Chicago Spark Meetup 03 01 2016 - Spark and Recommendations

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Spark, Streaming, Machine Learning, Graph Processing, Approximations, Probabilistic Data Structures, NLP

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Mar 1st, 2016

Chris Fregly Principal Data Solutions Engineer

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Presentation Outline   Scaling with Parallelism and Composability

  Similarity and Recommendations

  When to Approximate

  Common Approximation Algos and Data Structs   Common Approximation Libraries and Tools

  Netflix Recommendations and Data Pipeline 7


Scaling with Parallelism

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Peter O(log n)

O(log n)


Scaling with Composability

Max (a max b max c max d) == (a max b) max (c max d)

Set Union (a U b U c U d) == (a U b) U (c U d)

Addition (a + b + c + d) == (a + b) + (c + d)

Multiply (a * b * c * d) == (a * b) * (c * d)

Division??

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What about Division? Division (a / b / c / d) != (a / b) / (c / d) (3 / 4 / 7 / 8) != (3 / 4) / (7 / 8) (((3 / 4) / 7) / 8) != ((3 * 8) / (4 * 7)) 0.134 != 0.857

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What were the Egyptians thinking?! Not Composable

“Divide like an Egyptian”


What about Average?

Overall AVG ( [3, 1] ((3 + 5) + (5 + 7)) 20 [5, 1] == ----------------------- == --- == 5 [5, 1] ((1 + 2) + 1) 4 [7, 1]

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value

count

Pairwise AVG (3 + 5) (5 + 7) 8 12 20 ------- + ------- == --- + --- == --- == 10 != 5 2 2 2 2 2

Divide, Add, Divide? Not Composable

Single Divide at the End? Doesn’t need to be Composable!

AVG (3, 5, 5, 7) == 5

Add, Add, Add? Composable!








Similarity

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Euclidean Similarity Exists in Euclidean, flat space Based on Euclidean distance Linear measure Bias towards magnitude

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Cosine Similarity Angular measure Adjusts for Euclidean magnitude bias

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Normalize to unit vectors


Jaccard Similarity Set similarity measurement Set intersection / set union -> Based on Jaccard distance Bias towards popularity

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Log Likelihood Similarity Adjusts for popularity bias Netflix “Shawshank” problem

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Word Similarity Based on edit distance Calculate char differences between words Deletes, transposes, replaces, inserts

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Document Similarity TD/IDF Term Freq / Inverse Document Freq Used by most search engines

Word2Vec Words embedded in vector space nearby similars

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Similarity Pathway ie. Closest recommendations between 2 people

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Calculating Similarity Exact Brute-Force “All-pairs similarity” aka “Pair-wise similarity”, “Similarity join” Cartesian O(n^2) shuffle and comparison

Approximate Sampling Bucketing (aka “Partitioning”, “Clustering”) Remove data with low probability of similarity

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Bonus: Document Summary Text Rank aka “Sentence Rank” TF/IDF + Similarity Graph + PageRank

Intuition Surface summary sentences (abstract) Most similar to all others (TF/IDF + Similarity Graph) Most influential sentences (PageRank)

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Similarity Graph Vertex is movie, tag, actor, plot summary, etc. Edges are relationships and weights

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Topic-Sensitive PageRank Graph diffusion algorithm Pre-process graph, add vector of probabilities to each vertex Probability of landing at this vertex from every other vertex

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Recommendations

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Basic Terminology User: User seeking recommendations Item: Item being recommended Explicit User Feedback: like, rating, movie view, profile read, search Implicit User Feedback: click, hover, scroll, navigation Instances: Rows of user feedback/input data Overfitting: Training a model too closely to the training data & hyperparameters Hold Out Split: Holding out some of the instances to avoid overfitting Features: Columns of instance rows (of feedback/input data) Cold Start Problem: Not enough data to personalize (new) Hyperparameter: Model-specific config knobs for tuning (tree depth, iterations) Model Evaluation: Compare predictions to actual values of hold out split Feature Engineering: Modify, reduce, combine features

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Features Binary: True or False Numeric Discrete: Integers

Numeric: Real Values

Binning: Convert Continuous into Discrete (Time of Day->Morning, Afternoon)

Categorical Ordinal: Size (Small->Medium->Large), Ratings (1->5)

Categorical Nominal: Independent, Favorite Sports Teams, Dating Spots Temporal: Time-based, Time of Day, Binge Viewing

Text: Movie Titles, Genres, Tags, Reviews (Tokenize, Stop Words, Stemming)

Media: Images, Audio, Video

Geographic: (Longitude, Latitude), Geohash

Latent: Hidden Features within Data (Collaborative Filtering) Derived: Age of Movie, Duration of User Subscription

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Feature Engineering Dimension Reduction Reduce number of features in feature space

Principle Component Analysis (PCA) Help find principle features that best describe variance in data Peel the dimensional layers back until you describe the data

One-Hot Encoding Convert nominal categorical feature values to 0’s, 1’s Remove numerical relationship between the categories Bears -> 1 Bears -> [1,0,0] 49’ers -> 2 --> 49’ers -> [0,1,0] Steelers-> 3 Steelers-> [0,0,1]

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1 binary column per category


Normalize and Standardize Features Goal Scale features to standard size Required by many ML algos

Normalize Features Calculate L1 (or L2, etc) norm Divide elements by norm org.apache.spark.ml.feature.Normalizer

Standardize Features Apply standard normal transformation Mean == 0 StdDev == 1 org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StandardScaler 29


Non-Personalized Recommendations

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Cold Start Problem “Cold Start” problem New user, don’t know their preference, must show something!

Movies with highest-rated actors Top K Aggregations

Most desirable singles PageRank of likes and dislikes

Facebook social graph Friend-based recommendations

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Personalized Recommendations

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Clustering (aka. Nearest Neighbors) User-to-User Clustering (User Behavior) Similar items viewed or rated Similar viewing pattern (ie. binge or casual)

Item-to-Item Clustering (Item Description) Similar item tags/metadata (Jaccard Similiarity, Locality Sensitive Hash) Similar profile text and categories (TF/IDF, Word2Vec, NLP) Similar images/facial structures (Convolutional Neural Nets, Eigenfaces)

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Dating Site ->


Bonus: NLP Conversation Bot

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“If your responses to my generic opening lines are positive, I may read your profile.” Spark ML and Stanford CoreNLP: TF/IDF, DecisionTrees, Sentiment

Analysis


User-to-Item Collaborative Filtering Matrix Factorization ①  Factor the large matrix (left) into 2 smaller matrices (right) ②  Smaller matrices, when multiplied, approximate original ③  Fill in the missing values with in the large matrix ④  Surface latent features from within user-item interaction

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Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering Made famous by Amazon Paper ~2003 Problem As # of users grew, user-item collab filtering didn’t scale

Solution Offline/Batch Item-to-Item Similarity Generate itemId -> List[userId] vectors

Online/Real-time Recommendations For each item in cart, recommend similar items from vector space

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When to Approximate? Memory or time constrained queries Relative vs. exact counts are OK (# errors between then and now)

Using machine learning or graph algos Inherently probabilistic and approximate Finding topics in documents (LDA) Finding similar pairs of users, items, words at scale (LSH) Finding top influencers (PageRank)

Streaming aggregations Inherently sloppy collection (exactly once?)

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Approximate as much as you can get away with! Ask for forgiveness later !!


When NOT to Approximate? If you’ve ever heard the term…

“Sarbanes-Oxley”

…at the office.

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A Few Good Algorithms

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You can’t handle the approximate!


Common to These Algos & Data Structs Low, fixed size in memory Known error bounds Store large amount of data Less memory than Java/Scala collections Tunable tradeoff between size and error Rely on multiple hash functions or operations Size of hash range defines error

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Bloom Filter Set.contains(key): Boolean

“Hash Multiple Times and Flip the Bits Wherever You Land”

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Bloom Filter Approximate set membership for key False positive: expect contains(), actual !contains() True negative: expect !contains(), actual !contains()

Elements are only added, never removed

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Bloom Filter in Action

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set(key) contains(key): Boolean

Images by @avibryant

TRUE -> maybe contains FALSE -> definitely does not contain.


CountMin Sketch Frequency Count and TopK

“Hash Multiple Times and Add 1 Wherever You Land”

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CountMin Sketch (CMS) Approximate frequency count and TopK for key ie. “Heavy Hitters” on Twitter

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Matei Zaharia Martin Odersky Donald Trump


CountMin Sketch In Action (TopK, Count)

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Images derived from @avibryant

Find minimum of all rows

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Can overestimate, but never underestimate

Multiple hash functions (1 hash function per row)

Binary hash output (1 element per column)

x 2 occurrences of “Top Gun” for slightly additional complexity

Top Gun Top Gun

Top Gun (x 2)

A FewGood Men

Taps

Top Gun (x 2)

add(Top Gun, 2)

getCount(Top Gun): Long

Use Case: TopK movies using total views

add(A Few Good Men, 1)

add(Taps, 1)

A FewGood Men

Taps

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Overlap Top Gun

Overlap A Few Good Men


HyperLogLog Count Distinct

“Hash Multiple Times and Uniformly Distribute Where You Land”

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HyperLogLog (HLL) Approximate count distinct Slight twist Special hash function creates uniform distribution

Error estimate 14 bits for size of range m = 2^14 = 16,384 hash slots error = 1.04/(sqrt(16,384)) = .81%

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Not many of these


HyperLogLog In Action (Count Distinct) Use Case: Number of distinct users who view a movie

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Top Gun: Hour 2 user2001

user 4009

user 3002

user 7002

user 1005

user 6001

User 8001

User 8002

user 1001

user 2009

user 3005

user 3003

Top Gun: Hour 1 user 3001

user 7009

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Uniform Distribution: Estimate distinct # of users by inspecting just the beginning

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Top Gun: Hour 1 + 2 user2001

user 4009

user 3002

user 7002

user 1005

user 6001

User 8001

User 8002

Combine across different scales

user 7009

user 1001

user 2009

user 3005

user 3003

user 3001


Locality Sensitive Hashing Set Similarity

“Pre-process Items into Buckets, Compare Within Buckets”

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Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) Approximate set similarity Hash designed to cluster similar items Avoids cartesian all-pairs comparison Pre-process m rows into b buckets b << m

Hash items multiple times Similar items hash to overlapping buckets Compare just contents of buckets Much smaller cartesian … and parallel !!

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DIMSUM Set Similarity

“Pre-process and ignore data that is unlikely to be similar.”

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DIMSUM “Dimension Independent Matrix Square Using MR” Remove vectors with low probability of similarity RowMatrix.columnSimiliarites(threshold)

Twitter DIMSUM Case Study 40% efficiency gain over bruce-force Cosine Sim

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Common Tools to Approximate

Twitter Algebird

Redis

Apache Spark

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Composable Library

Distributed Cache

Big Data Processing


Twitter Algebird Rooted in Algebraic Fundamentals! Parallel Associative Composable Examples Min, Max, Avg BloomFilter (Set.contains(key)) HyperLogLog (Count Distinct) CountMin Sketch (TopK Count)

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Redis Implementation of HyperLogLog (Count Distinct) 12KB per item count 2^64 max # of items 0.81% error (Tunable) Add user views for given movie

PFADD TopGun_HLL user1001 user2009 user3005 PFADD TopGun_HLL user3003 user1001

Get distinct count (cardinality) of set

PFCOUNT TopGun_HLL Returns: 4 (distinct users viewed this movie)

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ignore duplicates

Tunable

Union 2 HyperLogLog Data Structures PFMERGE TopGun_HLL Taps_HLL


Spark Approximations Spark Core

RDD.count*Approx() Spark SQL

PartialResult approxCountDistinct(column), HyperLogLogPlus

Spark ML Stratified sampling PairRDD.sampleByKey(fractions: Double[ ]) DIMSUM sampling Probabilistic sampling reduces amount of comparison shuffle RowMatrix.columnSimilarities(threshold)

Spark Streaming A/B testing StreamingTest.setTestMethod(“welch”).registerStream(dstream)

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Demos!

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Counting Exact Count vs. Approx HyperLogLog, CountMin Sketch

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HashSet vs. HyperLogLog (Memory)

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HashSet vs. CountMin Sketch (Memory)

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Set Similarity Bruce Force vs. Locality Sensitive Hashing Similarity

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Brute Force Cartesian All Pair Similarity

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47 seconds


Locality Sensitive Hash All Pair Similarity

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6 seconds


Many More Demos!

or Download Docker Clone Github

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  Common Algorithms and Data Structures   Common Libraries and Tools



Netflix Data Pipeline & Recommendations From 5 Stars to Trending Now

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Netflix Has a Lot of Data Netflix has a lot of data about a lot of users and a lot of movies. Netflix can use this data to buy new movies. Netflix is global. Netflix can use this data to choose original programming. Netflix knows that a lot of people like politics and Kevin Spacey.

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The UK doesn’t have White Castle. Renamed my favourite movie to:

“Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies”

My favorite movie: “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”

Summary: Buy NFLX Stock!

This broke my unit tests!


Netflix Data Pipeline - Then

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v1.0

v2.0


Netflix Data Pipeline – Now (Keystone)

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v3.0

9 million events per second 22 GB per second

EC2 D2XL Disk: 6 TB, 475 MB/s RAM: 30 G Network: 700 Mbps

Auto-scaling, Fault tolerance

A/B Tests, Trending Now

SAMZA

Splits high and normal priority


Netflix Recommendation Pipeline

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Throw away batch-generated user factors (U)


Netflix Trending Now (Temporal Recs) Uses Spark Streaming Personalized to user (viewing history, past ratings) Personalized to events (Valentine’s Day)

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“VHS”

Number of Plays

Number of Impressions

Calculate Take Rate


Bonus: Pandora Temporal Recs Work Days Play familiar music User is less likely accept new music

Evenings and Weekends Play new music More like to accept new music

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$1 Million Netflix Prize (2006-2009) Goal Improve movie predictions by 10% (RMSE)

Ratings Dataset (5 stars) (userId, movieId, rating, timestamp) Test data withheld to calculate RMSE upon submission

Winning algorithm 10.06% improvement (RMSE) Ensemble of 500+ ML combined with GBDT’s Computationally impractical

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Secrets to the Winning Algorithms Adjust for the following human bias… ①  Alice Effect: user consistently rates lower than avg ②  Inception Effect: movie consistently rated higher than avg ③  Overall mean rating of a movie ④  Number of people who have rated a movie ⑤  Number of days since user’s first rating ⑥  Number of days since movie’s first rating ⑦  Mood, time of day, day of week, season, weather

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Netflix Common ML Algorithms Logistic Regression Linear Regression Gradient Boosted Decision Trees Random Forest Matrix Factorization SVD Restricted Boltzmann Machines Deep Neural Nets Markov Models LDA Clustering

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Ensembles!


Netflix Genres and Clusters Typical Genres Documentaries, Romance Comedies, Horror, Action, Adventure

Latent (Hidden) Clusters Emotionally-Independent Dramas for Hopeless Romantics Witty Dysfunctional-Family TV Animated Comedies Romantic Crime Movies based on Classic Literature Latin American Forbidden-Love Movies Critically-acclaimed Emotional Drug Movie Cerebral Military Movie based on Real Life Sentimental Movies about Horses for Ages 11-12 Gory Canadian Revenge Movies Raunchy Mad Scientist Comedy

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Netflix Social Integration Post to Facebook after movie start (5 mins) Helps with Cold Start problem Recommend to new users based on friends

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Netflix Search No results? No problem… Show similar results!

Empty searches are good! Explicit feedback for future recommendations Content to buy and produce!

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Higher Recommendations in 2004?? Netflix noticed people started to rate movies higher Why?

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①  Significant UI improvements deployed ②  New recommendation engine deployed ③ 


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