Multiplying across in a numpy array

Question

I\'m trying to multiply each of the terms in a 2D array by the corresponding terms in a 1D array. This is very easy if I want to multiply every column by the 1D array, as sh

Answer 1

I've compared the different options for speed and found that – much to my surprise – all options (except diag) are equally fast. I personally use

A * b[:, None]

(or (A.T * b).T) because it's short.

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Code to reproduce the plot:

import numpy
import perfplot


def newaxis(data):
    A, b = data
    return A * b[:, numpy.newaxis]


def none(data):
    A, b = data
    return A * b[:, None]


def double_transpose(data):
    A, b = data
    return (A.T * b).T


def double_transpose_contiguous(data):
    A, b = data
    return numpy.ascontiguousarray((A.T * b).T)


def diag_dot(data):
    A, b = data
    return numpy.dot(numpy.diag(b), A)


def einsum(data):
    A, b = data
    return numpy.einsum("ij,i->ij", A, b)


perfplot.save(
    "p.png",
    setup=lambda n: (numpy.random.rand(n, n), numpy.random.rand(n)),
    kernels=[
        newaxis,
        none,
        double_transpose,
        double_transpose_contiguous,
        diag_dot,
        einsum,
    ],
    n_range=[2 ** k for k in range(13)],
    xlabel="len(A), len(b)",
)