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package org.apache.spark.mllib.optimization

import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer

import breeze.linalg.{DenseVector => BDV, norm}

import org.apache.spark.annotation.{Experimental, DeveloperApi}
import org.apache.spark.Logging
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vectors, Vector}


/**
 * Class used to solve an optimization problem using Gradient Descent.
 * @param gradient Gradient function to be used.
 * @param updater Updater to be used to update weights after every iteration.
 */
class GradientDescent private[spark] (private var gradient: Gradient, private var updater: Updater)
  extends Optimizer with Logging {

  private var stepSize: Double = 1.0
  private var numIterations: Int = 100
  private var regParam: Double = 0.0
  private var miniBatchFraction: Double = 1.0
  private var convergenceTol: Double = 0.001

  /**
   * Set the initial step size of SGD for the first step. Default 1.0.
   * In subsequent steps, the step size will decrease with stepSize/sqrt(t)
   */
  def setStepSize(step: Double): this.type = {
    this.stepSize = step
    this
  }

  /**
   * :: Experimental ::
   * Set fraction of data to be used for each SGD iteration.
   * Default 1.0 (corresponding to deterministic/classical gradient descent)
   */
  @Experimental
  def setMiniBatchFraction(fraction: Double): this.type = {
    this.miniBatchFraction = fraction
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set the number of iterations for SGD. Default 100.
   */
  def setNumIterations(iters: Int): this.type = {
    this.numIterations = iters
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set the regularization parameter. Default 0.0.
   */
  def setRegParam(regParam: Double): this.type = {
    this.regParam = regParam
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set the convergence tolerance. Default 0.001
   * convergenceTol is a condition which decides iteration termination.
   * The end of iteration is decided based on below logic.
   *
   *  - If the norm of the new solution vector is >1, the diff of solution vectors
   *    is compared to relative tolerance which means normalizing by the norm of
   *    the new solution vector.
   *  - If the norm of the new solution vector is <=1, the diff of solution vectors
   *    is compared to absolute tolerance which is not normalizing.
   *
   * Must be between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusively.
   */
  def setConvergenceTol(tolerance: Double): this.type = {
    require(0.0 <= tolerance && tolerance <= 1.0)
    this.convergenceTol = tolerance
    this
  }

  /**
   * Set the gradient function (of the loss function of one single data example)
   * to be used for SGD.
   */
  def setGradient(gradient: Gradient): this.type = {
    this.gradient = gradient
    this
  }


  /**
   * Set the updater function to actually perform a gradient step in a given direction.
   * The updater is responsible to perform the update from the regularization term as well,
   * and therefore determines what kind or regularization is used, if any.
   */
  def setUpdater(updater: Updater): this.type = {
    this.updater = updater
    this
  }

  /**
   * :: DeveloperApi ::
   * Runs gradient descent on the given training data.
   * @param data training data
   * @param initialWeights initial weights
   * @return solution vector
   */
  @DeveloperApi
  def optimize(data: RDD[(Double, Vector)], initialWeights: Vector): Vector = {
    val (weights, _) = GradientDescent.runMiniBatchSGD(
      data,
      gradient,
      updater,
      stepSize,
      numIterations,
      regParam,
      miniBatchFraction,
      initialWeights,
      convergenceTol)
    weights
  }

}

/**
 * :: DeveloperApi ::
 * Top-level method to run gradient descent.
 */
@DeveloperApi
object GradientDescent extends Logging {
  /**
   * Run stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in parallel using mini batches.
   * In each iteration, we sample a subset (fraction miniBatchFraction) of the total data
   * in order to compute a gradient estimate.
   * Sampling, and averaging the subgradients over this subset is performed using one standard
   * spark map-reduce in each iteration.
   *
   * @param data Input data for SGD. RDD of the set of data examples, each of
   *             the form (label, [feature values]).
   * @param gradient Gradient object (used to compute the gradient of the loss function of
   *                 one single data example)
   * @param updater Updater function to actually perform a gradient step in a given direction.
   * @param stepSize initial step size for the first step
   * @param numIterations number of iterations that SGD should be run.
   * @param regParam regularization parameter
   * @param miniBatchFraction fraction of the input data set that should be used for
   *                          one iteration of SGD. Default value 1.0.
   * @param convergenceTol Minibatch iteration will end before numIterations if the relative
   *                       difference between the current weight and the previous weight is less
   *                       than this value. In measuring convergence, L2 norm is calculated.
   *                       Default value 0.001. Must be between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusively.
   * @return A tuple containing two elements. The first element is a column matrix containing
   *         weights for every feature, and the second element is an array containing the
   *         stochastic loss computed for every iteration.
   */
  def runMiniBatchSGD(
      data: RDD[(Double, Vector)],
      gradient: Gradient,
      updater: Updater,
      stepSize: Double,
      numIterations: Int,
      regParam: Double,
      miniBatchFraction: Double,
      initialWeights: Vector,
      convergenceTol: Double): (Vector, Array[Double]) = {

    // convergenceTol should be set with non minibatch settings
    if (miniBatchFraction < 1.0 && convergenceTol > 0.0) {
      logWarning("Testing against a convergenceTol when using miniBatchFraction " +
        "< 1.0 can be unstable because of the stochasticity in sampling.")
    }

    val stochasticLossHistory = new ArrayBuffer[Double](numIterations)
    // Record previous weight and current one to calculate solution vector difference

    var previousWeights: Option[Vector] = None
    var currentWeights: Option[Vector] = None

    val numExamples = data.count()

    // if no data, return initial weights to avoid NaNs
    if (numExamples == 0) {
      logWarning("GradientDescent.runMiniBatchSGD returning initial weights, no data found")
      return (initialWeights, stochasticLossHistory.toArray)
    }

    if (numExamples * miniBatchFraction < 1) {
      logWarning("The miniBatchFraction is too small")
    }

    // Initialize weights as a column vector
    var weights = Vectors.dense(initialWeights.toArray)
    val n = weights.size

    /**
     * For the first iteration, the regVal will be initialized as sum of weight squares
     * if it's L2 updater; for L1 updater, the same logic is followed.
     */
    var regVal = updater.compute(
      weights, Vectors.zeros(weights.size), 0, 1, regParam)._2

    var converged = false // indicates whether converged based on convergenceTol
    var i = 1
    while (!converged && i <= numIterations) {
      val bcWeights = data.context.broadcast(weights)
      // Sample a subset (fraction miniBatchFraction) of the total data
      // compute and sum up the subgradients on this subset (this is one map-reduce)
      val (gradientSum, lossSum, miniBatchSize) = data.sample(false, miniBatchFraction, 42 + i)
        .treeAggregate((BDV.zeros[Double](n), 0.0, 0L))(
          seqOp = (c, v) => {
            // c: (grad, loss, count), v: (label, features)
            val l = gradient.compute(v._2, v._1, bcWeights.value, Vectors.fromBreeze(c._1))
            (c._1, c._2 + l, c._3 + 1)
          },
          combOp = (c1, c2) => {
            // c: (grad, loss, count)
            (c1._1 += c2._1, c1._2 + c2._2, c1._3 + c2._3)
          })

      if (miniBatchSize > 0) {
        /**
         * lossSum is computed using the weights from the previous iteration
         * and regVal is the regularization value computed in the previous iteration as well.
         */
        stochasticLossHistory.append(lossSum / miniBatchSize + regVal)
        val update = updater.compute(
          weights, Vectors.fromBreeze(gradientSum / miniBatchSize.toDouble),
          stepSize, i, regParam)
        weights = update._1
        regVal = update._2

        previousWeights = currentWeights
        currentWeights = Some(weights)
        if (previousWeights != None && currentWeights != None) {
          converged = isConverged(previousWeights.get,
            currentWeights.get, convergenceTol)
        }
      } else {
        logWarning(s"Iteration ($i/$numIterations). The size of sampled batch is zero")
      }
      i += 1
    }

    logInfo("GradientDescent.runMiniBatchSGD finished. Last 10 stochastic losses %s".format(
      stochasticLossHistory.takeRight(10).mkString(", ")))

    (weights, stochasticLossHistory.toArray)

  }

  /**
   * Alias of [[runMiniBatchSGD]] with convergenceTol set to default value of 0.001.
   */
  def runMiniBatchSGD(
      data: RDD[(Double, Vector)],
      gradient: Gradient,
      updater: Updater,
      stepSize: Double,
      numIterations: Int,
      regParam: Double,
      miniBatchFraction: Double,
      initialWeights: Vector): (Vector, Array[Double]) =
    GradientDescent.runMiniBatchSGD(data, gradient, updater, stepSize, numIterations,
                                    regParam, miniBatchFraction, initialWeights, 0.001)


  private def isConverged(
      previousWeights: Vector,
      currentWeights: Vector,
      convergenceTol: Double): Boolean = {
    // To compare with convergence tolerance.
    val previousBDV = previousWeights.toBreeze.toDenseVector
    val currentBDV = currentWeights.toBreeze.toDenseVector

    // This represents the difference of updated weights in the iteration.
    val solutionVecDiff: Double = norm(previousBDV - currentBDV)

    solutionVecDiff < convergenceTol * Math.max(norm(currentBDV), 1.0)
  }

}




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