Demonstrate an adaptive hierarchical min reduction #523
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This PR demonstrates through
examples/min.rs
a hierarchical aggregation that adapts to the group size. For an input collection of(key, val)
records, it produces(key, val, lvl)
results with the properties that:lvl
is one of two values, those which sandwich the logarithm of the count for thekey
(under your favorite base).The algorithm is based on the idea that one can think of putting values into bins at each of various levels, defined by
(key, lvl, hash(val) % base.pow(lvl))
. We'll use(key, count)
to mark various bins as "full", and ask each(key, val)
to iteratively discover which level they should be at (starting at zero). With some care in each of these steps, they seem to have the property (modulo bugs, fundamental errors) that updates to the input result in bounded work to update the output.cc: @petrosagg @ggevay