How to access sparse matrix elements?

Question

type(A)

A.shape
(8529, 60877)
print A[0,:]
  (0, 25)   1.0
  (0, 7422) 1.0
  (0, 26062)    1.0
  (0, 31804)    1.0
  (0, 41         


        

Answer 1

To answer your title's question using a different technique than your question's details:

csc_matrix gives you the method .nonzero().

Given:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy.sparse.csc import csc_matrix
>>> 
>>> row = np.array( [0, 1, 3])
>>> col = np.array( [0, 2, 3])
>>> data = np.array([1, 4, 16])
>>> A = csc_matrix((data, (row, col)), shape=(4, 4))

You can access the indices poniting to non-zero data by:

>>> rows, cols = A.nonzero()
>>> rows
array([0, 1, 3], dtype=int32)
>>> cols
array([0, 2, 3], dtype=int32)

Which you can then use to access your data, without ever needing to make a dense version of your sparse matrix:

>>> [((i, j), A[i,j]) for i, j in zip(*A.nonzero())]
[((0, 0), 1), ((1, 2), 4), ((3, 3), 16)]