diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
index debe57883ed33..4afa7523dd802 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala
@@ -950,22 +950,6 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
    */
   def takeOrdered(num: Int)(implicit ord: Ordering[T]): Array[T] = top(num)(ord.reverse)
 
-  /**
-   * Returns a RDD from grouping items of its parent RDD in fixed size blocks by passing a sliding
-   * window over them. The ordering is first based on the partition index and then the ordering of
-   * items within each partition. This is similar to sliding in Scala collections, except that it
-   * becomes an empty RDD if the window size is greater than the total number of items. It needs to
-   * trigger a Spark job if the parent RDD has more than one partitions and the window size is
-   * greater than 1.
-   */
-  def sliding(windowSize: Int): RDD[Seq[T]] = {
-    if (windowSize == 1) {
-      this.map(Seq(_))
-    } else {
-      new SlidingRDD[T](this, windowSize)
-    }
-  }
-
   /**
    * Save this RDD as a text file, using string representations of elements.
    */
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
index a5962406b2e1a..60bcada55245b 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDDSuite.scala
@@ -553,18 +553,4 @@ class RDDSuite extends FunSuite with SharedSparkContext {
     val ids = ranked.map(_._1).distinct().collect()
     assert(ids.length === n)
   }
-
-  test("sliding") {
-    val data = 0 until 6
-    for (numPartitions <- 1 to 8) {
-      val rdd = sc.parallelize(data, numPartitions)
-      for (windowSize <- 1 to 6) {
-        val slided = rdd.sliding(windowSize).collect().map(_.toList).toList
-        val expected = data.sliding(windowSize).map(_.toList).toList
-        assert(slided === expected)
-      }
-      assert(rdd.sliding(7).collect().isEmpty,
-        "Should return an empty RDD if the window size is greater than the number of items.")
-    }
-  }
 }
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctions.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctions.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..873de871fd884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctions.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
+
+import scala.reflect.ClassTag
+
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+
+/**
+ * Machine learning specific RDD functions.
+ */
+private[mllib]
+class RDDFunctions[T: ClassTag](self: RDD[T]) {
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a RDD from grouping items of its parent RDD in fixed size blocks by passing a sliding
+   * window over them. The ordering is first based on the partition index and then the ordering of
+   * items within each partition. This is similar to sliding in Scala collections, except that it
+   * becomes an empty RDD if the window size is greater than the total number of items. It needs to
+   * trigger a Spark job if the parent RDD has more than one partitions and the window size is
+   * greater than 1.
+   */
+  def sliding(windowSize: Int): RDD[Seq[T]] = {
+    require(windowSize > 0, s"Sliding window size must be positive, but got $windowSize.")
+    if (windowSize == 1) {
+      self.map(Seq(_))
+    } else {
+      new SlidingRDD[T](self, windowSize)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+private[mllib]
+object RDDFunctions {
+
+  /** Implicit conversion from an RDD to RDDFunctions. */
+  implicit def fromRDD[T: ClassTag](rdd: RDD[T]) = new RDDFunctions[T](rdd)
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala
similarity index 92%
rename from core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala
rename to mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala
index df87bc5459699..dd80782c0f001 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/SlidingRDD.scala
@@ -15,14 +15,15 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-package org.apache.spark.rdd
+package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
 
 import scala.collection.mutable
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
 import org.apache.spark.{TaskContext, Partition}
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 
-private[spark]
+private[mllib]
 class SlidingRDDPartition[T](val idx: Int, val prev: Partition, val tail: Seq[T])
   extends Partition with Serializable {
   override val index: Int = idx
@@ -33,14 +34,16 @@ class SlidingRDDPartition[T](val idx: Int, val prev: Partition, val tail: Seq[T]
  * window over them. The ordering is first based on the partition index and then the ordering of
  * items within each partition. This is similar to sliding in Scala collections, except that it
  * becomes an empty RDD if the window size is greater than the total number of items. It needs to
- * trigger a Spark job if the parent RDD has more than one partitions.
+ * trigger a Spark job if the parent RDD has more than one partitions. To make this operation
+ * efficient, the number of items per partition should be larger than the window size and the
+ * window size should be small, e.g., 2.
  *
  * @param parent the parent RDD
  * @param windowSize the window size, must be greater than 1
  *
- * @see [[org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD#sliding]]
+ * @see [[org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions#sliding]]
  */
-private[spark]
+private[mllib]
 class SlidingRDD[T: ClassTag](@transient val parent: RDD[T], val windowSize: Int)
   extends RDD[Seq[T]](parent) {
 
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctionsSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctionsSuite.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a3245d731a15b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/RDDFunctionsSuite.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
+
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.LocalSparkContext
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd.RDDFunctions._
+
+class RDDFunctionsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
+
+  test("sliding") {
+    val data = 0 until 6
+    for (numPartitions <- 1 to 8) {
+      val rdd = sc.parallelize(data, numPartitions)
+      for (windowSize <- 1 to 6) {
+        val slided = rdd.sliding(windowSize).collect().map(_.toList).toList
+        val expected = data.sliding(windowSize).map(_.toList).toList
+        assert(slided === expected)
+      }
+      assert(rdd.sliding(7).collect().isEmpty,
+        "Should return an empty RDD if the window size is greater than the number of items.")
+    }
+  }
+}