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Re: Re: How to quickly find number of non-zero elements in sparse matrix rows?

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• Subject: [mg56920] Re: [mg56900] Re: How to quickly find number of non-zero elements in sparse matrix rows?
• From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
• Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 03:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 9, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Paul Abbott wrote:

> In article <d5j5ec$qdr$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>  Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> For the full array, the following is quite reasonable:
>>
>>   Most[Length /@ Split[ArrayRules[sa], #1[[1,1]]==#2[[1,1]]&]]; 
>> //Timing
>
> Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com> pointed out that my code 
> does not work
> if the array has all zero rows. This is easy to fix:
>
>  {#[[1,1,1]],Length[#]}& /@
>     Split[ArrayRules[sa], #1[[1,1]]==#2[[1,1]]& ] // Most
>
> returns the row number and number of non-zero entries in sa.
>

Just for completeness' sake I timed a similar expression:

{#[[1, 1]], Length[#]} & /@ Split[Sort[#[[1]] & /@ Most[
   ArrayRules[sa]]], #1[[1]] == #2[[1]] &]

over a 200000 by 200000 array and it took about 5 seconds on a 1GHz G4 
which seems reasonable.

Regards,

Ssezi

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  • Re: How to quickly find number of non-zero elements in sparse matrix rows?
    • From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>