[SPARK-4586][MLLIB] Python API for ML pipeline and parameters

This PR adds Python API for ML pipeline and parameters. The design doc can be found on the JIRA page. It includes transformers and an estimator to demo the simple text classification example code.

TODO:
- [x] handle parameters in LRModel
- [x] unit tests
- [x] missing some docs

CC: davies jkbradley

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>
Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #4151 from mengxr/SPARK-4586 and squashes the following commits:

415268e [Xiangrui Meng] remove inherit_doc from __init__
edbd6fe [Xiangrui Meng] move Identifiable to ml.util
44c2405 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge pull request #2 from davies/ml
dd1256b [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
14ae7e2 [Davies Liu] fix docs
54ca7df [Davies Liu] fix tests
78638df [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'SPARK-4586' of github.com:mengxr/spark into ml
fc59a02 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
1dca16a [Davies Liu] refactor
090b3a3 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into ml
0882513 [Xiangrui Meng] update doc style
a4f4dbf [Xiangrui Meng] add unit test for LR
7521d1c [Xiangrui Meng] add unit tests to HashingTF and Tokenizer
ba0ba1e [Xiangrui Meng] add unit tests for pipeline
0586c7b [Xiangrui Meng] add more comments to the example
5153cff [Xiangrui Meng] simplify java models
036ca04 [Xiangrui Meng] gen numFeatures
46fa147 [Xiangrui Meng] update mllib/pom.xml to include python files in the assembly
1dcc17e [Xiangrui Meng] update code gen and make param appear in the doc
f66ba0c [Xiangrui Meng] make params a property
d5efd34 [Xiangrui Meng] update doc conf and move embedded param map to instance attribute
f4d0fe6 [Xiangrui Meng] use LabeledDocument and Document in example
05e3e40 [Xiangrui Meng] update example
d3e8dbe [Xiangrui Meng] more docs optimize pipeline.fit impl
56de571 [Xiangrui Meng] fix style
d0c5bb8 [Xiangrui Meng] a working copy
bce72f4 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into SPARK-4586
17ecfb9 [Xiangrui Meng] code gen for shared params
d9ea77c [Xiangrui Meng] update doc
c18dca1 [Xiangrui Meng] make the example working
dadd84e [Xiangrui Meng] add base classes and docs
a3015cf [Xiangrui Meng] add Estimator and Transformer
46eea43 [Xiangrui Meng] a pipeline in python
33b68e0 [Xiangrui Meng] a working LR

4 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/python/docs/conf.py b/python/docs/conf.py
index e58d97ae6a..b00dce95d6 100644
--- a/python/docs/conf.py
+++ b/python/docs/conf.py
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ copyright = u'2014, Author'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.2-SNAPSHOT'
+version = '1.3-SNAPSHOT'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.2-SNAPSHOT'
+release = '1.3-SNAPSHOT'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/python/docs/index.rst b/python/docs/index.rst
index 703bef644d..d150de9d5c 100644
--- a/python/docs/index.rst
+++ b/python/docs/index.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Contents:
    pyspark
    pyspark.sql
    pyspark.streaming
+   pyspark.ml
    pyspark.mllib
 
 
diff --git a/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst b/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f10d1339a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/docs/pyspark.ml.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+pyspark.ml package
+=====================
+
+Submodules
+----------
+
+pyspark.ml module
+-----------------
+
+.. automodule:: pyspark.ml
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :inherited-members:
+
+pyspark.ml.feature module
+-------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: pyspark.ml.feature
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :inherited-members:
+
+pyspark.ml.classification module
+--------------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: pyspark.ml.classification
+    :members:
+    :undoc-members:
+    :inherited-members:
diff --git a/python/docs/pyspark.rst b/python/docs/pyspark.rst
index e81be3b6cb..0df12c49ad 100644
--- a/python/docs/pyspark.rst
+++ b/python/docs/pyspark.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Subpackages
     
     pyspark.sql
     pyspark.streaming
+    pyspark.ml
     pyspark.mllib
 
 Contents