class DeepCNNFeature extends Transformer ... {
override def transform(data: DataFrame, paramMap: ParamMap): DataFrame
= {
// How can I do a map partition on the underlying RDD and
then add the column ?
}
}
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Jaonary Rabarisoa <jaon...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Thank your for the tips. I understand what should I do when my data are
> represented as a RDD. The thing that I can't figure out is how to do the
> same thing when the data is view as a DataFrame and I need to add the
> result of my pretrained model as a new column in the DataFrame. Preciselly,
> I want to implement the following transformer :
>
> class DeepCNNFeature extends Transformer ... {
>
> }
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Joseph Bradley <jos...@databricks.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jao,
>>
>> You can use external tools and libraries if they can be called from your
>> Spark program or script (with appropriate conversion of data types, etc.).
>> The best way to apply a pre-trained model to a dataset would be to call the
>> model from within a closure, e.g.:
>>
>> myRDD.map { myDatum => preTrainedModel.predict(myDatum) }
>>
>> If your data is distributed in an RDD (myRDD), then the above call will
>> distribute the computation of prediction using the pre-trained model. It
>> will require that all of your Spark workers be able to run the
>> preTrainedModel; that may mean installing Caffe and dependencies on all
>> nodes in the compute cluster.
>>
>> For the second question, I would modify the above call as follows:
>>
>> myRDD.mapPartitions { myDataOnPartition =>
>> val myModel = // instantiate neural network on this partition
>> myDataOnPartition.map { myDatum => myModel.predict(myDatum) }
>> }
>>
>> I hope this helps!
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Jaonary Rabarisoa <jaon...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>> We mainly do large scale computer vision task (image classification,
>>> retrieval, ...). The pipeline is really great stuff for that. We're trying
>>> to reproduce the tutorial given on that topic during the latest spark
>>> summit (
>>> http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/5/exercises/image-classification-with-pipelines.html
>>> )
>>> using the master version of spark pipeline and dataframe. The tutorial
>>> shows different examples of feature extraction stages before running
>>> machine learning algorithms. Even the tutorial is straightforward to
>>> reproduce with this new API, we still have some questions :
>>>
>>> - Can one use external tools (e.g via pipe) as a pipeline stage ? An
>>> example of use case is to extract feature learned with convolutional
>>> neural
>>> network. In our case, this corresponds to a pre-trained neural network
>>> with
>>> Caffe library (http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/) .
>>>
>>>
>>> - The second question is about the performance of the pipeline.
>>> Library such as Caffe processes the data in batch and instancing one
>>> Caffe
>>> network can be time consuming when this network is very deep. So, we can
>>> gain performance if we minimize the number of Caffe network creation and
>>> give data in batch to the network. In the pipeline, this corresponds to
>>> run
>>> transformers that work on a partition basis and give the whole partition
>>> to
>>> a single caffe network. How can we create such a transformer ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jao
>>>
>>
>>
>
