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            Created on: 27/Sep/18 15:01
            Start Date: 27/Sep/18 15:01
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      Work Description: robertwb commented on issue #6375: [BEAM-4858] Clean up 
division in batch size estimator.
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/6375#issuecomment-425126489
 
 
   You're right, the a and b were switched in computing the error term when I 
copied this to the PR. This meant that significantly more points were 
considered outliers (but enough retained to typically give a reasonable 
regression). Unfortunately this fix means that it's still pretty sensitive to 
multiple outliers...
   
   I'm trying a simpler approach: just assume the top quantile is outliers. We 
have enough data to make this pretty robust. Running experiments now. 
   
   (As for computing h, I used sagemath.)

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    Worklog Id:     (was: 148775)
    Time Spent: 4.5h  (was: 4h 20m)

> Clean up _BatchSizeEstimator in element-batching transform.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-4858
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-4858
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: sdk-py-core
>            Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev
>            Assignee: Robert Bradshaw
>            Priority: Minor
>          Time Spent: 4.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Beam Python 3 conversion [exposed|https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5729] 
> non-trivial performance-sensitive logic in element-batching transform. Let's 
> take a look at 
> [util.py#L271|https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/e98ff7c96afa2f72b3a98426dc1e9a47224da5c8/sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms/util.py#L271].
>  
> Due to Python 2 language semantics, the result of {{x2 / x1}} will depend on 
> the type of the keys - whether they are integers or floats. 
> The keys of key-value pairs contained in {{self._data}} are added as integers 
> [here|https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/d2ac08da2dccce8930432fae1ec7c30953880b69/sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms/util.py#L260],
>  however, when we 'thin' the collected entries 
> [here|https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/d2ac08da2dccce8930432fae1ec7c30953880b69/sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms/util.py#L279],
>  the keys will become floats. Surprisingly, using either integer or float 
> division consistently [in the 
> comparator|https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/e98ff7c96afa2f72b3a98426dc1e9a47224da5c8/sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms/util.py#L271]
>   negatively affects the performance of a custom pipeline I was using to 
> benchmark these changes. The performance impact likely comes from changes in 
> the logic that depends on  how division is evaluated, not from the 
> performance of division operation itself.
> In terms of Python 3 conversion the best course of action that avoids 
> regression seems to be to preserve the existing Python 2 behavior using 
> {{old_div}} from {{past.utils.division}}, in the medium term we should clean 
> up the logic. We may want to add a targeted microbenchmark to evaluate 
> performance of this code, and maybe cythonize the code, since it seems to be 
> performance-sensitive.



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