My guess would be that a vectorized approach for this would be less efficient than explicit looping, because the result is fundamentally a jagged array, which NumPy does not support well.
However, a loop-based solution is simple, that can be made faster with Numba's nb.njit(), if needed.:
import numpy as np
import numba as nb
@nb.njit
def jag_nb(arr, starts, empty=np.nan):
result = np.full(arr.shape, empty)
for i, x in enumerate(starts):
if x != 0:
result[i, :-x] = arr[i, x:]
else:
result[i, :] = arr[i, :]
return result
A = np.array([[12,412,42,54], [144,2,42,4], [2,43,22,10]])
L = np.array([0,2,1])
jag(A, L)
# array([[ 12., 412., 42., 54.],
# [ 42., 4., nan, nan],
# [ 43., 22., 10., nan]])
Compared to the pure NumPy vectorized approach proposed in @QuangHoang's answer:
def jag_np(arr, starts, empty=np.nan):
m, _ = arr.shape
keep = np.arange(m) >= starts[:, None]
result = np.full(arr.shape, np.nan)
result[keep[:, ::-1]] = arr[keep]
return result
The Numba based approach is noticeably faster, as shown with the following benchmarks:
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def benchmark(
funcs,
ii=range(4, 10, 1),
is_equal=lambda x, y: np.allclose(x, y, equal_nan=True),
seed=0,
unit="ms",
verbose=True,
use_str=True
):
labels = [func.__name__ for func in funcs]
units = {"s": 0, "ms": 3, "µs": 6, "ns": 9}
assert unit in units
np.random.seed(seed)
timings = {}
for i in ii:
m = n = 2 ** i
if verbose:
print(f"i={i}, n={n}")
arr = np.random.random((m, n))
starts = np.random.randint(0, n, m)
base = funcs[0](arr, starts)
timings[n] = []
for func in funcs:
res = func(arr, starts)
is_good = is_equal(base, res)
timed = %timeit -n 64 -r 8 -q -o func(arr, starts)
timing = timed.best
timings[n].append(timing if is_good else None)
if verbose:
print(
f"{func.__name__:>24}"
f" {is_good!s:5}"
f" {timing * (10 ** units[unit]):10.3f} {unit}"
f" {timings[n][0] / timing:5.1f}x")
return timings, labels
def plot(timings, labels, title=None, xlabel="Input Size / #", unit="ms"):
n_rows = 1
n_cols = 3
fig, axs = plt.subplots(n_rows, n_cols, figsize=(8 * n_cols, 6 * n_rows), squeeze=False)
units = {"s": 0, "ms": 3, "µs": 6, "ns": 9}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=timings, index=labels).transpose()
base = df[[labels[0]]].to_numpy()
(df * 10 ** units[unit]).plot(marker="o", xlabel=xlabel, ylabel=f"Best timing / {unit}", ax=axs[0, 0])
(df / base * 100).plot(marker='o', xlabel=xlabel, ylabel='Relative speed / %', logx=True, ax=axs[0, 1])
(base / df).plot(marker='o', xlabel=xlabel, ylabel='Speed Gain / x', ax=axs[0, 2])
if title:
fig.suptitle(title)
fig.patch.set_facecolor('white')
funcs = jag_np, jag_nb
timings, labels = benchmark(funcs, ii=range(4, 11))
plot(timings, labels, unit="ms")
