Running out of memory selecting parts of a large sparse matrix
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I have a sparse matrix of around 400k x 400k rows/columns containing similarities (symmetric, sparse, double values between 0 and 1, diagonal is always 1). I'm hoping to eventually be able to work with 1000k x 1000 k matrices.
I need to select all entries above a given threshold. My problem is that I keep running out of memory (I have 64 GB available).
I found that I get the best results so far if I do not set values below the threshold to zero, but rather if I select all values at or above the threshold and build a new sparse matrix with those. However with matrix sizes increasing, I'm hitting the memory limit.
Can you point me to a way to reduce memory consumption for this process?
With the help of this forum, I tried several ways:
% Get relevant values from matrix
rel_values = matrix(matrix>threshold);
% Get index to relevant values
[i,j] = find(matrix>threshold);
% Form sparse matrix
matrix = sparse(i,j,rel_values,columns_mat,columns_mat);
I have run into limits both with matrix(matrix>threshold) and with find(matrix>threshold).
To avoid matrix(matrix>threshold) I tried:
% get relevant positions
rel_values_pos = matrix>threshold;
% Get index to relevant values
[i,j] = find(rel_values_pos);
% Get relevant values (i.e. values over threshold)
idx = sub2ind(size(matrix),i,j);
rel_values = matrix(idx);
% Form sparse matrix
matrix = sparse(i,j,rel_values,columns_mat,columns_mat);
This doesn't work either, both first lines have run into memory shortages.
My hope was to use the symmetry and only consider the following:
matrix = triu(matrix,1); % I know the diagonal to be one, so I can neglect those entries and append them later
However, triu(matrix,1) runs out of memory itself.
Using the symmetry seems to me the most potent approach, as it reduces the amount of entries by more than half (considering that I drop the diagonal), however I'm unaware of a smooth way to select the upper right triangle without triu.
If there is an aspect I'm missing entirely, I'm thankful for those hints as well of course.
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James Tursa
2021-6-1
A mex routine is compiled C/C++ or Fortran code that, once compiled, can be called like a normal MATLAB function for inputs/outputs. If I can find a way to test it, I would be supplying you with C code. You would need to install a supported C compiler and compile the code at your end. E.g., see this link:
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David Goodmanson
2021-5-26
编辑:David Goodmanson
2021-5-26
Hi Benjamin,
I believe this works as required. This example is 4e5 x 4e5, with 99.99% zeros. On my pc it takes 3 sec to make the initial sparse matrix and 1 sec to make the new one.
tic
n = 4e5;
fracnz = 1e-4;
m = round(n^2*fracnz);
r = randi(n,m,1);
c = randi(n,m,1);
p = rand(m,1);
s = sparse(r,c,p,n,n);
nnz(s)/n^2 % check
toc
tic
F = find(s~=0);
S = full(s(F));
ind = S<1/2; % or whatever the required condition is;
% these elements are eliminated
F(ind) = [];
S(ind) = [];
[r1 c1] = ind2sub([n n],F);
snew = sparse(r1,c1,S,n,n);
toc
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