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Calculating the Minkowski distance using SciPy

Gaurav Kumar
Gaurav Kumar
Updated on 14-Dec-2021 686 Views

The Minkowski distance, a generalized form of Euclidean and Manhattan distance, is the distance between two points. It is mostly used for distance similarity of vectors. Below is the generalized formula to calculate Minkowski distance in n-dimensional space −$$\mathrm{D= \big[\sum_{i=1}^{n}|r_i-s_i|^p\big]^{1/p}}$$Here, si and ri are data points.n denotes the n-space.p represents the order of the normSciPy provides us with a function named minkowski that returns the Minkowski Distance between two points. Let’s see how we can calculate the Minkowski distance between two points using SciPy library −Example# Importing the SciPy library from scipy.spatial import distance # Defining the points A = ...

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Calculating the Manhattan distance using SciPy

Gaurav Kumar
Gaurav Kumar
Updated on 14-Dec-2021 1K+ Views

The Manhattan distance, also known as the City Block distance, is calculated as the sum of absolute differences between the two vectors. It is mostly used for the vectors that describe objects on a uniform grid such as a city block or chessboard. Below is the generalized formula to calculate Manhattan distance in n-dimensional space −$$\mathrm{D =\sum_{i=1}^{n}|r_i-s_i|}$$Here, si and ri are data points.n denotes the n-space.SciPy provides us with a function named cityblock that returns the Manhattan Distance between two points. Let’s see how we can calculate the Manhattan distance between two points using SciPy library−Example# Importing the SciPy library ...

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Calculating Euclidean distance using SciPy

Gaurav Kumar
Gaurav Kumar
Updated on 14-Dec-2021 1K+ Views

Euclidean distance is the distance between two real-valued vectors. Mostly we use it to calculate the distance between two rows of data having numerical values (floating or integer values). Below is the formula to calculate Euclidean distance −$$\mathrm{d(r, s) =\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^{n}(s_i-r_i)^2} }$$Here, r and s are the two points in Euclidean n-space.si and ri are Euclidean vectors.n denotes the n-space.Let’s see how we can calculate Euclidean distance between two points using SciPy library −Example# Importing the SciPy library from scipy.spatial import distance # Defining the points A = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) B = (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ...

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How to check if an object is a PyTorch Tensor?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 8K+ Views

To check if an object is a tensor or not, we can use the torch.is_tensor() method. It returns True if the input is a tensor; False otherwise.Syntaxtorch.is_tensor(input)Parametersinput – The object to be checked, if it is a tensor or not .OutputIt returns True if the input is a tensor; else False.StepsImport the required library. The required library is torch.Define a tensor or other object.Check if the created object is a tensor or not using torch.is_tensor(input).Display the result.Example 1# import the required library import torch # create an object x x = torch.rand(4) print(x) # check if the above ...

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What does "with torch no_grad" do in PyTorch?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 6K+ Views

The use of "with torch.no_grad()" is like a loop where every tensor inside the loop will have requires_grad set to False. It means any tensor with gradient currently attached with the current computational graph is now detached from the current graph. We no longer be able to compute the gradients with respect to this tensor.A tensor is detached from the current graph until it is within the loop. As soon as it is out of the loop, it is again attached to the current graph if the tensor was defined with gradient.Let's take a couple of examples for a better ...

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What does backward() do in PyTorch?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 3K+ Views

The backward() method is used to compute the gradient during the backward pass in a neural network.The gradients are computed when this method is executed.These gradients are stored in the respective variables.The gradients are computed with respect to these variables, and the gradients are accessed using .grad.If we do not call the backward() method for computing the gradient, the gradients are not computed.And, if we access the gradients using .grad, the result is None.Let's have a couple of examples to demonstrate how it works.Example 1In this example, we attempt to access the gradients without calling the backward() method. We notice ...

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PyTorch – How to check if a tensor is contiguous or not?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 2K+ Views

A contiguous tensor is a tensor whose elements are stored in a contiguous order without leaving any empty space between them. A tensor created originally is always a contiguous tensor. A tensor can be viewed with different dimensions in contiguous manner.A transpose of a tensor creates a view of the original tensor which follows non-contiguous order. The transpose of a tensor is non-contiguous.SyntaxTensor.is_contiguous()It returns True if the Tensor is contiguous; False otherwise.Let's take a couple of example to demonstrate how to use this function to check if a tensor is contiguous or non-contiguous.Example 1# import torch library import torch ...

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How to find the transpose of a tensor in PyTorch?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 8K+ Views

To transpose a tensor, we need two dimensions to be transposed. If a tensor is 0-D or 1-D tensor, the transpose of the tensor is same as is. For a 2-D tensor, the transpose is computed using the two dimensions 0 and 1 as transpose(input, 0, 1).SyntaxTo find the transpose of a scalar, a vector or a matrix, we can apply the first syntax defined below.And for any dimensional tensor, we can apply the second syntax.For

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How to get the rank of a matrix in PyTorch?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 2K+ Views

The rank of a matrix can be obtained using torch.linalg.matrix_rank(). It takes a matrix or a batch of matrices as the input and returns a tensor with rank value(s) of the matrices. torch.linalg module provides us many linear algebra operations.Syntaxtorch.linalg.matrix_rank(input)where input is the 2D tensor/matrix or batch of matrices.StepsWe could use the following steps to get the rank of a matrix or batch of matrices −Import the torch library. Make sure you have it already installed.import torch Create a 2D tensor/matrix or a batch of matrices and print it.t = torch.tensor([[1., 2., 3.], [4., 5., 6.]]) print("Tensor:", t)Compute the rank ...

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PyTorch – How to get the exponents of tensor elements?

Shahid Akhtar Khan
Shahid Akhtar Khan
Updated on 06-Dec-2021 2K+ Views

To find the exponential of the elements of an input tensor, we can apply Tensor.exp() or torch.exp(input). Here, input is the input tensor for which the exponentials are computed. Both the methods return a new tensor with the exponential values of the elements of the input tensor.SyntaxTensor.exp()ortorch.exp(input) StepsWe could use the following steps to compute the exponentials of the elements of an input tensor −Import the torch library. Make sure you have it already installed.import torchCreate a tensor and print it.t1 = torch.rand(4, 3) print("Tensor:", t1)Compute the exponential of the elements of the tensor. For this, use torch.exp(input) and optionally ...

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