[SPARK-9788] [MLLIB] Fix LDA Binary Compatibility

1. Add “asymmetricDocConcentration” and revert docConcentration changes. If the (internal) doc concentration vector is a single value, “getDocConcentration" returns it. If it is a constant vector, getDocConcentration returns the first item, and fails otherwise.
2. Give `LDAModel.gammaShape` a default value in `LDAModel` concrete class constructors.

jkbradley

Author: Feynman Liang <fliang@databricks.com>

Closes #8077 from feynmanliang/SPARK-9788 and squashes the following commits:

6b07bc8 [Feynman Liang] Code review changes
9d6a71e [Feynman Liang] Add asymmetricAlpha alias
bf4e685 [Feynman Liang] Asymmetric docConcentration
4cab972 [Feynman Liang] Default gammaShape

3 files changed, 44 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDA.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDA.scala
index ab124e6d77..0fc9b1ac4d 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDA.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDA.scala
@@ -79,7 +79,24 @@ class LDA private (
    *
    * This is the parameter to a Dirichlet distribution.
    */
-  def getDocConcentration: Vector = this.docConcentration
+  def getAsymmetricDocConcentration: Vector = this.docConcentration
+
+  /**
+   * Concentration parameter (commonly named "alpha") for the prior placed on documents'
+   * distributions over topics ("theta").
+   *
+   * This method assumes the Dirichlet distribution is symmetric and can be described by a single
+   * [[Double]] parameter. It should fail if docConcentration is asymmetric.
+   */
+  def getDocConcentration: Double = {
+    val parameter = docConcentration(0)
+    if (docConcentration.size == 1) {
+      parameter
+    } else {
+      require(docConcentration.toArray.forall(_ == parameter))
+      parameter
+    }
+  }
 
   /**
    * Concentration parameter (commonly named "alpha") for the prior placed on documents'
@@ -106,18 +123,22 @@ class LDA private (
    *       [[https://github.com/Blei-Lab/onlineldavb]].
    */
   def setDocConcentration(docConcentration: Vector): this.type = {
+    require(docConcentration.size > 0, "docConcentration must have > 0 elements")
     this.docConcentration = docConcentration
     this
   }
 
-  /** Replicates Double to create a symmetric prior */
+  /** Replicates a [[Double]] docConcentration to create a symmetric prior. */
   def setDocConcentration(docConcentration: Double): this.type = {
     this.docConcentration = Vectors.dense(docConcentration)
     this
   }
 
+  /** Alias for [[getAsymmetricDocConcentration]] */
+  def getAsymmetricAlpha: Vector = getAsymmetricDocConcentration
+
   /** Alias for [[getDocConcentration]] */
-  def getAlpha: Vector = getDocConcentration
+  def getAlpha: Double = getDocConcentration
 
   /** Alias for [[setDocConcentration()]] */
   def setAlpha(alpha: Vector): this.type = setDocConcentration(alpha)
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAModel.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAModel.scala
index 33babda69b..5dc637ebdc 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAModel.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAModel.scala
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods._
 import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.Experimental
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD
-import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
 import org.apache.spark.graphx.{Edge, EdgeContext, Graph, VertexId}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Matrices, Matrix, Vector, Vectors}
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.{Loader, Saveable}
@@ -190,7 +189,8 @@ class LocalLDAModel private[clustering] (
     val topics: Matrix,
     override val docConcentration: Vector,
     override val topicConcentration: Double,
-    override protected[clustering] val gammaShape: Double) extends LDAModel with Serializable {
+    override protected[clustering] val gammaShape: Double = 100)
+  extends LDAModel with Serializable {
 
   override def k: Int = topics.numCols
 
@@ -455,8 +455,9 @@ class DistributedLDAModel private[clustering] (
     val vocabSize: Int,
     override val docConcentration: Vector,
     override val topicConcentration: Double,
-    override protected[clustering] val gammaShape: Double,
-    private[spark] val iterationTimes: Array[Double]) extends LDAModel {
+    private[spark] val iterationTimes: Array[Double],
+    override protected[clustering] val gammaShape: Double = 100)
+  extends LDAModel {
 
   import LDA._
 
@@ -756,7 +757,7 @@ object DistributedLDAModel extends Loader[DistributedLDAModel] {
       val graph: Graph[LDA.TopicCounts, LDA.TokenCount] = Graph(vertices, edges)
 
       new DistributedLDAModel(graph, globalTopicTotals, globalTopicTotals.length, vocabSize,
-        docConcentration, topicConcentration, gammaShape, iterationTimes)
+        docConcentration, topicConcentration, iterationTimes, gammaShape)
     }
 
   }
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAOptimizer.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAOptimizer.scala
index afba2866c7..a0008f9c99 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAOptimizer.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAOptimizer.scala
@@ -95,10 +95,8 @@ final class EMLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
    * Compute bipartite term/doc graph.
    */
   override private[clustering] def initialize(docs: RDD[(Long, Vector)], lda: LDA): LDAOptimizer = {
-    val docConcentration = lda.getDocConcentration(0)
-    require({
-      lda.getDocConcentration.toArray.forall(_ == docConcentration)
-    }, "EMLDAOptimizer currently only supports symmetric document-topic priors")
+    // EMLDAOptimizer currently only supports symmetric document-topic priors
+    val docConcentration = lda.getDocConcentration
 
     val topicConcentration = lda.getTopicConcentration
     val k = lda.getK
@@ -209,11 +207,11 @@ final class EMLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
   override private[clustering] def getLDAModel(iterationTimes: Array[Double]): LDAModel = {
     require(graph != null, "graph is null, EMLDAOptimizer not initialized.")
     this.graphCheckpointer.deleteAllCheckpoints()
-    // This assumes gammaShape = 100 in OnlineLDAOptimizer to ensure equivalence in LDAModel.toLocal
-    // conversion
+    // The constructor's default arguments assume gammaShape = 100 to ensure equivalence in
+    // LDAModel.toLocal conversion
     new DistributedLDAModel(this.graph, this.globalTopicTotals, this.k, this.vocabSize,
       Vectors.dense(Array.fill(this.k)(this.docConcentration)), this.topicConcentration,
-      100, iterationTimes)
+      iterationTimes)
   }
 }
 
@@ -378,18 +376,20 @@ final class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
     this.k = lda.getK
     this.corpusSize = docs.count()
     this.vocabSize = docs.first()._2.size
-    this.alpha = if (lda.getDocConcentration.size == 1) {
-      if (lda.getDocConcentration(0) == -1) Vectors.dense(Array.fill(k)(1.0 / k))
+    this.alpha = if (lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration.size == 1) {
+      if (lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration(0) == -1) Vectors.dense(Array.fill(k)(1.0 / k))
       else {
-        require(lda.getDocConcentration(0) >= 0, s"all entries in alpha must be >=0, got: $alpha")
-        Vectors.dense(Array.fill(k)(lda.getDocConcentration(0)))
+        require(lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration(0) >= 0,
+          s"all entries in alpha must be >=0, got: $alpha")
+        Vectors.dense(Array.fill(k)(lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration(0)))
       }
     } else {
-      require(lda.getDocConcentration.size == k, s"alpha must have length k, got: $alpha")
-      lda.getDocConcentration.foreachActive { case (_, x) =>
+      require(lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration.size == k,
+        s"alpha must have length k, got: $alpha")
+      lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration.foreachActive { case (_, x) =>
         require(x >= 0, s"all entries in alpha must be >= 0, got: $alpha")
       }
-      lda.getDocConcentration
+      lda.getAsymmetricDocConcentration
     }
     this.eta = if (lda.getTopicConcentration == -1) 1.0 / k else lda.getTopicConcentration
     this.randomGenerator = new Random(lda.getSeed)