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Subject: [GitHub] flink pull request: [FLINK-2030][FLINK-2274][ml]Online
 Histograms ...
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:27:29 +0000 (UTC)

Github user sachingoel0101 commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/861#discussion_r37556660
  
    --- Diff: flink-staging/flink-ml/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/ml/statistics/ContinuousHistogram.scala ---
    @@ -0,0 +1,315 @@
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    +
    +package org.apache.flink.ml.statistics
    +
    +import scala.Double.MaxValue
    +import scala.collection.mutable
    +
    +/** Implementation of a continuous valued online histogram
    +  * Adapted from Ben-Haim and Yom-Tov's Streaming Decision Tree Algorithm
    +  * Refer http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume11/ben-haim10a/ben-haim10a.pdf
    +  *
    +  * =Parameters=
    +  * -[[capacity]]:
    +  * Number of bins to be used in the histogram
    +  *
    +  * -[[min]]:
    +  * Lower limit on the elements
    +  *
    +  * -[[max]]:
    +  * Upper limit on the elements
    +  */
    +class ContinuousHistogram(capacity: Int, min: Double, max: Double) extends OnlineHistogram {
    +
    +  private val lower = min
    +  private val upper = max
    +
    +  require(capacity > 0, "Capacity should be a positive integer")
    +  require(lower < upper, "Lower must be less than upper")
    +
    +  val data = new mutable.ArrayBuffer[(Double, Int)]()
    +
    +  /** Adds a new item to the histogram
    +    *
    +    * @param p value to be added
    +    */
    +  override def add(p: Double): Unit = {
    +    require(p > lower && p < upper, p + " not in (" + lower + "," + upper + ")")
    +    // search for the index where the value is just higher than p
    +    val search = find(p)
    +    // add the new value there, shifting everything to the right
    +    data.insert(search, (p, 1))
    +    // If we're over capacity or any two elements are within 1e-9 of each other, merge.
    +    // This will take care of the case if p was actually equal to some value in the histogram and
    +    // just increment the value there
    +    mergeElements()
    +  }
    +
    +  /** Merges the histogram with h and returns a histogram with capacity B
    +    *
    +    * @param h histogram to be merged
    +    * @param B capacity of the resultant histogram
    +    * @return Merged histogram with capacity B
    +    */
    +  override def merge(h: OnlineHistogram, B: Int): ContinuousHistogram = {
    +    h match {
    +      case temp: ContinuousHistogram => {
    +        val m: Int = bins
    +        val n: Int = temp.bins
    +        var i, j: Int = 0
    +        val mergeList = new mutable.ArrayBuffer[(Double, Int)]()
    +        while (i < m || j < n) {
    +          if (i >= m) {
    +            mergeList += ((temp.getValue(j), temp.getCounter(j)))
    +            j = j + 1
    +          } else if (j >= n || getValue(i) <= temp.getValue(j)) {
    +            mergeList += data.apply(i)
    +            i = i + 1
    +          } else {
    +            mergeList += ((temp.getValue(j), temp.getCounter(j)))
    +            j = j + 1
    +          }
    +        }
    +        // the size will be brought to capacity while constructing the new histogram itself
    +        val finalLower = Math.min(lower, temp.lower)
    +        val finalUpper = Math.max(upper, temp.upper)
    +        val ret = new ContinuousHistogram(B, finalLower, finalUpper)
    +        ret.loadData(mergeList.toArray)
    +        ret
    +      }
    +      case default =>
    +        throw new RuntimeException("Only a continuous histogram is allowed to be merged with a " +
    +          "continuous histogram")
    +
    +    }
    +  }
    +
    +  /** Returns the qth quantile of the histogram
    +    *
    +    * @param q Quantile value in (0,1)
    +    * @return Value at quantile q
    +    */
    +  def quantile(q: Double): Double = {
    +    require(bins > 0, "Histogram is empty")
    +    require(q > 0 && q < 1, "Quantile must be between 0 and 1")
    +    val wantedSum = (q * total).round.toInt
    +    var currSum = count(getValue(0))
    +
    +    if (wantedSum < currSum) {
    +      require(lower > -MaxValue, "Set a lower bound before proceeding")
    --- End diff --
    
    Ah. Apologies. I was drawing the analogy from Java.


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