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Apache Spark commented on SPARK-3327:
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User 'viirya' has created a pull request for this issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2217
> Make broadcasted value mutable for caching useful information
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> Key: SPARK-3327
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3327
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Liang-Chi Hsieh
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> When implementing some algorithms, it is helpful that we can cache some
> useful information for using later.
> Specifically, we would like to performa operation "A" on each partition of
> data. Some variables are updated. Then we want to run operation "B" on the
> data too. "B" operation uses the variables updated by operation "A".
> One of the examples is the Liblinear on Spark from Dr. Lin. They discuss the
> problem in Section IV.D of the paper "Large-scale Logistic Regression and
> Linear Support Vector Machines Using Spark."
> Currently broadcasted variables can satisfy partial need for that. We can
> broadcast variables to reduce communication costs. However, because
> broadcasted variables can not be modified, it doesn't help solve the problem
> and we maybe need to collect updated variables back to master and broadcast
> them again before conducting next data operation.
> I would like to add an interface to broadcasted variables to make them
> mutable so later data operations can use them again.
>
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