How to compute entropy more efficiently?
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Dear All
I want to computer the entropy for the distribution over hundreds outcomes for many times. I did it as follows: (copied from profiler, first column for time consumed , and second column for call numbers).
Do you know any more efficient way to do this?
Since it has been vectorised, I guess 'mex' may not help too much. Is it right?
Thanks!!!
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6.31 993683 16 p1 = Alpha1./sum(Alpha1);
5.06 993683 17 p2 = Alpha2./sum(Alpha2);
16.56 993683 18 h1 = sum(p1.*log(p1));
13.05 993683 19 h2 = sum(p2.*log(p2));
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Bjorn Gustavsson
2012-8-10
On my version of matlab I get a big reduction in run-time by doing:
h1 = p1*log(p1.');
or
h1 = p1.'*log(p1);
depending on which version is the inner product for vector p1.
HTH
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Bjorn Gustavsson
2012-8-10
Ops, I was wrong. Seems most time gain in my version was that I forgot to call the log -> the log-ing is what takes time.
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