Merge shuffling and bucketing buffers in DynamicBucketingSampler #1276
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I realized it's redundant to have two buffers, and we can instead use a single buffer to achieve both goals of shuffling and bucketing (and achieve them better). The basic idea is that we remove the shuffle buffer and let
DynamicBucketer
choose examples from the bucketing buffer at random without replacements (whereas previously, it just sampled the first N until hitting the constraint). Effectively, it's using the larger size of both buffers in the old implementation for both tasks while saving the space of the smaller buffer.