Calculating column-wise dot product between two matrices - r

I would like to determine the dot product between the ith column in one matrix and the ith column in a second matrix. The end result will be an array containing i dot products.
Here is a reproducible example of what I want to do:
#Generate two matrices with 10 columns each with 5 rows (thus i in this case is 10)
m1 <- replicate(10, rnorm(5))
m2 <- replicate(10, rnorm(5))
#Inefficiently calculate dot product of ith column in m1 with ith column in m2
d1 <- t(m1[,1]) %*% m2[,1]
d2 <- t(m1[,2]) %*% m2[,2]
...
d10 <- t(m1[,10]) %*% m2[,10]
#End with all dot products in array
d.final <- c(d1, d2, d10)
Any help here will be appreciated!
Ken

Here are a few options
The clearest option (imo) is to use a loop
out1 <- sapply(1:10, function(i) crossprod(m1[,i], m2[,i]))
or calculate the full matrix cross product
out2 <- diag(crossprod(m1, m2))
or by summing element-wise multiplication
out3 <- colSums(m1*m2)
check
all.equal(out1, out2)
all.equal(out3, out2)
A little benchmark
f1 <- function() sapply(1:ncol(m1), function(i) crossprod(m1[,i], m2[,i]))
f2 <- function() diag(crossprod(m1, m2))
f3 <- function() colSums(m1*m2)
# on your data
microbenchmark::microbenchmark(f1(), f2(), f3())
# Unit: microseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
# f1() 62.508 65.2325 69.46337 66.873 70.9945 123.271 100 b
# f2() 8.312 9.4290 12.05529 9.778 10.2670 229.708 100 a
# f3() 11.385 12.4325 16.14248 12.921 13.5500 310.235 100 a
# on bigger data
m1 <- replicate(1000, rnorm(1000))
m2 <- replicate(1000, rnorm(1000))
all.equal(f1(), f2())
all.equal(f2(), f3())
microbenchmark::microbenchmark(f1(), f3()) #f2 took too long
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
# f1() 35.181220 38.065454 41.59141 39.93301 42.17569 82.13914 100 b
# f3() 8.349807 9.220799 11.13763 10.19330 11.21829 53.57050 100 a

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How can I vectorize a for loop used for permutation?

I am using R for analysis and would like to perform a permutation test. For this I am using a for loop that is quite slow and I would like to make the code as fast as possible. I think that vectorization is key for this. However, after several days of trying I still haven't found a suitable solution how to re-code this. I would deeply appreciate your help!
I have a symmetrical matrix with pairwise ecological distances between populations ("dist.mat"). I want to randomly shuffle the rows and columns of this distance matrix to generate a permuted distance matrix ("dist.mat.mix"). Then, I would like to save the upper triangular values in this permuted distance matrix (of the size of "nr.pairs"). This process should be repeated several times ("nr.runs"). The result should be a matrix ("result") containing the permuted upper triangular values of the several runs, with the dimensions of nrow=nr.runs and ncol=nr.pairs. Below an example R code that is doing what I want using a for loop:
# example number of populations
nr.pops <- 20
# example distance matrix
dist.mat <- as.matrix(dist(matrix(rnorm(20), nr.pops, 5)))
# example number of runs
nr.runs <- 1000
# find number of unique pairwise distances in distance matrix
nr.pairs <- nr.pops*(nr.pops-1) / 2
# start loop
result <- matrix(NA, nr.runs, nr.pairs)
for (i in 1:nr.runs) {
mix <- sample(nr.pops, replace=FALSE)
dist.mat.mix <- dist.mat[mix, mix]
result[i, ] <- dist.mat.mix[upper.tri(dist.mat.mix, diag=FALSE)]
}
# inspect result
result
I already made some clumsy vectorization attempts with the base::replicate function, but this doesn't speed things up. Actually it's a bit slower:
# my for loop approach
my.for.loop <- function() {
result <- matrix(NA, nr.runs, nr.pairs)
for (i in 1:nr.runs){
mix <- sample(nr.pops, replace=FALSE)
dist.mat.mix <- dist.mat[mix ,mix]
result[i, ] <- dist.mat.mix[upper.tri(dist.mat.mix, diag=FALSE)]
}
}
# my replicate approach
my.replicate <- function() {
results <- t(replicate(nr.runs, {
mix <- sample(nr.pops, replace=FALSE)
dist.mat.mix <- dist.mat[mix, mix]
dist.mat.mix[upper.tri(dist.mat.mix, diag=FALSE)]
}))
}
# compare speed
require(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(my.for.loop(), my.replicate(), times=100L)
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval
# my.for.loop() 23.1792 24.4759 27.1274 25.5134 29.0666 61.5616 100
# my.replicate() 25.5293 27.4649 30.3495 30.2533 31.4267 68.6930 100
I would deeply appreciate your support in case you know how to speed up my for loop using a neat vectorized solution. Is this even possible?
Slightly faster:
minem <- function() {
result <- matrix(NA, nr.runs, nr.pairs)
ut <- upper.tri(matrix(NA, 4, 4)) # create upper triangular index matrix outside loop
for (i in 1:nr.runs) {
mix <- sample.int(nr.pops) # slightly faster sampling function
result[i, ] <- dist.mat[mix, mix][ut]
}
result
}
microbenchmark(my.for.loop(), my.replicate(), minem(), times = 100L)
# Unit: microseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
# my.for.loop() 75.062 78.222 96.25288 80.1975 104.6915 249.284 100 a
# my.replicate() 118.519 122.667 152.25681 126.0250 165.1355 495.407 100 a
# minem() 45.432 48.000 104.23702 49.5800 52.9380 4848.986 100 a
Update:
We can get the necessary matrix indexes a little bit differently, so we can subset the elements at once:
minem4 <- function() {
n <- dim(dist.mat)[1]
ut <- upper.tri(matrix(NA, n, n))
im <- matrix(1:n, n, n)
p1 <- im[ut]
p2 <- t(im)[ut]
dm <- unlist(dist.mat)
si <- replicate(nr.runs, sample.int(nr.pops))
p <- (si[p1, ] - 1L) * n + si[p2, ]
result2 <- matrix(dm[p], nr.runs, nr.pairs, byrow = T)
result2
}
microbenchmark(my.for.loop(), minem(), minem4(), times = 100L)
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
# my.for.loop() 13.797526 14.977970 19.14794 17.071401 23.161867 29.98952 100 b
# minem() 8.366614 9.080490 11.82558 9.701725 15.748537 24.44325 100 a
# minem4() 7.716343 8.169477 11.91422 8.723947 9.997626 208.90895 100 a
Update2:
Some additional speedup we can get using dqrng sample function:
minem5 <- function() {
n <- dim(dist.mat)[1]
ut <- upper.tri(matrix(NA, n, n))
im <- matrix(1:n, n, n)
p1 <- im[ut]
p2 <- t(im)[ut]
dm <- unlist(dist.mat)
require(dqrng)
si <- replicate(nr.runs, dqsample.int(nr.pops))
p <- (si[p1, ] - 1L) * n + si[p2, ]
result2 <- matrix(dm[p], nr.runs, nr.pairs, byrow = T)
result2
}
microbenchmark(my.for.loop(), minem(), minem4(), minem5(), times = 100L)
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
# my.for.loop() 13.648983 14.672587 17.713467 15.265771 16.967894 36.18290 100 d
# minem() 8.282466 8.773725 10.679960 9.279602 10.335206 27.03683 100 c
# minem4() 7.719503 8.208984 9.039870 8.493231 9.097873 25.32463 100 b
# minem5() 6.134911 6.379850 7.226348 6.733035 7.195849 19.02458 100 a

Faster way to unlist a list of large matrices?

I have a list of large matrices. All these matrices have the same number of rows and I want to "unlist" them and bind all their columns together. Below is a piece of code that I wrote, but I am not sure if this is the best I can achieve in terms of computational efficiency.
# simulate
n <- 10
nr <- 24
nc <- 8000
test <- list()
set.seed(1234)
for (i in 1:n){
test[[i]] <- matrix(rnorm(nr*nc),nr,nc)
}
> system.time( res <- matrix( as.numeric( unlist(test) ) ,nr,nc*n) )
user system elapsed
0.114 0.006 0.120
To work on a list and call a function on all objects, do.call is my usual first idea, along with cbind here to bind by column all objects.
For n=100 (with others answers for sake of completeness):
n <- 10
nr <- 24
nc <- 8000
test <- list()
set.seed(1234)
for (i in 1:n){
test[[i]] <- matrix(rnorm(nr*nc),nr,nc)
}
require(data.table)
ori <- function() { matrix( as.numeric( unlist(test) ) ,nr,nc*n) }
Tensibai <- function() { do.call(cbind,test) }
BrodieG <- function() { `attr<-`(do.call(c, test), "dim", c(nr, nc * n)) }
nicola <- function() { setattr(unlist(test),"dim",c(nr,nc*n)) }
library(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(r1 <- ori(),
r2 <- Tensibai(),
r3 <- BrodieG(),
r4 <- nicola(), times=10)
Results:
Unit: milliseconds
expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
r1 <- ori() 23.834673 24.287391 39.49451 27.066844 29.737964 93.74249 10 a
r2 <- Tensibai() 17.416232 17.706165 18.18665 17.873083 18.192238 21.29512 10 a
r3 <- BrodieG() 6.009344 6.145045 21.63073 8.690869 10.323845 77.95325 10 a
r4 <- nicola() 5.912984 6.106273 13.52697 6.273904 6.678156 75.40914 10 a
As for the why (in comments), #nicola did give the answer about it, there's less copy than original method.
All methods gives the same result:
> identical(r1,r2,r3,r4)
[1] TRUE
It seems that do.call beats the other method due to a copy made during the matrix call. What is interesting is that you can avoid that copy using the data.table::setattr function which allows to set attributes by reference, avoiding any copy. I omitted also the as.numeric part, since it is not necessary (unlist(test) is already numeric). So:
require(microbenchmark)
require(data.table)
f1<-function() setattr(unlist(test),"dim",c(nr,nc*n))
f2<-function() do.call(cbind,test)
microbenchmark(res <-f1(),res2 <- f2(),times=10)
#Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval
# res <- f1() 4.088455 4.183504 7.540913 4.44109 4.988605 35.05378 10
#res2 <- f2() 18.325302 18.379328 18.776834 18.66857 19.100681 19.47415 10
identical(res,res2)
#[1] TRUE
I think I have a better one. We can avoid some of the overhead from cbind since we know these all have the same number of rows and columns. Instead, we use c knowing that the underlying vector nature of the matrices will allow us to re-wrap them into the correct dimensions:
microbenchmark(
x <- `attr<-`(do.call(c, test), "dim", c(nr, nc * n)),
y <- do.call(cbind, test)
)
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq
# x <- `attr<-`(do.call(c, test), "dim", c(nr, nc * n)) 4.435943 4.699006
# y <- do.call(cbind, test) 19.339477 19.567063
# mean median uq max neval cld
# 12.76214 5.209938 9.095001 379.77856 100 a
# 21.64878 20.000279 24.210848 26.02499 100 b
identical(x, y)
# [1] TRUE
If you have varying number of columns you can probably still do this with some care in computing the total number of columns.

aggregate a matrix (or data.frame) by column name groups in R

I have a large matrix with about 3000 columns x 3000 rows. I'd like to aggregate (calculate the mean) grouped by column names for every row. Each column is named similar to this method...(and in random order)
Tree Tree House House Tree Car Car House
I would need the data result (aggregation of mean of every row) to have the following columns:
Tree House Car
the tricky part (at least for me) is that I do not know all the column names and they are all in random order!
You could try
res1 <- vapply(unique(colnames(m1)), function(x)
rowMeans(m1[,colnames(m1)== x,drop=FALSE], na.rm=TRUE),
numeric(nrow(m1)) )
Or
res2 <- sapply(unique(colnames(m1)), function(x)
rowMeans(m1[,colnames(m1)== x,drop=FALSE], na.rm=TRUE) )
identical(res1,res2)
#[1] TRUE
Another option might be to reshape into long form and then do the aggregation
library(data.table)
res3 <-dcast.data.table(setDT(melt(m1)), Var1~Var2, fun=mean)[,Var1:= NULL]
identical(res1, as.matrix(res3))
[1] TRUE
Benchmarks
It seems like the first two methods are slightly faster for a 3000*3000 matrix
set.seed(24)
m1 <- matrix(sample(0:40, 3000*3000, replace=TRUE),
ncol=3000, dimnames=list(NULL, sample(c('Tree', 'House', 'Car'),
3000,replace=TRUE)))
library(microbenchmark)
f1 <-function() {vapply(unique(colnames(m1)), function(x)
rowMeans(m1[,colnames(m1)== x,drop=FALSE], na.rm=TRUE),
numeric(nrow(m1)) )}
f2 <- function() {sapply(unique(colnames(m1)), function(x)
rowMeans(m1[,colnames(m1)== x,drop=FALSE], na.rm=TRUE) )}
f3 <- function() {dcast.data.table(setDT(melt(m1)), Var1~Var2, fun=mean)[,
Var1:= NULL]}
microbenchmark(f1(), f2(), f3(), unit="relative", times=10L)
# Unit: relative
# expr min lq mean median uq max neval
# f1() 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 10
# f2() 1.026208 1.027723 1.037593 1.034516 1.028847 1.079004 10
# f3() 4.529037 4.567816 4.834498 4.855776 4.930984 5.529531 10
data
set.seed(24)
m1 <- matrix(sample(0:40, 10*40, replace=TRUE), ncol=10,
dimnames=list(NULL, sample(c("Tree", "House", "Car"), 10, replace=TRUE)))
I came up with my own solution. I first just transpose the matrix (called test_mean) so the columns become rows,then:
# removing numbers from rownames
rownames(test_mean)<-gsub("[0-9.]","",rownames(test_mean))
#aggregate by rownames
test_mean<-aggregate(test_mean, by=list(rownames(test_mean)), FUN=mean)
matrixStats:rowMeans2 with some coercive help from data.table, for the win!
Adding it to benchmarking from #akrun we get:
f4<- function() {
ucn<-unique(colnames(m1))
as.matrix(setnames(setDF(lapply(ucn, function(n) rowMeans2(m1,cols=colnames(m1)==n)))
,ucn))
}
> all.equal(f4(),f1())
[1] TRUE
> microbenchmark(f1(), f2(), f3(), f4(), unit="relative", times=10L)
Unit: relative
expr min lq mean median uq max neval cld
f1() 1.837496 1.841282 1.823375 1.834471 1.818822 1.749826 10 b
f2() 1.760133 1.825352 1.817355 1.826257 1.838439 1.793824 10 b
f3() 15.451106 15.606912 15.847117 15.586192 16.626629 16.104648 10 c
f4() 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 10 a

partial product of two matrices

I'm trying to find a vectorised trick to calculate the products between row i and col i of two matrices, without wasting resources on the other products (row i and col j, i!=j).
A <- matrix(rnorm(4*5), nrow=4)
B <- matrix(rnorm(5*4), ncol=4)
diag(A %*% B)
Is there a name for this product, a base R function, or a reshaping strategy that avoids a for loop?
for (ii in seq.int(nrow(A)))
print(crossprod(A[ii,], B[,ii]))
rowSums(A * t(B)) seems to be quite fast:
A <- matrix(rnorm(400*500), nrow=400)
B <- matrix(rnorm(500*400), ncol=400)
bF <- function() diag(A %*% B)
jF <- function() rowSums(A * t(B))
vF <- function() mapply(crossprod, as.data.frame(t(A)), as.data.frame(B))
lF <- function() {
vec <- numeric(nrow(A))
for (ii in seq.int(nrow(A)))
vec[ii] <- crossprod(A[ii,], B[,ii])
vec
}
library(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(bF(), jF(), vF(), lF(), times = 100)
# Unit: milliseconds
# expr min lq median uq max neval
# bF() 137.828993 183.320782 185.823658 200.747130 207.67997 100
# jF() 4.434627 5.300882 5.341477 5.475393 46.96347 100
# vF() 39.110948 51.071936 54.147338 55.127911 102.17793 100
# lF() 14.029454 18.667055 18.931154 22.166137 65.40562 100
How about this?
mapply(crossprod, as.data.frame(t(A)), as.data.frame(B))

How to divide each value of matrix by square root of sums of Respective columns of that matrix?

How I can obtained by dividing each original value by the square root of the sum of squared original values for that column in the original matrix.
data(longley)
X <- as.matrix(longley[,-7])
X/sqrt(colSums(X^2))
Getting wrong results.
Try this:
t(t(X)/sqrt(colSums(X^2)))
Benchmarks:
library(microbenchmark)
microbenchmark(t(t(X)/sqrt(colSums(X^2))),
apply(X, 2 , function(x) x/sqrt(sum(x^2))))
# Unit: microseconds
# expr min lq median uq max neval
# t(t(X)/sqrt(colSums(X^2))) 28.783 33.1305 34.9455 40.5640 68.147 100
# apply(X, 2, function(x) x/sqrt(sum(x^2))) 100.307 105.1940 106.9975 108.1075 193.015 100
does this work?
data(longley)
X <- as.matrix(longley[,-7])
X <- apply(X, 2 , function(x) x/sqrt(sum(x^2)))

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