How to compare the values of three matrices are equal? - matlab

I'm new to Matlab. I need help with matrix comparison.
I have three matrices: R, S and T (size: 95956 x 1) and I need to compare all of their elements and see which elements are equal. Then we multiply the same values by a fourth matrix.
In a Matlab file, I read the coordinates and separate them into three matrices. Thus obtaining matrices R, S and T saved in "data.mat". Then I read in another file "data.mat" and used a For loop:
for t=1:1:length(CoordinateIndex)
index = R == S;
ts=ts+1;
end
Is this correct and how I will multiply only those values which are equal to a fourth matrix?

Using some simple example matrices and logical indexing, we can find the values that are common among all three via:
R = [1:4 1:4 1:4 1:4];
S = [1:2 1:2 1:4 1:6 1:2];
T = [1:6 1:2 1:8];
R_common = R(R==S&R==T);
This produces:
R_common =
1 2 1 2 3 4
If you want the indices that are common among all three matrices, use:
I = find(R==S&R==T);
which gives
I =
1 2 9 10 11 12
EDIT: As #Adiel suggested, you may be interested in the values that are common among the matrices regardless of their location in the matrices. This can be accomplished simply via the intersect function (also see this):
RST_intersection = intersect(intersect(R,S),T)
For my example matrices this gives
RST_intersection =
1 2 3 4
Note that the arguments to intersect can be different lengths, which may be helpful.

Related

MATLAB: Applying vectors of row and column indices without looping

I have a situation analogous to the following
z = magic(3) % Data matrix
y = [1 2 2]' % Column indices
So,
z =
8 1 6
3 5 7
4 9 2
y represents the column index I want for each row. It's saying I should take row 1 column 1, row 2 column 2, and row 3 column 2. The correct output is therefore 8 5 9.
I worked out I can get the correct output with the following
x = 1:3;
for i = 1:3
result(i) = z(x(i),y(i));
end
However, is it possible to do this without looping?
Two other possible ways I can suggest is to use sub2ind to find the linear indices that you can use to sample the matrix directly:
z = magic(3);
y = [1 2 2];
ind = sub2ind(size(z), 1:size(z,1), y);
result = z(ind);
We get:
>> result
result =
8 5 9
Another way is to use sparse to create a sparse matrix which you can turn into a logical matrix and then sample from the matrix with this logical matrix.
s = sparse(1:size(z,1), y, 1, size(z,1), size(z,2)) == 1; % Turn into logical
result = z(s);
We also get:
>> result
result =
8
5
9
Be advised that this only works provided that each row index linearly increases from 1 up to the end of the rows. This conveniently allows you to read the elements in the right order taking advantage of the column-major readout that MATLAB is based on. Also note that the output is also a column vector as opposed to a row vector.
The link posted by Adriaan is a great read for the next steps in accessing elements in a vectorized way: Linear indexing, logical indexing, and all that.
there are many ways to do this, one interesting way is to directly work out the indexes you want:
v = 0:size(y,2)-1; %generates a number from 0 to the size of your y vector -1
ind = y+v*size(z,2); %generates the indices you are looking for in each row
zinv = z';
zinv(ind)
>> ans =
8 5 9

1) Extract submatrices, 2) vectorize and then 3) put back

I simplify my problem, let says I have three matrices.
I want to extract the red-boxed sub-matrices. I define
S = [1 4;
2 5]
that are the linear indices of the above matrices. So, A(S), B(S) and C(S) can extract the entries of the three matrices.
I pack them into vector by V = [ A(S)(:); B(S)(:); C(S)(:) ]. Let says after some manipulations, I obtain a new vector
V_new = [12 9 8 12 21 8 7 5 3 12 11 10]'
Here comes to my problem:
E.g for matrix A, I want to obtain
2->12, 5->9, 4->8 and 6->12
which are the first four entries of my V_new.
Since I have around 200 matrices, I have no idea to swap along the 200 matrices and the updated vector, V_new at the same time. Is writing a for-loop best way to do this purpose?
Thanks in advance.
Assuming that your A, B and C matrices have the same dimensions, rather work with a 3D matrix.
e.g. assuming your example matrices
M = cat(3,A,B,C)
No to extract those 4 upper left elements:
M_subset = M(1:2,1:2,:)
And then to reshape them into the vector you had:
V = M_subset(:)
then manipulate it to get V_new and finally put it back in the original:
M(1:2,1:2,:) = reshape(V_new,2,2,[])

element by element matrix multiplication in Matlab

So I have the following matrices:
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6];
B = [0.5 2 3];
I'm writing a function in MATLAB that will allow me to multiply a vector and a matrix by element as long as the number of elements in the vector matches the number of columns. In A there are 3 columns:
1 2 3
4 5 6
B also has 3 elements so this should work. I'm trying to produce the following output based on A and B:
0.5 4 9
2 10 18
My code is below. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
function C = lab11(mat, vec)
C = zeros(2,3);
[a, b] = size(mat);
[c, d] = size(vec);
for i = 1:a
for k = 1:b
for j = 1
C(i,k) = C(i,k) + A(i,j) * B(j,k);
end
end
end
end
MATLAB already has functionality to do this in the bsxfun function. bsxfun will take two matrices and duplicate singleton dimensions until the matrices are the same size, then perform a binary operation on the two matrices. So, for your example, you would simply do the following:
C = bsxfun(#times,mat,vec);
Referencing MrAzzaman, bsxfun is the way to go with this. However, judging from your function name, this looks like it's homework, and so let's stick with what you have originally. As such, you need to only write two for loops. You would use the second for loop to index into both the vector and the columns of the matrix at the same time. The outer most for loop would access the rows of the matrix. In addition, you are referencing A and B, which are variables that don't exist in your code. You are also initializing the output matrix C to be 2 x 3 always. You want this to be the same size as mat. I also removed your checking of the length of the vector because you weren't doing anything with the result.
As such:
function C = lab11(mat, vec)
[a, b] = size(mat);
C = zeros(a,b);
for i = 1:a
for k = 1:b
C(i,k) = mat(i,k) * vec(k);
end
end
end
Take special note at what I did. The outer-most for loop accesses the rows of mat, while the inner-most loop accesses the columns of mat as well as the elements of vec. Bear in mind that the number of columns of mat need to be the same as the number of elements in vec. You should probably check for this in your code.
If you don't like using the bsxfun approach, one alternative is to take the vector vec and make a matrix out of this that is the same size as mat by stacking the vector vec on top of itself for as many times as we have rows in mat. After this, you can do element-by-element multiplication. You can do this stacking by using repmat which repeats a vector or matrices a given number of times in any dimension(s) you want. As such, your function would be simplified to:
function C = lab11(mat, vec)
rows = size(mat, 1);
vec_mat = repmat(vec, rows, 1);
C = mat .* vec_mat;
end
However, I would personally go with the bsxfun route. bsxfun basically does what the repmat paradigm does under the hood. Internally, it ensures that both of your inputs have the same size. If it doesn't, it replicates the smaller array / matrix until it is the same size as the larger array / matrix, then applies an element-by-element operation to the corresponding elements in both variables. bsxfun stands for Binary Singleton EXpansion FUNction, which is a fancy way of saying exactly what I just talked about.
Therefore, your function is further simplified to:
function C = lab11(mat, vec)
C = bsxfun(#times, mat, vec);
end
Good luck!

Creating a matrix from a function handle (MATLAB)

What I intend to do is very simple but yet I haven't found a proper way to do it. I have a function handle which depends on two variables, for example:
f = #(i,j) i+j
(mine is quite more complicated, though)
What I'd like to do is to create a matrix M such that
M(i,j) = f(i,j)
Of course I could use a nested loop but I'm trying to avoid those. I've already managed to do this in Maple in a quite simple way:
f:=(i,j)->i+j;
M:=Matrix(N,f);
(Where N is the dimension of the matrix) But I need to use MATLAB for this. For now I'm sticking to the nested loops but I'd really appreciate your help!
Use bsxfun:
>> [ii jj] = ndgrid(1:4 ,1:5); %// change i and j limits as needed
>> M = bsxfun(f, ii, jj)
M =
2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7
4 5 6 7 8
5 6 7 8 9
If your function f satisfies the following condition:
C = fun(A,B) accepts arrays A and B of arbitrary, but equal size and returns output of the same size. Each element in the output array C is the result of an operation on the corresponding elements of A and B only. fun must also support scalar expansion, such that if A or B is a scalar, C is the result of applying the scalar to every element in the other input array.
you can dispose of ndgrid. Just add a transpose (.') to the first (i) vector:
>> M = bsxfun(f, (1:4).', 1:5)
Function handles can accept matrices as inputs. Simply pass a square matrix of size N where the values corresponds to the row number for i, and a square matrix of size N where the values correspond to the column number for j.
N = 5;
f = #(i,j) i+j;
M = f(meshgrid(1:N+1), meshgrid(1:N+1)')

Mapping ids of two vectors

I have two vectors with the same elements but their order is not same. For eg
A
10
9
8
B
8
9
10
I want to find the mapping between the two
B2A
3
2
1
How can I do this in matlab efficiently?
I think the Matlab sort is efficient. So:
[~,I]=sort(A); %sort A; we want the indices, not the values
[~,J]=sort(B); %same with B
%I(1) and J(1) both point to the smallest value, and a similar statement is true
%for other pairs, even with repeated values.
%Now, find the index vector that sorts I
[~,K]=sort(I);
%if K(1) is k, then A(k) is the kth smallest entry in A, and the kth smallest
%entry in B is J(k)
%so B2A(1)=J(k)=J(K(1)), where BSA is the desired permutation vector
% A similar statement holds for the other entries
%so finally
B2A=J(K);
if the above were in script "findB2A" the following should be a check for it
N=1e4;
M=100;
A=floor(M*rand(1,N));
[~,I]=sort(rand(1,N));
B=A(I);
findB2A;
all(A==B(B2A))
There are a couple of ways of doing this. The most efficient in terms of lines of code is probably using ismember(). The return values are [Lia,Locb] = ismember(A,B), where Locb are the indices in B which correspond to the elements of A. You can do [~, B2A] = ismember(A, B) to get the result you want. If your version of MATLAB does not allow ~, supply a throwaway argument for the first output.
You must ensure that there is a 1-to-1 mapping to get meaningful results, otherwise the index will always point to the first matching element.
Here a solution :
arrayfun(#(x)find(x == B), A)
I tried with bigger arrays :
A = [ 7 5 2 9 1];
B = [ 1 9 7 5 2];
It gives the following result :
ans =
3 4 5 2 1
Edit
Because arrayfun is usually slower than the equivalent loop, here a solution with a loop:
T = length(A);
B2A = zeros(1, length(A));
for tt = 1:T
B2A(1, tt) = find(A(tt) == B);
end
I would go for Joe Serrano's answer using three chained sort's.
Another approach is to test all combinations for equality with bsxfun:
[~, B2A] = max(bsxfun(#eq, B(:), A(:).'));
This gives B2A such that B(B2A) equals A. If you want it the other way around (not clear from your example), simply reverse A and B within bsxfun.