MATLAB - Inserting zero rows and columns into matrix - matlab

Question

I have written some code that compresses a matrix to remove zero columns and rows, but I can't work out how to reconstruct the original matrix.
Say I have a matrix:
A = [ 0 3 0 2 1 0 6
3 0 0 4 8 0 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 4 0 0 2 0 1
1 8 0 2 0 0 7
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 5 0 1 7 0 0 ]
Here rows/columns 3 and 6 are empty, so my compression function will give the output:
A_dash = [ 0 3 2 1 6
3 0 4 8 5
2 4 0 2 1
1 8 2 0 7
6 5 1 7 0 ]
A_map = [ 1 2 4 5 7]
Where A_map is a vector mapping the indicies of the rows/columns of A_dash to A. This means that if A_map(3) = 4, then row/column 4 of A is the same as row/column 3 of A_dash - ie. a row/column of zeroes must be inserted between columns/rows 2 and 3 in A_dash
What is the easiest way people can suggest for me to recreate matrix A from A_dash, using the information in A_map?
Here is what I have got so far:
% orig_size is original number of columns/rows
c_count = size(A_dash,1);
A = zeros(c_count, orig_size); % c_count rows to avoid dimension mismatch
for ii = 1:c_count
A(:,A_map(ii)) == A_dash(:,ii);
end
This gives me the right result column-wise:
A = [ 0 3 0 2 1 0 6
3 0 0 4 8 0 5
2 4 0 0 2 0 1
1 8 0 2 0 0 7
6 5 0 1 7 0 0 ]
However, I'm not sure how i should go about inserting the rows, i suppose i could copy the first 1:i rows into one matrix, i:end rows to a second matrix and concatenate those with a zero row in between, but that feels like a bit of a
clunky solution, and probably not very efficient for large sized matrices..
Otherwise, is there a better way that people can suggest I store the map information? I was thinking instead of storing the mapping between column/row indices, that I just store the indices of the zero columns/rows and then insert columns/rows of zeros where appropriate. Would this be a better way?

Answer 1

You've got the indices of the valid rows/columns. Now all you've got to do is put them in a new matrix of zeros the same size as A:
B=zeros(size(A));
B(A_map,A_map)=A_dash
B =
0 3 0 2 1 0 6
3 0 0 4 8 0 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 4 0 0 2 0 1
1 8 0 2 0 0 7
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 5 0 1 7 0 0
Just to check...
>> A==B
ans =
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
A and B are equal everywhere, so we've reconstructed A.