In TensorFlow, how can I get nonzero values and their indices from a tensor with python?

Question

I want to do something like this.
Let\'s say we have a tensor A.

A = [[1,0],[0,4]]

And I want to get nonzero values and their indices fro

Answer 1

You can achieve same result in Tensorflow using not_equal and where methods.

zero = tf.constant(0, dtype=tf.float32)
where = tf.not_equal(A, zero)

where is a tensor of the same shape as A holding True or False, in the following case

[[True, False],
 [False, True]]

This would be sufficient to select zero or non-zero elements from A. If you want to obtain indices you can use wheremethod as follows:

indices = tf.where(where)

where tensor has two True values so indices tensor will have two entries. where tensor has rank of two, so entries will have two indices:

[[0, 0],
 [1, 1]]