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Josep RubiĆ³ commented on FLINK-1707: ------------------------------------ Hi all, Sorry for my late response but I did not have much time to work with this. I have created a spreadsheet executing the algorithm with the same example i have in github. This is a 3 nodes graph with following similarities: 1 -> 1: 1.0 1 -> 2: 1.0 1 -> 3: 5.0 2 -> 1: 1.0 2 -> 2: 1.0 2 -> 3: 3.0 3 -> 1: 5.0 3 -> 2: 3.0 3 -> 3: 1.0 The execution in the spreadsheet contains the calculations for intermediate results of the algorithm (eta and beta values being n and b respectively). These calculations are implicit in in alfa and rho in the implementation. You can see that values for Rho messages in the spreadsheet are the values sent from I to E nodes in the implementation and alfa messages are the values sent from E to I nodes. Damping factor can be set at second row. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CurZCBP6dPb1IYQQIgUHVjQdyLxK0JDGZwlSXCzBcvA/edit?usp=sharing About the other issues: - Although It is recommended in the paper to use damping it can be implemented without it, avoiding having in the vertices the old sent values for each destination. I don't see any other way to implement damping. - Calculating values in parallel is not an issue is a different scheduling of the algorithm. It could be done in a serial mode just doing the calculations for odd or even vertices in each superstep. - I will review the other implementation issues you commented Thanks! > Add an Affinity Propagation Library Method > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-1707 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1707 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Gelly > Reporter: Vasia Kalavri > Assignee: Josep RubiĆ³ > Priority: Minor > Labels: requires-design-doc > Attachments: Binary_Affinity_Propagation_in_Flink_design_doc.pdf > > > This issue proposes adding the an implementation of the Affinity Propagation > algorithm as a Gelly library method and a corresponding example. > The algorithm is described in paper [1] and a description of a vertex-centric > implementation can be found is [2]. > [1]: http://www.psi.toronto.edu/affinitypropagation/FreyDueckScience07.pdf > [2]: http://event.cwi.nl/grades2014/00-ching-slides.pdf > Design doc: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QULalzPqMVICi8jRVs3S0n39pell2ZVc7RNemz_SGA4/edit?usp=sharing > Example spreadsheet: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CurZCBP6dPb1IYQQIgUHVjQdyLxK0JDGZwlSXCzBcvA/edit?usp=sharing -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)