Using numpy to build an array of all combinations of two arrays
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05-07-2019 - |
Question
I'm trying to run over the parameters space of a 6 parameter function to study it's numerical behavior before trying to do anything complex with it so I'm searching for a efficient way to do this.
My function takes float values given a 6-dim numpy array as input. What I tried to do initially was this:
First I created a function that takes 2 arrays and generate an array with all combinations of values from the two arrays
from numpy import *
def comb(a,b):
c = []
for i in a:
for j in b:
c.append(r_[i,j])
return c
Then I used reduce()
to apply that to m copies of the same array:
def combs(a,m):
return reduce(comb,[a]*m)
And then I evaluate my function like this:
values = combs(np.arange(0,1,0.1),6)
for val in values:
print F(val)
This works but it's waaaay too slow. I know the space of parameters is huge, but this shouldn't be so slow. I have only sampled 106 (a million) points in this example and it took more than 15 seconds just to create the array values
.
Do you know any more efficient way of doing this with numpy?
I can modify the way the function F
takes it's arguments if it's necessary.
Solution
In newer version of numpy
(>1.8.x), numpy.meshgrid()
provides a much faster implementation:
@pv's solution
In [113]:
%timeit cartesian(([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]))
10000 loops, best of 3: 135 µs per loop
In [114]:
cartesian(([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]))
Out[114]:
array([[1, 4, 6],
[1, 4, 7],
[1, 5, 6],
[1, 5, 7],
[2, 4, 6],
[2, 4, 7],
[2, 5, 6],
[2, 5, 7],
[3, 4, 6],
[3, 4, 7],
[3, 5, 6],
[3, 5, 7]])
numpy.meshgrid()
use to be 2D only, now it is capable of ND. In this case, 3D:
In [115]:
%timeit np.array(np.meshgrid([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7])).T.reshape(-1,3)
10000 loops, best of 3: 74.1 µs per loop
In [116]:
np.array(np.meshgrid([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7])).T.reshape(-1,3)
Out[116]:
array([[1, 4, 6],
[1, 5, 6],
[2, 4, 6],
[2, 5, 6],
[3, 4, 6],
[3, 5, 6],
[1, 4, 7],
[1, 5, 7],
[2, 4, 7],
[2, 5, 7],
[3, 4, 7],
[3, 5, 7]])
Note that the order of the final resultant is slightly different.
OTHER TIPS
Here's a pure-numpy implementation. It's ca. 5× faster than using itertools.
import numpy as np
def cartesian(arrays, out=None):
"""
Generate a cartesian product of input arrays.
Parameters
----------
arrays : list of array-like
1-D arrays to form the cartesian product of.
out : ndarray
Array to place the cartesian product in.
Returns
-------
out : ndarray
2-D array of shape (M, len(arrays)) containing cartesian products
formed of input arrays.
Examples
--------
>>> cartesian(([1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]))
array([[1, 4, 6],
[1, 4, 7],
[1, 5, 6],
[1, 5, 7],
[2, 4, 6],
[2, 4, 7],
[2, 5, 6],
[2, 5, 7],
[3, 4, 6],
[3, 4, 7],
[3, 5, 6],
[3, 5, 7]])
"""
arrays = [np.asarray(x) for x in arrays]
dtype = arrays[0].dtype
n = np.prod([x.size for x in arrays])
if out is None:
out = np.zeros([n, len(arrays)], dtype=dtype)
m = n / arrays[0].size
out[:,0] = np.repeat(arrays[0], m)
if arrays[1:]:
cartesian(arrays[1:], out=out[0:m,1:])
for j in xrange(1, arrays[0].size):
out[j*m:(j+1)*m,1:] = out[0:m,1:]
return out
itertools.combinations is in general the fastest way to get combinations from a Python container (if you do in fact want combinations, i.e., arrangements WITHOUT repetitions and independent of order; that's not what your code appears to be doing, but I can't tell whether that's because your code is buggy or because you're using the wrong terminology).
If you want something different than combinations perhaps other iterators in itertools, product
or permutations
, might serve you better. For example, it looks like your code is roughly the same as:
for val in itertools.product(np.arange(0, 1, 0.1), repeat=6):
print F(val)
All of these iterators yield tuples, not lists or numpy arrays, so if your F is picky about getting specifically a numpy array you'll have to accept the extra overhead of constructing or clearing and re-filling one at each step.
The following numpy implementation should be approx. 2x the speed of the given answer:
def cartesian2(arrays):
arrays = [np.asarray(a) for a in arrays]
shape = (len(x) for x in arrays)
ix = np.indices(shape, dtype=int)
ix = ix.reshape(len(arrays), -1).T
for n, arr in enumerate(arrays):
ix[:, n] = arrays[n][ix[:, n]]
return ix
It looks like you want a grid to evaluate your function, in which case you can use numpy.ogrid
(open) or numpy.mgrid
(fleshed out):
import numpy
my_grid = numpy.mgrid[[slice(0,1,0.1)]*6]
You can do something like this
import numpy as np
def cartesian_coord(*arrays):
grid = np.meshgrid(*arrays)
coord_list = [entry.ravel() for entry in grid]
points = np.vstack(coord_list).T
return points
a = np.arange(4) # fake data
print(cartesian_coord(*6*[a])
which gives
array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2],
...,
[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1],
[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]])
you can use np.array(itertools.product(a, b))
Here's yet another way, using pure NumPy, no recursion, no list comprehension, and no explicit for loops. It's about 20% slower than the original answer, and it's based on np.meshgrid.
def cartesian(*arrays):
mesh = np.meshgrid(*arrays) # standard numpy meshgrid
dim = len(mesh) # number of dimensions
elements = mesh[0].size # number of elements, any index will do
flat = np.concatenate(mesh).ravel() # flatten the whole meshgrid
reshape = np.reshape(flat, (dim, elements)).T # reshape and transpose
return reshape
For example,
x = np.arange(3)
a = cartesian(x, x, x, x, x)
print(a)
gives
[[0 0 0 0 0]
[0 0 0 0 1]
[0 0 0 0 2]
...,
[2 2 2 2 0]
[2 2 2 2 1]
[2 2 2 2 2]]
For a pure numpy implementation of Cartesian product of 1D arrays (or flat python lists), just use meshgrid()
, roll the axes with transpose()
, and reshape to the desired ouput:
def cartprod(*arrays):
N = len(arrays)
return transpose(meshgrid(*arrays, indexing='ij'),
roll(arange(N + 1), -1)).reshape(-1, N)
Note this has the convention of last axis changing fastest ("C style" or "row-major").
In [88]: cartprod([1,2,3], [4,8], [100, 200, 300, 400], [-5, -4])
Out[88]:
array([[ 1, 4, 100, -5],
[ 1, 4, 100, -4],
[ 1, 4, 200, -5],
[ 1, 4, 200, -4],
[ 1, 4, 300, -5],
[ 1, 4, 300, -4],
[ 1, 4, 400, -5],
[ 1, 4, 400, -4],
[ 1, 8, 100, -5],
[ 1, 8, 100, -4],
[ 1, 8, 200, -5],
[ 1, 8, 200, -4],
[ 1, 8, 300, -5],
[ 1, 8, 300, -4],
[ 1, 8, 400, -5],
[ 1, 8, 400, -4],
[ 2, 4, 100, -5],
[ 2, 4, 100, -4],
[ 2, 4, 200, -5],
[ 2, 4, 200, -4],
[ 2, 4, 300, -5],
[ 2, 4, 300, -4],
[ 2, 4, 400, -5],
[ 2, 4, 400, -4],
[ 2, 8, 100, -5],
[ 2, 8, 100, -4],
[ 2, 8, 200, -5],
[ 2, 8, 200, -4],
[ 2, 8, 300, -5],
[ 2, 8, 300, -4],
[ 2, 8, 400, -5],
[ 2, 8, 400, -4],
[ 3, 4, 100, -5],
[ 3, 4, 100, -4],
[ 3, 4, 200, -5],
[ 3, 4, 200, -4],
[ 3, 4, 300, -5],
[ 3, 4, 300, -4],
[ 3, 4, 400, -5],
[ 3, 4, 400, -4],
[ 3, 8, 100, -5],
[ 3, 8, 100, -4],
[ 3, 8, 200, -5],
[ 3, 8, 200, -4],
[ 3, 8, 300, -5],
[ 3, 8, 300, -4],
[ 3, 8, 400, -5],
[ 3, 8, 400, -4]])
If you want to change the first axis fastest ("FORTRAN style" or "column-major"), just change the order
parameter of reshape()
like this: reshape((-1, N), order='F')