[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-1523) Vertex-centric iteration extensions

["Andra Lungu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1523?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14342130#comment-14342130 ] 

Andra Lungu commented on FLINK-1523:
------------------------------------

My first approach towards solving the second bullet point was to let the user choose both update direction and messaging direction. However, this intoroduces a bit of a glitch. Think that the user will choose to update the vertices based on IN edges and to also send messages to its IN edges. This will leave OUT edges unused and I am not sure this is the behavior we want(the same goes for OUT-OUT edges). 

Another possibility would be to add a single parameter to the runVertexCentricIterationFunction, but then yhou would limit the possibilities to just: 
IN-OUT, OUT-IN and ALL-ALL, omitting IN-ALL, ALL-IN, OUT-ALL, OUT-IN. 

Should I stick to the first approach intorduce some Javadoc warning the user that a combination IN-IN of parameters may affect his/her programming logic? 

> Vertex-centric iteration extensions
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-1523
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1523
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Gelly
>            Reporter: Vasia Kalavri
>            Assignee: Andra Lungu
>
> We would like to make the following extensions to the vertex-centric iterations of Gelly:
> - allow vertices to access their in/out degrees and the total number of vertices of the graph, inside the iteration.
> - allow choosing the neighborhood type (in/out/all) over which to run the vertex-centric iteration. Now, the model uses the updates of the in-neighbors to calculate state and send messages to out-neighbors. We could add a parameter with value "in/out/all" to the {{VertexUpdateFunction}} and {{MessagingFunction}}, that would indicate the type of neighborhood.



--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)