Nice, Derek!  Good catch (it is pretty cool to
see how powerful a few lines of PDL can be).

--Chris

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Derek Lamb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ronak,
>
> If you are looking for the smallest 3 unique values, and those are "d",
> "e", and "f", do you want all of the locations where your piddle is "d" or
> "e" or "f" ?  Or if "d" is the smallest, just 3 "d" locations?  If the
> latter, then what Chris has will work as-is.  If the former, then you need
> a little bit extra at the beginning:
>
> $matrix = pdl([0,1,2,3,4],[1,2,3,4,5],[2,3,4,5,6],[3,4,5,6,7],[4,5,6,7,8]);
> $k = 3;
> ($quant,$uniq_vals)=$matrix->flat->qsort->rle; #I am a big fan of
> ->qsort->rle. ->hist() might work too.
> $num_in_matrix = $quant(0:$k-1)->sum;
> #then Chris's stuff will work
> $smallest_k = zeroes(indx, $num_in_matrix);
> $matrix->flat->minimum_n_ind($smallest_k); #answer gets stuffed into
> $smallest_k
> $coords2D = pdl($matrix->one2nd($smallest_k));
> $smallest_vals = $matrix->range($coords2D->transpose)->flat;
>
> cheers,
> Derek
>
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> First off, you can use the PDL on-line documentation to
> find relevant commands to try:
>
>   pdldoc -a maximum
>
> or
>
>   pdl> apropos maximum
>
> in the pdl2 or perldl shells includes the following items:
>
>    maximum             Project via maximum to N-1 dimensions
>    maximum_ind       Like maximum but returns the index rather than the
> value
>    maximum_n_ind   Returns the index of `m' maximum elements
>
> where maximum_n_ind is what you are looking for.  Here is a
> sample pdl2 session showing the calculation.  You can use
> the PDL shells and the online documentation to understand
> fully how it works:
>
>
> pdl> floor(random(10,10)*10)
>> pdl> p $m
>> [
>>  [4 7 5 0 6 7 8 4 6 7]
>>  [0 7 0 2 5 3 0 4 6 6]
>>  [5 4 3 6 9 5 8 4 4 1]
>>  [9 6 7 7 4 1 4 2 0 8]
>>  [5 1 3 3 7 7 1 2 8 5]
>>  [2 0 8 7 3 1 5 7 7 6]
>>  [5 9 6 2 7 2 6 7 0 2]
>>  [6 3 1 1 8 2 1 9 9 9]
>>  [6 7 9 3 5 2 2 5 9 3]
>>  [4 5 0 4 7 9 3 3 1 6]
>> ]
>>
>> pdl> $top5 = zeros indx, 5;   # size of $top5 determines n
>> pdl> $m->flat->maximum_n_ind($top5)  # get top 5 element indexes
>> pdl> p pdl($m->one2nd($top5))              # convert linear to ND index
>> [
>>  [4 0 1 7 8]
>>  [2 3 6 7 7]
>> ]
>>
>>
>>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Ronak Agrawal <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> First I would Thank You for your constant help...it has helped me a lot
>> in improving my skills
>> -------
>>
>> I have generated a Hankel Matrix by the following operation
>>
>> // $a is a svd and therby this operation will always form Hankel Matrix
>> $matrix = $a x transpose($a);
>>
>>  [image: [a b c d e; b c d e f; c d e f g; d e f g h; e f g h i].]
>>
>> I need to find the top K minimum elements ( 2D) with their 2 Dimesional
>> indices ..
>> Can you suggest me some good approach for this
>>
>> I though to do following but it is not optimized
>> Converting the Lower triangular Matrix as Bad Values or 0
>> Then Finding the mimimum row_wise and column_wise using minimum function
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
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