More specifically, given a natural number d, how can I generate random vectors in R^d such that each vector x has Euclidean norm <= 1?
Generating random vectors via numpy.random.rand(1,d) is no problem, but the likelihood of such a random vector having norm <= 1 is predictably bad for even not-small d. For example, even for d = 10 about 0.2% percent of such random vectors have appropriately small norm. So that seems like a silly solution.
EDIT: Re: Walter's comment, yes, I'm looking for a uniform distribution over vectors in the unit ball in R^d.
根据Wolfram Mathworld关于超球点选择的文章和Nate Eldredge对math.stackexchange.com上类似问题的回答 ,您可以通过生成d
独立高斯随机变量和均匀分布在随机数上的随机数U
来生成这样的向量。闭区间[0, 1]
,然后将向量归一化为范数U^(1/d)
。
Based on the answer by user2357112, you need something like this:
import numpy as np
...
inv_d = 1.0 / d
for ...:
gauss = np.random.normal(size=d)
length = np.linalg.norm(gauss)
if length == 0.0:
x = gauss
else:
r = np.random.rand() ** inv_d
x = np.multiply(gauss, r / length)
# conceptually: / length followed by * r
# do something with x
(this is my second Python program, so don't shoot at me...)
The tricks are that
this is the Python / Numpy code I am using. Since it does not use loops, is much faster:
n_vectors=1000
d=2
rnd_vec=np.random.uniform(-1, 1, size=(n_vectors, d)) # the initial random vectors
unif=np.random.uniform(size=n_vectors) # a second array random numbers
scale_f=np.expand_dims(np.linalg.norm(rnd_vec, axis=1)/unif, axis=1) # the scaling factors
rnd_vec=rnd_vec/scale_f # the random vectors in R^d
The second array of random numbers ( unif ) is needed as second scaling factor because otherwise all the vectors will have euclidean norm equal to one.
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