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Spare matrix division by a scalar
I have a problem when I try to divide a sparse matrix by a scalar. These few lines work perfectly in Matlab
norm0=max(abs(M(:)))
M=M/norm0
where M is a (possibly sparse) matrix.
Using the toolbox, it only works if M is full, and for a sparse matrix I get
One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "mpimpl".
Error in / (line 1055)
r = mpimpl(35,x,y);
Is there a way to get around that efficiently ?
Also, is there any chances that the function svds will be implemented soon ?
Adam
norm0=max(abs(M(:)))
M=M/norm0
where M is a (possibly sparse) matrix.
Using the toolbox, it only works if M is full, and for a sparse matrix I get
One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "mpimpl".
Error in / (line 1055)
r = mpimpl(35,x,y);
Is there a way to get around that efficiently ?
Also, is there any chances that the function svds will be implemented soon ?
Adam
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A similar error occours for
M./norm0
M.*norm0
But M*norm0 works, so for now
M=[12,1,1,1;0,1,1,0;0,1,0,1;0,0,0,1];
Msparsemp=mp(sparse(M));
norm0=max(abs(Msparsemp(:)));
Msparsemp = Msparsemp*(1/norm0);
I tried M*1/norm0 which did not work, but no with the brackets.
However, it seems to me that max(M) with M sparse is really not optimized : for some reason, my M is initialized as a very large sparse matrice of size 4096*4096 but with only 16 non-zero elements. It takes almost 30 seconds to find the largest element, whereas if I put all the non-zero elements in a separate matrix, it takes a mere 0.04 seconds.
Adam
Best regards,
Michael
Until now - I have just released the updated version of toolbox with the operations.
Now only for Windows: http://goo.gl/pMXV3.
Mac OSX & Linux will be available later today - after re-compilation and unit tests.
As you know, sparse matrices are new feature in toolbox - functions are added (almost) every day.
Because of the limited (but growing) functionality for sparse matrices, we suggest the following workflow (if applicable):
1. Do all math. operations and manipulations with non-zero elements stored as vectors.
2. Build the sparse matrix from vector of prepared non-zeros and their coordinates (function sparse()).
3. Solve the resulting sparse matrix against different rhs or use in iterative processes.
Toolbox has necessary solvers and optimized SpMV operations needed for step 3 - it has been our priority from the beginning.
This workflow is not perfect, but we lift the limitations with every release.
Now we are working on eigs(). The svds() will be added right after eigs() - as two are related.
The min/max has no support for sparse matrices (both convert it to full matrix = slow).
Will update both functions in next micro-updates shortly.
Michael, thank you very much for your help!
GNU Linux:
Advanpix Toolbox for Linux
MacOSX:
Advanpix Toolbox for Mac OSX
max/min for sparse matrices will be added shortly in next micro-update.