Re: [eigen] How to create a Matrix<...> without copying data ?

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can do:

PartialPivLU<MatrixXd> lu(matrix.block(...));

or, from your double* pointer,

PartialPivLU<MatrixXd>
 lu(Map<MatrixXd>(pointer,rows,cols).block(...));

or you can even get rid of the block() call by doing a strided Map.

What we don't allow at the moment is in-place LU, i.e. allowing to not
even copy that block.

well, if you are not afraid about using internal functions, and so functions which can be removed/changed in the future, you can use this one:

template<typename MatrixType, typename IntVector>
void ei_partial_lu_inplace(MatrixType& lu, IntVector& row_transpositions, int& nb_transpositions);

e.g.,

// declare a name variable for the block because current C++ standard sucks.
Block<MyMatrix> bl(matrix, ....);
VectorXi row_transpositions(matrix.rows());
int nb_transpositions;

ei_partial_lu_inplace(bl, row_transpositions, nb_transpositions);

The problem is that now you cannot exploit this LU dec via the PartialPivLU API, but maybe that's enough for your needs... ?

gael
 

Benoit

2010/5/17  <vincent.lejeune@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> Hi,
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> I have a matrix stored as a double* in columnsmajor format.
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> I would like to compute the LU factorisation of a part of the matrix (that
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> is, not the whole matrix, just a sub square of it) inplace, ie I do not
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> want to copy data to an temporary buffer.
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> Is it possible using Eigen ? I saw that PartialPivLU class copy input
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> matrix when constructed...
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> Thx,
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> Vincent
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