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 title: Spark ML Programming Guide
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 `spark.ml` is a new package introduced in Spark 1.2, which aims to provide a uniform set of
 high-level APIs that help users create and tune practical machine learning pipelines.
 It is currently an alpha component, and we would like to hear back from the community about
@@ -159,9 +176,9 @@ There are now several algorithms in the Pipelines API which are not in the lower
 
 ## Linear Methods with Elastic Net Regularization
 
-In MLlib, we implement popular linear methods such as logistic regression and linear least squares with L1 or L2 regularization. Refer to [the linear methods section](mllib-guide.html) for details. In `spark.ml`, we add the [Elastic net](http://users.stat.umn.edu/~zouxx019/Papers/elasticnet.pdf), which is a hybrid of L1 and L2 regularization. Mathematically it is defined as a linear combination of the L1-norm and the L2-norm:
+In MLlib, we implement popular linear methods such as logistic regression and linear least squares with L1 or L2 regularization. Refer to [the linear methods section](mllib-linear-methods.html) for details. In `spark.ml`, we add the [Elastic net](http://users.stat.umn.edu/~zouxx019/Papers/elasticnet.pdf), which is a hybrid of L1 and L2 regularization. Mathematically it is defined as a linear combination of the L1-norm and the L2-norm:
 `\[
-\alpha \lambda_1\|v\|_1 + (1-\alpha) \frac{\lambda_2}{2}\|v\|_2, \alpha \in [0, 1].
+\alpha \lambda_1\|\wv\|_1 + (1-\alpha) \frac{\lambda_2}{2}\|\wv\|_2, \alpha \in [0, 1].
 \]`
 By setting $\alpha$ properly, it contains both L1 and L2 regularization as special cases. We implement both linear regression and logistic regression with elastic net regularization in `spark.ml`.
 
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       <td>L1</td><td>$\|\wv\|_1$</td><td>$\mathrm{sign}(\wv)$</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
-      <td>elastic net</td><td>$\alpha \lambda_1\|\wv\|_1 + (1-\alpha)\lambda_2\|\wv\|_2$</td><td>$\alpha \lambda_1 \mathrm{sign}(\wv) + (1-\alpha)\lambda_2 \wv$</td>
+      <td>elastic net</td><td>$\alpha \lambda_1\|\wv\|_1 + (1-\alpha)\frac{\lambda_2}{2}\|\wv\|_2$</td><td>$\alpha \lambda_1 \mathrm{sign}(\wv) + (1-\alpha)\lambda_2 \wv$</td>
     </tr>
   </tbody>
 </table>