(7L, "apache hadoop")))
    model.transform(test)
      .select('id, 'text, 'prediction, 'score)
      .collect()
      .foreach(println)
~~~

Java examples are very similar. I put example code that creates a simple text classification pipeline in Scala and Java, where a simple tokenizer is defined as a transformer outside `org.apache.spark.ml`.

**What are missing now and will be added soon:**

1. ~~Runtime check of schemas. So before we touch the data, we will go through the schema and make sure column names and types match the input parameters.~~
2. ~~Java examples.~~
3. ~~Store training parameters in trained models.~~
4. (later) Serialization and Python API.

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #3099 from mengxr/SPARK-3530 and squashes the following commits:

2cc93fd [Xiangrui Meng] hide APIs as much as I can
34319ba [Xiangrui Meng] use local instead local[2] for unit tests
2524251 [Xiangrui Meng] rename PipelineStage.transform to transformSchema
c9daab4 [Xiangrui Meng] remove mockito version
1397ab5 [Xiangrui Meng] use sqlContext from LocalSparkContext instead of TestSQLContext
6ffc389 [Xiangrui Meng] try to fix unit test
a59d8b7 [Xiangrui Meng] doc updates
977fd9d [Xiangrui Meng] add scala ml package object
6d97fe6 [Xiangrui Meng] add AlphaComponent annotation
731f0e4 [Xiangrui Meng] update package doc
0435076 [Xiangrui Meng] remove ;this from setters
fa21d9b [Xiangrui Meng] update extends indentation
f1091b3 [Xiangrui Meng] typo
228a9f4 [Xiangrui Meng] do not persist before calling binary classification metrics
f51cd27 [Xiangrui Meng] rename default to defaultValue
b3be094 [Xiangrui Meng] refactor schema transform in lr
8791e8e [Xiangrui Meng] rename copyValues to inheritValues and make it do the right thing
51f1c06 [Xiangrui Meng] remove leftover code in Transformer
494b632 [Xiangrui Meng] compure score once
ad678e9 [Xiangrui Meng] more doc for Transformer
4306ed4 [Xiangrui Meng] org imports in text pipeline
6e7c1c7 [Xiangrui Meng] update pipeline
4f9e34f [Xiangrui Meng] more doc for pipeline
aa5dbd4 [Xiangrui Meng] fix typo
11be383 [Xiangrui Meng] fix unit tests
3df7952 [Xiangrui Meng] clean up
986593e [Xiangrui Meng] re-org java test suites
2b11211 [Xiangrui Meng] remove external data deps
9fd4933 [Xiangrui Meng] add unit test for pipeline
2a0df46 [Xiangrui Meng] update tests
2d52e4d [Xiangrui Meng] add @AlphaComponent to package-info
27582a4 [Xiangrui Meng] doc changes
73a000b [Xiangrui Meng] add schema transformation layer
6736e87 [Xiangrui Meng] more doc / remove HasMetricName trait
80a8b5e [Xiangrui Meng] rename SimpleTransformer to UnaryTransformer
62ca2bb [Xiangrui Meng] check param parent in set/get
1622349 [Xiangrui Meng] add getModel to PipelineModel
a0e0054 [Xiangrui Meng] update StandardScaler to use SimpleTransformer
d0faa04 [Xiangrui Meng] remove implicit mapping from ParamMap
c7f6921 [Xiangrui Meng] move ParamGridBuilder test to ParamGridBuilderSuite
e246f29 [Xiangrui Meng] re-org:
7772430 [Xiangrui Meng] remove modelParams add a simple text classification pipeline
b95c408 [Xiangrui Meng] remove implicits add unit tests to params
bab3e5b [Xiangrui Meng] update params
fe0ee92 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-3530
6e86d98 [Xiangrui Meng] some code clean-up
2d040b3 [Xiangrui Meng] implement setters inside each class, add Params.copyValues [ci skip]
fd751fc [Xiangrui Meng] add java-friendly versions of fit and tranform
3f810cd [Xiangrui Meng] use multi-model training api in cv
5b8f413 [Xiangrui Meng] rename model to modelParams
9d2d35d [Xiangrui Meng] test varargs and chain model params
f46e927 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-3530
1ef26e0 [Xiangrui Meng] specialize methods/types for Java
df293ed [Xiangrui Meng] switch to setter/getter
376db0a [Xiangrui Meng] pipeline and parameters
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assembly Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
bagel [SPARK-3748] Log thread name in unit test logs 2014-10-01 01:03:49 -07:00
bin Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
conf [SPARK-3584] sbin/slaves doesn't work when we use password authentication for SSH 2014-09-25 16:49:15 -07:00
core Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
data/mllib SPARK-2363. Clean MLlib's sample data files 2014-07-13 19:27:43 -07:00
dev Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
docker [SPARK-1342] Scala 2.10.4 2014-04-01 18:35:50 -07:00
docs Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
ec2 [SPARK-4137] [EC2] Don't change working dir on user 2014-11-05 20:45:35 -08:00
examples [SPARK-3530][MLLIB] pipeline and parameters with examples 2014-11-12 10:38:57 -08:00
external Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
extras [SPARK-3748] Log thread name in unit test logs 2014-10-01 01:03:49 -07:00
graphx [SPARK-3936] Add aggregateMessages, which supersedes mapReduceTriplets 2014-11-11 23:38:27 -08:00
mllib [SPARK-3530][MLLIB] pipeline and parameters with examples 2014-11-12 10:38:57 -08:00
network Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
project Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
python [SPARK-4324] [PySpark] [MLlib] support numpy.array for all MLlib API 2014-11-10 22:26:16 -08:00
repl Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
sbin [SPARK-4110] Wrong comments about default settings in spark-daemon.sh 2014-10-28 12:29:01 -07:00
sbt [SPARK-4312] bash doesn't have "die" 2014-11-10 12:37:56 -08:00
sql Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
streaming [Streaming][Minor]Replace some 'if-else' in Clock 2014-11-11 03:02:12 -08:00
tools [SPARK-3433][BUILD] Fix for Mima false-positives with @DeveloperAPI and @Experimental annotations. 2014-09-15 21:14:00 -07:00
yarn [SPARK-4282][YARN] Stopping flag in YarnClientSchedulerBackend should be volatile 2014-11-11 12:33:53 -06:00
.gitattributes [SPARK-3870] EOL character enforcement 2014-10-31 12:39:52 -07:00
.gitignore [SPARK-3584] sbin/slaves doesn't work when we use password authentication for SSH 2014-09-25 16:49:15 -07:00
.rat-excludes Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md [Docs] minor grammar fix 2014-09-17 12:33:09 -07:00
LICENSE [SPARK-4242] [Core] Add SASL to external shuffle service 2014-11-05 14:38:43 -08:00
make-distribution.sh Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
NOTICE SPARK-1827. LICENSE and NOTICE files need a refresh to contain transitive dependency info 2014-05-14 09:38:33 -07:00
pom.xml Support cross building for Scala 2.11 2014-11-11 21:36:48 -08:00
README.md SPARK-971 [DOCS] Link to Confluence wiki from project website / documentation 2014-11-09 17:40:48 -08:00
scalastyle-config.xml [Core] Upgrading ScalaStyle version to 0.5 and removing SparkSpaceAfterCommentStartChecker. 2014-10-16 02:05:44 -04:00
tox.ini [SPARK-3073] [PySpark] use external sort in sortBy() and sortByKey() 2014-08-26 16:57:40 -07:00

Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, and Python, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

http://spark.apache.org/

Online Documentation

You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project web page and project wiki. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.

Building Spark

Spark is built using Apache Maven. To build Spark and its example programs, run:

mvn -DskipTests clean package

(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.) More detailed documentation is available from the project site, at "Building Spark with Maven".

Interactive Scala Shell

The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:

./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:

./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples directory. To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]. For example:

./bin/run-example SparkPi

will run the Pi example locally.

You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL, "yarn-cluster" or "yarn-client" to run on YARN, and "local" to run locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples package. For instance:

MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.

Running Tests

Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:

./dev/run-tests

Please see the guidance on how to run all automated tests.

A Note About Hadoop Versions

Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs.

Please refer to the build documentation at "Specifying the Hadoop Version" for detailed guidance on building for a particular distribution of Hadoop, including building for particular Hive and Hive Thriftserver distributions. See also "Third Party Hadoop Distributions" for guidance on building a Spark application that works with a particular distribution.

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.