matrix

Matrix

An experimental library for matrix manipulation implemented in Golang.

Motivations

1. Portability - Implement in pure Golang to achieve cgo-free.
2. Efficiency - Pursue performance as possible without highly optimized back-ends like blas.
3. Simplicity - Provide clean API.

Installation

For installation, execute the following command:

$ go get github.com/mitsuse/matrix-go

Features

Matrix Types

Currently, the following types are implemented:

• mutable dense matrix

Creation

Use dense.New to create a new dense matrix with given elements.

// Create a 2 x 3 matrix.
m := dense.New(2, 3)(
    0, 1, 2,
    3, 4, 5,
)

To create zero matrix, call dense.Zeros instead.

// Create a 2 x 3 zero matrix.
m := dense.Zeros(2, 3)

Operations

Addition & Subtraction

Add a matrix to other with (Matrix).Add:

m := dense.New(2, 3)(
    0, 1, 2,
    3, 4, 5,
)

n := dense.New(2, 3)(
    5, 4, 3,
    2, 1, 0,
)

r := dense.New(2, 3)(
    5, 5, 5,
    5, 5, 5,
)

// true
m.Add(n).Equal(r)

Similarly, (Matrix).Subtract is used for subtraction on two matrix.

When the receiver is mutable, (Matrix).Add and (Matrix).Subtract return the receiver itself, the elements of which is rewritten.

Matrix Multiplication

The product of two matrices can be calculated by (Matrix).Multiply.

m := dense.New(3, 2)(
    0, 1,
    2, 3,
    4, 5,
)

n := dense.New(2, 1)(
    0,
    -1,
)

r := dense.New(3, 1)(
    -1,
    -3,
    -5,
)

m.Multiply(n).Equal(r)

Matrix multiplication always create a new matrix. The type of the result matrix is same as the type of the receiver.

Scalar Multiplication

(Matrix).Scalar is available for Scalar multiplication (scalar-left multiplication).

m := dense.New(2, 2)(
    0, 1,
    2, 3,
)

r := dense.New(2, 2)(
    0, -1,
    -2, -3,
)

// true
m.Scalar(-1).Equal(r)

For scalar-right multiplication, use (Scalar).Multiply.

m := dense.New(2, 2)(
    0, 1,
    2, 3,
)

r := dense.New(2, 2)(
    0, -1,
    -2, -3,
)

// true
Scalar(-1).Multiply(m).Equal(r)

When the matrix used for scalar multiplication is mutable, (Matrix).Scalar and (Scalar).Multiply rewrite elements of the matrix.

Cursor

Matrix has several methods to iterate elements. They return a value typed as Cursor which is a reference to the element to visit.

m := dense.New(2, 3)(
    0, 1, 2,
    3, 4, 5,
)

// Create a cursor to iterate all elements of matrix m.
c := m.All()

// Check whether the element to visit exists or not.
for c.HasNext() {
    element, row, column := c.Get()

    fmt.Printf(
        "element = %d, row = %d, column = %d\n",
        element,
        row,
        column,
    )
}

Currently, three methods are implemented which return a cursor:

• (Matrix).All
• (Matrix).NonZeros
• (Matrix).Diagonal

For details, please read the documentation of types.Matrix.

Find the Maximum/Minimum Element

Maxtrix provides methods to find the maximum or minimum elements. (Matrix).Max returns the one of maximum elements and its index (the row and column). (Matrix).Min also does similarly.

m := dense.New(3, 3)(
    0, 1, 2,
    3, 4, 5,
    4, 3, 2,
)

// Find the one of maximum elements.
element, row, column := m.Max()

// true
element == 5

// true
row == 1

// true
column == 2

Create View of Matrix

(Matrix).View(ro, co, rs, cs) creates a view of matrix, which can be used as a (rs * cs) matrix. The access to the element of view at index (i, j) is mapped to the element of the base matrix at index (ro + i, co + j).

m := dense.New(4, 4)(
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 1, 2, 9,
    9, 3, 4, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
).View(1, 1, 2, 2)

n := dense.New(2, 2)(
    1, 2,
    3, 4,
)

// true
m.Equal(n)

Operations between view and matrix is defined on the same condition as the case of operations between matrices.

m := dense.New(4, 4)(
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 1, 2, 9,
    9, 3, 4, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
).View(1, 1, 2, 2)

n := dense.New(2, 2)(
    8, 7,
    6, 5,
)

m.Add(n)

r := dense.new(2, 2)(
    9, 9,
    9, 9,
)

// true
m.Equal(r)

A view of mutable matrix updates the receiver view by addition. The view refers to elements of the base matrix, therefore the base matrix is also updated.

m := dense.New(4, 4)(
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 1, 2, 9,
    9, 3, 4, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
)

n := dense.New(2, 2)(
    8, 7,
    6, 5,
)

m.View(1, 1, 2, 2).Add(n)

r := dense.new(4, 4)(
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
    9, 9, 9, 9,
)

// true
m.Equal(r)

(Matrix).Row is an alias for (Matrix).View to create a row-vector view. (Matrix).Column is also available for column-vector view.

m := dense.New(3, 3)(
    0, 1, 2,
    3, 4, 5,
    6, 7, 8,
)

r := dense.New(1, 3)(3, 4, 5)
c := dense.New(3, 1)(1, 4, 7)

// true
m.Row(1).Equal(r)

// true
m.Column(1).Equal(c)

More Details

Please read the documentation.

Related Projects

This is a list of projects using mitsuse/matrix-go.

• Olive - Online algorithms for machine learning implemented in Golang.

License

Please read LICENSE.txt.