Perform a successive XOR along rows - matlab

I'm trying to figure out how to perform a successive XOR on a row in matlab, where each element is the result of XORing itself and the previous element, for example:
If the row is
x = [1 0 1 1]
I would want the result to be:
x[0] = 1
x[1] = x[0]^x[1] = 1
x[2] = x[1]^x[2] = 0
x[3] = x[2]^x[3] = 1
x = [1 1 0 1]
I have tried using xor(A,B) but this only seems to work on multiple arrays at once. I also have tried this loop:
for k = 10000:1
for i = 1:64
allchallenge_full(k,i+1) = xor(allchallenge_full(k,i).^allchallenge_full(k,i+1))
end
end
But this simply results in all 1s.
Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!

If the input x is just zeros and ones:
result = mod(cumsum(x), 2);
To apply it on each row of a matrix x:
result = mod(cumsum(x,2), 2);

If you want to keep things simple, a for loop, together with the xor function (^ in Matlab represents the raising to a power), should work fine:
x = [1 0 1 1];
for i = 2:numel(x)
x(i) = xor(x(i-1),x(i));
end
The final output is the expected one:
x =
1 1 0 1
Remember that, in Matlab, indexing is one-based and not zero-based as in many other programming languages. The first element of x is, therefore, x(1) and not x(0).

Related

Matlab- sparse- element wise division

Consider the following;
A = [1 0 0; 0 2 0; 0 0 5];
B = [2 0 0; 0 4 0; 0 0 10];
A = sparse(A);
B = sparse(B);
C = B./A
I expected matlab to do sparse operations only on non-zero entries. But it also does operation on zero entries and returnNAN.
I saw few solutions in this site.
1. Using logical indexing
>> c = B(logical(A))./A(logical(A))
c =
(1,1) 2
(2,1) 2
(3,1) 2
As you can see, this does not preserve the sparse structure.
2. Replacing output with zero, where A is zero
This is an elegant solution if B./A is the only operation I do. What if I B./A is a part of a bigger operation? E.g K = 3*(B./A)*rand(3) + 5*(A./B)*rand(3)
Is there a simple way of dividing sparse matrices(having same structure) element-wise without getting NAN?
When you index (logical or not), you need to index the result as well to preserve the sparse structure.
idx = find(A); %# assumes A and B have the same sparsity pattern!
C = A; %# initialize C to have the correct size and shape
C(idx) = B(idx)./A(idx);
One more option:
B = spfun(#(x) 1./x, B);
C = A.*B;

vectorize lookup values in table of interval limits

Here is a question about whether we can use vectorization type of operation in matlab to avoid writing for loop.
I have a vector
Q = [0.1,0.3,0.6,1.0]
I generate a uniformly distributed random vector over [0,1)
X = [0.11,0.72,0.32,0.94]
I want to know whether each entry of X is between [0,0.1) or [0.1,0.3) or [0.3,0.6), or [0.6,1.0) and I want to return a vector which contains the index of the maximum element in Q that each entry of X is less than.
I could write a for loop
Y = zeros(length(X),1)
for i = 1:1:length(X)
Y(i) = find(X(i)<Q, 1);
end
Expected result for this example:
Y = [2,4,3,4]
But I wonder if there is a way to avoid writing for loop? (I see many very good answers to my question. Thank you so much! Now if we go one step further, what if my Q is a matrix, such that I want check whether )
Y = zeros(length(X),1)
for i = 1:1:length(X)
Y(i) = find(X(i)<Q(i), 1);
end
Use the second output of max, which acts as a sort of "vectorized find":
[~, Y] = max(bsxfun(#lt, X(:).', Q(:)), [], 1);
How this works:
For each element of X, test if it is less than each element of Q. This is done with bsxfun(#lt, X(:).', Q(:)). Note each column in the result corresponds to an element of X, and each row to an element of Q.
Then, for each element of X, get the index of the first element of Q for which that comparison is true. This is done with [~, Y] = max(..., [], 1). Note that the second output of max returns the index of the first maximizer (along the specified dimension), so in this case it gives the index of the first true in each column.
For your example values,
Q = [0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0];
X = [0.11, 0.72, 0.32, 0.94];
[~, Y] = max(bsxfun(#lt, X(:).', Q(:)), [], 1);
gives
Y =
2 4 3 4
Using bsxfun will help accomplish this. You'll need to read about it. I also added a Q = 0 at the beginning to handle the small X case
X = [0.11,0.72,0.32,0.94 0.01];
Q = [0.1,0.3,0.6,1.0];
Q_extra = [0 Q];
Diff = bsxfun(#minus,X(:)',Q_extra (:)); %vectorized subtraction
logical_matrix = diff(Diff < 0); %find the transition from neg to positive
[X_categories,~] = find(logical_matrix == true); % get indices
% output is 2 4 3 4 1
EDIT: How long does each method take?
I got curious about the difference between each solution:
Test Code Below:
Q = [0,0.1,0.3,0.6,1.0];
X = rand(1,1e3);
tic
Y = zeros(length(X),1);
for i = 1:1:length(X)
Y(i) = find(X(i)<Q, 1);
end
toc
tic
result = arrayfun(#(x)find(x < Q, 1), X);
toc
tic
Q = [0 Q];
Diff = bsxfun(#minus,X(:)',Q(:)); %vectorized subtraction
logical_matrix = diff(Diff < 0); %find the transition from neg to positive
[X_categories,~] = find(logical_matrix == true); % get indices
toc
Run it for yourself, I found that when the size of X was 1e6, bsxfun was much faster, while for smaller arrays the differences were varying and negligible.
SAMPLE: when size X was 1e3
Elapsed time is 0.001582 seconds. % for loop
Elapsed time is 0.007324 seconds. % anonymous function
Elapsed time is 0.000785 seconds. % bsxfun
Octave has a function lookup to do exactly that. It takes a lookup table of sorted values and an array, and returns an array with indices for values in the lookup table.
octave> Q = [0.1 0.3 0.6 1.0];
octave> x = [0.11 0.72 0.32 0.94];
octave> lookup (Q, X)
ans =
1 3 2 3
The only issue is that your lookup table has an implicit zero which be fixed easily with:
octave> lookup ([0 Q], X) # alternatively, just add 1 at the results
ans =
2 4 3 4
You can create an anonymous function to perform the comparison, then apply it to each member of X using arrayfun:
compareFunc = #(x)find(x < Q, 1);
result = arrayfun(compareFunc, X, 'UniformOutput', 1);
The Q array will be stored in the anonymous function ( compareFunc ) when the anonymous function is created.
Or, as one line (Uniform Output is the default behavior of arrayfun):
result = arrayfun(#(x)find(x < Q, 1), X);
Octave does a neat auto-vectorization trick for you if the vectors you have are along different dimensions. If you make Q a column vector, you can do this:
X = [0.11, 0.72, 0.32, 0.94];
Q = [0.1; 0.3; 0.6; 1.0; 2.0; 3.0];
X <= Q
The result is a 6x4 matrix indicating which elements of Q each element of X is less than. I made Q a different length than X just to illustrate this:
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
1 0 1 0
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
Going back to the original example you have, you can do
length(Q) - sum(X <= Q) + 1
to get
2 4 3 4
Notice that I have semicolons instead of commas in the definition of Q. If you want to make it a column vector after defining it, do something like this instead:
length(Q) - sum(X <= Q') + 1
The reason that this works is that Octave implicitly applies bsxfun to an operation on a row and column vector. MATLAB will not do this until R2016b according to #excaza's comment, so in MATLAB you can do this:
length(Q) - sum(bsxfun(#le, X, Q)) + 1
You can play around with this example in IDEOne here.
Inspired by the solution posted by #Mad Physicist, here is my solution.
Q = [0.1,0.3,0.6,1.0]
X = [0.11,0.72,0.32,0.94]
Temp = repmat(X',1,4)<repmat(Q,4,1)
[~, ind]= max( Temp~=0, [], 2 );
The idea is that make the X and Q into the "same shape", then use element wise comparison, then we obtain a logical matrix whose row tells whether a given element in X is less than each of the element in Q, then return the first non-zero index of each row of this logical matrix. I haven't tested how fast this method is comparing to other methods

How to zero out the centre k by k matrix in an input matrix with odd number of columns and rows

I am trying to solve this problem:
Write a function called cancel_middle that takes A, an n-by-m
matrix, as an input where both n and m are odd numbers and k, a positive
odd integer that is smaller than both m and n (the function does not have to
check the input). The function returns the input matrix with its center k-by-k
matrix zeroed out.
Check out the following run:
>> cancel_middle(ones(5),3)
ans =
1 1 1 1 1
1 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 1
1 1 1 1 1
My code works only when k=3. How can I generalize it for all odd values of k? Here's what I have so far:
function test(n,m,k)
A = ones(n,m);
B = zeros(k);
A((end+1)/2,(end+1)/2)=B((end+1)/2,(end+1)/2);
A(((end+1)/2)-1,((end+1)/2)-1)= B(1,1);
A(((end+1)/2)-1,((end+1)/2))= B(1,2);
A(((end+1)/2)-1,((end+1)/2)+1)= B(1,3);
A(((end+1)/2),((end+1)/2)-1)= B(2,1);
A(((end+1)/2),((end+1)/2)+1)= B(2,3);
A(((end+1)/2)+1,((end+1)/2)-1)= B(3,1);
A(((end+1)/2)+1,((end+1)/2))= B(3,2);
A((end+1)/2+1,(end+1)/2+1)=B(3,3)
end
You can simplify your code. Please have a look at
Matrix Indexing in MATLAB. "one or both of the row and column subscripts can be vectors", i.e. you can define a submatrix. Then you simply need to do the indexing correct: as you have odd numbers just subtract m-k and n-k and you have the number of elements left from your old matrix A. If you divide it by 2 you get the padding on the left/right, top/bottom. And another +1/-1 because of Matlab indexing.
% Generate test data
n = 13;
m = 11;
A = reshape( 1:m*n, n, m )
k = 3;
% Do the calculations
start_row = (n-k)/2 + 1
start_col = (m-k)/2 + 1
A( start_row:start_row+k-1, start_col:start_col+k-1 ) = zeros( k )
function b = cancel_middle(a,k)
[n,m] = size(a);
start_row = (n-k)/2 + 1;
start_column = (m-k)/2 + 1;
end_row = (n-k)/2 + k;
end_column = (m-k)/2 + k;
a(start_row:end_row,start_column:end_column) = 0;
b = a;
end
I have made a function in an m file called cancel_middle and it basically converts the central k by k matrix as a zero matrix with the same dimensions i.e. k by k.
the rest of the matrix remains the same. It is a general function and you'll need to give 2 inputs i.e the matrix you want to convert and the order of submatrix, which is k.

Setting Table Values using Loops with Index Vectors in Matlab

I've a series of coordinates (i,j) and I want to loop through each one.
For example
A = ones(3,3);
i = [1 2 3];
j = [3 2 1];
I tried with this but it doesn't work:
for (i = i && j = j)
A(i,j) = 0;
end
I also tried this but it doens't work as expected:
for i = i
for j = j
A(i,j) = 0;
end
end
Desired result:
A =
1 1 0
1 0 1
0 1 1
Although A is a matrix in this example, I am working with table data.
The correct syntax to do what you want is:
A = ones(3,3);
i = [1 2 3];
j = [3 2 1];
for ii = 1:length( i )
A( i(ii) , j(ii) ) = 0;
end
Essentially you loop through each element and index i and j accordingly using ii. ii loops through 1..3 indexing each element.
This will give the a final result below.
>> A
A =
1 1 0
1 0 1
0 1 1
While this works and fixes your issue, I would recommend rayryeng's alternate solution with conversions if you don't have more complex operations involved.
Though this doesn't answer your question about for loops, I would avoid using loops all together and create column-major linear indices to access into your matrix. Use sub2ind to help facilitate that. sub2ind takes in the size of the matrix in question, the row locations and column locations. The output will be an array of values that specify the column-major locations to access in your matrix.
Therefore:
A = ones(3); i = [1 2 3]; j = [3 2 1]; %// Your code
%// New code
ind = sub2ind(size(A), i, j);
A(ind) = 0;
Given that you have a table, you can perhaps convert the table into an array, apply sub2ind on this array then convert the result back to a table when you're done. table2array and array2table are useful tools here. Given that your table is stored in A, you can try:
Atemp = table2array(A);
ind = sub2ind(size(Atemp), i, j);
Atemp(ind) = 0;
A = array2table(Atemp);

Replacing zeros (or NANs) in a matrix with the previous element row-wise or column-wise in a fully vectorized way

I need to replace the zeros (or NaNs) in a matrix with the previous element row-wise, so basically I need this Matrix X
[0,1,2,2,1,0;
5,6,3,0,0,2;
0,0,1,1,0,1]
To become like this:
[0,1,2,2,1,1;
5,6,3,3,3,2;
0,0,1,1,1,1],
please note that if the first row element is zero it will stay like that.
I know that this has been solved for a single row or column vector in a vectorized way and this is one of the nicest way of doing that:
id = find(X);
X(id(2:end)) = diff(X(id));
Y = cumsum(X)
The problem is that the indexing of a matrix in Matlab/Octave is consecutive and increments columnwise so it works for a single row or column but the same exact concept cannot be applied but needs to be modified with multiple rows 'cause each of raw/column starts fresh and must be regarded as independent. I've tried my best and googled the whole google but coukldn’t find a way out. If I apply that same very idea in a loop it gets too slow cause my matrices contain 3000 rows at least. Can anyone help me out of this please?
Special case when zeros are isolated in each row
You can do it using the two-output version of find to locate the zeros and NaN's in all columns except the first, and then using linear indexing to fill those entries with their row-wise preceding values:
[ii jj] = find( (X(:,2:end)==0) | isnan(X(:,2:end)) );
X(ii+jj*size(X,1)) = X(ii+(jj-1)*size(X,1));
General case (consecutive zeros are allowed on each row)
X(isnan(X)) = 0; %// handle NaN's and zeros in a unified way
aux = repmat(2.^(1:size(X,2)), size(X,1), 1) .* ...
[ones(size(X,1),1) logical(X(:,2:end))]; %// positive powers of 2 or 0
col = floor(log2(cumsum(aux,2))); %// col index
ind = bsxfun(#plus, (col-1)*size(X,1), (1:size(X,1)).'); %'// linear index
Y = X(ind);
The trick is to make use of the matrix aux, which contains 0 if the corresponding entry of X is 0 and its column number is greater than 1; or else contains 2 raised to the column number. Thus, applying cumsum row-wise to this matrix, taking log2 and rounding down (matrix col) gives the column index of the rightmost nonzero entry up to the current entry, for each row (so this is a kind of row-wise "cummulative max" function.) It only remains to convert from column number to linear index (with bsxfun; could also be done with sub2ind) and use that to index X.
This is valid for moderate sizes of X only. For large sizes, the powers of 2 used by the code quickly approach realmax and incorrect indices result.
Example:
X =
0 1 2 2 1 0 0
5 6 3 0 0 2 3
1 1 1 1 0 1 1
gives
>> Y
Y =
0 1 2 2 1 1 1
5 6 3 3 3 2 3
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
You can generalize your own solution as follows:
Y = X.'; %'// Make a transposed copy of X
Y(isnan(Y)) = 0;
idx = find([ones(1, size(X, 1)); Y(2:end, :)]);
Y(idx(2:end)) = diff(Y(idx));
Y = reshape(cumsum(Y(:)), [], size(X, 1)).'; %'// Reshape back into a matrix
This works by treating the input data as a long vector, applying the original solution and then reshaping the result back into a matrix. The first column is always treated as non-zero so that the values don't propagate throughout rows. Also note that the original matrix is transposed so that it is converted to a vector in row-major order.
Modified version of Eitan's answer to avoid propagating values across rows:
Y = X'; %'
tf = Y > 0;
tf(1,:) = true;
idx = find(tf);
Y(idx(2:end)) = diff(Y(idx));
Y = reshape(cumsum(Y(:)),fliplr(size(X)))';
x=[0,1,2,2,1,0;
5,6,3,0,1,2;
1,1,1,1,0,1];
%Do it column by column is easier
x=x';
rm=0;
while 1
%fields to replace
l=(x==0);
%do nothing for the first row/column
l(1,:)=0;
rm2=sum(sum(l));
if rm2==rm
%nothing to do
break;
else
rm=rm2;
end
%replace zeros
x(l) = x(find(l)-1);
end
x=x';
I have a function I use for a similar problem for filling NaNs. This can probably be cutdown or sped up further - it's extracted from pre-existing code that has a bunch more functionality (forward/backward filling, maximum distance etc).
X = [
0 1 2 2 1 0
5 6 3 0 0 2
1 1 1 1 0 1
0 0 4 5 3 9
];
X(X == 0) = NaN;
Y = nanfill(X,2);
Y(isnan(Y)) = 0
function y = nanfill(x,dim)
if nargin < 2, dim = 1; end
if dim == 2, y = nanfill(x',1)'; return; end
i = find(~isnan(x(:)));
j = 1:size(x,1):numel(x);
j = j(ones(size(x,1),1),:);
ix = max(rep([1; i],diff([1; i; numel(x) + 1])),j(:));
y = reshape(x(ix),size(x));
function y = rep(x,times)
i = find(times);
if length(i) < length(times), x = x(i); times = times(i); end
i = cumsum([1; times(:)]);
j = zeros(i(end)-1,1);
j(i(1:end-1)) = 1;
y = x(cumsum(j));