Hi Torsten, 

Can you try the following query:

SELECT lib#getSentimentsInBatch(ARRAY_AGG(t)) 
FROM Tweets t 
GROUP BY nonExistentField

Thanks,
-- Dmitry
 

On 3/30/20, 1:15 PM, "Torsten Bergh Moss" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Devs,
    
    Grab some coffee and prepare for a wall of text because this poor Norwegian 
student has gotten lost somewhere far down the rabbit hole.
    
    Xikui and Michael, I tried my very best to familiarise myself with the 
PartitionHolder-code, even read the introductory papers on hyracks and 
algebricks to complement your paper, but I can’t seem to pinpoint exactly where 
the UDF Evaluator is evoked. I find both intakeJobs and storageJobs referenced 
as hyracks JobSpecifications in the code, but I would assume what I am 
interested in modifying is the computing job in order to control the batch size 
it pulls from the intake job as well as how it passes data to the UDF Evaluator 
(singular vs in batches). As for modifying the UDF framework to take a batch of 
records I believe, depending on the nature of the batch, it would be sufficient 
to maybe just modify the functionhelper interface or the java functionhelper 
implementation to provide easy access to get the batches (as a []JRecord or 
JList or something) and set their results after processing. I mean if it even 
has to be modified at all, it sort of bleeds into my second question which I 
hope should be more straight-forward:
    
    Dmitry mentioned that it’s possible to process already stored records in a 
batch fashion by using a GROUP BY. And this makes sense, I could I.E. do 
something like
    
    SELECT * FROM Tweets GROUP BY nonExistentField;
    Which would return all the tweets in the dataset in a list like 
    > { "$1": [ …tweets] }.
    
    Then to process this list I would assume I would have to do something like
    
    SELECT lib#getSentimentsInBatch(t) FROM (SELECT * FROM Tweets GROUP BY 
nonExistentField) as t;
    
    right? I know it’s awful to read code in emails but bear with me here: In 
order to have my UDF cope with this list input I would assume I’d have to do 
something along the lines of
    
    JList inputRecords = (JList) functionHelper.getArgument(0);
    for (int i = 0; i < inputRecords.size(); i++){
        JRecord inputRecord = (JRecord) inputRecords.getElement(i);
        ... Process JRecord like a tweet in lib#getSentimentSingular …
    }
    
    However, compiling this UDF, deploying it and running it produces a type 
mismatch error, as it’s not finding the required closed field id in my 
TweetType. Any ideas what might be going wrong? Inside of the 
library_descriptor.xml I’ve tried defining both argument and return type as 
TweetType, TweetType[] and JList, but they all produce the same error. 
    
    Also, bringing it back to the partition holders, wouldn’t it be possible to 
use a UDF I've tried to make for batch processing on stored records here, on 
the ingested records? This is why I raised doubts earlier about whether the UDF 
Framework would have to be modified at all, as I would hope it would be 
possible to modify the compute job to instead of passing records individually 
to the UDF Evaluator, bundle them together in I.E. a JList and then pass that 
JList to the same UDF, thus making it possible to use a single UDF for batch 
processing of both stored and streamed data, which would be nice as opposed to 
having create two separate UDF's for the two cases. 
    
    Excited to hear your thoughts on this. Also hope everyone is safe from the 
virus over there.
    
    Best wishes,
    Torsten
        
    ________________________________________
    From: Xikui Wang <[email protected]>
    Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 11:59 PM
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Re: Micro-batch semantics for UDFs
    
    Hi Torsten,
    
    I've sent an invitation to your email address for the code repository. It's
    under the "xikui_idea" branch. Let me know if you have any issues accessing
    it. You can find all the classes you need by searching for
    "PartitionHolders". :)
    
    To fully achieve what you want to do, I think you will probably also need
    to customize the UDF framework in AsterixDB to enable a Java UDF to take a
    batch of records. That would require some additional work. Or you can just
    wrap your GPU driver function as a special operator in AsterixDB and
    connect that to the partition holders. That's just my two cents. You can
    play with the codebase to see which option works best for you.
    
    Sorry for the late reply. Things are getting hectic recently with the
    Coronavirus situation. I hope everyone can stay safe and healthy during
    this time.
    
    Best,
    Xikui
    
    On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:27 PM Torsten Bergh Moss <
    [email protected]> wrote:
    
    > Xikui, how can I get started with reusing the PartitionHolder you used for
    > the ingestion project?
    >
    > Best wishes,
    > Torsten
    > ________________________________________
    > From: Torsten Bergh Moss <[email protected]>
    > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2020 5:15 PM
    > To: [email protected]
    > Subject: Re: Micro-batch semantics for UDFs
    >
    > Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for the late response, I've been busy
    > with technical interviews.
    >
    > Xikui, the ingestion framework described in section 5 & 6 of your paper
    > sounds perfect for my project. I could have an intake job receiving a
    > stream of tweets and an insert job pulling batches of say 10k tweets from
    > the intake job, preprocess the batch, run it through the neural network on
    > the GPU to get the sentiments, then write the tweets with their sentiments
    > to a dataset. Unless there are any unforeseen bottlenecks I think I should
    > be able to achieve throughputs of up to 20k tweets per second with my
    > current setup.
    >
    > Is the code related to your project available on a specific branch or in a
    > separate repo maybe?
    >
    > Also, I believe there might be missing a figure, revealed by the line "The
    > decoupled ingestion framework is shown in Figure ??" early on page 8.
    >
    > Best wishes,
    > Torsten
    >
    > ________________________________________
    > From: Xikui Wang <[email protected]>
    > Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2020 5:41 AM
    > To: [email protected]
    > Subject: Re: Micro-batch semantics for UDFs
    >
    > Hi Torsten,
    >
    > In case you want to customize the UDF framework to trigger your UDF on a
    > batch of records, you could consider reusing the PartitionHolder that I 
did
    > for my enrichment for the ingestion project. It takes a number of records,
    > processes them, and returns with the processed results. I used them to
    > enable hash joins on feeds and refreshes reference data per batch. That
    > might be helpful. You can find more information here [1].
    >
    > [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08271.pdf
    >
    > Best,
    > Xikui
    >
    > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:35 PM Dmitry Lychagin
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > > Torsten,
    > >
    > > I see a couple of possible approaches here:
    > >
    > > 1. Make your function operate on arrays of values instead of primitive
    > > values.
    > > You'll probably need to have a GROUP BY in your query to create an array
    > > (using ARRAY_AGG() or GROUP AS variable).
    > > Then pass that array to your function which would process it and would
    > > also return a result array.
    > > Then unnest that output  array to get the cardinality back.
    > >
    > > 2. Alternatively,  you could try creating a new runtime for ASSIGN
    > > operator that'd pass batches of input tuples to a new kind of function
    > > evaluator.
    > > You'll need to provide replacements for
    > > AssignPOperator/AssignRuntimeFactory.
    > > Also you'd need to modify InlineVariablesRule[1] so it doesn't inline
    > > those ASSIGNS.
    > >
    > > [1]
    > >
    > 
https://github.com/apache/asterixdb/blob/master/hyracks-fullstack/algebricks/algebricks-rewriter/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/algebricks/rewriter/rules/InlineVariablesRule.java#L144
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    > > -- Dmitry
    > >
    > >
    > > On 2/27/20, 2:02 PM, "Torsten Bergh Moss" <[email protected]>
    > > wrote:
    > >
    > >     Greetings everyone,
    > >
    > >
    > >     I'm experimenting a lot with UDF's utilizing Neural Network
    > inference,
    > > mainly for classification of tweets. Problem is, running the UDF's in a
    > > one-at-a-time fashion severely under-exploits the capacity of 
GPU-powered
    > > NN's, as well as there being a certain latency associated with moving
    > data
    > > from the CPU to the GPU and back every time the UDF is called, causing
    > for
    > > poor performance.
    > >
    > >
    > >     Ideally it would be possible use the UDF to process records in a
    > > micro-batch fashion, letting them accumulate until a certain batch-size
    > is
    > > reached (as big as my GPU's memory can handle) before passing the data
    > > along to the neural network to get the outputs.
    > >
    > >
    > >     Is there a way to accomplish this with the current UDF framework
    > > (either in java or python)? If not, where would I have to start to
    > develop
    > > such a feature?
    > >
    > >
    > >     Best wishes,
    > >
    > >     Torsten Bergh Moss
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    

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