models.lda_dispatcher – Dispatcher for distributed LDA

Dispatcher process which orchestrates distributed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA, LdaModel) computations. Run this script only once, on any node in your cluster.

Notes

The dispatcher expects to find worker scripts already running. Make sure you run as many workers as you like on your machines before launching the dispatcher.

How to use distributed LdaModel

  1. Install needed dependencies (Pyro4)

    pip install gensim[distributed]

  2. Setup serialization (on each machine)

    export PYRO_SERIALIZERS_ACCEPTED=pickle
export PYRO_SERIALIZER=pickle

  3. Run nameserver

    python -m Pyro4.naming -n 0.0.0.0 &

  4. Run workers (on each machine)

    python -m gensim.models.lda_worker &

  5. Run dispatcher

    python -m gensim.models.lda_dispatcher &

  6. Run LdaModel in distributed mode :

>>> from gensim.test.utils import common_corpus, common_dictionary
>>> from gensim.models import LdaModel
>>>
>>> model = LdaModel(common_corpus, id2word=common_dictionary, distributed=True)

Command line arguments

...
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --maxsize MAXSIZE  How many jobs (=chunks of N documents) to keep 'pre-fetched' in a queue (default: 10)
  --host HOST        Nameserver hostname (default: None)
  --port PORT        Nameserver port (default: None)
  --no-broadcast     Disable broadcast (default: True)
  --hmac HMAC        Nameserver hmac key (default: None)
  -v, --verbose      Verbose flag
class gensim.models.lda_dispatcher.Dispatcher(maxsize=10, ns_conf=None)

Dispatcher object that communicates and coordinates individual workers.

Warning

There should never be more than one dispatcher running at any one time.

Partly initializes the dispatcher.

A full initialization (including initialization of the workers) requires a call to initialize()

Parameters

  • maxsize (int, optional) – Maximum number of jobs to be kept pre-fetched in the queue.

  • ns_conf (dict of (str, object)) – Sets up the name server configuration for the pyro daemon server of dispatcher. This also helps to keep track of your objects in your network by using logical object names instead of exact object name(or id) and its location.

exit()

Terminate all registered workers and then the dispatcher.

getjob(worker_id)

Atomically pop a job from the queue.

Parameters

worker_id (int) – The worker that requested the job.

Returns

The corpus in BoW format.

Return type

iterable of list of (int, float)

getstate()

Merge states from across all workers and return the result.

Returns

Merged resultant state

Return type

LdaState

getworkers()

Return pyro URIs of all registered workers.

Returns

The pyro URIs for each worker.

Return type

list of URIs

initialize(**model_params)

Fully initialize the dispatcher and all its workers.

Parameters

**model_params – Keyword parameters used to initialize individual workers, see LdaModel.

Raises

RuntimeError – When no workers are found (the gensim.models.lda_worker script must be ran beforehand).

jobdone(workerid)

A worker has finished its job. Log this event and then asynchronously transfer control back to the worker.

Callback used by workers to notify when their job is done.

The job done event is logged and then control is asynchronously transfered back to the worker (who can then request another job). In this way, control flow basically oscillates between gensim.models.lda_dispatcher.Dispatcher.jobdone() and gensim.models.lda_worker.Worker.requestjob().

Parameters

workerid (int) – The ID of the worker that finished the job (used for logging).

jobsdone()

Wrap _jobsdone needed for remote access through proxies.

Returns

Number of jobs already completed.

Return type

int

putjob(job)

Atomically add a job to the queue.

Parameters

job (iterable of list of (int, float)) – The corpus in BoW format.

reset(state)

Reinitialize all workers for a new EM iteration.

Parameters

state (LdaState) – State of LdaModel.