Vectorizing a weighted sum of matrices in MATLAB - matlab

I'm trying to vectorize the following operation in MATLAB, but it's got me stumped. I've learned from experience that there usually is a way, so I'm not giving up just yet. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a collection of m row-vectors each of size n, arranged in an m x n matrix; call it X.
I also have an m-sized vector of weights, w.
I want to compute a weighted sum of the matrices formed by the self outer products of the vectors in X.
Here is a MWE using a for loop:
m = 100;
n = 5;
X = rand(m, n);
w = rand(1, m);
S = zeros(n, n);
for i = 1 : m
S = S + (w(i) * X(i, :)' * X(i, :));
end
S

This is probably the fastest approach:
S = X' * bsxfun(#times, X, w(:));
You could also do
S = squeeze(sum(bsxfun(#times, ...
bsxfun(#times, conj(X), permute(X, [1 3 2])), w(:)), 1));
(or remove the complex conjugate if not needed).

You can employ two approaches here that use one bsxfun call and few permutes and reshapes. The reshaping trick basically allows us to use the efficient matrix multiplication and thus avoid any extra bsxfun call we might have required otherwise.
Approach #1
[m1,n1] = size(X);
XXmult = bsxfun(#times,X,permute(X,[1 3 2])); %// For X(i, :)' * X(i, :) step
S = reshape(reshape(permute(XXmult,[2 3 1]),[],m1)*w(:),n1,[]) %// multiply weights w
Approach #2
[m1,n1] = size(X);
XXmult = bsxfun(#times,permute(X,[2 3 1]),permute(X,[3 2 1]));
S = reshape(reshape(XXmult,[],m1)*w(:),n1,[])

Shortest answer, and probably fastest:
S = X'*diag(W)*X
Been using it for an unscented Kalman filter, works great.

Related

Linear combination of the Slices in a 3D

I have a 3D matrix sized (x,y,N) and a 2D matrix sized (N,N).
I would like to manipulate the two in a way that each column in the 2D matrix has the coefficients for a linear combination of the 2D sized- (x, y) slices in the 3D matrix. And I would like to do this for all N columns in the 2D matrix.
Schematically,
Currently the code looks like:
A = zeros(numel(x_axis), numel(y_axis), N);
B = zeros(numel(x_axis), numel(y_axis), N);
C = zeros(N, N)
for i = 1 : N
for j = 1 : N
A(:,:,i) = A(:,:,i) + B(:,:,j) * C(j,i);
end
end
But it is quite slow. Is there any way to speed up the MATLAB code by vectorizing?
If I understand your problem well, then this should work:
[p,q,N] = size(B);
A = reshape( reshape(B, [p*q, N]) * C, [p, q, N]);
edit: Cleaner version suggested by Suever:
A = reshape(reshape(B, [], size(B, 3)) * C, size(B))
Generalization to the R-D case:
A = reshape(reshape(B, [], size(B, ndims(B))) * C, size(B))
You can use bsxfun which will calculate this very quickly for you. We have to use permute to re-arrange C a little bit to ensure that it has conformant dimensions for using bsxfun and then we perform the summation along the third dimension of the resulting output and apply squeeze to remove the singleton third dimension.
A = squeeze(sum(bsxfun(#times, B, permute(C, [3 4 1 2])), 3))

Vectorize weighted sum matlab

I was trying to vectorize a certain weighted sum but couldn't figure out how to do it. I have created a simple minimal working example below. I guess the solution involves either bsxfun or reshape and kronecker products but I still have not managed to get it working.
rng(1);
N = 200;
T1 = 5;
T2 = 7;
A = rand(N,T1,T2);
w1 = rand(T1,1);
w2 = rand(T2,1);
B = zeros(N,1);
for i = 1:N
for j1=1:T1
for j2=1:T2
B(i) = B(i) + w1(j1) * w2(j2) * A(i,j1,j2);
end
end
end
A = B;
You could use a combination of bsxfun, reshape and permute to accomplish this.
We first use permute to move the N dimension to the 3rd dimension of A. We then multiply w1 and the transpose of w2 to create a grid of weights. We can then use bsxfun to perform element-wise multiplication (#times) between this grid and each "slice" of A. We can then reshape the 3D result into M x N and sum across the first dimension.
B = sum(reshape(bsxfun(#times, w1 * w2.', permute(A, [2 3 1])), [], N)).';
Update
There's actually a simpler approach which would use matrix multiplication to perform the summation for you. It unfortunately has to be broken into
% Create the grid of weights
W = w1 * w2.';
% Perform matrix multiplication between a 2D version of A and the weights
B = reshape(A, N, []) * W(:);
Or you could use kron to create the flattened grid of weights:
B = reshape(A, N, []) * kron(w2, w1);

How to Build a Distance Matrix without a Loop (Vectorization)?

I have many points and I want to build distance matrix i.e. distance of every point with all of other points but I want to don't use from loop because take too time...
Is a better way for building this matrix?
this is my loop: for a setl with size: 10000x3 this method take a lot of my time :(
for i=1:size(setl,1)
for j=1:size(setl,1)
dist = sqrt((xl(i)-xl(j))^2+(yl(i)-yl(j))^2+...
(zl(i)-zl(j))^2);
distanceMatrix(i,j) = dist;
end
end
How about using some linear algebra? The distance of two points can be computed from the inner product of their position vectors,
D(x, y) = ∥y – x∥ = √ (
xT x + yT y – 2 xT y ),
and the inner product for all pairs of points can be obtained through a simple matrix operation.
x = [xl(:)'; yl(:)'; zl(:)'];
IP = x' * x;
d = sqrt(bsxfun(#plus, diag(IP), diag(IP)') - 2 * IP);
For 10000 points, I get the following timing results:
ahmad's loop + shoelzer's preallocation: 7.8 seconds
Dan's vectorized indices: 5.3 seconds
Mohsen's bsxfun: 1.5 seconds
my solution: 1.3 seconds
You can use bsxfun which is generally a faster solution:
s = [xl(:) yl(:) zl(:)];
d = sqrt(sum(bsxfun(#minus, permute(s, [1 3 2]), permute(s, [3 1 2])).^2,3));
You can do this fully vectorized like so:
n = numel(xl);
[X, Y] = meshgrid(1:n,1:n);
Ix = X(:)
Iy = Y(:)
reshape(sqrt((xl(Ix)-xl(Iy)).^2+(yl(Ix)-yl(Iy)).^2+(zl(Ix)-zl(Iy)).^2), n, n);
If you look at Ix and Iy (try it for like a 3x3 dataset), they make every combination of linear indexes possible for each of your matrices. Now you can just do each subtraction in one shot!
However mixing the suggestions of shoelzer and Jost will give you an almost identical performance performance boost:
n = 50;
xl = rand(n,1);
yl = rand(n,1);
zl = rand(n,1);
tic
for t = 1:100
distanceMatrix = zeros(n); %// Preallocation
for i=1:n
for j=min(i+1,n):n %// Taking advantge of symmetry
distanceMatrix(i,j) = sqrt((xl(i)-xl(j))^2+(yl(i)-yl(j))^2+(zl(i)-zl(j))^2);
end
end
d1 = distanceMatrix + distanceMatrix'; %'
end
toc
%// Vectorized solution that creates linear indices using meshgrid
tic
for t = 1:100
[X, Y] = meshgrid(1:n,1:n);
Ix = X(:);
Iy = Y(:);
d2 = reshape(sqrt((xl(Ix)-xl(Iy)).^2+(yl(Ix)-yl(Iy)).^2+(zl(Ix)-zl(Iy)).^2), n, n);
end
toc
Returns:
Elapsed time is 0.023332 seconds.
Elapsed time is 0.024454 seconds.
But if I change n to 500 then I get
Elapsed time is 1.227956 seconds.
Elapsed time is 2.030925 seconds.
Which just goes to show that you should always bench mark solutions in Matlab before writing off loops as slow! In this case, depending on the scale of your solution, loops could be significantly faster.
Be sure to preallocate distanceMatrix. Your loops will run much, much faster and vectorization probably isn't needed. Even if you do it, there may not be any further speed increase.
The latest versions (Since R2016b) of MATLAB support Implicit Broadcasting (See also noted on bsxfun()).
Hence the fastest way for distance matrix is:
function [ mDistMat ] = CalcDistanceMatrix( mA, mB )
mDistMat = sum(mA .^ 2).' - (2 * mA.' * mB) + sum(mB .^ 2);
end
Where the points are along the columns of the set.
In your case mA = mB.
Have a look on my Calculate Distance Matrix Project.

Vectorizing MATLAB function

I have double summation over m = 1:M and n = 1:N for polar point with coordinates rho, phi, z:
I have written vectorized notation of it:
N = 10;
M = 10;
n = 1:N;
m = 1:M;
rho = 1;
phi = 1;
z = 1;
summ = cos (n*z) * besselj(m'-1, n*rho) * cos(m*phi)';
Now I need to rewrite this function for accepting vectors (columns) of coordinates rho, phi, z. I tried arrayfun, cellfun, simple for loop - they work too slow for me. I know about "MATLAB array manipulation tips and tricks", but as MATLAB beginner I can't understand repmat and other functions.
Can anybody suggest vectorized solution?
I think your code is already well vectorized (for n and m). If you want this function to also accept an array of rho/phi/z values, I suggest you simply process the values in a for-loop, as I doubt any further vectorization will bring significant improvements (plus the code will be harder to read).
Having said that, in the code below, I tried to vectorize the part where you compute the various components being multiplied {row N} * { matrix N*M } * {col M} = {scalar}, by making a single call to the BESSELJ and COS functions (I place each of the row/matrix/column in the third dimension). Their multiplication is still done in a loop (ARRAYFUN to be exact):
%# parameters
N = 10; M = 10;
n = 1:N; m = 1:M;
num = 50;
rho = 1:num; phi = 1:num; z = 1:num;
%# straightforward FOR-loop
tic
result1 = zeros(1,num);
for i=1:num
result1(i) = cos(n*z(i)) * besselj(m'-1, n*rho(i)) * cos(m*phi(i))';
end
toc
%# vectorized computation of the components
tic
a = cos( bsxfun(#times, n, permute(z(:),[3 2 1])) );
b = besselj(m'-1, reshape(bsxfun(#times,n,rho(:))',[],1)'); %'
b = permute(reshape(b',[length(m) length(n) length(rho)]), [2 1 3]); %'
c = cos( bsxfun(#times, m, permute(phi(:),[3 2 1])) );
result2 = arrayfun(#(i) a(:,:,i)*b(:,:,i)*c(:,:,i)', 1:num); %'
toc
%# make sure the two results are the same
assert( isequal(result1,result2) )
I did another benchmark test using the TIMEIT function (gives more fair timings). The result agrees with the previous:
0.0062407 # elapsed time (seconds) for the my solution
0.015677 # elapsed time (seconds) for the FOR-loop solution
Note that as you increase the size of the input vectors, the two methods will start to have similar timings (the FOR-loop even wins on some occasions)
You need to create two matrices, say m_ and n_ so that by selecting element i,j of each matrix you get the desired index for both m and n.
Most MATLAB functions accept matrices and vectors and compute their results element by element. So to produce a double sum, you compute all elements of the sum in parallel by f(m_, n_) and sum them.
In your case (note that the .* operator performs element-wise multiplication of matrices)
N = 10;
M = 10;
n = 1:N;
m = 1:M;
rho = 1;
phi = 1;
z = 1;
% N rows x M columns for each matrix
% n_ - all columns are identical
% m_ - all rows are identical
n_ = repmat(n', 1, M);
m_ = repmat(m , N, 1);
element_nm = cos (n_*z) .* besselj(m_-1, n_*rho) .* cos(m_*phi);
sum_all = sum( element_nm(:) );

Fast technique for normalizing a matrix in MATLAB

I want to normalise each column of a matrix in Matlab. I have tried two implementations:
Option A:
mx=max(x);
mn=min(x);
mmd=mx-mn;
for i=1:size(x,1)
xn(i,:)=((x(i,:)-mn+(mmd==0))./(mmd+(mmd==0)*2))*2-1;
end
Option B:
mn=mean(x);
sdx=std(x);
for i=1:size(x,1)
xn(i,:)=(x(i,:)-mn)./(sdx+(sdx==0));
end
However, these options take too much time for my data, e.g. 3-4 seconds on a 5000x53 matrix. Thus, is there any better solution?
Use bsxfun instead of the loop. This may be a bit faster; however, it may also use more memory (which may be an issue in your case; if you're paging, everything'll be really slow).
To normalize with mean and std, you'd write
mn = mean(x);
sd = std(x);
sd(sd==0) = 1;
xn = bsxfun(#minus,x,mn);
xn = bsxfun(#rdivide,xn,sd);
Remember, in MATLAB, vectorizing = speed.
If A is an M x N matrix,
A = rand(m,n);
minA = repmat(min(A), [size(A, 1), 1]);
normA = max(A) - min(A); % this is a vector
normA = repmat(normA, [length(normA) 1]); % this makes it a matrix
% of the same size as A
normalizedA = (A - minA)./normA; % your normalized matrix
Note: I am not providing a freshly new answer, but I am comparing the proposed answers.
Option A: Using bsxfun()
function xn = normalizeBsxfun(x)
mn = mean(x);
sd = std(x);
sd(sd==0) = eps;
xn = bsxfun(#minus,x,mn);
xn = bsxfun(#rdivide,xn,sd);
end
Option B: Using a for-loop
function xn = normalizeLoop(x)
xn = zeros(size(x));
for ii=1:size(x,2)
xaux = x(:,ii);
xn(:,ii) = (xaux - mean(xaux))./mean(xaux);
end
end
We compare both implementations for different matrix sizes:
expList = 2:0.5:5;
for ii=1:numel(expList)
expNum = round(10^expList(ii));
x = rand(expNum,expNum);
tic;
xn = normalizeBsxfun(x);
ts(ii) = toc;
tic;
xn = normalizeLoop(x);
tl(ii) = toc;
end
figure;
hold on;
plot(round(10.^expList),ts,'b');
plot(round(10.^expList),tl,'r');
legend('bsxfun','loop');
set(gca,'YScale','log')
The results show that for small matrices, the bsxfun is faster. But, the difference is neglect able for higher dimensions, as it was also found in other post.
The x-axis is the squared root number of matrix elements, while the y-axis is the computation time in seconds.
Let X be a m x n matrix and you want to normalize column wise.
The following matlab code does it
XMean = repmat(mean(X),m,1);
XStd = repmat(std(X),m,1);
X_norm = (X - XMean)./(XStd);
The element wise ./ operator is explained here: http://www.mathworks.in/help/matlab/ref/arithmeticoperators.html
Note: As op mentioned, this is simply a faster solution and performs the same task as looping through the matrix. The underlying implementation of this inbuilt function makes it work faster
Note: This code works in Octave and MATLAB versions R2016b or higher.
function X_norm = normalizeMatrix(X)
mu = mean(X); %mean
sigma = std(X); %standard deviation
X_norm = (X - mu)./sigma;
end
How about using
normc(X)
that would normalize the matrix X columnwise. You need to include the Neural Network Toolbox in your install though.
How about this?
A = [7, 2, 6; 3, 8, 4]; % a 2x3 matrix
Asum = sum(A); % sum the columns
Anorm = A./Asum(ones(size(A, 1), 1), :); % normalise the columns