Github user mengxr commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/493#discussion_r12080905 --- Diff: mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/recommendation/ALS.scala --- @@ -708,6 +709,123 @@ object ALS { trainImplicit(ratings, rank, iterations, 0.01, -1, 1.0) } + @DeveloperApi + case class IterationCost(inboundBytes: Double, computation: Double, outboundBytes: Double) + + /** + * :: DeveloperApi :: + * Given an RDD of ratings, a rank, and two partitioners, compute rough estimates of the + * computation time and communication cost of one iteration of ALS. Returns a pair of pairs of + * Maps. The first pair of maps represents computation time in unspecified units. The second + * pair of maps represents communication cost in uncompressed bytes. The first element of each + * pair is the cost attributable to user partitioning, while the second is the cost attributable + * to product partitioning. + * + * @param ratings RDD of Rating objects + * @param rank number of features to use + * @param userPartitioner partitioner for partitioning users + * @param productPartitioner partitioner for partitioning products + */ + @DeveloperApi + def estimateCost(ratings: RDD[Rating], rank: Int, userPartitioner: Partitioner, + productPartitioner: Partitioner): + (Map[Int, IterationCost], Map[Int, IterationCost]) = { + // user partition -> set of products + val utalk = ratings.mapPartitions(x => { + val ht = new mutable.HashSet[(Int, Int)]() + while (x.hasNext) { + val rat = x.next() + val u = userPartitioner.getPartition(rat.user) + val p = rat.product + ht += ((u, p)) --- End diff -- So you want to de-dup? It is safe to assume that the (u, p) pairs are different from each other.
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