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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-21306) OneVsRest Conceals Columns That May Be Relevant To Underlying Classifier

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Nick Pentreath commented on SPARK-21306:
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This is definitely an issue. I don't think it is an issue with columns other than {{weight}}, right? 

The easy fix would be to simply use the entire dataset in the {{fit}} logic, though that would probably result in caching unnecessary data. If it is only the weight col that is really impacted, we could just add a check for that param on the classifier and if present, select the weight column also.

> OneVsRest Conceals Columns That May Be Relevant To Underlying Classifier
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-21306
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21306
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ML
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.1
>            Reporter: Cathal Garvey
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: classification, ml
>
> Hi folks, thanks for Spark! :)
> I've been learning to use `ml` and `mllib`, and I've encountered a block while trying to use `ml.classification.OneVsRest` with `ml.classification.LogisticRegression`. Basically, [here in the code|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/classification/OneVsRest.scala#L320], only two columns are being extracted and fed to the underlying classifiers.. however with some configurations, more than two columns are required.
> Specifically: I want to do multiclass learning with Logistic Regression, on a very imbalanced dataset. In my dataset, I have lots of imbalances, so I was planning to use weights. I set a column, `"weight"`, as the inverse frequency of each field, and I configured my `LogisticRegression` class to use this column, then put it in a `OneVsRest` wrapper.
> However, `OneVsRest` strips all but two columns out of a dataset before training, so I get an error from within `LogisticRegression` that it can't find the `"weight"` column.
> It would be nice to have this fixed! I can see a few ways, but a very conservative fix would be to include a parameter in `OneVsRest.fit` for additional columns to `select` before passing to the underlying model.
> Thanks!



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