Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition

Linear models

Both logistic regression and SVM share the same parameters, because they use the same underlying optimization technique of stochastic gradient descent (SGD). They differ only in the loss function applied. If we take a look at the class definition for logistic regression in MLlib, we will see the following definition:

class LogisticRegressionWithSGD private (   private var stepSize: Double,   private var numIterations: Int,   private var regParam: Double,   private var miniBatchFraction: Double)   extends GeneralizedLinearAlgorithm[LogisticRegressionModel] ... 

We can see that the arguments that can be passed to the constructor are stepSize, numIterations, regParam, and miniBatchFraction. Of these, all except regParam are related ...