For private vars needed for testing, I made them private and added accessors. Java doesn’t understand package-private tags, so this minimizes the issues Java users might encounter.

Change miniBatchFraction default to 0.05 to match maxIterations.

Added a little doc.

Changed end of main online LDA update code to avoid the kron() call.  Please confirm if you agree that should be more efficient (not explicitly instantiating a big matrix).

Changed Gamma() to use random seed.

Scala style updates

Author: jkbradley

mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDAOptimizer.scala

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import java.util.Random
 
 import breeze.linalg.{DenseVector => BDV, DenseMatrix => BDM, sum, normalize, kron}
 import breeze.numerics.{digamma, exp, abs}
-import breeze.stats.distributions.Gamma
+import breeze.stats.distributions.{Gamma, RandBasis}
 
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.Experimental
 import org.apache.spark.graphx._
@@ -227,20 +227,37 @@ class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
   private var k: Int = 0
   private var corpusSize: Long = 0
   private var vocabSize: Int = 0
-  private[clustering] var alpha: Double = 0
-  private[clustering] var eta: Double = 0
+
+  /** alias for docConcentration */
+  private var alpha: Double = 0
+
+  /** (private[clustering] for debugging)  Get docConcentration */
+  private[clustering] def getAlpha: Double = alpha
+
+  /** alias for topicConcentration */
+  private var eta: Double = 0
+
+  /** (private[clustering] for debugging)  Get topicConcentration */
+  private[clustering] def getEta: Double = eta
+
   private var randomGenerator: java.util.Random = null
 
   // Online LDA specific parameters
+  // Learning rate is: (tau_0 + t)^{-kappa}
   private var tau_0: Double = 1024
   private var kappa: Double = 0.51
-  private var miniBatchFraction: Double = 0.01
+  private var miniBatchFraction: Double = 0.05
 
   // internal data structure
   private var docs: RDD[(Long, Vector)] = null
-  private[clustering] var lambda: BDM[Double] = null
 
-  // count of invocation to next, which helps deciding the weight for each iteration
+  /** Dirichlet parameter for the posterior over topics */
+  private var lambda: BDM[Double] = null
+
+  /** (private[clustering] for debugging) Get parameter for topics */
+  private[clustering] def getLambda: BDM[Double] = lambda
+
+  /** Current iteration (count of invocations of [[next()]]) */
   private var iteration: Int = 0
   private var gammaShape: Double = 100
 
@@ -285,7 +302,12 @@ class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
   /**
    * Mini-batch fraction in (0, 1], which sets the fraction of document sampled and used in
    * each iteration.
-   * Default: 0.01, i.e., 1% of total documents
+   *
+   * Note that this should be adjusted in synch with [[LDA.setMaxIterations()]]
+   * so the entire corpus is used.  Specifically, set both so that
+   * maxIterations * miniBatchFraction >= 1.
+   *
+   * Default: 0.05, i.e., 5% of total documents.
    */
   def setMiniBatchFraction(miniBatchFraction: Double): this.type = {
     require(miniBatchFraction > 0.0 && miniBatchFraction <= 1.0,
@@ -295,15 +317,20 @@ class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
   }
 
   /**
-   * The function is for test only now. In the future, it can help support training stop/resume
+   * (private[clustering])
+   * Set the Dirichlet parameter for the posterior over topics.
+   * This is only used for testing now. In the future, it can help support training stop/resume.
    */
   private[clustering] def setLambda(lambda: BDM[Double]): this.type = {
     this.lambda = lambda
     this
   }
 
   /**
-   * Used to control the gamma distribution. Larger value produces values closer to 1.0.
+   * (private[clustering])
+   * Used for random initialization of the variational parameters.
+   * Larger value produces values closer to 1.0.
+   * This is only used for testing currently.
    */
   private[clustering] def setGammaShape(shape: Double): this.type = {
     this.gammaShape = shape
@@ -380,12 +407,11 @@ class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
           meanchange = sum(abs(gammad - lastgamma)) / k
         }
 
-        val m1 = expElogthetad.t.toDenseMatrix.t
-        val m2 = (ctsVector / phinorm).t.toDenseMatrix
-        val outerResult = kron(m1, m2) // K * ids
+        val m1 = expElogthetad.t
+        val m2 = (ctsVector / phinorm).t.toDenseVector
         var i = 0
         while (i < ids.size) {
-          stat(::, ids(i)) := (stat(::, ids(i)) + outerResult(::, i))
+          stat(::, ids(i)) := stat(::, ids(i)) + m1 * m2(i)
           i += 1
         }
       }
@@ -423,7 +449,9 @@ class OnlineLDAOptimizer extends LDAOptimizer {
    * Get a random matrix to initialize lambda
    */
   private def getGammaMatrix(row: Int, col: Int): BDM[Double] = {
-    val gammaRandomGenerator = new Gamma(gammaShape, 1.0 / gammaShape)
+    val randBasis = new RandBasis(new org.apache.commons.math3.random.MersenneTwister(
+      randomGenerator.nextLong()))
+    val gammaRandomGenerator = new Gamma(gammaShape, 1.0 / gammaShape)(randBasis)
     val temp = gammaRandomGenerator.sample(row * col).toArray
     new BDM[Double](col, row, temp).t
   }

mllib/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/JavaLDASuite.java

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 
-import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
 import scala.Tuple2;
 
 import org.junit.After;
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Matrix;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector;
@@ -148,6 +148,6 @@ public void OnlineOptimizerCompatibility() {
   private static Matrix tinyTopics = LDASuite$.MODULE$.tinyTopics();
   private static Tuple2<int[], double[]>[] tinyTopicDescription =
       LDASuite$.MODULE$.tinyTopicDescription();
-  JavaPairRDD<Long, Vector> corpus;
+  private JavaPairRDD<Long, Vector> corpus;
 
 }

mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/clustering/LDASuite.scala

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
 
     // Check: describeTopics() with all terms
     val fullTopicSummary = model.describeTopics()
-    assert(fullTopicSummary.size === tinyK)
+    assert(fullTopicSummary.length === tinyK)
     fullTopicSummary.zip(tinyTopicDescription).foreach {
       case ((algTerms, algTermWeights), (terms, termWeights)) =>
         assert(algTerms === terms)
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
     // Check: per-doc topic distributions
     val topicDistributions = model.topicDistributions.collect()
     //  Ensure all documents are covered.
-    assert(topicDistributions.size === tinyCorpus.size)
+    assert(topicDistributions.length === tinyCorpus.length)
     assert(tinyCorpus.map(_._1).toSet === topicDistributions.map(_._1).toSet)
     //  Ensure we have proper distributions
     topicDistributions.foreach { case (docId, topicDistribution) =>
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
     val corpus = sc.parallelize(tinyCorpus, 2)
     val op = new OnlineLDAOptimizer().initialize(corpus, lda)
     op.setKappa(0.9876).setMiniBatchFraction(0.123).setTau_0(567)
-    assert(op.alpha == 0.5) // default 1.0 / k
-    assert(op.eta == 0.5)   // default 1.0 / k
+    assert(op.getAlpha == 0.5) // default 1.0 / k
+    assert(op.getEta == 0.5)   // default 1.0 / k
     assert(op.getKappa == 0.9876)
     assert(op.getMiniBatchFraction == 0.123)
     assert(op.getTau_0 == 567)
@@ -154,14 +154,14 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
 
     def docs: Array[(Long, Vector)] = Array(
       Vectors.sparse(vocabSize, Array(0, 1, 2), Array(1, 1, 1)), // apple, orange, banana
-      Vectors.sparse(vocabSize, Array(3, 4, 5), Array(1, 1, 1))) // tiger, cat, dog
-      .zipWithIndex.map { case (wordCounts, docId) => (docId.toLong, wordCounts) }
+      Vectors.sparse(vocabSize, Array(3, 4, 5), Array(1, 1, 1)) // tiger, cat, dog
+    ).zipWithIndex.map { case (wordCounts, docId) => (docId.toLong, wordCounts) }
     val corpus = sc.parallelize(docs, 2)
 
-    // setGammaShape large so to avoid the stochastic impact.
+    // Set GammaShape large to avoid the stochastic impact.
     val op = new OnlineLDAOptimizer().setTau_0(1024).setKappa(0.51).setGammaShape(1e40)
       .setMiniBatchFraction(1)
-    val lda = new LDA().setK(k).setMaxIterations(1).setOptimizer(op)
+    val lda = new LDA().setK(k).setMaxIterations(1).setOptimizer(op).setSeed(12345)
 
     val state = op.initialize(corpus, lda)
     // override lambda to simulate an intermediate state
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
 
     // verify the result, Note this generate the identical result as
     // [[https://github.com/Blei-Lab/onlineldavb]]
-    val topic1 = op.lambda(0, ::).inner.toArray.map("%.4f".format(_)).mkString(", ")
-    val topic2 = op.lambda(1, ::).inner.toArray.map("%.4f".format(_)).mkString(", ")
+    val topic1 = op.getLambda(0, ::).inner.toArray.map("%.4f".format(_)).mkString(", ")
+    val topic2 = op.getLambda(1, ::).inner.toArray.map("%.4f".format(_)).mkString(", ")
     assert("1.1101, 1.2076, 1.3050, 0.8899, 0.7924, 0.6950" == topic1)
     assert("0.8899, 0.7924, 0.6950, 1.1101, 1.2076, 1.3050" == topic2)
   }
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(0, 1), Array(1, 1)),
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(1, 2), Array(1, 1)),
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(0, 2), Array(1, 1)),
-
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(3, 4), Array(1, 1)),
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(3, 5), Array(1, 1)),
       Vectors.sparse(6, Array(4, 5), Array(1, 1))
@@ -200,6 +199,7 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
       .setTopicConcentration(0.01)
       .setMaxIterations(100)
       .setOptimizer(op)
+      .setSeed(12345)
 
     val ldaModel = lda.run(docs)
     val topicIndices = ldaModel.describeTopics(maxTermsPerTopic = 10)
@@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ class LDASuite extends FunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
     }
 
     // check distribution for each topic, typical distribution is (0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02)
-    topics.foreach(topic =>{
-      val smalls = topic.filter(t => (t._2 < 0.1)).map(_._2)
-      assert(smalls.size == 3 && smalls.sum < 0.2)
-    })
+    topics.foreach { topic =>
+      val smalls = topic.filter(t => t._2 < 0.1).map(_._2)
+      assert(smalls.length == 3 && smalls.sum < 0.2)
+    }
   }
 
 }