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Ohad Raviv commented on SPARK-16820:
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I will create a PR soon with a suggested fix, but tell me what you think about
that..
> Sparse - Sparse matrix multiplication
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> Key: SPARK-16820
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-16820
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ML
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Ohad Raviv
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> While working on MCL implementation on Spark we have encountered some
> difficulties.
> The main part of this process is distributed sparse matrix multiplication
> that has two main steps:
> 1. Simulate multiply – preparation before the real multiplication in order
> to see which blocks should be multiplied.
> 2. The actual blocks multiplication and summation.
> In our case the sparse matrix has 50M rows and columns, and 2B non-zeros.
> The current multiplication suffers from these issues:
> 1. A relatively trivial bug already fixed in the first step the caused the
> process to be very slow [SPARK-16469]
> 2. Still after the bug fix, if we have too many blocks the Simulate
> multiply will take very long time and will multiply the data many times.
> (O(n^3) where n is the number of blocks)
> 3. Spark supports only multiplication with Dense matrices. Thus, it
> converts a Sparse matrix into a dense matrix before the multiplication.
> 4. For summing the intermediate block results Spark uses Breeze’s CSC
> matrix operations – here the problem is that it is very inefficient to update
> a CSC matrix in a zero value.
> That means that with many blocks (default block size is 1024) – in our case
> 50M/1024 ~= 50K, the simulate multiply will effectively never finish or will
> generate 50K*16GB ~= 1000TB of data. On the other hand, if we use bigger
> block size e.g. 100k we get OutOfMemoryException in the “toDense” method of
> the multiply. We have worked around that by implementing our-selves both the
> Sparse multiplication and addition in a very naïve way – but at least it
> works.
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