scipy.sparse dot在Python中非常慢

Question

The following code will not even finish on my system:

import numpy as np
from scipy import sparse
p = 100
n = 50
X = np.random.randn(p,n)
L = sparse.eye(p,p, format='csc')
X.T.dot(L).dot(X)

Is there any explanation why this matrix multiplication is hanging?

Answer 1

XTdot(L) is not, as you may think, a 50x100 matrix, but an array of 50x100 sparse matrices of 100x100

>>> X.T.dot(L).shape
(50, 100)
>>> X.T.dot(L)[0,0]
<100x100 sparse matrix of type '<type 'numpy.float64'>'
    with 100 stored elements in Compressed Sparse Column format>

It seems that the problem is that X 's dot method, it being an array, doesn't know about sparse matrices. So you must either convert the sparse matrix to dense using its todense or toarray method. The former returns a matrix object, the latter an array :

>>> X.T.dot(L.todense()).dot(X)
matrix([[  81.85399873,    3.75640482,    1.62443625, ...,    6.47522251,
            3.42719396,    2.78630873],
        [   3.75640482,  109.45428475,   -2.62737229, ...,   -0.31310651,
            2.87871548,    8.27537382],
        [   1.62443625,   -2.62737229,  101.58919604, ...,    3.95235372,
            1.080478  ,   -0.16478654],
        ..., 
        [   6.47522251,   -0.31310651,    3.95235372, ...,   95.72988689,
          -18.99209596,   17.31774553],
        [   3.42719396,    2.87871548,    1.080478  , ...,  -18.99209596,
          108.90045569,  -16.20312682],
        [   2.78630873,    8.27537382,   -0.16478654, ...,   17.31774553,
          -16.20312682,  105.37102461]])

Alternatively, sparse matrices have a dot method that knows about arrays:

>>> X.T.dot(L.dot(X))
array([[  81.85399873,    3.75640482,    1.62443625, ...,    6.47522251,
           3.42719396,    2.78630873],
       [   3.75640482,  109.45428475,   -2.62737229, ...,   -0.31310651,
           2.87871548,    8.27537382],
       [   1.62443625,   -2.62737229,  101.58919604, ...,    3.95235372,
           1.080478  ,   -0.16478654],
       ..., 
       [   6.47522251,   -0.31310651,    3.95235372, ...,   95.72988689,
         -18.99209596,   17.31774553],
       [   3.42719396,    2.87871548,    1.080478  , ...,  -18.99209596,
         108.90045569,  -16.20312682],
       [   2.78630873,    8.27537382,   -0.16478654, ...,   17.31774553,
         -16.20312682,  105.37102461]])