[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-26412) Allow Pandas UDF to take an iterator of pd.DataFrames

["Xiangrui Meng (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Xiangrui Meng commented on SPARK-26412:
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[~WeichenXu123] I updated the description.

> Allow Pandas UDF to take an iterator of pd.DataFrames
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-26412
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26412
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0
>            Reporter: Xiangrui Meng
>            Assignee: Weichen Xu
>            Priority: Major
>
> Pandas UDF is the ideal connection between PySpark and DL model inference workload. However, user needs to load the model file first to make predictions. It is common to see models of size ~100MB or bigger. If the Pandas UDF execution is limited to each batch, user needs to repeatedly load the same model for every batch in the same python worker process, which is inefficient.
> We can provide users the iterator of batches in pd.DataFrame and let user code handle it:
> {code}
> @pandas_udf(DoubleType(), PandasUDFType.SCALAR_ITERATOR)
> def predict(batch_iter):
>   model = ... # load model
>   for batch in batch_iter:
>     yield model.predict(batch)
> {code}
> Another benefit is with iterator interface and asyncio from Python, it is flexible for users to implement data pipelining.
> cc: [~icexelloss] [~bryanc] [~holdenk] [~hyukjin.kwon] [~ueshin] [~smilegator]



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