[SPARK-19591][ML][MLlib][FOLLOWUP] Add sample weights to decision trees - fix tolerance #23682
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This is a follow-up to PR:
#21632
What changes were proposed in this pull request?
This PR tunes the tolerance used for deciding whether to add zero feature values to a value-count map (where the key is the feature value and the value is the weighted count of those feature values).
In the previous PR the tolerance scaled by the square of the unweighted number of samples, which is too aggressive for a large number of unweighted samples. Unfortunately using just "Utils.EPSILON * unweightedNumSamples" is not enough either, so I multiplied that by a factor tuned by the testing procedure below.
How was this patch tested?
This involved manually running the sample weight tests for decision tree regressor to see whether the tolerance was large enough to exclude zero feature values.
Eg in SBT:
For validation, I added a print inside the if in the code below and validated that the tolerance was large enough so that we would not include zero features (which don't exist in that test):