If you do drm.plus(1) this converts to a dense matrix, which is what the result must be anyway, and does add the scalar to all rows, even missing ones.
On Jul 21, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: perhaps just compare row count with max(key)? that's exactly what lazy nrow() currently does in this case. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: > > ok. so it should be easy to fix at least everything but elementwise scalar > i guess. > > Since the notion of "missing rows" is only defined for int-keyed datasets, > then ew scalar technically should work for non-int keyed datasets already. > > as for int-keyed datasets, i am not sure what is the best strategy. > Obviously, one can define sort of normalization/validation of int-keyed > dataset routine, but it would be fairly expensive to run "just because". > Perhaps there's a cheap test (as cheap as row count job) to run to test for > int keys consistency when matrix is first created. > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Anand Avati <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Anand Avati <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dmitriy, comments inline - >>>> >>>> On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> And no, i suppose it is ok to have "missing" rows even in case of >>>>> int-keyed matrices. >>>>> >>>>> there's one thing that you probably should be aware in this context >>>>> though: many algorithms don't survive empty (row-less) partitions, in >>>>> whatever way they may come to be. Other than that, I don't feel every row >>>>> must be present -- even if there's implied order of the rows. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'm not sure if that is necessarily true. There are three operators >>>> which break pretty badly with with missing rows. >>>> >>>> AewScalar - operation like A + 1 is just not applied on the missing >>>> row, so the final matrix will have 0's in place of 1s. >>>> >>> >>> Indeed. i have no recourse at this point. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> AewB, CbindAB - function after cogroup() throws exception if a row was >>>> present on only one matrix. So I guess it is OK to have missing rows as >>>> long as both A and B have the exact same missing row set. Somewhat >>>> quirky/nuanced requirement. >>>> >>> >>> Agree. i actually was not aware that's a cogroup() semantics in spark. I >>> though it would have an outer join semantics (as in Pig, i believe). Alas, >>> no recourse at this point either. >>> >> >> The exception is actually during reduceLeft after cogroup(). Cogroup() >> itself is probably an outer-join. >> >> >> >
