torch.sparse_coo_tensor

torch.sparse_coo_tensor(indices, values, size=None, *, dtype=None, device=None, requires_grad=False) → Tensor

Constructs a sparse tensor in COO(rdinate) format with specified values at the given indices.

Note

This function returns an uncoalesced tensor.

Parameters

• indices (array_like) – Initial data for the tensor. Can be a list, tuple, NumPy ndarray, scalar, and other types. Will be cast to a torch.LongTensor internally. The indices are the coordinates of the non-zero values in the matrix, and thus should be two-dimensional where the first dimension is the number of tensor dimensions and the second dimension is the number of non-zero values.
• values (array_like) – Initial values for the tensor. Can be a list, tuple, NumPy ndarray, scalar, and other types.
• size (list, tuple, or torch.Size, optional) – Size of the sparse tensor. If not provided the size will be inferred as the minimum size big enough to hold all non-zero elements.

Keyword Arguments

• dtype (torch.dtype, optional) – the desired data type of returned tensor. Default: if None, infers data type from values.
• device (torch.device, optional) – the desired device of returned tensor. Default: if None, uses the current device for the default tensor type (see torch.set_default_tensor_type()). device will be the CPU for CPU tensor types and the current CUDA device for CUDA tensor types.
• requires_grad (bool, optional) – If autograd should record operations on the returned tensor. Default: False.

Example:

>>> i = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 1],
...                   [2, 0, 2]])
>>> v = torch.tensor([3, 4, 5], dtype=torch.float32)
>>> torch.sparse_coo_tensor(i, v, [2, 4])
tensor(indices=tensor([[0, 1, 1],
                       [2, 0, 2]]),
       values=tensor([3., 4., 5.]),
       size=(2, 4), nnz=3, layout=torch.sparse_coo)

>>> torch.sparse_coo_tensor(i, v)  # Shape inference
tensor(indices=tensor([[0, 1, 1],
                       [2, 0, 2]]),
       values=tensor([3., 4., 5.]),
       size=(2, 3), nnz=3, layout=torch.sparse_coo)

>>> torch.sparse_coo_tensor(i, v, [2, 4],
...                         dtype=torch.float64,
...                         device=torch.device('cuda:0'))
tensor(indices=tensor([[0, 1, 1],
                       [2, 0, 2]]),
       values=tensor([3., 4., 5.]),
       device='cuda:0', size=(2, 4), nnz=3, dtype=torch.float64,
       layout=torch.sparse_coo)

# Create an empty sparse tensor with the following invariants:
#   1. sparse_dim + dense_dim = len(SparseTensor.shape)
#   2. SparseTensor._indices().shape = (sparse_dim, nnz)
#   3. SparseTensor._values().shape = (nnz, SparseTensor.shape[sparse_dim:])
#
# For instance, to create an empty sparse tensor with nnz = 0, dense_dim = 0 and
# sparse_dim = 1 (hence indices is a 2D tensor of shape = (1, 0))
>>> S = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(torch.empty([1, 0]), [], [1])
tensor(indices=tensor([], size=(1, 0)),
       values=tensor([], size=(0,)),
       size=(1,), nnz=0, layout=torch.sparse_coo)

# and to create an empty sparse tensor with nnz = 0, dense_dim = 1 and
# sparse_dim = 1
>>> S = torch.sparse_coo_tensor(torch.empty([1, 0]), torch.empty([0, 2]), [1, 2])
tensor(indices=tensor([], size=(1, 0)),
       values=tensor([], size=(0, 2)),
       size=(1, 2), nnz=0, layout=torch.sparse_coo)