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authorTimothy Hunter <timhunter@databricks.com>2015-12-08 18:40:21 -0800
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[SPARK-8517][ML][DOC] Reorganizes the spark.ml user guide
This PR moves pieces of the spark.ml user guide to reflect suggestions in SPARK-8517. It does not introduce new content, as requested. <img width="192" alt="screen shot 2015-12-08 at 11 36 00 am" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/7594753/11666166/e82b84f2-9d9f-11e5-8904-e215424d8444.png"> Author: Timothy Hunter <timhunter@databricks.com> Closes #10207 from thunterdb/spark-8517.
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+# Optimization of linear methods
+
+The optimization algorithm underlying the implementation is called
+[Orthant-Wise Limited-memory
+QuasiNewton](http://research-srv.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jfgao/paper/icml07scalable.pdf)
+(OWL-QN). It is an extension of L-BFGS that can effectively handle L1
+regularization and elastic net.