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How to find all lower and upper values for a given value in a list

I have an array that looks like this: [1,2,4,1,2,5,1,2,6]
Given a value of 3
I want to find all value-pairs in the list above that encapsulate that given value.
i.e; [2,4];[2,5];[2,6]
I can find the [2,6] values by using bisect, but how can I find all the values?
x = np.array([1,2,4,1,2,5])
xL = bisect_left(x,start)-1
xU = bisect_left(x,start)
print(xL ," ", xU)
lower = x[xL]
upper = x[xU]
print(lower, upper)
P.S.
My actual data is quite large, so I do not think writing the code by myself with for loops etc. is a valid approach, so I want to mainly use build in libraries like pandas etc.

You could do something like this:
import numpy as np
x = np.array([1, 2, 4, 1, 2, 5, 1, 2, 6])
x_left = x[:-1]
x_right = x[1:]
encapsulation = np.where((x_left < 3) & (x_right > 3))
left_encapsulation_values = x_left[encapsulation]
right_encapsulation_values = x_right[encapsulation]
You have one array for the left values (doesn't contain the last element, because it doesn't have a right neighbor) and an array for the right values (without the first element, same idea). Then you mask those arrays with the condition that you defined and voila you have the left and right values that do encapsulate 3.
left_encapsulation_values=array([2, 2, 2])
right_encapsulation_values=array([4, 5, 6])

Workaround for using a float slice indices in lists [duplicate]

I have an array of arbitrary length, and I want to select N elements of it, evenly spaced out (approximately, as N may be even, array length may be prime, etc) that includes the very first arr[0] element and the very last arr[len-1] element.
Example:
>>> arr = np.arange(17)
>>> arr
array([ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16])
Then I want to make a function like the following to grab numElems evenly spaced out within the array, which must include the first and last element:
GetSpacedElements(numElems = 4)
>>> returns 0, 5, 11, 16
Does this make sense?
I've tried arr[0:len:numElems] (i.e. using the array start:stop:skip notation) and some slight variations, but I'm not getting what I'm looking for here:
>>> arr[0:len:numElems]
array([ 0, 4, 8, 12, 16])
or
>>> arr[0:len:numElems+1]
array([ 0, 5, 10, 15])
I don't care exactly what the middle elements are, as long as they're spaced evenly apart, off by an index of 1 let's say. But getting the right number of elements, including the index zero and last index, are critical.

To get a list of evenly spaced indices, use np.linspace:
idx = np.round(np.linspace(0, len(arr) - 1, numElems)).astype(int)
Next, index back into arr to get the corresponding values:
arr[idx]
Always use rounding before casting to integers. Internally, linspace calls astype when the dtype argument is provided. Therefore, this method is NOT equivalent to:
# this simply truncates the non-integer part
idx = np.linspace(0, len(array) - 1, numElems).astype(int)
idx = np.linspace(0, len(arr) - 1, numElems, dtype='int')

Your GetSpacedElements() function should also take in the array to avoid unfortunate side effects elsewhere in code. That said, the function would need to look like this:
import numpy as np
def GetSpacedElements(array, numElems = 4):
out = array[np.round(np.linspace(0, len(array)-1, numElems)).astype(int)]
return out
arr = np.arange(17)
print(array)
spacedArray = GetSpacedElements(arr, 4)
print (spacedArray)

If you want to know more about finding indices that match values you seek, also have a look at numpy.argmin and numpy.where. Implementing the former:
import numpy as np
test = np.arange(17)
def nearest_index(array, value):
return (np.abs(np.asarray(array) - value)).argmin()
def evenly_spaced_indices(array, steps):
return [nearest_index(array, value) for value in np.linspace(np.min(array), np.max(array), steps)]
print(evenly_spaced_indices(test,4))
You should keep in mind that this is an unnecessary amount of function calls for the initial question you asked as switftly demonstrated by coldspeed. np.round intuitively rounds to the closest matching integer serving as index, implementing a similar process but optimised in C++. If you are interested in the indices too, you could have your function simply return both:
import numpy as np
def GetSpacedElements(array, numElems=4, returnIndices=False):
indices = np.round(np.linspace(0, len(arr) - 1, numElems)).astype(int)
values = array[indices]
return (values, indices) if returnIndices else (values)
arr = np.arange(17) + 42
print(arr)
print(GetSpacedElements(arr, 4)) # values only
print(GetSpacedElements(arr, 4, returnIndices=True)[0]) # values only
print(GetSpacedElements(arr, 4, returnIndices=True)[1]) # indices only

To get N evenly spaced elements from list 'x':
x[::int(np.ceil( len(x) / N ))]

Stable conversion of a multi-column (2D) numpy array to an indicator vector

I often need to convert a multi-column (or 2D) numpy array into an indicator vector in a stable (i.e., order preserved) manner.
For example, I have the following numpy array:
import numpy as np
arr = np.array([
[2, 20, 1],
[1, 10, 3],
[2, 20, 2],
[2, 20, 1],
[1, 20, 3],
[2, 20, 2],
])
The output I like to have is:
indicator = [0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 2]
How can I do this (preferably using numpy only)?
Notes:
I am looking for a high performance (vectorized) approach as the arr (see the example above) has millions of rows in a real application.
I am aware of the following auxiliary solutions, but none is ideal. It would be nice to hear expert's opinion.
My thoughts so far:
1. Numpy's unique: This would not work, as it is not stable:
arr_unq, indicator = np.unique(arr, axis=0, return_inverse=True)
print(arr_unq)
# output 1:
# [[ 1 10 3]
# [ 1 20 3]
# [ 2 20 1]
# [ 2 20 2]]
print(indicator)
# output 2:
# [2 0 3 2 1 3]
Notice how the indicator starts from 2. This is because unique function returns a "sorted" array (see output 1). However, I would like it to start from 0.
Of course I can use LabelEncoder from sklearn to convert the items in a manner that they start from 0 but I feel that there is a simple numpy trick that I can use and therefore avoid adding sklearn dependency to my program.
Or I can resolve this by a dictionary mapping like below, but I can imagine that there is a better or more elegant solution:
dct = {}
for idx, item in enumerate(indicator):
if item not in dct:
dct[item] = len(dct)
indicator[idx] = dct[item]
print(indicator)
# outputs:
# [0 1 2 0 3 2]
2. Stabilizing numpy's unique output: This solution is already posted in stackoverflow and correctly returns an stable unique array. But I do not know how to convert the returned indicator vector (returned when return_inverse=True) to represent the values in an stable order starting from 0.
3. Pandas's get_dummies: function. But it returns a "hot encoding" (matrix of indicator values). In contrast, I would like to have an indicator vector. It is indeed possible to convert the "hot encoding" to the indicator vector by few lines of code and data manipulation. But again that approach is not going to be highly efficient.

In addition to return_inverse, you can add the return_index option. This will tell you the first occurrence of each sorted item:
unq, idx, inv = np.unique(arr, axis=0, return_index=True, return_inverse=True)
Now you can use the fact that np.argsort is its own inverse to fix the order. Note that idx.argsort() places unq into sorted order. The corrected result is therefore
indicator = idx.argsort().argsort()[inv]
And of course the byproduct
unq = unq[idx.argsort()]
Of course there's nothing special about these operations to 2D.
A Note on the Intuition
Let's say you have an array x:
x = np.array([7, 3, 0, 1, 4])
x.argsort() is the index that tells you what elements of x are placed at each of the locations in the sorted array. So
i = x.argsort() # 2, 3, 1, 4, 0
But how would you get from np.sort(x) back to x (which is the problem you express in #2)?
Well, it happens that i tells you the original position of each element in the sorted array: the first (smallest) element was originally at index 2, the second at 3, ..., the last (largest) element was at index 0. This means that to place np.sort(x) back into its original order, you need the index that puts i into sorted order. That means that you can write x as
np.sort(x)[i.argsort()]
Which is equivalent to
x[i][i.argsort()]
OR
x[x.argsort()][x.argsort().argsort()]
So, as you can see, np.argsort is effectively its own inverse: argsorting something twice gives you the index to put it back in the original order.

Function Failing at Large List Sizes

I have a question: Starting with a 1-indexed array of zeros and a list of operations, for each operation add a value to each the array element between two given indices, inclusive. Once all operations have been performed, return the maximum value in the array.
Example: n = 10, Queries = [[1,5,3],[4,8,7],[6,9,1]]
The following will be the resultant output after iterating through the array, Index 1-5 will have 3 added to it etc...:
[0,0,0, 0, 0,0,0,0,0, 0]
[3,3,3, 3, 3,0,0,0,0, 0]
[3,3,3,10,10,7,7,7,0, 0]
[3,3,3,10,10,8,8,8,1, 0]
Finally you output the max value in the final list:
[3,3,3,10,10,8,8,8,1, 0]
My current solution:
def Operations(size, Array):
ResultArray = [0]*size
Values = [[i.pop(2)] for i in Array]
for index, i in enumerate(Array):
#Current Values in = Sum between the current values in the Results Array AND the added operation of equal length
#Results Array
ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]] = list(map(sum, zip(ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]], Values[index]*len(ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]]))))
Result = max(ResultArray)
return Result
def main():
nm = input().split()
n = int(nm[0])
m = int(nm[1])
queries = []
for _ in range(m):
queries.append(list(map(int, input().rstrip().split())))
result = Operations(n, queries)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Example input: The first line contains two space-separated integers n and m, the size of the array and the number of operations.
Each of the next m lines contains three space-separated integers a,b and k, the left index, right index and summand.
5 3
1 2 100
2 5 100
3 4 100
Compiler Error at Large Sizes:
Runtime Error
Currently this solution is working for smaller final lists of length 4000, however in order test cases where length = 10,000,000 it is failing. I do not know why this is the case and I cannot provide the example input since it is so massive. Is there anything clear as to why it would fail in larger cases?

I think the problem is that you make too many intermediary trow away list here:
ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]] = list(map(sum, zip(ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]], Values[index]*len(ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]]))))
this ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]] result in a list and you do it twice, and one is just to get the size, which is a complete waste of resources, then you make another list with Values[index]*len(...) and finally compile that into yet another list that will also be throw away once it is assigned into the original, so you make 4 throw away list, so for example lets said the the slice size is of 5.000.000, then you are making 4 of those or 20.000.000 extra space you are consuming, 15.000.000 of which you don't really need, and if your original list is of 10.000.000 elements, well just do the math...
You can get the same result for your list(map(...)) with list comprehension like
[v+Value[index][0] for v in ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]] ]
now we use two less lists, and we can reduce one list more by making it a generator expression, given that slice assignment does not need that you assign a list specifically, just something that is iterable
(v+Value[index][0] for v in ResultArray[i[0]-1:i[1]] )
I don't know if internally the slice assignment it make it a list first or not, but hopefully it doesn't, and with that we go back to just one extra list
here is an example
>>> a=[0]*10
>>> a
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
>>> a[1:5] = (3+v for v in a[1:5])
>>> a
[0, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
>>>
we can reduce it to zero extra list (assuming that internally it doesn't make one) by using itertools.islice
>>> import itertools
>>> a[3:7] = (1+v for v in itertools.islice(a,3,7))
>>> a
[0, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]
>>>

Fast algorithm to find indices where multiple arrays have the same value

I'm looking for ways to speed up (or replace) my algorithm for grouping data.
I have a list of numpy arrays. I want to generate a new numpy array, such that each element of this array is the same for each index where the original arrays are the same as well. (And different where this is not the case.)
This sounds kind of awkward, so have an example:
# Test values:
values = [
np.array([10, 11, 10, 11, 10, 11, 10]),
np.array([21, 21, 22, 22, 21, 22, 23]),
]
# Expected outcome: np.array([0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 3, 4])
# * *
Note that elements I marked (indices 0 and 4) of the expected outcome have the same value (0) because the original two arrays were also the same (namely 10 and 21). Similar for elements with indices 3 and 5 (3).
The algorithm has to deal with an arbitrary number of (equally-size) input arrays, and also return, for each resulting number, what values of the original arrays they correspond to. (So for this example, "3" refers to (11, 22).)
Here is my current algorithm:
import numpy as np
def groupify(values):
group = np.zeros((len(values[0]),), dtype=np.int64) - 1 # Magic number: -1 means ungrouped.
group_meanings = {}
next_hash = 0
matching = np.ones((len(values[0]),), dtype=bool)
while any(group == -1):
this_combo = {}
matching[:] = (group == -1)
first_ungrouped_idx = np.where(matching)[0][0]
for curr_id, value_array in enumerate(values):
needed_value = value_array[first_ungrouped_idx]
matching[matching] = value_array[matching] == needed_value
this_combo[curr_id] = needed_value
# Assign all of the found elements to a new group
group[matching] = next_hash
group_meanings[next_hash] = this_combo
next_hash += 1
return group, group_meanings
Note that the expression value_array[matching] == needed_value is evaluated many times for each individual index, which is where the slowness comes from.
I'm not sure if my algorithm can be sped up much more, but I'm also not sure if it's the optimal algorithm to begin with. Is there a better way of doing this?

Cracked it finally for a vectorized solution! It was an interesting problem. The problem was we had to tag each pair of values taken from the corresponding array elements of the list. Then, we are supposed to tag each such pair based on their uniqueness among othet pairs. So, we can use np.unique abusing all its optional arguments and finally do some additional work to keep the order for the final output. Here's the implementation basically done in three stages -
# Stack as a 2D array with each pair from values as a column each.
# Convert to linear index equivalent considering each column as indexing tuple
arr = np.vstack(values)
idx = np.ravel_multi_index(arr,arr.max(1)+1)
# Do the heavy work with np.unique to give us :
# 1. Starting indices of unique elems,
# 2. Srray that has unique IDs for each element in idx, and
# 3. Group ID counts
_,unq_start_idx,unqID,count = np.unique(idx,return_index=True, \
return_inverse=True,return_counts=True)
# Best part happens here : Use mask to ignore the repeated elems and re-tag
# each unqID using argsort() of masked elements from idx
mask = ~np.in1d(unqID,np.where(count>1)[0])
mask[unq_start_idx] = 1
out = idx[mask].argsort()[unqID]
Runtime test
Let's compare the proposed vectorized approach against the original code. Since the proposed code gets us the group IDs only, so for a fair benchmarking, let's just trim off parts from the original code that are not used to give us that. So, here are the function definitions -
def groupify(values): # Original code
group = np.zeros((len(values[0]),), dtype=np.int64) - 1
next_hash = 0
matching = np.ones((len(values[0]),), dtype=bool)
while any(group == -1):
matching[:] = (group == -1)
first_ungrouped_idx = np.where(matching)[0][0]
for curr_id, value_array in enumerate(values):
needed_value = value_array[first_ungrouped_idx]
matching[matching] = value_array[matching] == needed_value
# Assign all of the found elements to a new group
group[matching] = next_hash
next_hash += 1
return group
def groupify_vectorized(values): # Proposed code
arr = np.vstack(values)
idx = np.ravel_multi_index(arr,arr.max(1)+1)
_,unq_start_idx,unqID,count = np.unique(idx,return_index=True, \
return_inverse=True,return_counts=True)
mask = ~np.in1d(unqID,np.where(count>1)[0])
mask[unq_start_idx] = 1
return idx[mask].argsort()[unqID]
Runtime results on a list with large arrays -
In [345]: # Input list with random elements
...: values = [item for item in np.random.randint(10,40,(10,10000))]
In [346]: np.allclose(groupify(values),groupify_vectorized(values))
Out[346]: True
In [347]: %timeit groupify(values)
1 loops, best of 3: 4.02 s per loop
In [348]: %timeit groupify_vectorized(values)
100 loops, best of 3: 3.74 ms per loop

This should work, and should be considerably faster, since we're using broadcasting and numpy's inherently fast boolean comparisons:
import numpy as np
# Test values:
values = [
np.array([10, 11, 10, 11, 10, 11, 10]),
np.array([21, 21, 22, 22, 21, 22, 23]),
]
# Expected outcome: np.array([0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 3, 4])
# for every value in values, check where duplicate values occur
same_mask = [val[:,np.newaxis] == val[np.newaxis,:] for val in values]
# get the conjunction of all those tests
conjunction = np.logical_and.reduce(same_mask)
# ignore the diagonal
conjunction[np.diag_indices_from(conjunction)] = False
# initialize the labelled array with nans (used as flag)
labelled = np.empty(values[0].shape)
labelled.fill(np.nan)
# keep track of labelled value
val = 0
for k, row in enumerate(conjunction):
if np.isnan(labelled[k]): # this element has not been labelled yet
labelled[k] = val # so label it
labelled[row] = val # and label every element satisfying the test
val += 1
print(labelled)
# outputs [ 0. 1. 2. 3. 0. 3. 4.]
It is about a factor of 1.5x faster than your version when dealing with the two arrays, but I suspect the speedup should be better for more arrays.

The numpy_indexed package (disclaimer: I am its author) contains generalized variants of the numpy arrayset operations, which can be used to solve your problem in an elegant and efficient (vectorized) manner:
import numpy_indexed as npi
unique_values, labels = npi.unique(tuple(values), return_inverse=True)
The above will work for arbitrary type combinations, but alternatively, the below will be even more efficient if values is a list of many arrays of the same dtype:
unique_values, labels = npi.unique(np.asarray(values), axis=1, return_inverse=True)

If I understand correctly, you are trying to hash values according to columns. Its better to convert the columns into arbitrary values by themselves, and then find the hashes from them.
So you actually want to hash on list(np.array(values).T).
This functionality is already built into Pandas. You dont need to write it. The only problem is that it takes a list of values without further lists within it. In this case, you can just convert the inner list to string map(str, list(np.array(values).T)) and factorize that!
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> pd.factorize(map(str, list(np.array(values).T)))
(array([0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 3, 4]),
array(['[10 21]', '[11 21]', '[10 22]', '[11 22]', '[10 23]'], dtype=object))
I have converted your list of arrays into an array, and then into a string ...