随着数据爆炸式增长，为处理大量数据，MapReduce、Storm、Spark和Flink应运而生，而传统的机器学习方法对GPU的利用很少，浪费了很多的资源和探索的可能，RAPIDS正在被设计为数据处理的下一个发展阶段。由于其Apache Arrow的内存格式，与Spark内存处理相比，RAPIDS可以提高50倍左右的速度，此外，还可以从一个扩展到多个GPU。
RAPIDS所有库都是基于Python的，并且都设计了类似于Pandas和Sklearn的接口，RAPIDS提供三个模块处理数据：cuDF相当于Pandas，cuML相当于scikit-learn，cuGraph用于处理图数据。由于它的兼容性很好，可以把RAPIDS与深度学习框架结合，用cuDF来利用GPU加速处理数据，然后使用PyTorch的深度学习模型处理任务，用于可视化的Kepler GL以及用于分布计算的Dask。
下面使用RAPIDS对比使用Pandas和Sklearn更快地进行数据分析。
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn import preprocessing
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
import cudf
import xgboost as xgb
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
import time
dataset_len = 8000000
dlen = int(dataset_len/2)
X_11 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(2,2,dlen))
X_12 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(9,2,dlen))
X_1 = pd.concat([X_11, X_12]).reset_index(drop=True)
X_21 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(1,3,dlen))
X_22 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(7,3,dlen))
X_2 = pd.concat([X_21, X_22]).reset_index(drop=True)
X_31 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(3,1,dlen))
X_32 = pd.Series(np.random.normal(3,4,dlen))
X_3 = pd.concat([X_31, X_32]).reset_index(drop=True)
Y = pd.Series(np.repeat([0,1],dlen))
df = pd.concat([X_1, X_2, X_3, Y], axis=1)
df.columns = ['X1', 'X2', 'X3', 'Y']
df.head()
X = df.drop(['Y'], axis = 1).values
y = df['Y']
def preproces(df, X, y, train_size = 0.80):
# label_encoder object knows how to understand word labels.
label_encoder = preprocessing.LabelEncoder()
# Encode labels
y = label_encoder.fit_transform(y)
# identify shape and indices
num_rows, num_columns = df.shape
delim_index = int(num_rows * train_size)
# Splitting the dataset in training and test sets
X_train, y_train = X[:delim_index, :], y[:delim_index]
X_test, y_test = X[delim_index:, :], y[delim_index:]
# Checking sets dimensions
print('X_train dimensions: ', X_train.shape, 'y_train: ', y_train.shape)
print('X_test dimensions:', X_test.shape, 'y_validation: ', y_test.shape)
# Checking dimensions in percentages
total = X_train.shape[0] + X_test.shape[0]
print('X_train Percentage:', (X_train.shape[0]/total)*100, '%')
print('X_test Percentage:', (X_test.shape[0]/total)*100, '%')
return X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test
X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test = preproces(df, X, y)
dtrain = xgb.DMatrix(X_train, label=y_train)
dtest = xgb.DMatrix(X_test, label=y_test)
time_start=time.time()
# Initial xgb parameters
params = {}
clf = xgb.train(params, dtrain)
time_end=time.time()
times = round(time_end-time_start)
print(f'RAPIDS XGBoost: {times} s')
# Feature Importance plot!
xgb.plot_importance(clf)
rapids_pred = clf.predict(dtest)
rapids_pred = np.round(rapids_pred)
rapids_acc = round(accuracy_score(y_test, rapids_pred), 2)
print("XGB accuracy using RAPIDS:", rapids_acc*100, '%')
time_start=time.time()
model = XGBClassifier()
model.fit(X_train, y_train)
time_end=time.time()
times = round(time_end-time_start)
print(f'SKlearn XGBoost: {times} s' )
sk_pred = model.predict(X_test)
sk_pred = np.round(sk_pred)
sk_acc = round(accuracy_score(y_test, sk_pred), 2)
print("XGB accuracy using Sklearn:", sk_acc*100, '%')
运行结果Rapids_le.out
X_train dimensions: (6400000, 3) y_train: (6400000,)
X_test dimensions: (1600000, 3) y_validation: (1600000,)
X_train Percentage: 80.0 %
X_test Percentage: 20.0 %
[17:04:50] WARNING: /conda/conda-bld/xgboost_1571337679414/work/src/gbm/gbtree.cc:130: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for faster speed. To use old behavior (exact greedy algorithm on single machine), set tree_method to 'exact'.
RAPIDS XGBoost: 52 s
XGB accuracy using RAPIDS: 98.0 %
[17:05:45] WARNING: /conda/conda-bld/xgboost_1571337679414/work/src/gbm/gbtree.cc:130: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for faster speed. To use old behavior (exact greedy algorithm on single machine), set tree_method to 'exact'.
SKlearn XGBoost: 858 s
XGB accuracy using Sklearn: 98.0 %
从运行结果看出，使用Sklearn解决这个问题的速度比使用RAPIDS (858s/52s)慢16.5倍。通过在预处理阶段使用cuDF而不是Pandas，可以进一步减少这个例子的整体工作流的执行时间。从模型整体准确度来看，使用RAPIDS可以在不影响模型精度的情况下获得更快的结果。
参考博客：
1 用RAPIDS库加速数据分析和机器学习
2 基于GPU的机器学习Python库——RAPIDS简介及其使用方法