zhipeng93 commented on code in PR #139:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink-ml/pull/139#discussion_r943052952


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flink-ml-lib/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/ml/feature/kbinsdiscretizer/KBinsDiscretizer.java:
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+package org.apache.flink.ml.feature.kbinsdiscretizer;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.MapFunction;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.MapPartitionFunction;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.api.Estimator;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.common.datastream.DataStreamUtils;
+import 
org.apache.flink.ml.feature.minmaxscaler.MinMaxScaler.MinMaxReduceFunctionOperator;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.linalg.DenseVector;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.linalg.Vector;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.param.Param;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.util.ParamUtils;
+import org.apache.flink.ml.util.ReadWriteUtils;
+import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream;
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.Table;
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.bridge.java.StreamTableEnvironment;
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.internal.TableImpl;
+import org.apache.flink.types.Row;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Collector;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * An Estimator which implements discretization (also known as quantization or 
binning), which
+ * transforms continuous features into discrete ones. The output values are in 
[0, numBins).
+ *
+ * <p>KBinsDiscretizer implements three different binning strategies, and it 
can be set by {@link
+ * KBinsDiscretizerParams#STRATEGY}. If the strategy is set as {@link 
KBinsDiscretizerParams#KMEANS}
+ * or {@link KBinsDiscretizerParams#QUANTILE}, users should further set {@link
+ * KBinsDiscretizerParams#SUB_SAMPLES} for better performance.
+ *
+ * <p>There are several cornel cases for different inputs as listed below:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>When the input values of one column are all the same, then they 
should be mapped to the
+ *       same bin (i.e., the zero-th bin). Thus the corresponding bin edges 
are {Double.MIN_VALUE,
+ *       Double.MAX_VALUE}.
+ *   <li>When the number of distinct values of one column is less than the 
specified number of bins
+ *       and the {@link KBinsDiscretizerParams#STRATEGY} is set as {@link
+ *       KBinsDiscretizerParams#KMEANS}, we switch to {@link 
KBinsDiscretizerParams#UNIFORM}.
+ *   <li>When the width of one output bin is zero, i.e., the left edge equals 
to the right edge of

Review Comment:
   Removing bins whose width is less than a non-zero value (e.g., `1e-8`) is 
ambiguous to users --- Consider the following case:
   Suppose we have four consecutive bins with width {6e-9, 6e-9, 6e-9, 6e-9} 
and the minimum bin width is `1e-8`, we may get different results: {1.2e-8, 
1.2e-8} and {2.4e-8}, both of which are reasonable.
   
   Setting minimum bin width as zero does not incur the above problem. If the 
users found the bin is too small, they may decrease number of bins.



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