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diff --git a/docs/mllib-guide.md b/docs/mllib-guide.md index dcb6819f46..efd7dda310 100644 --- a/docs/mllib-guide.md +++ b/docs/mllib-guide.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: global -title: Machine Learning Library (MLlib) +title: Machine Learning Library (MLlib) Programming Guide --- MLlib is Spark's scalable machine learning library consisting of common learning algorithms and utilities, @@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ 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. +# spark.ml: The New ML Package + +Spark 1.2 includes a new machine learning package called `spark.ml`, currently an alpha component but potentially a successor to `spark.mllib`. The `spark.ml` package aims to replace the old APIs with a cleaner, more uniform set of APIs which will help users create full machine learning pipelines. + +See the **[spark.ml programming guide](ml-guide.html)** for more information on this package. + +Users can use algorithms from either of the two packages, but APIs may differ. Currently, `spark.ml` offers a subset of the algorithms from `spark.mllib`. + +Developers should contribute new algorithms to `spark.mllib` and can optionally contribute to `spark.ml`. +See the `spark.ml` programming guide linked above for more details. + # Dependencies MLlib uses the linear algebra package [Breeze](http://www.scalanlp.org/), |