Spark MLLib TFIDF implementation for LogisticRegression

Question

I try to use the new TFIDF algorithem that spark 1.1.0 offers. I'm writing my job for MLLib in Java but I can't figure out how to get the TFIDF implementation working. For some reason IDFModel only accepts a JavaRDD as input for the method transform and not simple Vector. How can I use the given classes to model a TFIDF vector for my LabledPoints?

Note: The document lines are in the format [Label; Text]

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Here my code so far:

        // 1.) Load the documents
        JavaRDD<String> data = sc.textFile("/home/johnny/data.data.new"); 

        // 2.) Hash all documents
        HashingTF tf = new HashingTF();
        JavaRDD<Tuple2<Double, Vector>> tupleData = data.map(new Function<String, Tuple2<Double, Vector>>() {
            @Override
            public Tuple2<Double, Vector> call(String v1) throws Exception {
                String[] data = v1.split(";");
                List<String> myList = Arrays.asList(data[1].split(" "));
                return new Tuple2<Double, Vector>(Double.parseDouble(data[0]), tf.transform(myList));
            }
        });

        tupleData.cache();

        // 3.) Create a flat RDD with all vectors
        JavaRDD<Vector> hashedData = tupleData.map(new Function<Tuple2<Double,Vector>, Vector>() {
            @Override
            public Vector call(Tuple2<Double, Vector> v1) throws Exception {
                return v1._2;
            }
        });

        // 4.) Create a IDFModel out of our flat vector RDD
        IDFModel idfModel = new IDF().fit(hashedData);

        // 5.) Create Labledpoint RDD with TFIDF
        ???

Solution from Sean Owen:

        // 1.) Load the documents
        JavaRDD<String> data = sc.textFile("/home/johnny/data.data.new"); 

        // 2.) Hash all documents
        HashingTF tf = new HashingTF();
        JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> tupleData = data.map(v1 -> {
                String[] datas = v1.split(";");
                List<String> myList = Arrays.asList(datas[1].split(" "));
                return new LabeledPoint(Double.parseDouble(datas[0]), tf.transform(myList));
        }); 
        // 3.) Create a flat RDD with all vectors
        JavaRDD<Vector> hashedData = tupleData.map(label -> label.features());
        // 4.) Create a IDFModel out of our flat vector RDD
        IDFModel idfModel = new IDF().fit(hashedData);
        // 5.) Create tfidf RDD
        JavaRDD<Vector> idf = idfModel.transform(hashedData);
        // 6.) Create Labledpoint RDD
        JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> idfTransformed = idf.zip(tupleData).map(t -> {
            return new LabeledPoint(t._2.label(), t._1);
        });

Answer 1

IDFModel.transform() accepts a JavaRDD or RDD of Vector, as you see. It does not make sense to compute a model over a single Vector, so that's not what you're looking for right?

I assume you're working in Java, so you mean you want to apply this to a JavaRDD<LabeledPoint>. LabeledPoint contains a Vector and a label. IDF is not a classifier or regressor, so it needs no label. You can map a bunch of LabeledPoint to just extract their Vector.

But you already have a JavaRDD<Vector> above. TF-IDF is merely a way of mapping words to real-valued features based on word frequencies in the corpus. It also does not output a label. Maybe you mean you want to develop a classifier from TF-IDF-derived feature vectors, and some other labels you already have?

Maybe that clears things up but otherwise you'd have to greatly clarify what you are trying to achieve with TF-IDF.