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package org.apache.spark.mllib.regression

import org.apache.spark.annotation.{DeveloperApi, Since}
import org.apache.spark.mllib.feature.StandardScaler
import org.apache.spark.{Logging, SparkException}
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
import org.apache.spark.mllib.optimization._
import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vectors, Vector}
import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils._
import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel

/**
 * :: DeveloperApi ::
 * GeneralizedLinearModel (GLM) represents a model trained using
 * GeneralizedLinearAlgorithm. GLMs consist of a weight vector and
 * an intercept.
 *
 * @param weights Weights computed for every feature.
 * @param intercept Intercept computed for this model.
 *
 */
@Since("0.8.0")
@DeveloperApi
abstract class GeneralizedLinearModel @Since("1.0.0") (
    @Since("1.0.0") val weights: Vector,
    @Since("0.8.0") val intercept: Double)
  extends Serializable {

  /**
   * Predict the result given a data point and the weights learned.
   *
   * @param dataMatrix Row vector containing the features for this data point
   * @param weightMatrix Column vector containing the weights of the model
   * @param intercept Intercept of the model.
   */
  protected def predictPoint(dataMatrix: Vector, weightMatrix: Vector, intercept: Double): Double

  /**
   * Predict values for the given data set using the model trained.
   *
   * @param testData RDD representing data points to be predicted
   * @return RDD[Double] where each entry contains the corresponding prediction
   *
   */
  @Since("1.0.0")
  def predict(testData: RDD[Vector]): RDD[Double] = {
    // A small optimization to avoid serializing the entire model. Only the weightsMatrix
    // and intercept is needed.
    val localWeights = weights
    val bcWeights = testData.context.broadcast(localWeights)
    val localIntercept = intercept
    testData.mapPartitions { iter =>
      val w = bcWeights.value
      iter.map(v => predictPoint(v, w, localIntercept))
    }
  }

  /**
   * Predict values for a single data point using the model trained.
   *
   * @param testData array representing a single data point
   * @return Double prediction from the trained model
   *
   */
  @Since("1.0.0")
  def predict(testData: Vector): Double = {
    predictPoint(testData, weights, intercept)
  }

  /**
   * Print a summary of the model.
   */
  override def toString: String = {
    s"${this.getClass.getName}: intercept = ${intercept}, numFeatures = ${weights.size}"
  }
}

/**
 * :: DeveloperApi ::
 * GeneralizedLinearAlgorithm implements methods to train a Generalized Linear Model (GLM).
 * This class should be extended with an Optimizer to create a new GLM.
 *
 */
@Since("0.8.0")
@DeveloperApi
abstract class GeneralizedLinearAlgorithm[M <: GeneralizedLinearModel]
  extends Logging with Serializable {

  protected val validators: Seq[RDD[LabeledPoint] => Boolean] = List()

  /**
   * The optimizer to solve the problem.
   *
   */
  @Since("0.8.0")
  def optimizer: Optimizer

  /** Whether to add intercept (default: false). */
  protected var addIntercept: Boolean = false

  protected var validateData: Boolean = true

  /**
   * In `GeneralizedLinearModel`, only single linear predictor is allowed for both weights
   * and intercept. However, for multinomial logistic regression, with K possible outcomes,
   * we are training K-1 independent binary logistic regression models which requires K-1 sets
   * of linear predictor.
   *
   * As a result, the workaround here is if more than two sets of linear predictors are needed,
   * we construct bigger `weights` vector which can hold both weights and intercepts.
   * If the intercepts are added, the dimension of `weights` will be
   * (numOfLinearPredictor) * (numFeatures + 1) . If the intercepts are not added,
   * the dimension of `weights` will be (numOfLinearPredictor) * numFeatures.
   *
   * Thus, the intercepts will be encapsulated into weights, and we leave the value of intercept
   * in GeneralizedLinearModel as zero.
   */
  protected var numOfLinearPredictor: Int = 1

  /**
   * Whether to perform feature scaling before model training to reduce the condition numbers
   * which can significantly help the optimizer converging faster. The scaling correction will be
   * translated back to resulting model weights, so it's transparent to users.
   * Note: This technique is used in both libsvm and glmnet packages. Default false.
   */
  private var useFeatureScaling = false

  /**
   * The dimension of training features.
   *
   */
  @Since("1.4.0")
  def getNumFeatures: Int = this.numFeatures

  /**
   * The dimension of training features.
   */
  protected var numFeatures: Int = -1

  /**
   * Set if the algorithm should use feature scaling to improve the convergence during optimization.
   */
  private[mllib] def setFeatureScaling(useFeatureScaling: Boolean): this.type = {
    this.useFeatureScaling = useFeatureScaling
    this
  }

  /**
   * Create a model given the weights and intercept
   */
  protected def createModel(weights: Vector, intercept: Double): M

  /**
   * Get if the algorithm uses addIntercept
   *
   */
  @Since("1.4.0")
  def isAddIntercept: Boolean = this.addIntercept

  /**
   * Set if the algorithm should add an intercept. Default false.
   * We set the default to false because adding the intercept will cause memory allocation.
   *
   */
  @Since("0.8.0")
  def setIntercept(addIntercept: Boolean): this.type = {
    this.addIntercept = addIntercept
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set if the algorithm should validate data before training. Default true.
   *
   */
  @Since("0.8.0")
  def setValidateData(validateData: Boolean): this.type = {
    this.validateData = validateData
    this
  }

  /**
   * Run the algorithm with the configured parameters on an input
   * RDD of LabeledPoint entries.
   *
   */
  @Since("0.8.0")
  def run(input: RDD[LabeledPoint]): M = {
    if (numFeatures < 0) {
      numFeatures = input.map(_.features.size).first()
    }

    /**
     * When `numOfLinearPredictor > 1`, the intercepts are encapsulated into weights,
     * so the `weights` will include the intercepts. When `numOfLinearPredictor == 1`,
     * the intercept will be stored as separated value in `GeneralizedLinearModel`.
     * This will result in different behaviors since when `numOfLinearPredictor == 1`,
     * users have no way to set the initial intercept, while in the other case, users
     * can set the intercepts as part of weights.
     *
     * TODO: See if we can deprecate `intercept` in `GeneralizedLinearModel`, and always
     * have the intercept as part of weights to have consistent design.
     */
    val initialWeights = {
      if (numOfLinearPredictor == 1) {
        Vectors.zeros(numFeatures)
      } else if (addIntercept) {
        Vectors.zeros((numFeatures + 1) * numOfLinearPredictor)
      } else {
        Vectors.zeros(numFeatures * numOfLinearPredictor)
      }
    }
    run(input, initialWeights)
  }

  /**
   * Run the algorithm with the configured parameters on an input RDD
   * of LabeledPoint entries starting from the initial weights provided.
   *
   */
  @Since("1.0.0")
  def run(input: RDD[LabeledPoint], initialWeights: Vector): M = {

    if (numFeatures < 0) {
      numFeatures = input.map(_.features.size).first()
    }

    if (input.getStorageLevel == StorageLevel.NONE) {
      logWarning("The input data is not directly cached, which may hurt performance if its"
        + " parent RDDs are also uncached.")
    }

    // Check the data properties before running the optimizer
    if (validateData && !validators.forall(func => func(input))) {
      throw new SparkException("Input validation failed.")
    }

    /**
     * Scaling columns to unit variance as a heuristic to reduce the condition number:
     *
     * During the optimization process, the convergence (rate) depends on the condition number of
     * the training dataset. Scaling the variables often reduces this condition number
     * heuristically, thus improving the convergence rate. Without reducing the condition number,
     * some training datasets mixing the columns with different scales may not be able to converge.
     *
     * GLMNET and LIBSVM packages perform the scaling to reduce the condition number, and return
     * the weights in the original scale.
     * See page 9 in http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/glmnet/glmnet.pdf
     *
     * Here, if useFeatureScaling is enabled, we will standardize the training features by dividing
     * the variance of each column (without subtracting the mean), and train the model in the
     * scaled space. Then we transform the coefficients from the scaled space to the original scale
     * as GLMNET and LIBSVM do.
     *
     * Currently, it's only enabled in LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS
     */
    val scaler = if (useFeatureScaling) {
      new StandardScaler(withStd = true, withMean = false).fit(input.map(_.features))
    } else {
      null
    }

    // Prepend an extra variable consisting of all 1.0's for the intercept.
    // TODO: Apply feature scaling to the weight vector instead of input data.
    val data =
      if (addIntercept) {
        if (useFeatureScaling) {
          input.map(lp => (lp.label, appendBias(scaler.transform(lp.features)))).cache()
        } else {
          input.map(lp => (lp.label, appendBias(lp.features))).cache()
        }
      } else {
        if (useFeatureScaling) {
          input.map(lp => (lp.label, scaler.transform(lp.features))).cache()
        } else {
          input.map(lp => (lp.label, lp.features))
        }
      }

    /**
     * TODO: For better convergence, in logistic regression, the intercepts should be computed
     * from the prior probability distribution of the outcomes; for linear regression,
     * the intercept should be set as the average of response.
     */
    val initialWeightsWithIntercept = if (addIntercept && numOfLinearPredictor == 1) {
      appendBias(initialWeights)
    } else {
      /** If `numOfLinearPredictor > 1`, initialWeights already contains intercepts. */
      initialWeights
    }

    val weightsWithIntercept = optimizer.optimize(data, initialWeightsWithIntercept)

    val intercept = if (addIntercept && numOfLinearPredictor == 1) {
      weightsWithIntercept(weightsWithIntercept.size - 1)
    } else {
      0.0
    }

    var weights = if (addIntercept && numOfLinearPredictor == 1) {
      Vectors.dense(weightsWithIntercept.toArray.slice(0, weightsWithIntercept.size - 1))
    } else {
      weightsWithIntercept
    }

    /**
     * The weights and intercept are trained in the scaled space; we're converting them back to
     * the original scale.
     *
     * Math shows that if we only perform standardization without subtracting means, the intercept
     * will not be changed. w_i = w_i' / v_i where w_i' is the coefficient in the scaled space, w_i
     * is the coefficient in the original space, and v_i is the variance of the column i.
     */
    if (useFeatureScaling) {
      if (numOfLinearPredictor == 1) {
        weights = scaler.transform(weights)
      } else {
        /**
         * For `numOfLinearPredictor > 1`, we have to transform the weights back to the original
         * scale for each set of linear predictor. Note that the intercepts have to be explicitly
         * excluded when `addIntercept == true` since the intercepts are part of weights now.
         */
        var i = 0
        val n = weights.size / numOfLinearPredictor
        val weightsArray = weights.toArray
        while (i < numOfLinearPredictor) {
          val start = i * n
          val end = (i + 1) * n - { if (addIntercept) 1 else 0 }

          val partialWeightsArray = scaler.transform(
            Vectors.dense(weightsArray.slice(start, end))).toArray

          System.arraycopy(partialWeightsArray, 0, weightsArray, start, partialWeightsArray.size)
          i += 1
        }
        weights = Vectors.dense(weightsArray)
      }
    }

    // Warn at the end of the run as well, for increased visibility.
    if (input.getStorageLevel == StorageLevel.NONE) {
      logWarning("The input data was not directly cached, which may hurt performance if its"
        + " parent RDDs are also uncached.")
    }

    // Unpersist cached data
    if (data.getStorageLevel != StorageLevel.NONE) {
      data.unpersist(false)
    }

    createModel(weights, intercept)
  }
}




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