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> PRNG Skip-ahead
> ---------------
>
> Key: FLINK-3997
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3997
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Library / Graph Processing (Gelly)
> Affects Versions: 1.1.0
> Reporter: Greg Hogan
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: auto-deprioritized-major, auto-unassigned
>
> The current sources of randomness for Gelly Graph Generators use fixed-size
> blocks of work which include an initial seed. There are two issues with this
> approach. First, the size of the collection of blocks can exceed the Akka
> limit and cause the job to silently fail. Second, as the block seeds are
> randomly chosen, the likelihood of blocks overlapping and producing the same
> sequence increases with the size of the graph.
> The random generators will be reimplemented using {{SplittableIterator}} and
> PRNGs supporting skip-ahead.
> This ticket will implement skip-ahead with LCGs [0]. Future work may add
> support for xorshift generators ([1], section 5 "Jumping Ahead").
> [0]
> https://mit-crpg.github.io/openmc/methods/random_numbers.html#skip-ahead-capability
> [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.0390.pdf
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