[jira] [Updated] (MAHOUT-1236) Need a cleaned up serialized format for Vectors to handle names and all other kinds of things

["Robin Anil (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robin Anil updated MAHOUT-1236:
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    Fix Version/s: 1.0

+1 to protobuf tracking for the 1.0 release
                
> Need a cleaned up serialized format for Vectors to handle names and all other kinds of things
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>                 Key: MAHOUT-1236
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1236
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Ted Dunning
>             Fix For: 1.0
>
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> Our current serialization is subject several ills
> a) it breaks alignment by having a 1 byte flag field (evil, generic)
> b) it doesn't handle any kind of extensible format like protobufs so it isn't future-proof
> c) it doesn't handle named vectors very well
> d) it totally breaks with any other kind of decoration as with Centroids or WeightedVector or ... (see b)
> I propose that we use the current tag byte on the current serialization with a new flag bit that indicates that the vector will use a protobuf encoding.  Then 3 bytes will be skipped to restore alignment.  Then there will be a protobuf encoding for the vector. 

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