Array of indexes for each element alongs the first dimension in a 2D array (numpy., tensorflow)

Question

indexes = np.array([[0,1,3],[1,2,4 ]])
data = np.random.rand(2,5)

Now, i would like an array of shape (2,3), where

result[0] = data[0         


        

Answer 1

numpy has take_along_axis which does what you describe plus it also lets you choose the axis.

Example:

>>> a = np.arange(24).reshape(2,3,4)
>>> i = np.random.randint(0,4,(2,3,5))
>>> i
array([[[3, 3, 0, 1, 3],
        [3, 1, 0, 3, 3],
        [3, 2, 0, 3, 3]],

       [[2, 3, 0, 0, 0],
        [1, 1, 3, 1, 2],
        [1, 3, 0, 0, 2]]])

>>> np.take_along_axis(a, i, -1)
array([[[ 3,  3,  0,  1,  3],
        [ 7,  5,  4,  7,  7],
        [11, 10,  8, 11, 11]],

       [[14, 15, 12, 12, 12],
        [17, 17, 19, 17, 18],
        [21, 23, 20, 20, 22]]])