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  1. Spark
  2. SPARK-20392

Slow performance when calling fit on ML pipeline for dataset with many columns but few rows

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.1.0
    • 2.3.0
    • ML, SQL
    • None

    Description

      This started as a question on stack overflow, but it seems like a bug.

      I am testing spark pipelines using a simple dataset (attached) with 312 (mostly numeric) columns, but only 421 rows. It is small, but it takes 3 minutes to apply my ML pipeline to it on a 24 core server with 60G of memory. This seems much to long for such a tiny dataset. Similar pipelines run quickly on datasets that have fewer columns and more rows. It's something about the number of columns that is causing the slow performance.

      Here are a list of the stages in my pipeline:

      000_strIdx_5708525b2b6c
      001_strIdx_ec2296082913
      002_bucketizer_3cbc8811877b
      003_bucketizer_5a01d5d78436
      004_bucketizer_bf290d11364d
      005_bucketizer_c3296dfe94b2
      006_bucketizer_7071ca50eb85
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      009_bucketizer_e1e716f51796
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      011_bucketizer_5a0e41e5e94f
      012_bucketizer_b5a3d5743aaa
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      016_bucketizer_218ecca3b5c1
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      018_bucketizer_4520203aec27
      019_bucketizer_462c2c346079
      020_bucketizer_47435822e04c
      021_bucketizer_eb9dccb5e6e8
      022_bucketizer_b5f63dd7451d
      023_bucketizer_e0fd5041c841
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      035_bucketizer_90cfa5918d71
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      038_bucketizer_9b5e5a8d12eb
      039_bucketizer_082bb650ecc3
      040_bucketizer_57e1e363c483
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      042_bucketizer_73e8f6673262
      043_bucketizer_0f9394ed30b8
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      There are 2 string columns that are converted to ints with StringIndexerModel. Then there are bucketizers that bin all the numeric columns into 2 or 3 mins each. Is there a way to bin many columns at once with a single stage? I did not see a way. Next there is a VectorAssembler to combine all the columns into one for the NaiveBayes classifier. Lastly, there is a simple SQLTransformer to cast one the prection column to an int.

      Here is what the metadata for the two StringIndexerModelss looks like:

      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StringIndexerModel","timestamp":1492551461778,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"strIdx_5708525b2b6c","paramMap":{"outputCol":"ADI_IDX__","handleInvalid":"skip","inputCol":"ADI_CLEANED__"}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StringIndexerModel","timestamp":1492551462004,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"strIdx_ec2296082913","paramMap":{"outputCol":"State_IDX__","inputCol":"State_CLEANED__","handleInvalid":"skip"}}
      

      The bucketizers all look very similar. Here is what the meta data for few of them look like:

      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551462636,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_bd728fd89ba1","paramMap":{"outputCol":"HH_02_BINNED__","inputCol":"HH_02_CLEANED__","handleInvalid":"keep","splits":["-Inf",7521.0,12809.5,20299.0,"Inf"]}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551462711,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_e1e716f51796","paramMap":{"splits":["-Inf",6698.0,13690.5,"Inf"],"handleInvalid":"keep","outputCol":"HH_97_BINNED__","inputCol":"HH_97_CLEANED__"}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551462784,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_38be665993ba","paramMap":{"splits":["-Inf",4664.0,7242.5,11770.0,14947.0,"Inf"],"outputCol":"HH_90_BINNED__","handleInvalid":"keep","inputCol":"HH_90_CLEANED__"}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551462858,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_5a0e41e5e94f","paramMap":{"splits":["-Inf",6107.5,10728.5,"Inf"],"outputCol":"HH_80_BINNED__","inputCol":"HH_80_CLEANED__","handleInvalid":"keep"}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551462931,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_b5a3d5743aaa","paramMap":{"outputCol":"HHPG9702_BINNED__","splits":["-Inf",8.895000457763672,"Inf"],"handleInvalid":"keep","inputCol":"HHPG9702_CLEANED__"}}
      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Bucketizer","timestamp":1492551463004,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"bucketizer_4420f98ff7ff","paramMap":{"splits":["-Inf",54980.5,"Inf"],"outputCol":"MEDHI97_BINNED__","handleInvalid":"keep","inputCol":"MEDHI97_CLEANED__"}}
      

      Here is the metadata for the NaiveBayes model:

      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.classification.NaiveBayesModel","timestamp":1492551472568,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"nb_f134e0890a0d","paramMap":{"modelType":"multinomial","probabilityCol":"_class_probability_column__","smoothing":1.0,"predictionCol":"_prediction_column_","rawPredictionCol":"rawPrediction","featuresCol":"_features_column__","labelCol":"DAYPOP_BINNED__"}}
      

      and for the final SQLTransformer

      {"class":"org.apache.spark.ml.feature.SQLTransformer","timestamp":1492551472804,"sparkVersion":"2.1.1","uid":"sql_a8590b83c826","paramMap":{"statement":"SELECT *, CAST(_prediction_column_ AS INT) AS `_*_prediction_label_column_*__` FROM __THIS__"}}
      

      Why is it that the duration gets extremely slow when more than a couple hundred columns (and only a few rows), but having millions of rows (with fewer columns) performs fine? In addition to it being slow when applying this pipeline, it is also slow to create it. The fit and evaluate steps take a few minutes each. Is there anything that can be done to make it faster?

      I get similar results using 2.1.1RC, 2.1.2(tip) and 2.2.0(tip). Spark 2.1.0 gives a Janino 64k limit error when trying to build this pipeline (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-16845).

      I stepped through in the debugger when pipeline.fit was called and noticed that the queryPlan is a huge nested structure. I don't know how to interpret this plan, but it is likely related to the performance problem. It is attached.

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        1. blockbuster_fewCols.csv
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        2. blockbuster.csv
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        3. giant_query_plan_for_fitting_pipeline.txt
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        4. model_9754.zip
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        5. model_9756.zip
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