[SPARK-18324][ML][DOC] Update ML programming and migration guide for 2.1 release

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Update ML programming and migration guide for 2.1 release.

## How was this patch tested?
Doc change, no test.

Author: Yanbo Liang <ybliang8@gmail.com>

Closes #16076 from yanboliang/spark-18324.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 134 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ml-guide.md b/docs/ml-guide.md
index 4607ad3ba6..ddf81be177 100644
--- a/docs/ml-guide.md
+++ b/docs/ml-guide.md
@@ -60,152 +60,34 @@ MLlib is under active development.
 The APIs marked `Experimental`/`DeveloperApi` may change in future releases,
 and the migration guide below will explain all changes between releases.
 
-## From 1.6 to 2.0
+## From 2.0 to 2.1
 
 ### Breaking changes
-
-There were several breaking changes in Spark 2.0, which are outlined below.
-
-**Linear algebra classes for DataFrame-based APIs**
-
-Spark's linear algebra dependencies were moved to a new project, `mllib-local` 
-(see [SPARK-13944](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13944)). 
-As part of this change, the linear algebra classes were copied to a new package, `spark.ml.linalg`. 
-The DataFrame-based APIs in `spark.ml` now depend on the `spark.ml.linalg` classes, 
-leading to a few breaking changes, predominantly in various model classes 
-(see [SPARK-14810](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14810) for a full list).
-
-**Note:** the RDD-based APIs in `spark.mllib` continue to depend on the previous package `spark.mllib.linalg`.
-
-_Converting vectors and matrices_
-
-While most pipeline components support backward compatibility for loading, 
-some existing `DataFrames` and pipelines in Spark versions prior to 2.0, that contain vector or matrix 
-columns, may need to be migrated to the new `spark.ml` vector and matrix types. 
-Utilities for converting `DataFrame` columns from `spark.mllib.linalg` to `spark.ml.linalg` types
-(and vice versa) can be found in `spark.mllib.util.MLUtils`.
-
-There are also utility methods available for converting single instances of 
-vectors and matrices. Use the `asML` method on a `mllib.linalg.Vector` / `mllib.linalg.Matrix`
-for converting to `ml.linalg` types, and 
-`mllib.linalg.Vectors.fromML` / `mllib.linalg.Matrices.fromML` 
-for converting to `mllib.linalg` types.
-
-<div class="codetabs">
-<div data-lang="scala"  markdown="1">
-
-{% highlight scala %}
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils
-
-// convert DataFrame columns
-val convertedVecDF = MLUtils.convertVectorColumnsToML(vecDF)
-val convertedMatrixDF = MLUtils.convertMatrixColumnsToML(matrixDF)
-// convert a single vector or matrix
-val mlVec: org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector = mllibVec.asML
-val mlMat: org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Matrix = mllibMat.asML
-{% endhighlight %}
-
-Refer to the [`MLUtils` Scala docs](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils$) for further detail.
-</div>
-
-<div data-lang="java" markdown="1">
-
-{% highlight java %}
-import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils;
-import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
-
-// convert DataFrame columns
-Dataset<Row> convertedVecDF = MLUtils.convertVectorColumnsToML(vecDF);
-Dataset<Row> convertedMatrixDF = MLUtils.convertMatrixColumnsToML(matrixDF);
-// convert a single vector or matrix
-org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vector mlVec = mllibVec.asML();
-org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Matrix mlMat = mllibMat.asML();
-{% endhighlight %}
-
-Refer to the [`MLUtils` Java docs](api/java/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.html) for further detail.
-</div>
-
-<div data-lang="python"  markdown="1">
-
-{% highlight python %}
-from pyspark.mllib.util import MLUtils
-
-# convert DataFrame columns
-convertedVecDF = MLUtils.convertVectorColumnsToML(vecDF)
-convertedMatrixDF = MLUtils.convertMatrixColumnsToML(matrixDF)
-# convert a single vector or matrix
-mlVec = mllibVec.asML()
-mlMat = mllibMat.asML()
-{% endhighlight %}
-
-Refer to the [`MLUtils` Python docs](api/python/pyspark.mllib.html#pyspark.mllib.util.MLUtils) for further detail.
-</div>
-</div>
-
+ 
 **Deprecated methods removed**
 
-Several deprecated methods were removed in the `spark.mllib` and `spark.ml` packages:
-
-* `setScoreCol` in `ml.evaluation.BinaryClassificationEvaluator`
-* `weights` in `LinearRegression` and `LogisticRegression` in `spark.ml`
-* `setMaxNumIterations` in `mllib.optimization.LBFGS` (marked as `DeveloperApi`)
-* `treeReduce` and `treeAggregate` in `mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions` (these functions are available on `RDD`s directly, and were marked as `DeveloperApi`)
-* `defaultStategy` in `mllib.tree.configuration.Strategy`
-* `build` in `mllib.tree.Node`
-* libsvm loaders for multiclass and load/save labeledData methods in `mllib.util.MLUtils`
-
-A full list of breaking changes can be found at [SPARK-14810](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14810).
+* `setLabelCol` in `feature.ChiSqSelectorModel`
+* `numTrees` in `classification.RandomForestClassificationModel` (This now refers to the Param called `numTrees`)
+* `numTrees` in `regression.RandomForestRegressionModel` (This now refers to the Param called `numTrees`)
+* `model` in `regression.LinearRegressionSummary`
+* `validateParams` in `PipelineStage`
+* `validateParams` in `Evaluator`
 
 ### Deprecations and changes of behavior
 
 **Deprecations**
 
-Deprecations in the `spark.mllib` and `spark.ml` packages include:
-
-* [SPARK-14984](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14984):
- In `spark.ml.regression.LinearRegressionSummary`, the `model` field has been deprecated.
-* [SPARK-13784](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13784):
- In `spark.ml.regression.RandomForestRegressionModel` and `spark.ml.classification.RandomForestClassificationModel`,
- the `numTrees` parameter has been deprecated in favor of `getNumTrees` method.
-* [SPARK-13761](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13761):
- In `spark.ml.param.Params`, the `validateParams` method has been deprecated.
- We move all functionality in overridden methods to the corresponding `transformSchema`.
-* [SPARK-14829](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14829):
- In `spark.mllib` package, `LinearRegressionWithSGD`, `LassoWithSGD`, `RidgeRegressionWithSGD` and `LogisticRegressionWithSGD` have been deprecated.
- We encourage users to use `spark.ml.regression.LinearRegresson` and `spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegresson`.
-* [SPARK-14900](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14900):
- In `spark.mllib.evaluation.MulticlassMetrics`, the parameters `precision`, `recall` and `fMeasure` have been deprecated in favor of `accuracy`.
-* [SPARK-15644](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15644):
- In `spark.ml.util.MLReader` and `spark.ml.util.MLWriter`, the `context` method has been deprecated in favor of `session`.
-* In `spark.ml.feature.ChiSqSelectorModel`, the `setLabelCol` method has been deprecated since it was not used by `ChiSqSelectorModel`.
+* [SPARK-18592](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18592):
+  Deprecate all Param setter methods except for input/output column Params for `DecisionTreeClassificationModel`, `GBTClassificationModel`, `RandomForestClassificationModel`, `DecisionTreeRegressionModel`, `GBTRegressionModel` and `RandomForestRegressionModel`
 
 **Changes of behavior**
 
-Changes of behavior in the `spark.mllib` and `spark.ml` packages include:
-
-* [SPARK-7780](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7780):
- `spark.mllib.classification.LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS` directly calls `spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegresson` for binary classification now.
- This will introduce the following behavior changes for `spark.mllib.classification.LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS`:
-    * The intercept will not be regularized when training binary classification model with L1/L2 Updater.
-    * If users set without regularization, training with or without feature scaling will return the same solution by the same convergence rate.
-* [SPARK-13429](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13429):
- In order to provide better and consistent result with `spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegresson`,
- the default value of `spark.mllib.classification.LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS`: `convergenceTol` has been changed from 1E-4 to 1E-6.
-* [SPARK-12363](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12363):
- Fix a bug of `PowerIterationClustering` which will likely change its result.
-* [SPARK-13048](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13048):
- `LDA` using the `EM` optimizer will keep the last checkpoint by default, if checkpointing is being used.
-* [SPARK-12153](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12153):
- `Word2Vec` now respects sentence boundaries. Previously, it did not handle them correctly.
-* [SPARK-10574](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10574):
- `HashingTF` uses `MurmurHash3` as default hash algorithm in both `spark.ml` and `spark.mllib`.
-* [SPARK-14768](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14768):
- The `expectedType` argument for PySpark `Param` was removed.
-* [SPARK-14931](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14931):
- Some default `Param` values, which were mismatched between pipelines in Scala and Python, have been changed.
-* [SPARK-13600](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13600):
- `QuantileDiscretizer` now uses `spark.sql.DataFrameStatFunctions.approxQuantile` to find splits (previously used custom sampling logic).
- The output buckets will differ for same input data and params.
+* [SPARK-17870](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17870):
+ Fix a bug of `ChiSqSelector` which will likely change its result. Now `ChiSquareSelector` use pValue rather than raw statistic to select a fixed number of top features.
+* [SPARK-3261](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3261):
+ `KMeans` returns potentially fewer than k cluster centers in cases where k distinct centroids aren't available or aren't selected.
+* [SPARK-17389](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17389):
+ `KMeans` reduces the default number of steps from 5 to 2 for the k-means|| initialization mode.
 
 ## Previous Spark versions