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Xiangrui Meng commented on DATAFU-21:
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This could be done by pre-computing the sum of weights and the sum of weight 
squares. Then use the same inequalities (Maurer's and Bernstein's) to determine 
the two thresholds. I believe generalizing to the streaming case should be very 
similar. It would be good to have a more scalable weighted sampling algorithm.

> Probability weighted sampling without reservoir
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>
>                 Key: DATAFU-21
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DATAFU-21
>             Project: DataFu
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>         Environment: Mac OS, Linux
>            Reporter: jian wang
>
> This issue is used to track investigation on finding a weighted sampler 
> without using internal reservoir. 
> At present, the SimpleRandomSample has implemented a good 
> acceptance-rejection sampling algo on probability random sampling. The 
> weighted sampler could utilize the simple random sample with slight 
> modification.
> One slight modification is:  the present simple random sample generates a 
> uniform random number lies between (0, 1) as the random variable to accept or 
> reject an item. The weighted sample may generate this random variable based 
> on the item's weight and this random number still lies between (0, 1) and 
> each item's random variable remain independent between each other.
> Need further think and experiment the correctness of this solution and how to 
> implement it in an effective way.



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