Find unique rows in numpy.array

Question

I need to find unique rows in a numpy.array.

For example:

>>> a # I have
array([[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],
         


        

Answer 1

I didn’t like any of these answers because none handle floating-point arrays in a linear algebra or vector space sense, where two rows being “equal” means “within some

Answer 2

Lets get the entire numpy matrix as a list, then drop duplicates from this list, and finally return our unique list back into a numpy matrix:

matrix_as_list=data.tolist() 
matrix_as_list:
[[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]]

uniq_list=list()
uniq_list.append(matrix_as_list[0])

[uniq_list.append(item) for item in matrix_as_list if item not in uniq_list]

unique_matrix=np.array(uniq_list)
unique_matrix:
array([[1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0]])

Answer 3

Why not use drop_duplicates from pandas:

>>> timeit pd.DataFrame(image.reshape(-1,3)).drop_duplicates().values
1 loops, best of 3: 3.08 s per loop

>>> timeit np.vstack({tuple(r) for r in image.reshape(-1,3)})
1 loops, best of 3: 51 s per loop

Answer 4

Yet another possible solution

np.vstack({tuple(row) for row in a})

Answer 5

I've compared the suggested alternative for speed and found that, surprisingly, the void view unique solution is even a bit faster than numpy's native unique with the axis argument. If you're looking for speed, you'll want

numpy.unique(
    a.view(numpy.dtype((numpy.void, a.dtype.itemsize*a.shape[1])))
    ).view(a.dtype).reshape(-1, a.shape[1])

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Code to reproduce the plot:

import numpy
import perfplot


def unique_void_view(a):
    return numpy.unique(
        a.view(numpy.dtype((numpy.void, a.dtype.itemsize*a.shape[1])))
        ).view(a.dtype).reshape(-1, a.shape[1])


def lexsort(a):
    ind = numpy.lexsort(a.T)
    return a[ind[
        numpy.concatenate((
            [True], numpy.any(a[ind[1:]] != a[ind[:-1]], axis=1)
            ))
        ]]


def vstack(a):
    return numpy.vstack({tuple(row) for row in a})


def unique_axis(a):
    return numpy.unique(a, axis=0)


perfplot.show(
    setup=lambda n: numpy.random.randint(2, size=(n, 20)),
    kernels=[unique_void_view, lexsort, vstack, unique_axis],
    n_range=[2**k for k in range(15)],
    logx=True,
    logy=True,
    xlabel='len(a)',
    equality_check=None
    )

Answer 6

The numpy_indexed package (disclaimer: I am its author) wraps the solution posted by Jaime in a nice and tested interface, plus many more features:

import numpy_indexed as npi
new_a = npi.unique(a)  # unique elements over axis=0 (rows) by default