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[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-21624) Optimize communication cost of RF/GBT/DT

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21624?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Peng Meng updated SPARK-21624:
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    Description: 
{quote}The implementation of RF is bound by either  the cost of statistics computation on workers or by communicating the sufficient statistics.{quote}

The statistics are stored in allStats:

{code:java}
  /**
   * Flat array of elements.
   * Index for start of stats for a (feature, bin) is:
   *   index = featureOffsets(featureIndex) + binIndex * statsSize
   */
  private var allStats: Array[Double] = new Array[Double](allStatsSize)
{code}
The size of allStats maybe very large, and it can be very sparse, especially on the nodes that near the leave of the tree. 

I have changed allStats from Array to SparseVector,  my tests show the communication is down by about 50%.


  was:
{quote}The implementation of RF is bound by either  the cost of statistics computation on workers or by communicating the sufficient statistics.{quote}

The statistics are stored in allStats:

{code:java}
  /**
   * Flat array of elements.
   * Index for start of stats for a (feature, bin) is:
   *   index = featureOffsets(featureIndex) + binIndex * statsSize
   */
  private var allStats: Array[Double] = new Array[Double](allStatsSize)
{code}
The size of allStats maybe very large, and it can be very spare, especially on the nodes that near the leave of the tree. 

I have changed allStats from Array to SparseVector,  my tests show the communication is down by about 50%.



> Optimize communication cost of RF/GBT/DT
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-21624
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21624
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ML, MLlib
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
>            Reporter: Peng Meng
>
> {quote}The implementation of RF is bound by either  the cost of statistics computation on workers or by communicating the sufficient statistics.{quote}
> The statistics are stored in allStats:
> {code:java}
>   /**
>    * Flat array of elements.
>    * Index for start of stats for a (feature, bin) is:
>    *   index = featureOffsets(featureIndex) + binIndex * statsSize
>    */
>   private var allStats: Array[Double] = new Array[Double](allStatsSize)
> {code}
> The size of allStats maybe very large, and it can be very sparse, especially on the nodes that near the leave of the tree. 
> I have changed allStats from Array to SparseVector,  my tests show the communication is down by about 50%.



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