lincc-frameworks / lincc-frameworks/hyrax

Allow iterable datasets with no known size

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Description

Feature request

Some iterable datasets would have no pre-defined size, e.g. data is generated or augmented on the fly, or streamed in a way that the total number of samples is not known in advance. I'm facing this issue when streaming data from LSDB in the Uncle Val project, because any change to the LSDB query would lead to a different number of rows, and getting this number would basically mean streaming the whole dataset first.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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