Rcpp equivalent for rowsum

Rcpp equivalent for rowsum

本文关键字:rowsum for equivalent Rcpp      更新时间:2023-10-16

我正在寻找c++/Rcpp/Eigen或Armadillo中R函数rowsum的快速替代方案。

目的是根据分组向量b求向量a中元素的和。例如:

> a
 [1] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2    
> b
 [1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
> rowsum(a,b)
  [,1]
1   10
2   10

Rcpp中编写一个简单的for循环是非常慢的,但也许我的代码只是效率低下。

我也试着在Rcpp中调用函数rowsum,然而,rowsum不是很快。

为了补充Martin的代码,这里是一些基于Rcpp的版本。

int increment_maybe(int value, double vec_i){
    return vec_i == 0 ? value : ( value +1 ) ;  
}
// [[Rcpp::export]]
NumericVector cpprowsum2(NumericVector x, IntegerVector f){
    std::vector<double> vec(10) ;
    vec.reserve(1000); 
    int n=x.size(); 
    for( int i=0; i<n; i++){
        int index=f[i]; 
        while( index >= vec.size() ){
            vec.resize( vec.size() * 2 ) ;    
        }
        vec[ index ] += x[i] ;
    }
    // count the number of non zeros
    int s = std::accumulate( vec.begin(), vec.end(), 0, increment_maybe) ; 
    NumericVector result(s) ;
    CharacterVector names(s) ;
    std::vector<double>::iterator it = vec.begin() ;
    for( int i=0, j=0 ; j<s; j++ ,++it, ++i ){
        // move until the next non zero value
        while( ! *it ){ i++ ; ++it ;}
        result[j] = *it ;
        names[j]  = i ;
    }
    result.attr( "dim" ) = IntegerVector::create(s, 1) ;
    result.attr( "dimnames" ) = List::create(names, R_NilValue) ; 
    return result ;
}

c++代码处理一切,包括格式化成rowsum给出的矩阵格式,并显示(稍微)更好的性能(至少在示例中)。

# from Martin's answer
> system.time(r1 <- rowsum1(x, f))
   user  system elapsed
  0.014   0.001   0.015
> system.time(r3 <- cpprowsum2(x, f))
   user  system elapsed
  0.011   0.001   0.013
> identical(r1, r3)
[1] TRUE

不是答案,但可能有助于构建问题。似乎最坏情况下的性能是对许多短组求和,这似乎与向量

的大小成线性关系。
> n = 100000; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, TRUE)
> system.time(rowsum(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.228   0.000   0.229 
> n = 1000000; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, TRUE)
> system.time(rowsum(x, f)) 
   user  system elapsed 
  1.468   0.040   1.514 
> n = 10000000; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, TRUE)
> system.time(rowsum(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
 17.369   0.748  18.166 

似乎有两个捷径可用,避免重新排序

> n = 10000000; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, TRUE)
> system.time(rowsum(x, f, reorder=FALSE))
   user  system elapsed 
 16.501   0.476  17.025 

和避免对字符

的内部强制转换
> n = 10000000; x = runif(n); f = as.character(sample(n/2, n, TRUE)); 
> system.time(rowsum(x, f, reorder=FALSE))
   user  system elapsed 
  8.652   0.268   8.949 

然后是似乎涉及到的基本操作——计算出分组因子的唯一值(预先分配结果向量)并进行求和

> n = 10000000; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, TRUE)
> system.time({ t = tabulate(f); sum(x) })
   user  system elapsed 
  0.640   0.000   0.643 

所以,是的,似乎有相当大的空间来实现更快的单一目的。这对data.table来说似乎是很自然的,在C中实现并不太难。下面是一个混合解决方案,使用R来做表格,使用"经典"C接口来做和

library(inline)
rowsum1.1 <- function(x, f) {
    t <- tabulate(f)
    crowsum1(x, f, t)
}
crowsum1 = cfunction(c(x_in="numeric", f_in="integer", t_in = "integer"), "
    SEXP res_out;
    double *x = REAL(x_in), *res;
    int len = Rf_length(x_in), *f = INTEGER(f_in);
    res_out = PROTECT(Rf_allocVector(REALSXP, Rf_length(t_in)));
    res = REAL(res_out);
    memset(res, 0, Rf_length(t_in) * sizeof(double));
    for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
        res[f[i] - 1] += x[i];
    UNPROTECT(1);
    return res_out;
")

> system.time(r1.1 <- rowsum1.1(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  1.276   0.092   1.373 

要实际返回与rowsum相同的结果,需要将其塑造为具有适当dim名称的矩阵

rowsum1 <- function(x, f) {
    t <- tabulate(f)
    r <- crowsum1(x, f, t)
    keep <- which(t != 0)
    matrix(r[keep], ncol=1, dimnames=list(keep, NULL))
}
> system.time(r1 <- rowsum1(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  9.312   0.300   9.641

所以对于所有这些工作,我们只快了2倍(而且不那么通用——x必须是数字,f必须是整数;没有NA值)。是的,存在效率低下,例如,分配没有计数的空间级别(尽管这避免了对名称的字符向量进行昂贵的强制转换)。

这是我使用Rcpp的尝试(第一次使用这个包,所以请指出我的低效率):

library(inline)
library(Rcpp)
rowsum_helper = cxxfunction(signature(x = "numeric", y = "integer"), '
  NumericVector var(x);
  IntegerVector factor(y);
  std::vector<double> sum(*std::max_element(factor.begin(), factor.end()) + 1,
                          std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN());
  for (int i = 0, size = var.size(); i < size; ++i) {
    if (sum[factor[i]] != sum[factor[i]]) sum[factor[i]] = var[i];
    else sum[factor[i]] += var[i];
  }
  return NumericVector(sum.begin(), sum.end());
', plugin = "Rcpp")
rowsum_fast = function(x, y) {
  res = rowsum_helper(x, y)
  elements = which(!is.nan(res))
  list(elements - 1, res[elements])
}

对于Martin的示例数据来说,这是相当快的,但只有当因子由非负整数组成时才会起作用,并且会按照因子向量中最大整数的顺序消耗内存(对上述方法的一个明显改进是从max中减去min以减少内存使用-这可以在R函数或c++函数中完成)。

n = 1e7; x = runif(n); f = sample(n/2, n, T)
system.time(rowsum(x,f))
#    user  system elapsed 
#   14.241  0.170  14.412
system.time({tabulate(f); sum(x)})
#    user  system elapsed 
#   0.216   0.027   0.252
system.time(rowsum_fast(x,f))
#    user  system elapsed 
#   0.313   0.045   0.358

还需要注意的是,很多的减速(与tabulate相比)发生在R代码中,所以如果你把它移到c++中,你应该会看到更多的改进:

system.time(rowsum_helper(x,f))
#    user  system elapsed 
#   0.210   0.018   0.228

这是一个泛化,将处理几乎任何y,但会有点慢(我实际上更喜欢在Rcpp中这样做,但不知道如何处理任意R类型):

rowsum_fast = function(x, y) {
  if (is.numeric(y)) {
    y.min = min(y)
    y = y - y.min
    res = rowsum_helper(x, y)
  } else {
    y = as.factor(y)
    res = rowsum_helper(x, as.numeric(y))
  }
  elements = which(!is.nan(res))
  if (is.factor(y)) {
    list(levels(y)[elements-1], res[elements])
  } else {
    list(elements - 1 + y.min, res[elements])
  }
}

在@Ben删除的评论和'回答'中,事实证明f是有序的,并且是递增的。

n = 1e7; x = runif(n);
f <- cumsum(c(1L, sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), n - 1, TRUE)))

rowsum3 <- function(x, f)
{
    y <- cumsum(x)
    end <- c(f[-length(f)] != f[-1], TRUE)
    diff(c(0, y[end]))
}

是常见的R解决方案(如果不太关心精度),而

crowsum3 <- cfunction(c(x_in="numeric", f_in="integer"), "
    int j = 0, *f = INTEGER(f_in), len = Rf_length(f_in), 
        len_out = len == 0 ? 0 : f[len - 1];
    SEXP res = Rf_allocVector(REALSXP, len_out);
    double *x = REAL(x_in), *r = REAL(res);
    memset(r, 0, len_out * sizeof(double));
    for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
        if (i != 0 && f[i] != f[i-1]) ++j;
        r[j] += x[i];
    }
    return res;
")

可能是C的解。它们有定时

> system.time(r3 <- rowsum3(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  1.116   0.120   1.238 
> system.time(c3 <- crowsum3(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.080   0.000   0.081 

和R实现中的精度损失是明显的

> all.equal(r3, c3)
[1] TRUE
> identical(r3, c3)
[1] FALSE

rowsum_helper has

> system.time(r2 <- rowsum_helper(x, f))
   user  system elapsed 
  0.464   0.004   0.470 

,但也假设基于0的索引,所以

> head(rowsum_helper(x, f))
[1]       NaN 0.9166577 0.4380485 0.7777094 2.0866507 0.7300764
> head(crowsum3(x, f))
[1] 0.9166577 0.4380485 0.7777094 2.0866507 0.7300764 0.7195091