Re: flink loop

Posted by tanguy racinet on
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Hi,

Thank you for you reply. It helped us solve the looping problems in a nicer way.

We are struggling with some aspects of the cross function.

Still trying to implement the Apriori algorithm, we need to create combinations of frequent itemSets.

Our problem is that the crossing gives us duplicates, for instance :(1, 2, 3, 4) and (2, 1, 4, 3) are equivalent for us so we are trying to find a way to remove that kind of duplicate in our DataSet.

We already removed duplicates inside our combinations (1, 1, 2) => (1, 2).

We were thinking about using HashSet but they are not serializable and we cannot use them inside the workflow, but only inside functions.

Can you think of any way to remove those duplicates ?

Thank you,

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Vasiliki Kalavri <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm not familiar with the particular algorithm, but you can most probably use one of the two iterate operators in Flink.

You can read a description and see some examples in the documentation: 

http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.8/programming_guide.html#iteration-operators

Let us know if you have any questions!

Cheers,

V.

On 5 February 2015 at 20:37, tanguy racinet <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

We are trying to develop the Apriori algorith with the Flink for our Data minning project.

In our understanding, Flink could handle loop within the workflow.

However, our knowledge is limited and we cannot find a nice way to do it.

Here is the flow of my algorithm :

GenerateCandidates ----> CalculateFrequentItemSet

mapper                      ----> reducer

We would like to use the reducer result as the mapper's entry for a predefined number of times (loop x times).

Is there any smart way to that with Flink. Or should we just copy paste the loop x times ?

Thank you,

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