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Matrix Multiplication With 1 MapReduce Step

MapReduce is a technique in which a huge program is subdivided into small tasks and run parallelly to make computation faster, save time, and mostly used in distributed systems. It has 2 important parts: 

Let us consider the matrix multiplication example to visualize MapReduce. Consider the following matrix: 



2×2 matrices A and B

Here matrix A is a 2×2 matrix which means the number of rows(i)=2 and the number of columns(j)=2. Matrix B is also a 2×2 matrix where number of rows(j)=2 and number of columns(k)=2. Each cell of the matrix is labelled as Aij and Bij. Ex. element 3 in matrix A is called A21 i.e. 2nd-row 1st column. Now One step matrix multiplication has 1 mapper and 1 reducer. The Formula is: 

Mapper for Matrix A (k, v)=((i, k), (A, j, Aij)) for all k 
Mapper for Matrix B (k, v)=((i, k), (B, j, Bjk)) for all i 



Therefore computing the mapper for Matrix A: 

# k, i, j computes the number of times it occurs.
# Here all are 2, therefore when k=1, i can have 
# 2 values 1 & 2, each case can have 2 further
# values of j=1 and j=2. Substituting all values 
# in formula

k=1  i=1  j=1   ((1, 1), (A, 1, 1)) 
          j=2   ((1, 1), (A, 2, 2))   
     i=2  j=1   ((2, 1), (A, 1, 3))
          j=2   ((2, 1), (A, 2, 4)) 

k=2  i=1  j=1   ((1, 2), (A, 1, 1))
          j=2   ((1, 2), (A, 2, 2))   
     i=2  j=1   ((2, 2), (A, 1, 3))
          j=2   ((2, 2), (A, 2, 4)) 

Computing the mapper for Matrix B 

i=1  j=1  k=1   ((1, 1), (B, 1, 5)) 
          k=2   ((1, 2), (B, 1, 6))   
     j=2  k=1   ((1, 1), (B, 2, 7))
          k=2   ((1, 2), (B, 2, 8)) 

i=2  j=1  k=1   ((2, 1), (B, 1, 5))
          k=2   ((2, 2), (B, 1, 6))   
     j=2  k=1   ((2, 1), (B, 2, 7))
          k=2   ((2, 2), (B, 2, 8)) 

The formula for Reducer is: 

Reducer(k, v)=(i, k)=>Make sorted Alist and Blist 
(i, k) => Summation (Aij * Bjk)) for j 
Output =>((i, k), sum) 

Therefore computing the reducer: 

# We can observe from Mapper computation 
# that 4 pairs are common (1, 1), (1, 2),
# (2, 1) and (2, 2)
# Make a list separate for Matrix A & 
# B with adjoining values taken from 
# Mapper step above:

(1, 1) =>Alist ={(A, 1, 1), (A, 2, 2)}
        Blist ={(B, 1, 5), (B, 2, 7)}
        Now Aij x Bjk: [(1*5) + (2*7)] =19 -------(i)

(1, 2) =>Alist ={(A, 1, 1), (A, 2, 2)}
        Blist ={(B, 1, 6), (B, 2, 8)}
        Now Aij x Bjk: [(1*6) + (2*8)] =22 -------(ii)

(2, 1) =>Alist ={(A, 1, 3), (A, 2, 4)}
        Blist ={(B, 1, 5), (B, 2, 7)}
        Now Aij x Bjk: [(3*5) + (4*7)] =43 -------(iii)

(2, 2) =>Alist ={(A, 1, 3), (A, 2, 4)}
        Blist ={(B, 1, 6), (B, 2, 8)}
        Now Aij x Bjk: [(3*6) + (4*8)] =50 -------(iv)

From (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) we conclude that
((1, 1), 19)
((1, 2), 22)
((2, 1), 43)
((2, 2), 50)

Therefore the Final Matrix is: 

Final output of Matrix multiplication.

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