I don't think it's trivial. Anyway, the naive solution would be a cross join between user x items. But this can be very very expensive. I've encountered once a similar problem, here how I solved it:
- create a new RDD with (itemID, index) where the index is a unique integer between 0 and the number of items - for every user sample n items by generating randomly n distinct integers between 0 and the number of items (e.g. with rand.randint()), so you have a new RDD (userID, [sample_items]) - flatten all the list in the previously created RDD and join them back with the RDD with (itemID, index) using index as join attribute You can do the same things with DataFrame using UDFs. On 11 April 2018 at 23:01, surender kumar <skiit...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > right, this is what I did when I said I tried to persist and create an RDD > out of it to sample from. But how to do for each user? > You have one rdd of users on one hand and rdd of items on the other. How > to go from here? Am I missing something trivial? > > > On Thursday, 12 April, 2018, 2:10:51 AM IST, Matteo Cossu < > elco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why broadcasting this list then? You should use an RDD or DataFrame. For > example, RDD has a method sample() that returns a random sample from it. > > On 11 April 2018 at 22:34, surender kumar <skiit...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> > wrote: > > I'm using pySpark. > I've list of 1 million items (all float values ) and 1 million users. for > each user I want to sample randomly some items from the item list. > Broadcasting the item list results in Outofmemory error on the driver, > tried setting driver memory till 10G. I tried to persist this array on > disk but I'm not able to figure out a way to read the same on the workers. > > Any suggestion would be appreciated. > > >
