Python Scikit learn: Create a 2-D array with ones on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere

Python Machine learning Iris Basic: Exercise-4 with Solution

Write a Python program to create a 2-D array with ones on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere. Now convert the NumPy array to a SciPy sparse matrix in CSR format.

From wikipedia :
In numerical analysis and scientific computing, a sparse matrix or sparse array is a matrix in which most of the elements are zero. By contrast, if most of the elements are nonzero, then the matrix is considered dense. The number of zero-valued elements divided by the total number of elements (e.g., m × n for an m × n matrix) is called the sparsity of the matrix (which is equal to 1 minus the density of the matrix). Using those definitions, a matrix will be sparse when its sparsity is greater than 0.5.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import numpy as np
from scipy import sparse
eye = np.eye(4)
print("NumPy array:\n", eye)
sparse_matrix = sparse.csr_matrix(eye)
print("\nSciPy sparse CSR matrix:\n", sparse_matrix)

Sample Output:

NumPy array:
 [[1. 0. 0. 0.]
 [0. 1. 0. 0.]
 [0. 0. 1. 0.]
 [0. 0. 0. 1.]]

SciPy sparse CSR matrix:
   (0, 0)	1.0
  (1, 1)	1.0
  (2, 2)	1.0
  (3, 3)	1.0

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