Numpy shuffle multidimensional array by row only, keep column order unchanged
I tried many solutions, and at the end I used this simple one:
from sklearn.utils import shuffle
x = np.array([[1, 2],
[3, 4],
[5, 6]])
print(shuffle(x, random_state=0))
output:
[
[5 6]
[3 4]
[1 2]
]
if you have 3d array, loop through the 1st axis (axis=0) and apply this function, like:
np.array([shuffle(item) for item in 3D_numpy_array])
You can also use np.random.permutation to generate random permutation of row indices and then index into the rows of X using np.take with axis=0. Also, np.take facilitates overwriting to the input array X itself with out= option, which would save us memory. Thus, the implementation would look like this -
np.take(X,np.random.permutation(X.shape[0]),axis=0,out=X)
Sample run -
In [23]: X
Out[23]:
array([[ 0.60511059, 0.75001599],
[ 0.30968339, 0.09162172],
[ 0.14673218, 0.09089028],
[ 0.31663128, 0.10000309],
[ 0.0957233 , 0.96210485],
[ 0.56843186, 0.36654023]])
In [24]: np.take(X,np.random.permutation(X.shape[0]),axis=0,out=X);
In [25]: X
Out[25]:
array([[ 0.14673218, 0.09089028],
[ 0.31663128, 0.10000309],
[ 0.30968339, 0.09162172],
[ 0.56843186, 0.36654023],
[ 0.0957233 , 0.96210485],
[ 0.60511059, 0.75001599]])
Additional performance boost
Here's a trick to speed up np.random.permutation(X.shape[0]) with np.argsort() -
np.random.rand(X.shape[0]).argsort()
Speedup results -
In [32]: X = np.random.random((6000, 2000))
In [33]: %timeit np.random.permutation(X.shape[0])
1000 loops, best of 3: 510 µs per loop
In [34]: %timeit np.random.rand(X.shape[0]).argsort()
1000 loops, best of 3: 297 µs per loop
Thus, the shuffling solution could be modified to -
np.take(X,np.random.rand(X.shape[0]).argsort(),axis=0,out=X)
Runtime tests -
These tests include the two approaches listed in this post and np.shuffle based one in @Kasramvd's solution.
In [40]: X = np.random.random((6000, 2000))
In [41]: %timeit np.random.shuffle(X)
10 loops, best of 3: 25.2 ms per loop
In [42]: %timeit np.take(X,np.random.permutation(X.shape[0]),axis=0,out=X)
10 loops, best of 3: 53.3 ms per loop
In [43]: %timeit np.take(X,np.random.rand(X.shape[0]).argsort(),axis=0,out=X)
10 loops, best of 3: 53.2 ms per loop
So, it seems using these np.take based could be used only if memory is a concern or else np.random.shuffle based solution looks like the way to go.
You can use numpy.random.shuffle().
This function only shuffles the array along the first axis of a multi-dimensional array. The order of sub-arrays is changed but their contents remains the same.
In [2]: import numpy as np
In [3]:
In [3]: X = np.random.random((6, 2))
In [4]: X
Out[4]:
array([[0.71935047, 0.25796155],
[0.4621708 , 0.55140423],
[0.22605866, 0.61581771],
[0.47264172, 0.79307633],
[0.22701656, 0.11927993],
[0.20117207, 0.2754544 ]])
In [5]: np.random.shuffle(X)
In [6]: X
Out[6]:
array([[0.71935047, 0.25796155],
[0.47264172, 0.79307633],
[0.4621708 , 0.55140423],
[0.22701656, 0.11927993],
[0.20117207, 0.2754544 ],
[0.22605866, 0.61581771]])
For other functionalities you can also check out the following functions:
random.Generator.shufflerandom.Generator.permutationrandom.Generator.permuted
The function random.Generator.permuted is introduced in Numpy's 1.20.0 Release.
The new function differs from
shuffleandpermutationin that the subarrays indexed by an axis are permuted rather than the axis being treated as a separate 1-D array for every combination of the other indexes. For example, it is now possible to permute the rows or columns of a 2-D array.
After a bit of experiment (i) found the most memory and time-efficient way to shuffle data(row-wise)in an nD array. First, shuffle the index of an array then, use the shuffled index to get the data. e.g.
rand_num2 = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
perm = np.arange(rand_num2.shape[0])
np.random.shuffle(perm)
rand_num2 = rand_num2[perm]
in more details
Here, I am using memory_profiler to find memory usage and python's builtin "time" module to record time and comparing all previous answers
def main():
# shuffle data itself
rand_num = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
start = time.time()
np.random.shuffle(rand_num)
print('Time for direct shuffle: {0}'.format((time.time() - start)))
# Shuffle index and get data from shuffled index
rand_num2 = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
start = time.time()
perm = np.arange(rand_num2.shape[0])
np.random.shuffle(perm)
rand_num2 = rand_num2[perm]
print('Time for shuffling index: {0}'.format((time.time() - start)))
# using np.take()
rand_num3 = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
start = time.time()
np.take(rand_num3, np.random.rand(rand_num3.shape[0]).argsort(), axis=0, out=rand_num3)
print("Time taken by np.take, {0}".format((time.time() - start)))
Result for Time
Time for direct shuffle: 0.03345608711242676 # 33.4msec
Time for shuffling index: 0.019818782806396484 # 19.8msec
Time taken by np.take, 0.06726956367492676 # 67.2msec
Memory profiler Result
Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents
================================================
39 117.422 MiB 0.000 MiB @profile
40 def main():
41 # shuffle data itself
42 208.977 MiB 91.555 MiB rand_num = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
43 208.977 MiB 0.000 MiB start = time.time()
44 208.977 MiB 0.000 MiB np.random.shuffle(rand_num)
45 208.977 MiB 0.000 MiB print('Time for direct shuffle: {0}'.format((time.time() - start)))
46
47 # Shuffle index and get data from shuffled index
48 300.531 MiB 91.555 MiB rand_num2 = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
49 300.531 MiB 0.000 MiB start = time.time()
50 300.535 MiB 0.004 MiB perm = np.arange(rand_num2.shape[0])
51 300.539 MiB 0.004 MiB np.random.shuffle(perm)
52 300.539 MiB 0.000 MiB rand_num2 = rand_num2[perm]
53 300.539 MiB 0.000 MiB print('Time for shuffling index: {0}'.format((time.time() - start)))
54
55 # using np.take()
56 392.094 MiB 91.555 MiB rand_num3 = np.random.randint(5, size=(6000, 2000))
57 392.094 MiB 0.000 MiB start = time.time()
58 392.242 MiB 0.148 MiB np.take(rand_num3, np.random.rand(rand_num3.shape[0]).argsort(), axis=0, out=rand_num3)
59 392.242 MiB 0.000 MiB print("Time taken by np.take, {0}".format((time.time() - start)))