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11637 Foundations of Computational Data Science > Linear Algebra with NumPy Primer > Flashcards

Linear Algebra with NumPy Primer Flashcards

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What does this mean?

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the set of all real-valued matrices with n rows and d columns

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What is this called? What does it mean?

1(x)

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  • binary indicator function,
  • returns 1 if x is a true boolean and 0 otherwise
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What does this mean?

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the set of all real-valued n-dimensional vectors

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What does this mean?

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the set of real numbers

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What is this?

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  • A pair of input vector and output scalar
  • The superscript indicates the index of this pair, not the exponent. In other words, x(5) is the input vector at index 5, not x raised to the power of 5.
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What is this?

|C|

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  • Determinant if C is a matrix
  • Cardinality (number of member elements) if C is a set.
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What’s a column vector?

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Each entry occupies one row.

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What’s this?

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One use: denotes the i-th entry of a column vector

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What does this mean?

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Row vector. Each entry covers 1 column

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For matrix A, what is

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denotes the i-th row of A

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For matrix A, what is

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denotes the i-th column of A

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What can dot product be applied to? What’s the formula?

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Two vectors of same dimensions

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What’s the inner product?

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Same as dot product

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  • What can outer product be applied to?
  • What does it result in?
  • What’s the formula?
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  • Vectors (can have different number of elements)
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What’s another way to express a dot product for two column vectors x and y?

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What’s this for two vectors x and y?

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The outer product

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17
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What’s a matrix-vector product?

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  • What are the properties of matrix multiplication? (2)
  • What properties does it not have? (1)
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Matrix multiplication is:

  • associative, (AB)C=A(BC)
  • distributive, A(B+C)=AB+AC

Is not:

  • commutative, AB≠BA
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What’s a property of transposes?

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What’s the Hadamard product?

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elementwise matrix multiplication

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21
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What does this mean?

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A standard basis vector - ith entry is 1 and the other entries are all 0

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What does this denote?

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Identity matrix of nxn size

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What’s the point of a basis vector?

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By multiplying a basis vector with a vector x∈Rn, we obtain the single entry xi

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Describe the idea of one-hot encoding

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  • In each row of the resulting one-hot-encoded matrix:
  • In each row of the original vector, find the value
    • This value will serve as the column index of the “1” entry in the same row in the corresponding matrix.
    • The remaining values in that row are 0
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What’s a symmetric matrix?

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26
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What’s this? What can it be applied to?

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  • Inverse matrix
  • Only applied to square matrices
27
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What’s the fundamental rule of matrix inverses?

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28
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What are the properties of matrix inverses?

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29
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What’s a diagonal matrix?

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a rectangular matrix with non-zero entries only on the main diagonal

30
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What’s this?

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  • The p-norm (a vector norm).
  • It’s indicative of its magnitude or length
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What’s the formula of this?

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What’s this called? (2)

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  • L2 norm (aka Euclidean norm):
33
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What’s this?

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Gives the number of non-zero entries in the vector

34
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What’s this?

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gives the maximum magnitude across the entries in vector x

35
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What’s this? What can it be applied to?

trace(A)

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  • Sum of the elements across the main diagonal
  • Only applied to square matrices
36
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  • What’s this?
  • What can it be applied to?
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  • quadratic form
  • See screenshot for applied to
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What’s vectorization?

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a style of programming where operations are applied to whole arrays instead of individual elements (i.e. operate on entire data structure instead of loops)

38
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When should we use vectorization?

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Whenever possible

39
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Why are python loops slower than C or Java loops?

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  • Python performs variable type checks at each loop iteration
40
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  • What’s ndarray?
  • What’s a characteristic of its data structure?
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  • Data structure with an interface similar to python lists, but its operations are performed in optimized C code
  • A homogeneous data structure
41
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What’s the runtime complexity of matrix multiplication using the original definition of MM? (optional)

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O(n^3)

Description:

Here each entry in AB is the result of the dot product between a row in A and a column in B, which are both n-dimensional vectors. Therefore, it takes roughly n computations to yield one entry in AB, and because there are n2 entries, a total of n3 computations are required.

More formally, we say that the runtime complexity of matrix multiplication is O(n3). This notation indicates the growth rate of matrix multiplication – if we increase the size of A and B by a factor of 10, we will need (10n)3=1000n3 computations

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What do we know about the matrix multiplication algorithms of data science libraries?

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They use algorithms that are more efficient than the textbook definition of matrix multiplication

43
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  • What’s a condition for vectorization?
  • What do we have to do if it’s not met?
  • What are 3 scenarios that pose this problem?
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  • the elementwise operations are independent of each other
  • If not met, need to revert to using loops
  • Problem scenarios (examples in screenshot)
    • Loop dependency
    • Indirect memory access
    • Code branching
44
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How do you know if a function is vectorizable?

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It doesn’t belong to the 3 problem scenarios of the independence condition

45
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How do you vectorize a function using numpy?

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“register” it through the np.vectorize function.

46
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How does the performance of a custom vectorized function compare to alternatives?

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Not as fast as functions of same functionality from DS libraries like numpy because they’re not executed in optimized C code

47
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How do you vectorize an interative function? (4)

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  1. Given an iterative formula, organize its expected outputs in a suitable vector or matrix format.
  2. Break down this vector or matrix into smaller components.
  3. Vectorize each component by using matrix and vector operations. Honorable mentions include one-hot encoding, quadratic form, XXT along with XTX, and elementwise operators.
  4. Identify the appropriate NumPy functions to convert the vectorized expression into code.
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With two arrays x and y of the same size, how do you make a new array with some elements from x and some from y based on a condition?

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numpy.where(condition, x, y)

where x and y are arrays

Returns an array with elements from x where the condition is True, and elements from y elsewhere.

49
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What are honorable mentions changes for when you can’t fully vectorize a component? (4)

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  • one-hot encoding
  • quadratic form
  • XXT along with XTX
  • elementwise operators
50
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What should you be thinking when you’re trying to vectorized a function and you see this?

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This is the same as a one-hot encoding then summing across the rows

51
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What’s a property of the binary indicator function?

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𝟙(𝑎 & 𝑏)=𝟙(𝑎)×𝟙(𝑏).

52
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What should you think when you see a vector of dot products?

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it very likely comes from a matrix-vector multiplication.

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