Alink and Flink ML

[Flavio Pompermaier]

Hi to all,

since Alink has been open sourced, is there any good reason to keep both Flink ML and Alink?

From what I understood Alink already contains the best ML implementation available for Flink..am I wrong?

Maybe it could make sense to replace the current Flink ML with that of Alink..or is that impossible?

Cheers,

Flavio

[Gary Yao-5]

Hi Flavio,

I am looping in Becket (cc'ed) who might be able to answer your question.

Best,

Gary

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:19 PM Flavio Pompermaier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi to all,

since Alink has been open sourced, is there any good reason to keep both Flink ML and Alink?

From what I understood Alink already contains the best ML implementation available for Flink..am I wrong?

Maybe it could make sense to replace the current Flink ML with that of Alink..or is that impossible?

Cheers,

Flavio

[Marta Paes Moreira]

Hi, Flavio.

Indeed, Becket is the best person to answer this question, but as far as I understand the idea is that Alink will be contributed back to Flink in the form of a refactored Flink ML library (sitting on top of the Table API) [1]. You can follow the progress of these efforts by tracking FLIP-39 [2].

[1] https://developpaper.com/why-is-flink-ai-worth-looking-forward-to/
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-39+Flink+ML+pipeline+and+ML+libs

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:02 PM Gary Yao <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Flavio,

I am looping in Becket (cc'ed) who might be able to answer your question.

Best,

Gary

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:19 PM Flavio Pompermaier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi to all,

since Alink has been open sourced, is there any good reason to keep both Flink ML and Alink?

From what I understood Alink already contains the best ML implementation available for Flink..am I wrong?

Maybe it could make sense to replace the current Flink ML with that of Alink..or is that impossible?

Cheers,

Flavio

[Flavio Pompermaier]

Thanks Marta for the clarification!

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:26 PM Marta Paes Moreira <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi, Flavio.

Indeed, Becket is the best person to answer this question, but as far as I understand the idea is that Alink will be contributed back to Flink in the form of a refactored Flink ML library (sitting on top of the Table API) [1]. You can follow the progress of these efforts by tracking FLIP-39 [2].

[1] https://developpaper.com/why-is-flink-ai-worth-looking-forward-to/
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-39+Flink+ML+pipeline+and+ML+libs

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:02 PM Gary Yao <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Flavio,

I am looping in Becket (cc'ed) who might be able to answer your question.

Best,

Gary

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:19 PM Flavio Pompermaier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi to all,

since Alink has been open sourced, is there any good reason to keep both Flink ML and Alink?

From what I understood Alink already contains the best ML implementation available for Flink..am I wrong?

Maybe it could make sense to replace the current Flink ML with that of Alink..or is that impossible?

Cheers,

Flavio