sparse_dot_topn:

sparse_dot_topn provides a fast way to performing a sparse matrix multiplication followed by top-n multiplication result selection.

Comparing very large feature vectors and picking the best matches, in practice often results in performing a sparse matrix multiplication followed by selecting the top-n multiplication results. In this package, we implement a customized Cython function for this purpose. When comparing our Cythonic approach to doing the same use with SciPy and NumPy functions, our approach improves the speed by about 40% and reduces memory consumption.

This package is made by ING Wholesale Banking Advanced Analytics team. This blog or this blog explains how we implement it.

Example

import numpy as np
from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
from scipy.sparse import rand
from sparse_dot_topn import awesome_cossim_topn

N = 10
a = rand(100, 1000000, density=0.005, format='csr')
b = rand(1000000, 200, density=0.005, format='csr')

# Use standard implementation

c = awesome_cossim_topn(a, b, N, 0.01)

# Use parallel implementation with 4 threads

d = awesome_cossim_topn(a, b, N, 0.01, use_threads=True, n_jobs=4)

You can also find code which compares our boosting method with calling scipy+numpy function directly in example/comparison.py

Dependency and Install

Install numpy and cython first before installing this package. Then,

pip install sparse_dot_topn

Uninstall

pip uninstall sparse_dot_topn