Finding Nonzero Elements in a Sparse Matrix

[deLenn]

Hi,

Does scipy have an equivalent to Matlab's 'find' function, to list the
indices of all nonzero elements in a sparse matrix?

Cheers.

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

The function you might want is nonzero() or flatnonzero()

>>from numpy import *

>>a=array([ [1,2],[0,4] ])

>>a

array([[1, 2],
[0, 4]])

>>flatnonzero(a)

array([0, 1, 3])

nonzero() will return the a sequence of index arrays of non zero
elements
flatnonzero() returns the non-zero elements of the flattened version
of the array.

Cheers,
Nick Vatamaniuc

deLenn wrote:

Hi,

Does scipy have an equivalent to Matlab's 'find' function, to list the
indices of all nonzero elements in a sparse matrix?

Cheers.

[deLenn]

Thanks for the reply.

'nonzero' deos not seem to work with sparse matrices. here is an
example:
from scipy import *
A = sparse.lil_matrix((3,3))
A[1,2] = 10
A[2,0] = -10

nonzero(A)

>>()

(I tried it with an ordinary matrix, and it works fine)

Cheers.





Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:

The function you might want is nonzero() or flatnonzero()

>from numpy import *

>a=array([ [1,2],[0,4] ])

>a

array([[1, 2],
[0, 4]])

>flatnonzero(a)

array([0, 1, 3])

nonzero() will return the a sequence of index arrays of non zero
elements
flatnonzero() returns the non-zero elements of the flattened version
of the array.

Cheers,
Nick Vatamaniuc

deLenn wrote:

Hi,

Does scipy have an equivalent to Matlab's 'find' function, to list the
indices of all nonzero elements in a sparse matrix?

Cheers.

[Robert Kern]

deLenn wrote:

Hi,

Does scipy have an equivalent to Matlab's 'find' function, to list the
indices of all nonzero elements in a sparse matrix?

You will want to ask scipy questions on the scipy list.

http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists

There is no explicit interface on sparse matrix objects to expose the indices of
the nonzero elements. A different implementation would have to be written for
each type of sparse matrix format. However, if one can spare the memory, one can
convert to the coordinate list format and read the row and column indices from
that object.
In [1]: from scipy.sparse import lil_matrix

In [2]: A = lil_matrix((3,3))

In [3]: A[1,2] = 10

In [4]: A[2,0] = -10

In [5]: Acoo = A.tocoo()

In [6]: Acoo.row
Out[6]: array([2, 1])

In [7]: Acoo.col
Out[7]: array([0, 2])
--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

de Lenn,

Sorry I assumed the nonzero would work for sparse matrices as well.

BUT! -- If the sparse matrix used is the default scipy's
sparse.lil_matrix, you just need to print out the representation
because the lil_matrix is implemented as a _sequence of non-zero
elements_ i.e. just what you need.

In other words it is kind of silly to provide a nonzero for lil_matrix
because it has _only_ non-zero elements.

Well, here is the example:
------------------------------------

>>from scipy import *
A=sparse.lil_matrix((3,3))
A[1,2]=10
A[2,0]=-10
print A

(1, 2) 10
(2, 0) -10

>>>

------------------------------------

The only way it could be helpful is if you get a lil_matrix returned as
an object from some code and you need to list all the elements...

Hope this helps,
Nick Vatamaniuc
deLenn wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

'nonzero' deos not seem to work with sparse matrices. here is an
example:
from scipy import *
A = sparse.lil_matrix((3,3))
A[1,2] = 10
A[2,0] = -10

nonzero(A)

>()

(I tried it with an ordinary matrix, and it works fine)

Cheers.





Nick Vatamaniuc wrote:

The function you might want is nonzero() or flatnonzero()

>>from numpy import *

>>a=array([ [1,2],[0,4] ])

>>a

array([[1, 2],
[0, 4]])

>>flatnonzero(a)

array([0, 1, 3])

nonzero() will return the a sequence of index arrays of non zero
elements
flatnonzero() returns the non-zero elements of the flattened version
of the array.

Cheers,
Nick Vatamaniuc

deLenn wrote:

Hi,
>
Does scipy have an equivalent to Matlab's 'find' function, to list the
indices of all nonzero elements in a sparse matrix?
>
Cheers.