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package org.apache.sysds.runtime.compress.cocode;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.sysds.runtime.compress.CompressionSettings;
import org.apache.sysds.runtime.compress.cocode.PlanningCoCoder.GroupableColInfo;

public abstract class ColumnGroupPartitioner {
	/**
	 * Partitions a list of columns into a list of partitions that contains subsets of columns. Note that this call must
	 * compute a complete and disjoint partitioning.
	 * 
	 * @param groupCols     list of columns
	 * @param groupColsInfo list of column infos
	 * @param cs            The Compression settings used for the compression
	 * @return list of partitions (where each partition is a list of columns)
	 */
	public abstract List<int[]> partitionColumns(List<Integer> groupCols,
		HashMap<Integer, GroupableColInfo> groupColsInfo, CompressionSettings cs);
}