Re: Matrix multiplication speed up
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- Subject: [mg83026] Re: Matrix multiplication speed up
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:04:59 -0500 (EST)
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Frank Brand wrote:
> Dear mathgroup members,
>
> is anyone out there being able to help me with the following problem.
>
> I need to analyze iteratively the powers of large matrices (not
> necessarily sparse). Finally I came up with the following approach in
> order to avoid symbolic calculation:
>
> 1.
> Describe the components of the matrices via the index pair {i,j} like
>
> n = 3;
> AInd = Table[{{{i, j}}}, {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}]
> BInd = Table[{{{i, j}}}, {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}]
>
> 2.
> Declaration of the "matrix product" with
>
> MatProd = Table[0, {i, 1, n}, {j, 1, n}];
>
> Do[
> Do[
> MatProd[[i, k]] =
> Flatten[Table[
> Map[Map[Partition[Flatten[#], 2] &,
> Tuples[{{#}, BInd[[j, k]]}]] &, AInd[[i, j]]], {j, 1, n}],
> 2]
> ,
> {k, 1, n}
> ]
> ,
> {i, 1, n}
> ];
>
> MatProd
>
> 3.
> The result ist exactly what we expect, namely
>
> {{{{{1, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{1, 2}, {2, 1}}, {{1, 3}, {3, 1}}}, {{{1,
> 1}, {1, 2}}, {{1, 2}, {2, 2}}, {{1, 3}, {3, 2}}}, {{{1, 1}, {1,
> 3}}, {{1, 2}, {2, 3}}, {{1, 3}, {3, 3}}}}, {{{{2, 1}, {1,
> 1}}, {{2, 2}, {2, 1}}, {{2, 3}, {3, 1}}}, {{{2, 1}, {1, 2}}, {{2,
> 2}, {2, 2}}, {{2, 3}, {3, 2}}}, {{{2, 1}, {1, 3}}, {{2, 2}, {2,
> 3}}, {{2, 3}, {3, 3}}}}, {{{{3, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{3, 2}, {2,
> 1}}, {{3, 3}, {3, 1}}}, {{{3, 1}, {1, 2}}, {{3, 2}, {2, 2}}, {{3,
> 3}, {3, 2}}}, {{{3, 1}, {1, 3}}, {{3, 2}, {2, 3}}, {{3, 3}, {3,
> 3}}}}}
>
> BUT for large matrices and/or large exponents this approach is slow.
>
> How can this method be accelerated?
>
Your code looks quite complicated (certainly more complicated than it
should be ... as a starting point, why not use a single Table instead of
that double Do with assignments?), and it's completely uncommented, so I
did not take the time to figure out what it does.
But since you are talking about powers of matrices ... would the
following help?
NestList[#.mat &, mat, 10]
Also take a look at Inner[], which is a generalization of matrix products.
Szabolcs