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Find Indexes that Maps a Numpy Array to Another

If we have an numpy array a that needs to be sampled with replacement to create a second numpy array b,
import numpy as np
a = np.arange(10, 200*1000)
b = np.random.choice(a, len(a), replace=True)
What is the most efficient way to find an array of indexes named mapping that will transform a to b? It is OK to change np.random.choice to a more suitable function.
The following code is too slow and takes 7-8 seconds on a Macbook Pro to creating the mapping array. With an array size of 1 million, it will take much longer.
mapping = np.array([], dtype=np.int)
for n in b:
m = np.searchsorted(a, n)
mapping = np.append(mapping, m)

Perhaps, run the choice on index of a and slice a using this random index mapping:
mapping = np.random.choice(np.arange(len(a)), len(a), replace=True)
b = a[mapping]

Setup sliding windows as columns (IM2COL from MATLAB) in multi-dimensional array - Python

Currently, I have a 4d array, say,
arr = np.arange(48).reshape((2,2,3,4))
I want to apply a function that takes a 2d array as input to each 2d array sliced from arr. I have searched and read this question, which is exactly what I want.
The function I'm using is im2col_sliding_broadcasting() which I get from here. It takes a 2d array and list of 2 elements as input and returns a 2d array. In my case: it takes 3x4 2d array and a list [2, 2] and returns 4x6 2d array.
I considered using apply_along_axis() but as said it only accepts 1d function as parameter. I can't apply im2col function this way.
I want an output that has the shape as 2x2x4x6. Surely I can achieve this with for loop, but I heard that it's too time expensive:
import numpy as np
def im2col_sliding_broadcasting(A, BSZ, stepsize=1):
# source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30110497/10666066
# Parameters
M, N = A.shape
col_extent = N - BSZ[1] + 1
row_extent = M - BSZ[0] + 1
# Get Starting block indices
start_idx = np.arange(BSZ[0])[:, None]*N + np.arange(BSZ[1])
# Get offsetted indices across the height and width of input array
offset_idx = np.arange(row_extent)[:, None]*N + np.arange(col_extent)
# Get all actual indices & index into input array for final output
return np.take(A, start_idx.ravel()[:, None] + offset_idx.ravel()[::stepsize])
arr = np.arange(48).reshape((2,2,3,4))
output = np.empty([2,2,4,6])
for i in range(2):
for j in range(2):
temp = im2col_sliding_broadcasting(arr[i, j], [2,2])
output[i, j] = temp
Since my arr in fact is a 10000x3x64x64 array. So my question is: Is there another way to do this more efficiently ?

We can leverage np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided based scikit-image's view_as_windows to get sliding windows. More info on use of as_strided based view_as_windows.
from skimage.util.shape import view_as_windows
W1,W2 = 2,2 # window size
# create sliding windows along last two axes1
w = view_as_windows(arr,(1,1,W1,W2))[...,0,0,:,:]
# Merge the window axes (tha last two axes) and
# merge the axes along which those windows were created (3rd and 4th axes)
outshp = arr.shape[:-2] + (W1*W2,) + ((arr.shape[-2]-W1+1)*(arr.shape[-1]-W2+1),)
out = w.transpose(0,1,4,5,2,3).reshape(outshp)
The last step forces a copy. So, skip it if possible.

How to get chunks of submatrices faster?

I have a really big matrix (nxn)for which I would to build the intersecting tiles (submatrices) with the dimensions mxm. There will be an offset of step bvetween each contiguous submatrices. Here is an example for n=8, m=4, step=2:
import numpy as np
matrix=np.random.randn(8,8)
n=matrix.shape[0]
m=4
step=2
This will store all the corner indices (x,y) from which we will take a 4x4 natrix: (x:x+4,x:x+4)
a={(i,j) for i in range(0,n-m+1,step) for j in range(0,n-m+1,step)}
The submatrices will be extracted like that
sub_matrices = np.zeros([m,m,len(a)])
for i,ind in enumerate(a):
x,y=ind
sub_matrices[:,:,i]=matrix[x:x+m, y:y+m]
Is there a faster way to do this submatrices initialization?

We can leverage np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided based scikit-image's view_as_windows to get sliding windows. More info on use of as_strided based view_as_windows.
from skimage.util.shape import view_as_windows
# Get indices as array
ar = np.array(list(a))
# Get all sliding windows
w = view_as_windows(matrix,(m,m))
# Get selective ones by indexing with ar
selected_windows = np.moveaxis(w[ar[:,0],ar[:,1]],0,2)
Alternatively, we can extract the row and col indices with a list comprehension and then index with those, like so -
R = [i[0] for i in a]
C = [i[1] for i in a]
selected_windows = np.moveaxis(w[R,C],0,2)
Optimizing from the start, we can skip the creation of stepping array, a and simply use the step arg with view_as_windows, like so -
view_as_windows(matrix,(m,m),step=2)
This would give us a 4D array and indexing into the first two axes of it would have all the mxm shaped windows. These windows are simply views into input and hence no extra memory overhead plus virtually free runtime!

import numpy as np
a = np.random.randn(n, n)
b = a[0:m*step:step, 0:m*step:step]
If you have a one-dimension array, you can get it's submatrix by the following code:
c = a[start:end:step]
If the dimension is two or more, add comma between every dimension.
d = a[start1:end1:step1, start2:end3:step2]

Fast compose slices of 3D numpy array as 3D subarray

I have a 3D numpy array x. I want to take a subset of each slice on axis 0 (each subset is the same shape, but with start and end indices that may be different for each slice) and compose these into a separate 3D numpy array. I can achieve this with
import numpy as np
x = np.arange(24).reshape((3, 4, 2))
starts = [0, 2, 1]
ends = [2, 4, 3]
np.stack([x[i, starts[i]:ends[i]] for i in range(3)])
but 1) is there any way to do this in a single operation using fancy indexing, and 2) will doing so speed things up?

We can leverage np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided based scikit-image's view_as_windows to get sliding windows. More info on use of as_strided based view_as_windows.
from skimage.util.shape import view_as_windows
L = 2 # ends[0]-starts[0]
w = view_as_windows(x,(1,L,1))[...,0,:,0]
out = w[np.arange(len(starts)), starts].swapaxes(1,2)
Alternatively, a compact version leveraging broadcasting that generates all the required indices and then indexing into the input array, would be -
x[np.arange(len(starts))[:,None],np.asarray(starts)[:,None] + np.arange(L)]

Broadcasting with reduction or extension in Numpy

In the following code we calculate magnitudes of vectors between all pairs of given points. To speed up this operation in NumPy we can use broadcasting
import numpy as np
points = np.random.rand(10,3)
pair_vectors = points[:,np.newaxis,:] - points[np.newaxis,:,:]
pair_dists = np.linalg.norm(pair_vectors,axis=2).shape
or outer product iteration
it = np.nditer([points,points,None], flags=['external_loop'], op_axes=[[0,-1,1],[-1,0,1],None])
for a,b,c in it:
c[...] = b - a
pair_vectors = it.operands[2]
pair_dists = np.linalg.norm(pair_vectors,axis=2)
My question is how could one use broadcasting or outer product iteration to create an array with the form 10x10x6 where the last axis contains the coordinates of both points in a pair (extension). And in a related way, is it possible to calculate pair distances using broadcasting or outer product iteration directly, i.e. produce a matrix of form 10x10 without first calculating the difference vectors (reduction).
To clarify, the following code creates the desired matrices using slow looping.
pair_coords = np.zeros(10,10,6)
pair_dists = np.zeros(10,10)
for i in range(10):
for j in range(10):
pair_coords[i,j,0:3] = points[i,:]
pair_coords[i,j,3:6] = points[j,:]
pair_dists[i,j] = np.linalg.norm(points[i,:]-points[j,:])
This is a failed attempt to calculate distanced (or apply any other function that takes 6 coordinates of both points in a pair and produce a scalar) using outer product iteration.
res = np.zeros((10,10))
it = np.nditer([points,points,res], flags=['reduce_ok','external_loop'], op_axes=[[0,-1,1],[-1,0,1],None])
for a,b,c in it: c[...] = np.linalg.norm(b-a)
pair_dists = it.operands[2]

Here's an approach to produce those arrays in vectorized ways -
from itertools import product
from scipy.spatial.distance import pdist, squareform
N = points.shape[0]
# Get indices for selecting rows off points array and stacking them
idx = np.array(list(product(range(N),repeat=2)))
p_coords = np.column_stack((points[idx[:,0]],points[idx[:,1]])).reshape(N,N,6)
# Get the distances for upper triangular elements.
# Then create a symmetric one for the final dists array.
p_dists = squareform(pdist(points))
Few other vectorized approaches are discussed in this post, so have a look there too!