Problem with Classify Documentation Center page

Question

Bug introduced in 10.0 and fixed in 10.2

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Every time I try to open the "Neat Examples" tab on the documentation center page for the function Classify Mma gets stuck showing "Progress Dialog". The problem persists after disabling dynamic evaluation.

Can someone confirm this problem?

OS: Linux
Mma ver: 10.0.1

Answer 1

I confirm (Windows 7 x64, MMa 10.0.1). After opening the "Neat Examples" tab in the Documentation Center page for Classify MathKernel.exe loads HUGE amount of data from pacletserver2.wolfram.com. After 2 hours of waiting with hanging Mathematica FrontEnd I found in the

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Mathematica\Paclets\Temporary

directory more than 600 files with names ranging from "Classifier_Language-1.0.09441.paclet" to "Classifier_Language-1.0.09441000.paclet" most of which have file size about 4.42 Mb. The overall size of the directory is now 2.48 Gb and keeps growing. The FrontEnd still does not respond.

UPDATE

I have found that all the files grow only up to the size of 4643101 bytes and are exactly identical on this final stage (I have checked this with Windows' fc /B command-line tool)! Up to the moment I have already about 800 files and it looks like the process will not stop until all the 1000 identical files (names range from "Classifier_Language-1.0.09441.paclet" to "Classifier_Language-1.0.09441000.paclet") will be loaded from pacletserver2.wolfram.com. It is clearly a bug.

UPDATE 2

After several hours of the above-described "work" Mathematica has crashed. The files in the folder are still here and were not deleted after restarting Mathematica. Their overall size is 3.44 Gb.

Answer 2

The problem lies with the very first demo under "Neat Examples":

DynamicModule[{text = ""}, 
 Column[{InputField[Dynamic[text], String, ContinuousAction -> True, 
    FieldHint -> "Enter a string"], 
   Dynamic[Classify["Language", text, "TopProbabilities"]]}]]

I can reproduce the bug exactly when I evaluate this in v10.0.1 on OSX 10.9.5 (sorry, would have just added this as a comment but am very new here and can't comment yet). I've sent a bug report to Wolfram.

Update. I've heard back from Wolfram. As a temporary fix to avoid triggering the bug, the example can be evaluated properly by adding Classify["Language", "”] before evaluating the DynamicModule:

Classify["Language", ""];
DynamicModule[{text = "" }, 
Column[{InputField[Dynamic[text], String, ContinuousAction -> True, 
 FieldHint -> "Enter a string"],
Dynamic[Classify["Language", text, "TopProbabilities"]]}]]

The remaining "Neat Examples" demos in the Classify docs work without issue.

Answer 3

Observation in Mathematica 10.1:

The problem persists (in a way):

That bug persists in 10.1: Just try to evaluate the former "Neat Examples"-snippet (which is no longer in the documentation):

DynamicModule[{text = ""}, Column[{InputField[Dynamic[text], String,
  ContinuousAction -> True, FieldHint -> "Enter a string"],
  Dynamic[Classify["Language", text, "TopProbabilities"]]}]]

and find Mathematica downloading a file Classifier_Language-1.0.15184191.paclet into \AppData\Roaming\Mathematica\Paclets\Temporary\ on and on and on again, overwriting the previous copy.

Meanwhile, the frontend is absolutely non-responsive, so you eventually will have to kill Mathematica.