I think a correlation matrix can have arbitrary rank, but might be wrong.

 -- John

On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does this computation not always return a rank-1 matrix?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:33 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> But how would you know the rank of the correlation matrix in advance?
> 
>  -- John
> 
> On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This is the sort of thing that just begs for a custom representation of a 
>> rank-1 matrix, which fortunately, isn't terribly hard to implement in Julia.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If they're sparse along dimension 1, you can at least save time computing the
>> dot product of the two sparse vectors. But yes, the correlation matrix itself
>> will be dense.
>> 
>> --Tim
>> 
>> On Monday, July 28, 2014 11:23:31 AM Jiahao Chen wrote:
>> > > I don't think sparse cor() is implemented and is falling back to the 
>> > > dense
>> > > implementation.
>> > Computing the correlation matrix is much like computing the outer
>> > product of two sparse vectors. There will be massive fill-in and I
>> > don't see how you can preserve sparsity without special knowledge
>> > about the sparsity pattern.
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jiahao Chen
>> > Staff Research Scientist
>> > MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/new
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:06 AM, paul analyst <[email protected]>
>> > >
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> Issue on github or on julia-dev  groups?
>> > >> Paul
>> > >>
>> > >> W dniu poniedziałek, 28 lipca 2014 12:05:27 UTC+2 użytkownik Viral Shah
>> > >>
>> > >> napisał:
>> > >>> Please file an issue. I don't think sparse cor() is implemented and is
>> > >>> falling back to the dense implementation.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> -viral
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:41:55 PM UTC+5:30, paul analyst wrote:
>> > >>>> Correlation sparse array is very slow. Out of memory on a dense array
>> > >>>> when we have 30,000 columns. How quickly it calculated?
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> I=int32((rand(10^7)*9999999).+1);
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> J=int32((rand(10^7)*29999).+1);
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> V=int8((rand(10^7)*9).+1);
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> D=sparse(I,J,V);
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> @time cor(D[:,1:30]);
>> > >>>> elapsed time: 23.806328476 seconds (2458875228 bytes allocated, 0.14%
>> > >>>> gc
>> > >>>> time)
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia> @time cor(full(D[:,1:30]));
>> > >>>> elapsed time: 4.494099126 seconds (2732042496 bytes allocated, 5.31% 
>> > >>>> gc
>> > >>>> time)
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> julia>
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Paul
>> 
>> 
> 
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