bench_plot_svd.py

"""Benchmarks of Singular Values Decomposition (Exact and Approximate)

The data is mostly low rank but is a fat infinite tail.
"""
import gc
from time import time
import numpy as np
from collections import defaultdict

from scipy.linalg import svd
from scikits.learn.utils.extmath import fast_svd
from scikits.learn.datasets.samples_generator import low_rank_fat_tail


def compute_bench(samples_range, features_range, q=3, rank=50):

    it = 0

    results = defaultdict(lambda: [])

    max_it = len(samples_range) * len(features_range)
    for n_samples in samples_range:
        for n_features in features_range:
            it += 1
            print '===================='
            print 'Iteration %03d of %03d' % (it, max_it)
            print '===================='
            X = low_rank_fat_tail(n_samples, n_features, effective_rank=rank,
                                  tail_strength=0.2)

            gc.collect()
            print "benching scipy svd: "
            tstart = time()
            svd(X, full_matrices=False)
            results['scipy svd'].append(time() - tstart)

            gc.collect()
            print "benching scikit-learn fast_svd: q=0"
            tstart = time()
            fast_svd(X, rank, q=0)
            results['scikit-learn fast_svd (q=0)'].append(time() - tstart)

            gc.collect()
            print "benching scikit-learn fast_svd: q=%d " % q
            tstart = time()
            fast_svd(X, rank, q=q)
            results['scikit-learn fast_svd (q=%d)' % q].append(time() - tstart)

    return results


if __name__ == '__main__':
    from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d # register the 3d projection
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    samples_range = np.linspace(2, 1000, 4).astype(np.int)
    features_range = np.linspace(2, 1000, 4).astype(np.int)
    results = compute_bench(samples_range, features_range)

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
    for c, (label, timings) in zip('rbg', sorted(results.iteritems())):
        X, Y = np.meshgrid(samples_range, features_range)
        Z = np.asarray(timings).reshape(samples_range.shape[0],
                                        features_range.shape[0])
        # plot the actual surface
        ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, rstride=8, cstride=8, alpha=0.3,
                        color=c)
        # dummy point plot to stick the legend to since surface plot do not
        # support legends (yet?)
        ax.plot([1], [1], [1], color=c, label=label)

    ax.set_xlabel('n_samples')
    ax.set_ylabel('n_features')
    ax.set_zlabel('time (s)')
    ax.legend()
    plt.show()