johnedmonds commented on a change in pull request #13889:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/13889#discussion_r573107236



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File path: sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/quantiles.go
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+// 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 stats
+
+// Approximate quantiles is implemented based on 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00236.pdf.
+
+import (
+       "bytes"
+       "container/heap"
+       "context"
+       "encoding/gob"
+       "encoding/json"
+       "hash/crc32"
+       "io"
+       "math"
+       "reflect"
+       "sort"
+
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx"
+)
+
+func init() {
+       compactorsType := reflect.TypeOf((**compactors)(nil)).Elem()
+       weightedElementType := reflect.TypeOf((*weightedElement)(nil)).Elem()
+       beam.RegisterType(compactorsType)
+       beam.RegisterType(weightedElementType)
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesInputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesOutputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*shardElementsFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterCoder(compactorsType, encodeCompactors, decodeCompactors)
+       beam.RegisterCoder(weightedElementType, encodeWeightedElement, 
decodeWeightedElement)
+}
+
+// Opts contains settings used to configure how approximate quantiles are 
computed.
+type Opts struct {
+       // Controls the memory used and approximation error (difference between 
the quantile returned and the true quantile.)
+       K int
+       // Number of quantiles to return. The algorithm will return 
NumQuantiles - 1 numbers
+       NumQuantiles int
+       // For extremely large datasets, the Go SDK has some problems holding 
on to data and might OOM.
+       // If ApproximateQuantiles is running out of memory, you can use this 
option to tune how the data is sharded internally.
+       // This parameter is optional. If unspecified, Beam will compact all 
elements into a single compactor at once.
+       InternalSharding []int
+}
+
+// The paper suggests reducing the size of the lower-level compactors as we 
grow.
+// We reduce the capacity at this rate.
+// The paper suggests 1/sqrt(2) is ideal. That's approximately 0.7.
+const capacityCoefficient float64 = 0.7
+
+type sortListHeap struct {
+       data [][]beam.T
+       less reflectx.Func2x1
+}
+
+func (s sortListHeap) Len() int            { return len(s.data) }
+func (s sortListHeap) Less(i, j int) bool  { return 
s.less.Call2x1(s.data[i][0], s.data[j][0]).(bool) }
+func (s sortListHeap) Swap(i, j int)       { s.data[i], s.data[j] = s.data[j], 
s.data[i] }
+func (s *sortListHeap) Push(x interface{}) { s.data = append(s.data, 
x.([]beam.T)) }
+func (s *sortListHeap) Pop() interface{} {
+       var x beam.T
+       x, s.data = s.data[len(s.data)-1], s.data[:len(s.data)-1]
+       return x
+}
+
+// compactor contains elements to be compacted.
+type compactor struct {
+       // Compaction needs to sort elements before compacting. Thus in 
practice, we should often have some pre-sorted data.
+       // We want to keep it separate so we can sort only the unsorted data 
and merge the two sorted lists together.
+       // If we're only receiving elements of weight 1, only level 0 will ever 
contain unsorted data and the rest of the levels will always remain sorted.
+       // To prevent repeated allocation/copying, we keep multiple sorted 
lists and then merge them together
+       sorted   [][]beam.T
+       unsorted []beam.T
+       // How many items should be stored in this compactor before it should 
get compacted.
+       // Note that this is not a hard limit.
+       // The paper suggests implementing lazy compaction which would allow
+       // compactors to temporarily exceed their capacity as long as the total
+       // elements in all compactors doesn't exceed the total capacity in all
+       // compactors. In other words, compactors can temporarily borrow 
capacity
+       // from each other.
+       // In the paper, this is referred to as the variable k_h.
+       capacity int
+}
+
+type compactorAsGob struct {
+       Sorted            [][]byte
+       Unsorted          []byte
+       EncodedTypeAsJSON []byte
+}
+
+func encodeElements(enc beam.ElementEncoder, elements []beam.T) ([]byte, 
error) {
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       for _, e := range elements {
+               if err := enc.Encode(e, &buf); err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+       }
+       return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func (c *compactor) getElementType() reflect.Type {
+       for _, e := range c.sorted {
+               for _, e2 := range e {
+                       return reflect.TypeOf(e2)
+               }
+       }
+       for _, e := range c.unsorted {
+               return reflect.TypeOf(e)
+       }
+       return nil
+}
+
+func (c *compactor) MarshalBinary() ([]byte, error) {
+       t := c.getElementType()
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       if t == nil {
+               enc := gob.NewEncoder(&buf)
+               if err := enc.Encode(compactorAsGob{}); err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+               return buf.Bytes(), nil
+       }
+       enc := beam.NewElementEncoder(t)
+       encodedSorted := make([][]byte, 0, len(c.sorted))
+       for _, sorted := range c.sorted {
+               encoded, err := encodeElements(enc, sorted)
+               if err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+               encodedSorted = append(encodedSorted, encoded)
+       }
+       encodedUnsorted, err := encodeElements(enc, c.unsorted)
+       if err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       tAsJSON, err := beam.EncodedType{T: t}.MarshalJSON()
+       if err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       gobEnc := gob.NewEncoder(&buf)
+       if err = gobEnc.Encode(compactorAsGob{
+               Sorted:            encodedSorted,
+               Unsorted:          encodedUnsorted,
+               EncodedTypeAsJSON: tAsJSON,
+       }); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func decodeElements(dec beam.ElementDecoder, data []byte) ([]beam.T, error) {
+       buf := bytes.NewBuffer(data)
+       ret := []beam.T{}

Review comment:
       Good point. I've added the size as part of the Gob encoding. 

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File path: sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/quantiles.go
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+// 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 stats
+
+// Approximate quantiles is implemented based on 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00236.pdf.
+
+import (
+       "bytes"
+       "container/heap"
+       "context"
+       "encoding/gob"
+       "encoding/json"
+       "hash/crc32"
+       "io"
+       "math"
+       "reflect"
+       "sort"
+
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx"
+)
+
+func init() {
+       compactorsType := reflect.TypeOf((**compactors)(nil)).Elem()
+       weightedElementType := reflect.TypeOf((*weightedElement)(nil)).Elem()
+       beam.RegisterType(compactorsType)
+       beam.RegisterType(weightedElementType)
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesInputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesOutputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*shardElementsFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterCoder(compactorsType, encodeCompactors, decodeCompactors)
+       beam.RegisterCoder(weightedElementType, encodeWeightedElement, 
decodeWeightedElement)
+}
+
+// Opts contains settings used to configure how approximate quantiles are 
computed.
+type Opts struct {
+       // Controls the memory used and approximation error (difference between 
the quantile returned and the true quantile.)
+       K int
+       // Number of quantiles to return. The algorithm will return 
NumQuantiles - 1 numbers
+       NumQuantiles int
+       // For extremely large datasets, the Go SDK has some problems holding 
on to data and might OOM.

Review comment:
       Thanks for the explanation. I've learned a lot!
   
   FYI, my use case was attempting to shard leveldb keys. My elements are 
approximately 1kb-1mb byte strings. I suspect that on smaller machines (e.g. 
something like n1-standard-1) we run into memory problems. 
([FixedReStream](https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/6edc3338667957548216fb9db892bc6c8bcf55b2/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/runtime/exec/fullvalue.go#L62)
 has caught my suspicion but I haven't fully confirmed it.) On larger machines 
(e.g. something like n1-highmem-2) we run into speed problems. I've noticed 
that for large datasets, the work gets canceled on one machine and started on 
another after maybe 10-20 minutes. As far as I can tell, giving the option to 
manually shard seems to solve both memory and speed/timeout problems.
   
   I've tried to rewrite this comment to be more vague about the exact cause 
and focus more on the symptoms. Hopefully that will make it easier for people 
running into memory or speed issues to understand how to use this option.

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File path: sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/quantiles_test.go
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+// 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 stats
+
+import (
+       "reflect"
+       "testing"
+
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/passert"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/ptest"
+)
+
+func init() {
+       beam.RegisterFunction(weightedElementToKv)
+
+       // In practice, this runs faster than plain reflection.

Review comment:
       Does that mean I could remove `intLess` (the struct) and the reflection 
optimizations should "just work" because starcgen already runs on the stats 
package?

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File path: sdks/go/pkg/beam/transforms/stats/quantiles.go
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+// 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 stats
+
+// Approximate quantiles is implemented based on 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00236.pdf.
+
+import (
+       "bytes"
+       "container/heap"
+       "context"
+       "encoding/gob"
+       "encoding/json"
+       "hash/crc32"
+       "io"
+       "math"
+       "reflect"
+       "sort"
+
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam"
+       "github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/core/util/reflectx"
+)
+
+func init() {
+       compactorsType := reflect.TypeOf((**compactors)(nil)).Elem()
+       weightedElementType := reflect.TypeOf((*weightedElement)(nil)).Elem()
+       beam.RegisterType(compactorsType)
+       beam.RegisterType(weightedElementType)
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesInputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       
beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*approximateQuantilesOutputFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterType(reflect.TypeOf((*shardElementsFn)(nil)).Elem())
+       beam.RegisterCoder(compactorsType, encodeCompactors, decodeCompactors)
+       beam.RegisterCoder(weightedElementType, encodeWeightedElement, 
decodeWeightedElement)
+}
+
+// Opts contains settings used to configure how approximate quantiles are 
computed.
+type Opts struct {
+       // Controls the memory used and approximation error (difference between 
the quantile returned and the true quantile.)
+       K int
+       // Number of quantiles to return. The algorithm will return 
NumQuantiles - 1 numbers
+       NumQuantiles int
+       // For extremely large datasets, the Go SDK has some problems holding 
on to data and might OOM.
+       // If ApproximateQuantiles is running out of memory, you can use this 
option to tune how the data is sharded internally.
+       // This parameter is optional. If unspecified, Beam will compact all 
elements into a single compactor at once.
+       InternalSharding []int
+}
+
+// The paper suggests reducing the size of the lower-level compactors as we 
grow.
+// We reduce the capacity at this rate.
+// The paper suggests 1/sqrt(2) is ideal. That's approximately 0.7.
+const capacityCoefficient float64 = 0.7
+
+type sortListHeap struct {
+       data [][]beam.T
+       less reflectx.Func2x1
+}
+
+func (s sortListHeap) Len() int            { return len(s.data) }
+func (s sortListHeap) Less(i, j int) bool  { return 
s.less.Call2x1(s.data[i][0], s.data[j][0]).(bool) }
+func (s sortListHeap) Swap(i, j int)       { s.data[i], s.data[j] = s.data[j], 
s.data[i] }
+func (s *sortListHeap) Push(x interface{}) { s.data = append(s.data, 
x.([]beam.T)) }
+func (s *sortListHeap) Pop() interface{} {
+       var x beam.T
+       x, s.data = s.data[len(s.data)-1], s.data[:len(s.data)-1]
+       return x
+}
+
+// compactor contains elements to be compacted.
+type compactor struct {
+       // Compaction needs to sort elements before compacting. Thus in 
practice, we should often have some pre-sorted data.
+       // We want to keep it separate so we can sort only the unsorted data 
and merge the two sorted lists together.
+       // If we're only receiving elements of weight 1, only level 0 will ever 
contain unsorted data and the rest of the levels will always remain sorted.
+       // To prevent repeated allocation/copying, we keep multiple sorted 
lists and then merge them together
+       sorted   [][]beam.T
+       unsorted []beam.T
+       // How many items should be stored in this compactor before it should 
get compacted.
+       // Note that this is not a hard limit.
+       // The paper suggests implementing lazy compaction which would allow
+       // compactors to temporarily exceed their capacity as long as the total
+       // elements in all compactors doesn't exceed the total capacity in all
+       // compactors. In other words, compactors can temporarily borrow 
capacity
+       // from each other.
+       // In the paper, this is referred to as the variable k_h.
+       capacity int
+}
+
+type compactorAsGob struct {
+       Sorted            [][]byte
+       Unsorted          []byte
+       EncodedTypeAsJSON []byte
+}
+
+func encodeElements(enc beam.ElementEncoder, elements []beam.T) ([]byte, 
error) {
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       for _, e := range elements {
+               if err := enc.Encode(e, &buf); err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+       }
+       return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func (c *compactor) getElementType() reflect.Type {
+       for _, e := range c.sorted {
+               for _, e2 := range e {
+                       return reflect.TypeOf(e2)
+               }
+       }
+       for _, e := range c.unsorted {
+               return reflect.TypeOf(e)
+       }
+       return nil
+}
+
+func (c *compactor) MarshalBinary() ([]byte, error) {
+       t := c.getElementType()
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       if t == nil {
+               enc := gob.NewEncoder(&buf)
+               if err := enc.Encode(compactorAsGob{}); err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+               return buf.Bytes(), nil
+       }
+       enc := beam.NewElementEncoder(t)
+       encodedSorted := make([][]byte, 0, len(c.sorted))
+       for _, sorted := range c.sorted {
+               encoded, err := encodeElements(enc, sorted)
+               if err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+               encodedSorted = append(encodedSorted, encoded)
+       }
+       encodedUnsorted, err := encodeElements(enc, c.unsorted)
+       if err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       tAsJSON, err := beam.EncodedType{T: t}.MarshalJSON()
+       if err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       gobEnc := gob.NewEncoder(&buf)
+       if err = gobEnc.Encode(compactorAsGob{
+               Sorted:            encodedSorted,
+               Unsorted:          encodedUnsorted,
+               EncodedTypeAsJSON: tAsJSON,
+       }); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func decodeElements(dec beam.ElementDecoder, data []byte) ([]beam.T, error) {
+       buf := bytes.NewBuffer(data)
+       ret := []beam.T{}
+       for {
+               element, err := dec.Decode(buf)
+               if err == io.EOF {
+                       return ret, nil
+               } else if err != nil {
+                       return nil, err
+               }
+               ret = append(ret, element)
+       }
+}
+
+func (c *compactor) UnmarshalBinary(data []byte) error {
+       var g compactorAsGob
+       var err error
+       gobDec := gob.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBuffer(data))
+       if err = gobDec.Decode(&g); err != nil {
+               return err
+       }
+       if len(g.EncodedTypeAsJSON) == 0 {
+               return nil
+       }
+       var t beam.EncodedType
+       if err = json.Unmarshal(g.EncodedTypeAsJSON, &t); err != nil {
+               return err
+       }
+       dec := beam.NewElementDecoder(t.T)
+       decodedSorted := make([][]beam.T, 0, len(g.Sorted))
+       for _, sorted := range g.Sorted {
+               decoded, err := decodeElements(dec, sorted)
+               if err != nil {
+                       return err
+               }
+               decodedSorted = append(decodedSorted, decoded)
+       }
+       c.sorted = decodedSorted
+       if c.unsorted, err = decodeElements(dec, g.Unsorted); err != nil {
+               return err
+       }
+       return nil
+}
+
+// update inserts an element into the compactor.
+func (c *compactor) update(element beam.T) {
+       c.unsorted = append(c.unsorted, element)
+}
+
+// size returns the number of elements stored in this compactor.
+func (c *compactor) size() int {
+       size := 0
+       for _, s := range c.sorted {
+               size += len(s)
+       }
+       return len(c.unsorted) + size
+}
+
+type sorter struct {
+       less reflectx.Func2x1
+       data []beam.T
+}
+
+func (s sorter) Len() int           { return len(s.data) }
+func (s sorter) Less(i, j int) bool { return s.less.Call2x1(s.data[i], 
s.data[j]).(bool) }
+func (s sorter) Swap(i, j int)      { s.data[i], s.data[j] = s.data[j], 
s.data[i] }
+
+// sort sorts the compactor and returns all the elements in sorted order.
+func (c *compactor) sort(less reflectx.Func2x1) []beam.T {
+       sort.Sort(sorter{data: c.unsorted, less: less})
+       h := sortListHeap{data: c.sorted, less: less}
+       heap.Init(&h)
+       sorted := make([]beam.T, 0, c.size()-len(c.unsorted))
+       for h.Len() > 0 {
+               s := heap.Pop(&h).([]beam.T)
+               sorted = append(sorted, s[0])
+               if len(s) > 1 {
+                       heap.Push(&h, s[1:])
+               }
+       }
+       c.sorted = [][]beam.T{mergeSorted(sorted, c.unsorted, func(a, b 
interface{}) bool { return less.Call2x1(a, b).(bool) })}
+       c.unsorted = nil
+       if len(c.sorted[0]) == 0 {
+               c.sorted = nil
+               return nil
+       }
+       return c.sorted[0]
+}
+
+// Compactors holds the state of the quantile approximation compactors.
+type compactors struct {
+       // References "K" from the paper which influences the amount of memory 
used.
+       K int
+       // When compacting, we want to alternate between taking elements at 
even vs odd indices.
+       // The paper suggests using a random variable but we'd prefer to stay 
deterministic.
+       // Especially when merging two compactors we want to keep track of how 
often we've selected odds vs evens.
+       NumberOfCompactions int
+
+       // Each compactor takes a sample of elements.
+       // The "height" (also known as the index in this slice) of the 
compactor determines the weight of its elements.
+       // The weight of a compactor of height h is 2^h.
+       // For example, for h = 3 (which would be compactors[3]), the weight is 
2^3 = 8. That means each element in that compactor represents 8 instances of 
itself.
+       Compactors []compactor
+}
+
+func (c *compactors) totalCapacity() int {
+       totalCapacity := 0
+       for _, compactor := range c.Compactors {
+               totalCapacity += compactor.capacity
+       }
+       return totalCapacity
+}
+
+func (c *compactors) size() int {
+       size := 0
+       for _, compactor := range c.Compactors {
+               size += compactor.size()
+       }
+       return size
+}
+
+// capacity computes the capacity of a compactor at a certain level.
+// The paper suggests decreasing the capacity of lower-leveled compactors as 
we add more elements.
+func (c *compactors) capacity(compactorLevel int) int {
+       return int(math.Ceil(math.Pow(capacityCoefficient, 
float64(len(c.Compactors)-compactorLevel-1))*float64(c.K))) + 1
+}
+
+// compact compacts all compactors until the total size is less than the 
maximum capacity of all compactors.
+func (c *compactors) compact(less reflectx.Func2x1) {
+       for c.size() > c.totalCapacity() {
+               for level, compactor := range c.Compactors {
+                       if compactor.size() > compactor.capacity {
+                               c.compactLevel(level, less)
+                               // Merging compactors can cause us to exceed 
max capacity in multiple compactors.
+                               if c.size() < c.totalCapacity() {
+                                       // Do lazy compaction as described in 
the paper.
+                                       break
+                               }
+                       }
+               }
+       }
+}
+
+// update inserts the given element into the compactors. If this element 
causes the compactors to grow too large, we perform the compaction here.
+func (c *compactors) update(element beam.T, weight int, less reflectx.Func2x1) 
{
+       level := int(math.Log2(float64(weight)))
+       c.growToIncludeLevel(level)
+       c.Compactors[level].update(element)
+       // From the paper, we're using the "Splitting the Input" approach.
+       remainingWeight := weight - (1 << uint(level))
+       // Only attempt compaction if we're doing the last update. Otherwise 
we'd be compacting too often.
+       if remainingWeight <= 0 {
+               c.compact(less)
+       } else {
+               c.update(element, remainingWeight, less)
+       }
+}
+
+// growToIncludeLevel ensures we have compactors available at the given level.
+func (c *compactors) growToIncludeLevel(level int) {
+       if len(c.Compactors)-1 >= level {
+               return
+       }
+       for i := len(c.Compactors) - 1; i < level; i++ {
+               c.Compactors = append(c.Compactors, compactor{})
+       }
+       for level := range c.Compactors {
+               c.Compactors[level].capacity = c.capacity(level)
+       }
+}
+
+// compact compacts elements in compactors.
+func (c *compactors) compactLevel(level int, less reflectx.Func2x1) {
+       c.growToIncludeLevel(level + 1)
+       jitterIndex := 0
+       // Create a temporary buffer to hold the compacted elements.
+       // Buffering the elements like this makes it easier to call mergeSorted.
+       compacted := make([]beam.T, 0, c.Compactors[level].size()/2)
+       selectEvens := c.NumberOfCompactions%2 == 0
+       c.NumberOfCompactions++
+       for _, element := range c.Compactors[level].sort(less) {
+               if (jitterIndex%2 == 0) == selectEvens {
+                       compacted = append(compacted, element)
+               }
+               jitterIndex++
+       }
+       if len(compacted) > 0 {
+               c.Compactors[level+1].sorted = 
append(c.Compactors[level+1].sorted, compacted)
+       }
+       // Clear out the compactor at this level since we've finished 
compacting it. The compacted elements have already been moved to the next 
compactor.
+       c.Compactors[level].sorted = nil
+       c.Compactors[level].unsorted = nil
+}
+
+func encodeCompactors(c *compactors) ([]byte, error) {
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       enc := gob.NewEncoder(&buf)
+       if err := enc.Encode(c); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func decodeCompactors(data []byte) (*compactors, error) {
+       var compactors compactors
+       dec := gob.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBuffer(data))
+       if err := dec.Decode(&compactors); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       for level := range compactors.Compactors {
+               compactors.Compactors[level].capacity = 
compactors.capacity(level)
+       }
+       return &compactors, nil
+}
+
+// mergeSorted takes two slices which are already sorted and returns a new 
slice containing all elements sorted together.
+func mergeSorted(a, b []beam.T, less func(interface{}, interface{}) bool) 
[]beam.T {
+       output := make([]beam.T, 0, len(a)+len(b))
+       for len(a) > 0 && len(b) > 0 {
+               if less(a[0], b[0]) {
+                       output = append(output, a[0])
+                       a = a[1:]
+               } else {
+                       output = append(output, b[0])
+                       b = b[1:]
+               }
+       }
+       if len(a) > 0 {
+               output = append(output, a...)
+       } else {
+               output = append(output, b...)
+       }
+       return output
+}
+
+// mergeSortedWeighted takes two slices which are already sorted and returns a 
new slice containing all elements sorted together.
+func mergeSortedWeighted(a, b []weightedElement, less func(interface{}, 
interface{}) bool) []weightedElement {
+       output := make([]weightedElement, 0, len(a)+len(b))
+       for len(a) > 0 && len(b) > 0 {
+               if less(a[0], b[0]) {
+                       output = append(output, a[0])
+                       a = a[1:]
+               } else {
+                       output = append(output, b[0])
+                       b = b[1:]
+               }
+       }
+       if len(a) > 0 {
+               output = append(output, a...)
+       } else {
+               output = append(output, b...)
+       }
+       return output
+}
+
+// merge joins two compactors together.
+func (c *compactors) merge(other *compactors, less reflectx.Func2x1) {
+       for level := range c.Compactors {
+               if len(other.Compactors)-1 < level {
+                       break
+               }
+               c.Compactors[level].unsorted = 
append(c.Compactors[level].unsorted, other.Compactors[level].unsorted...)
+               c.Compactors[level].sorted = append(c.Compactors[level].sorted, 
other.Compactors[level].sorted...)
+       }
+       if len(other.Compactors) > len(c.Compactors) {
+               c.Compactors = append(c.Compactors, 
other.Compactors[len(c.Compactors):]...)
+       }
+       c.NumberOfCompactions += other.NumberOfCompactions
+       c.compact(less)
+}
+
+// approximateQuantilesCombineFnState contains the payload for the combiners.
+// Ideally this would be a single combine function but in certain cases, 
runners attempts to do all the merges on a single machine.
+// Unfortunately the merges can be slow for extremely large datasets and large 
values of K. If the merge takes too long, it will get canceled and the job will 
never complete.
+// Thus we split up the combiners into multiple functions to force the runner 
to do the work in parallel.
+// This state can be shared across all of the split-up functions.
+type approximateQuantilesCombineFnState struct {
+       // The size of the compactors.
+       // The memory consumed, and the error are controlled by this parameter.
+       K int `json:"k"`
+       // Used to compare elements.
+       LessFunc beam.EncodedFunc
+       // Internally cached instance.
+       less         reflectx.Func2x1
+       NumQuantiles int `json:"numQuantiles"`
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesCombineFnState) setup() error {
+       f.less = reflectx.ToFunc2x1(f.LessFunc.Fn)
+       return nil
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesCombineFnState) createAccumulator() *compactors {
+       return &compactors{
+               K:          f.K,
+               Compactors: []compactor{{capacity: f.K}},
+       }
+}
+
+// approximateQuantilesOutputFn extracts the final output containing the 
quantiles.
+type approximateQuantilesOutputFn struct {
+       State approximateQuantilesCombineFnState `json:"state"`
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesOutputFn) Setup() error {
+       return f.State.setup()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesOutputFn) CreateAccumulator() *compactors {
+       return f.State.createAccumulator()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesOutputFn) AddInput(compactors *compactors, 
element *compactors) *compactors {
+       compactors.merge(element, f.State.less)
+       return compactors
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesOutputFn) MergeAccumulators(ctx context.Context, 
a, b *compactors) *compactors {
+       a.merge(b, f.State.less)
+       return a
+}
+
+type weightedElementAsGob struct {
+       EncodedTypeAsJSON []byte
+       Weight            int
+       Element           []byte
+}
+
+func encodeWeightedElement(element weightedElement) ([]byte, error) {
+       t := reflect.TypeOf(element.element)
+       enc := beam.NewElementEncoder(t)
+       var buf bytes.Buffer
+       if err := enc.Encode(element.element, &buf); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       tAsJSON, err := beam.EncodedType{T: t}.MarshalJSON()
+       if err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       var gobBuf bytes.Buffer
+       if err := gob.NewEncoder(&gobBuf).Encode(weightedElementAsGob{
+               EncodedTypeAsJSON: tAsJSON,
+               Weight:            element.weight,
+               Element:           buf.Bytes(),
+       }); err != nil {
+               return nil, err
+       }
+       return gobBuf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+func decodeWeightedElement(data []byte) (weightedElement, error) {
+       var g weightedElementAsGob
+       dec := gob.NewDecoder(bytes.NewBuffer(data))
+       if err := dec.Decode(&g); err != nil {
+               return weightedElement{}, err
+       }
+       var t beam.EncodedType
+       if err := t.UnmarshalJSON(g.EncodedTypeAsJSON); err != nil {
+               return weightedElement{}, err
+       }
+       element, err := 
beam.NewElementDecoder(t.T).Decode(bytes.NewBuffer(g.Element))
+       if err != nil {
+               return weightedElement{}, err
+       }
+       return weightedElement{
+               weight:  g.Weight,
+               element: element,
+       }, nil
+}
+
+type weightedElement struct {
+       weight  int
+       element beam.T
+}
+
+func toWeightedSlice(compactor compactor, less reflectx.Func2x1, weight int) 
[]weightedElement {
+       sorted := compactor.sort(less)
+       weightedElements := make([]weightedElement, 0, len(sorted))
+       for _, element := range sorted {
+               weightedElements = append(weightedElements, 
weightedElement{weight: weight, element: element})
+       }
+       return weightedElements
+}
+func (f *approximateQuantilesOutputFn) ExtractOutput(ctx context.Context, 
compactors *compactors) []beam.T {
+       sorted := toWeightedSlice(compactors.Compactors[0], f.State.less, 1)
+       for level, compactor := range compactors.Compactors[1:] {
+               sorted = mergeSortedWeighted(sorted, toWeightedSlice(compactor, 
f.State.less, 1<<uint(level)), func(a, b interface{}) bool {
+                       return 
f.State.less.Call2x1(a.(weightedElement).element, 
b.(weightedElement).element).(bool)
+               })
+       }
+       totalElements := 0
+       for _, element := range sorted {
+               totalElements += element.weight
+       }
+       ret := make([]beam.T, 0, f.State.NumQuantiles)
+       // Rank represents the estimate of how many elements we've seen as we 
iterate through the sorted list of elements stored in the compactors.
+       // Recall that each element stored in a compactor is also assigned a 
weight indicating how many elements from the input it represents.
+       rank := float64(0)
+       // Represents the quantile we're currently searching for.
+       currentQuantile := float64(1)
+       for _, element := range sorted {
+               rank += float64(element.weight)
+               if rank/float64(totalElements) >= 
currentQuantile/float64(f.State.NumQuantiles) {
+                       ret = append(ret, element.element)
+                       currentQuantile++
+               }
+               if currentQuantile >= float64(f.State.NumQuantiles) {
+                       break
+               }
+       }
+       return ret
+}
+
+// approximateQuantilesInputFn combines elements into compactors, but not 
necessarily the final compactor.
+type approximateQuantilesInputFn approximateQuantilesOutputFn
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesInputFn) Setup() error {
+       return f.State.setup()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesInputFn) CreateAccumulator() *compactors {
+       return f.State.createAccumulator()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesInputFn) AddInput(compactors *compactors, element 
weightedElement) *compactors {
+       compactors.update(element.element, element.weight, f.State.less)
+       return compactors
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesInputFn) MergeAccumulators(ctx context.Context, 
a, b *compactors) *compactors {
+       a.merge(b, f.State.less)
+       return a
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesInputFn) ExtractOutput(ctx context.Context, 
compactors *compactors) *compactors {
+       for i := range compactors.Compactors {
+               // Sort the compactors here so when we're merging them for the 
final output, they're already sorted and we can merge elements in order.
+               compactors.Compactors[i].sort(f.State.less)
+       }
+       return compactors
+}
+
+// approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn combines compactors into smaller 
compactors, but not necessarily the final compactor.
+type approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn approximateQuantilesOutputFn
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn) Setup() error {
+       return f.State.setup()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn) CreateAccumulator() *compactors {
+       return f.State.createAccumulator()
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn) AddInput(compactors *compactors, 
element *compactors) *compactors {
+       compactors.merge(element, f.State.less)
+       return compactors
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn) MergeAccumulators(ctx 
context.Context, a, b *compactors) *compactors {
+       a.merge(b, f.State.less)
+       return a
+}
+
+func (f *approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn) ExtractOutput(ctx context.Context, 
compactors *compactors) *compactors {
+       for i := range compactors.Compactors {
+               // Sort the compactors here so when we're merging them for the 
final output, they're already sorted and we can merge elements in order.
+               compactors.Compactors[i].sort(f.State.less)
+       }
+       return compactors
+}
+
+type shardElementsFn struct {
+       Shards         int              `json:"shards"`
+       T              beam.EncodedType `json:"t"`
+       elementEncoder beam.ElementEncoder
+}
+
+func (s *shardElementsFn) Setup() {
+       s.elementEncoder = beam.NewElementEncoder(s.T.T)
+}
+
+func (s *shardElementsFn) ProcessElement(element beam.T) (int, beam.T) {
+       h := crc32.NewIEEE()
+       s.elementEncoder.Encode(element, h)
+       return int(h.Sum32()) % s.Shards, element
+}
+
+func makeWeightedElement(weight int, element beam.T) weightedElement {
+       return weightedElement{weight: weight, element: element}
+}
+
+// ApproximateQuantiles computes approximate quantiles for the input 
PCollection<T>.
+//
+// The output PCollection contains a single element: a list of numQuantiles - 
1 elements approximately splitting up the input collection into numQuantiles 
separate quantiles.
+// For example, if numQuantiles = 2, the returned list would contain a single 
element such that approximately half of the input would be less than that 
element and half would be greater.
+func ApproximateQuantiles(s beam.Scope, pc beam.PCollection, less interface{}, 
opts Opts) beam.PCollection {
+       return ApproximateWeightedQuantiles(s, beam.ParDo(s, func(e beam.T) 
(int, beam.T) { return 1, e }, pc), less, opts)
+}
+
+// reduce takes a PCollection<weightedElementWrapper> and returns a 
PCollection<*compactors>. The output PCollection may have at most 
shardSizes[len(shardSizes) - 1] compactors.
+func reduce(s beam.Scope, weightedElements beam.PCollection, state 
approximateQuantilesCombineFnState, shardSizes []int) beam.PCollection {
+       if len(shardSizes) == 0 {
+               shardSizes = []int{1}
+       }
+       shardedCompactors := beam.DropKey(s,
+               beam.CombinePerKey(s, &approximateQuantilesInputFn{State: 
state},
+                       beam.ParDo(s, &shardElementsFn{Shards: shardSizes[0], 
T: beam.EncodedType{T: reflect.TypeOf((*weightedElement)(nil)).Elem()}}, 
weightedElements)))
+       shardSizes = shardSizes[1:]
+       compactorsType := reflect.TypeOf((**compactors)(nil)).Elem()
+       for _, shardSize := range shardSizes {
+               shardedCompactors = beam.DropKey(s,
+                       beam.CombinePerKey(s, 
&approximateQuantilesMergeOnlyFn{State: state},
+                               beam.ParDo(s, &shardElementsFn{Shards: 
shardSize, T: beam.EncodedType{T: compactorsType}}, shardedCompactors)))
+       }
+       return shardedCompactors
+}
+
+// ApproximateWeightedQuantiles computes approximate quantiles for the input 
PCollection<(weight int, T)>.
+//
+// The output PCollection contains a single element: a list of numQuantiles - 
1 elements approximately splitting up the input collection into numQuantiles 
separate quantiles.
+// For example, if numQuantiles = 2, the returned list would contain a single 
element such that approximately half of the input would be less than that 
element and half would be greater.

Review comment:
       I've updated the comment to be "greater or equal" to indicate that the 
split points would be approximately in the higher quantile. Although as you can 
see from the tests, the errors can cause the split points to fall into the 
lower quantiles too.




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