Vectorization refers to a programming paradigm where functions operate on whole arrays in one go. This affords benefits in terms of function calls, memory access, parallelization and code expressiveness. Some programming languages, such as MATLAB, are optimised to give the best performance when ...

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Scaling and incrementing non-zero elements of a NumPy matrix

I have a NumPy matrix C and want create a copy of it cPrime, which has some operation of the original matrix to all non-zero ...
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Vectorized numpy version of arange with multiple start stop

Given a single start and stop, numpy.arange is a good solution for building a NumPy array of evenly spaced values. However, given an array of start and an array of ...
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NumPy eliminate double loop

How can I vectorize this code snippet and eliminate this double loop? Even with "only" 1001 elements in a this takes almost 30s. ...
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Optimize matlab triple for loop

I have a large matrix samples, I want to make another matrix sampleProb which is the same size, but modified as below: ...
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Modeling and plotting neuron responses

I want to assign the row of a matrix the return value of a function, but the only way I can figure out how to do this is with a for-loop. I'm assuming this is bad ...
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Generate random unit vectors around circle

I'm trying to generate a bunch of uniformly distributed unit vectors around the unit circle. Here's my code, which is working, but unfortunately I have a for-loop. How do I get rid of this for-loop? ...
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Vectorization for temperature simulation

I'm new to Matlab and I would like to know tips in order to reduce the processing time of such program. The scheme of the actual code is very similar to typical C++ code and I would like to vectorize ...
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Speeding up loop-rich Matlab function to calculate temperature distribution

I would like to speed up this function as much as possible in Matlab. This is part of a bigger simulation project, and as it is one of the most called functions within the simulation, this is crucial. ...
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Improving Matlab function within big simulation

I have a very big Matlab simulation project in my hands, which I wanted to optimize, since I'm running it many times to tune parameters and the like. Using Matlab's ...
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Fast counting of interactions between groups given users interactions and groups assignments

Given: An array c that contains the group assignment of every user (c[i]=4 indicates that user i belongs to group 4) A matrix ...
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Vector comparison inside for-loop

The following code finds no-rain periods in a time series that were preceded by rain over a threshold (e.g. 10mm in 2 days [k=48]). ...
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Extracting maximum values from each of the subsets of an array

Problem description: I have a numpy array cps from which I want to extract the maximum value in each of the subsets of the array (a subset is defined as non-zero ...
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Bernoulli trials using a condition in a vectorized operation

I was wondering how to vectorize the following code instead of using the for-loop and still be able to check for a condition. ...
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Optimizing a loop for catalogue manipulation

I have a catalogue of 56000 objects and I want to replace some columns with new values for instance replace NaN with -99 and ...
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Determining the value of a position on an array based on its nearest datapoint known value

I was wondering what would be the efficient way to determine the value of a position on an array based on its nearest datapoint known value in Python? Problem description: There are ...
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Run length encoding of vectors in MATLAB: looped version and vectorized version

A project I'm working on requires something akin to run length encoding on a vector in matlab. The data is in the form of a numeric vector, and the output is in the form of two vectors, ...
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Efficient C Code Alternative to MATLAB's im2col

The function im2col in MATLAB is very useful to vectorize Patch based Image Processing algorithms. The problem is the function isn't optimized and doesn't use C ...
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Calculating mesh centers runs very slowly

I have a piece of code that is used to calculate the cell centers in a rectangular mesh. The mesh size is pretty large (650 columns by 1150 rows). The code runs very slowly. I was wondering if I could ...
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Merging overlapping/intersecting string vectors

I am trying to merge overlapping/intersecting sets given as a list of string vectors below in R (my actual data set has thousands of such sets). The overlap/intersection is based on the ...
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Vectorize Matlab sum

I have the following Matlab function: function [res] = a3_funct(x) res = 0; for i = 1:size(x,1) res = res + abs(x(i))^(i+1); end end It's ...
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Using Gibbs sampling to segment an image

I have been reading some NumPy guides but can't seem to figure it out. My TA told me I should be able to speed up my code by using a NumPy array instead of a for ...