pocketflow/docs/design_pattern/mapreduce.md

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---
layout: default
title: "Map Reduce"
parent: "Design Pattern"
nav_order: 4
---
# Map Reduce
MapReduce is a design pattern suitable when you have either:
- Large input data (e.g., multiple files to process), or
- Large output data (e.g., multiple forms to fill)
and there is a logical way to break the task into smaller, ideally independent parts.
<div align="center">
<img src="https://github.com/the-pocket/.github/raw/main/assets/mapreduce.png?raw=true" width="400"/>
</div>
You first break down the task using [BatchNode](../core_abstraction/batch.md) in the map phase, followed by aggregation in the reduce phase.
### Example: Document Summarization
```python
class SummarizeAllFiles(BatchNode):
def prep(self, shared):
files_dict = shared["files"] # e.g. 10 files
return list(files_dict.items()) # [("file1.txt", "aaa..."), ("file2.txt", "bbb..."), ...]
def exec(self, one_file):
filename, file_content = one_file
summary_text = call_llm(f"Summarize the following file:\n{file_content}")
return (filename, summary_text)
def post(self, shared, prep_res, exec_res_list):
shared["file_summaries"] = dict(exec_res_list)
class CombineSummaries(Node):
def prep(self, shared):
return shared["file_summaries"]
def exec(self, file_summaries):
# format as: "File1: summary\nFile2: summary...\n"
text_list = []
for fname, summ in file_summaries.items():
text_list.append(f"{fname} summary:\n{summ}\n")
big_text = "\n---\n".join(text_list)
return call_llm(f"Combine these file summaries into one final summary:\n{big_text}")
def post(self, shared, prep_res, final_summary):
shared["all_files_summary"] = final_summary
batch_node = SummarizeAllFiles()
combine_node = CombineSummaries()
batch_node >> combine_node
flow = Flow(start=batch_node)
shared = {
"files": {
"file1.txt": "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister...",
"file2.txt": "Some other interesting text ...",
# ...
}
}
flow.run(shared)
print("Individual Summaries:", shared["file_summaries"])
print("\nFinal Summary:\n", shared["all_files_summary"])
```
> **Performance Tip**: The example above works sequentially. You can speed up the map phase by running it in parallel. See [(Advanced) Parallel](../core_abstraction/parallel.md) for more details.
{: .note }