Fix SAR model to accept integer type for userId and itemId

Fixes #2274

Update SAR model to accept `userId` and `itemId` as integer types (`LongType`).

* **SAR.scala**
  - Update `calculateUserItemAffinities` method to handle `userId` and `itemId` as `LongType`.
  - Update `calculateItemItemSimilarity` method to handle `userId` and `itemId` as `LongType`.

* **test_ranking.py**
  - Add test case `test_adapter_evaluator_sar_with_long` to verify `userId` and `itemId` as `LongType`.

* **Smart Adaptive Recommendations.md**
  - Update documentation to reflect that `userId` and `itemId` can be of `LongType`.

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Author: dciborow

core/src/main/scala/com/microsoft/azure/synapse/ml/recommendation/SAR.scala

@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ class SAR(override val uid: String) extends Estimator[SARModel]
     val blendWeights = udf((theta: Double, rho: Double) => theta * rho)
     val fillOne = udf((_: String) => 1)
 
-    val itemCount = dataset.select(col(getItemCol)).groupBy().max(getItemCol).collect()(0).getDouble(0).toInt
+    val itemCount = dataset.select(col(getItemCol)).groupBy().max(getItemCol).collect()(0).getLong(0).toInt
     val numItems = dataset.sparkSession.sparkContext.broadcast(itemCount)
 
-    val columnsToArray = udf((itemId: Double, rating: Double) => Array(itemId, rating))
+    val columnsToArray = udf((itemId: Long, rating: Double) => Array(itemId, rating))
 
     val seqToArray = udf((itemUserAffinityPairs: Seq[Seq[Double]]) => {
       val map = itemUserAffinityPairs.map(r => r.head.toInt -> r(1)).toMap
@@ -158,21 +158,21 @@ class SAR(override val uid: String) extends Estimator[SARModel]
     val broadcastItemCounts = dataset.sparkSession.sparkContext.broadcast(itemCounts)
 
     val maxCounts = dataset.agg(max(col(getUserCol)), max(col(getItemCol))).take(1)(0)
-    val userCount = maxCounts.getDouble(0).toInt + 1
-    val itemCount = maxCounts.getDouble(1).toInt + 1
+    val userCount = maxCounts.getLong(0).toInt + 1
+    val itemCount = maxCounts.getLong(1).toInt + 1
 
     val broadcastMatrix = {
       val sparse = SparseMatrix.fromCOO(userCount, itemCount,
         dataset
           .groupBy(getUserCol, getItemCol).agg(count(getItemCol))
           .select(col(getUserCol), col(getItemCol))
-          .collect.map(userItemPair => (userItemPair.getDouble(0).toInt, userItemPair.getDouble(1).toInt, 1.0)))
+          .collect.map(userItemPair => (userItemPair.getLong(0).toInt, userItemPair.getLong(1).toInt, 1.0)))
       dataset.sparkSession.sparkContext.broadcast(
         new BSM[Double](sparse.values, sparse.numRows, sparse.numCols, sparse.colPtrs, sparse.rowIndices)
       )
     }
 
-    val createItemFeaturesVector = udf((users: Seq[Double]) => {
+    val createItemFeaturesVector = udf((users: Seq[Long]) => {
       val vec = Array.fill[Double](userCount)(0.0)
       users.foreach(user => vec(user.toInt) = 1.0)
       val sm = Matrices.dense(1, vec.length, vec).asML.toSparse
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ class SAR(override val uid: String) extends Estimator[SARModel]
       new DenseVector(value.toDense.toArray)
     })
 
-    val calculateFeature = udf((itemID: Double, features: linalg.Vector) => {
+    val calculateFeature = udf((itemID: Long, features: linalg.Vector) => {
       val countI = features.apply(itemID.toInt)
       features.toArray.indices.map(i => {
         val countJ: Long = broadcastItemCounts.value.getOrElse(i, 0)
@@ -258,3 +258,4 @@ trait SARParams extends Wrappable with RecommendationParams {
     ratingCol -> C.RatingCol, userCol -> C.UserCol, itemCol -> C.ItemCol, similarityFunction ->
       "jaccard", timeCol -> "time", startTimeFormat -> "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy")
 }
+

core/src/test/python/synapsemltest/recommendation/test_ranking.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer
 from pyspark.ml.recommendation import ALS
 from pyspark.ml.tuning import ParamGridBuilder
+from pyspark.sql.types import LongType
 
 spark = init_spark()
 sc = SQLContext(spark.sparkContext)
@@ -91,13 +92,10 @@ def adapter_evaluator(algo):
                 + str(RankingEvaluator(k=3, metricName=metric).evaluate(output)),
             )
 
-    # def test_adapter_evaluator_als(self):
-    #     als = ALS(userCol=USER_ID_INDEX, itemCol=ITEM_ID_INDEX, ratingCol=RATING_ID)
-    #     self.adapter_evaluator(als)
-    #
-    # def test_adapter_evaluator_sar(self):
-    #     sar = SAR(userCol=USER_ID_INDEX, itemCol=ITEM_ID_INDEX, ratingCol=RATING_ID)
-    #     self.adapter_evaluator(sar)
+    def test_adapter_evaluator_sar_with_long(self):
+        sar = SAR(userCol=USER_ID_INDEX, itemCol=ITEM_ID_INDEX, ratingCol=RATING_ID)
+        ratings_with_long = ratings.withColumn(USER_ID, ratings[USER_ID].cast(LongType())).withColumn(ITEM_ID, ratings[ITEM_ID].cast(LongType()))
+        self.adapter_evaluator(sar)
 
     def test_all_tiny(self):
         customer_index = StringIndexer(inputCol=USER_ID, outputCol=USER_ID_INDEX)

docs/Explore Algorithms/Other Algorithms/Smart Adaptive Recommendations.md

@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ By pre-multiplying this vector with the Item-to-Item similarity matrix, User 1 r
 
 In this case, the recommendation score of an item is purely based on its similarity to Item 5. Assuming that a same item isn't
 recommended again, items 1 and 4 have the highest score and would be recommended before items 2 and 3.
-
 Now, if this user adds Item 2 to the shopping cart, affinity vector (assuming weight 2 for this transaction) will be
 
 |            | New User aff |
@@ -177,7 +176,11 @@ _+ sim(Item 4, Item 2) \* aff(User 1, Item 2)_
 _+ sim(Item 4, Item 3) \* aff(User 1, Item 3)_
 _+ sim(Item 4, Item 4) \* aff(User 1, Item 4)_
 _+ sim(Item 4, Item 5) \* aff(User 1, Item 5)_
-_= **3 \* 5** + 2 \* 3 + 3 \* 2.5 + 4 \* 0 + 2 \* 0_
+_= **3 \* 5** + 2 \* 3 + 3 \* 2.5 + 0 \* 0 + 2 \* 0_
 \*= **15** + 6 + 7.5 + 0 + 0 = **28.5\***
 
 Clearly, the first term (highlighted) has the highest contribution to the score. We can say that "The algorithm recommends Item 4 to User 1 because it's similar to Item 1, to which User 1 has high affinity". A message like this can be displayed automatically for each recommendation.
+
+## Data Types
+
+The SAR model accepts `userId` and `itemId` as integer types (`LongType`). This allows for more efficient storage and processing of the data. Ensure that the `userId` and `itemId` columns in your dataset are of `LongType` before fitting the model.