Taking subarrays from numpy array with given stride/stepsize

Lets say I have a Python Numpy array a.

a = numpy.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11])

I want to create a matrix of sub sequences from this array of length 5 with stride 3. The results matrix hence will look as follows:

numpy.array([[1,2,3,4,5],[4,5,6,7,8],[7,8,9,10,11]])

One possible way of implementing this would be using a for-loop.

result_matrix = np.zeros((3, 5))
for i in range(0, len(a), 3):
  result_matrix[i] = a[i:i+5]

Is there a cleaner way to implement this in Numpy?

Solution 1:

Approach #1 : Using broadcasting -

def broadcasting_app(a, L, S ):  # Window len = L, Stride len/stepsize = S
    nrows = ((a.size-L)//S)+1
    return a[S*np.arange(nrows)[:,None] + np.arange(L)]

Approach #2 : Using more efficient NumPy strides -

def strided_app(a, L, S ):  # Window len = L, Stride len/stepsize = S
    nrows = ((a.size-L)//S)+1
    n = a.strides[0]
    return np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided(a, shape=(nrows,L), strides=(S*n,n))

Sample run -

In [143]: a
Out[143]: array([ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11])

In [144]: broadcasting_app(a, L = 5, S = 3)
Out[144]: 
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
       [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 7,  8,  9, 10, 11]])

In [145]: strided_app(a, L = 5, S = 3)
Out[145]: 
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
       [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 7,  8,  9, 10, 11]])

Solution 2:

Starting in Numpy 1.20, we can make use of the new sliding_window_view to slide/roll over windows of elements.

And coupled with a stepping [::3], it simply becomes:

from numpy.lib.stride_tricks import sliding_window_view

# values = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11])
sliding_window_view(values, window_shape = 5)[::3]
# array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
#        [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8],
#        [ 7,  8,  9, 10, 11]])

where the intermediate result of the sliding is:

sliding_window_view(values, window_shape = 5)
# array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5],
#        [ 2,  3,  4,  5,  6],
#        [ 3,  4,  5,  6,  7],
#        [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8],
#        [ 5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
#        [ 6,  7,  8,  9, 10],
#        [ 7,  8,  9, 10, 11]])