Questions tagged [scipy]
SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
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Check if LinearOperator is symmetric
I have a scipy.sparse.linalg.LinearOperator object. I'd like to check if its associated matrix is symmetric without actually instantiating the matrix in the most ...
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Lanczos algorithm for finding top eigenvalues of a matrix sum
I am trying to find the top k leading eigenvalues of a NumPy matrix (using python dot product notation) L@L + a*X@X.T, where $L$ ...
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Error using scipy.integrate.solve_ivp: index error: the index 0 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 0
I am recently working on the code based on the stick-slip phenomenon in Python. It's the stick-slip oscillator (chapter 3.4) in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888327020301205.
And ...
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Is there any method/module/library to directly solve an SDE in python? Especially if it's a geometric brownian motion equation
Now, if I take an SDE $$dS_t = \mu S_t\,dt + \sigma S_t\,dW_t$$ and I need to find the solution of it, how should I do this through python? I have the solution on paper, but I want to know if there's ...
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illegal use of ODEINT
given the following system:
$$\frac{dP}{dt} = \alpha P(1-\frac{P}{K}) - \beta P I$$
$$\frac{dI}{dt} = \beta P I - \rho I$$
how do I solve the system numerically. as when I attempt to solve this is the ...
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Difference between wave vector and density matrix in numerical calculation of Schrödinger equation
I solved Schrödinger equation for a following tow-level time-dependent Hamiltonian numerically in two ways:
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Providing Jacobian as LinearOperator in scipy.optimize.root
I asked this question a few days ago on stackoverflow, but I figure scicomp.stackexchange is probably a better place. Sorry for the double post.
I want to solve a system of nonlinear equations using ...
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L2 norm optimization problem
I have an optimization problem where i need to find an image x, that is very close to x' such that:
monitor(x') is valid but monitor(x) is invalid. (output is valid
when the neural network output is ...
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bin 2d array such that each bin contains equal number of samples?
I'm trying to bin a 2d array of points such that each bin has an equal number of samples contained in it. This would mean having bins of differing ranges and possibly shapes.
I have seen this ...
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Python routine to calculate shape resonances of H2
I am currently doing a project in which my aim is to write a program that can be used to calculate single and multi-channel shape resonances. So I'm looking at bound states and quasi-bound states.
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Integrate function with cumulative distibution function inside
I'm trying to integrate a function which is defined as func in my code below, a cumulative distribution function is inside:
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Solve integral $ \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2}dx$
i trying to solve this integral
$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2}dx$$
I'm using this
CODE
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nquad Integration in SciPy
I am trying to self-learn SciPy and evaluate the following quadruple integral using scipy.integrate.nquad:
$$\int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1} \int_{0}^{1-x} (...
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ODEintWarning: Excess work done on this call (perhaps wrong Dfun type)
I was messing around with some numerical integration functions. I wrote an arbitrary differential equation to test my understanding, the code is as follows:
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How to compare 2D vector fields and minimize the difference?
I want to compare the field of two electrical currents and compare the resulting field to a magnetic dipol field and find magnetic momentum that minimizes the difference of the two fields.
My current ...
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Trouble with backwards time integration in Python
I am struggling with a rather basic numerical integration task: Using Python's scipy.integrate.solve_ivp module to integrate an ODE sytem backwards in time. As a test, I am using the following ODE ...
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How are scientific computing workflows faring on Apple's M1 hardware
The initial wave of reviews for Apple's M1 hardware are out, and there's lots of generic benchmarks and data on workflows on professional programs for creative users, but I haven't seen anyone talking ...
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Help with modified bessel functions
I'm trying to parse the following expression (Eq. 35 in The Magnetic Field in the Vicinity of Parallel and Twisted Three-Wire Cable Carrying Balanced Three-Phased Current) in Python and calculate its ...
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Good languages/packages for interior point optimization with non-linear constraints?
I'm currently using Python's scipy.optimize package to perform parameter estimation for a system of 10 ODEs. I have some observed data, and I'm trying to find the set of parameters which makes the ODE ...
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SciPy odeint fails in unpredictable ways on deterministic system of ODEs
I've been trying to solve the following (relatively simple) system of Lotka-Volterra ODEs in Python using SciPy's odeint:
$$\dot{z_1} = z_1 \left(- \sigma z_1 + \sigma z_2 + \rho z_3 - z_4 - z_5\right)...
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Is there a way to bound the values of a variable when using scipy.integrate.solve_ivp in python?
I want to solve an IVP in python with two variables, x and u, but I need the values of u to be between 0 and 1. Right now it is giving me a solution with negative values for u. Here is the code I have....
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scipy odeint: excess work done on this call and very sensitive to initial value
I am trying out odeint and received the error
'Excess work done on this call (perhaps wrong Dfun type).'.
The values returned are also super sensitive to small ...
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Numerical integration problem: IntegrationWarning The integral is probably divergent, or slowly convergent
I am trying to get the numerical integration of a function using scipy's integrate.quad as follows.
$$
\begin{equation}
G (\alpha) = \frac{4\alpha}{\pi}\int_0^{\...
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Scaling tensor approximation by symmetric tensor decomposition with SciPy's L-BFGS-B
I am trying to approximate a symmetric tensor of which the values are in the range of [1e-7,1e-4], by a symmetric tensor decomposition of lower rank. For this I am using the L-BFGS-B method in SciPy's ...
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Odeint error for nonlineal differential equations
I receive the following error when I run the code.
ODEintWarning: Excess work done on this call (perhaps wrong Dfun
type). Run with full_output = 1 to get quantitative information. warnings.warn(...
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Python scipy eigh(Arpack) giving wrong eigenvalues for generalized eigenvalue problem
I am trying to solve a generalized eigenvalue problem using Arpack, right now the code is using LAPACK but that's too slow, we only need a few eigenvalues and the matrices are sparse so using Arpack ...
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How to get a more accurate cancelation
I shall try to get to the point, so let me know if there is something left and you need more details.
I am solving a couple of equations that are not coupled explicitly, but their corresponding ...
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DOP853 integration method is missing (SciPy)
I was checking some integration methods provided by SciPy, in which the DOP853 should be included according to the webpage (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.integrate....
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Set of integrators do not consistently solve an equation in Python
I must solve the following second order differential equation:
$\delta \phi^{''}_{\mathbf{k}}+(3-\epsilon)\delta \phi^{'}_{\mathbf{k}}+\left(\frac{k^2}{a^2 H^2}+\frac{V_{,\phi\phi}}{H^2}-6\epsilon +4\...
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How to use cumtrapz correctly?
I have tried to do a trapeze integration with f(x)=x^2, where I know how the antiderivative looks like, so F(x) = (1/3)x^3
Here's my code, just like I tried:
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Applying the result of Cuthill-McKee in SciPy (followup)
This is a followup to Applying the result of Cuthill-McKee in SciPy , where I'm not sure the answer given is correct. It's also 4 years old, so I'm trying a new question. The question is still ...
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Non-negative Least Squares to perform Inverse Laplace with weights
I'm trying to perform the inverse Laplace transform of a (noisy) dataset $y_i$ using Tikhonov regularization:
$$\min \sum_{i=1}^{N} \left(\int_0^\infty e^{-s_i t} f(t) \, dt - y_i \right)^2 - \lambda^...
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scipy's solve_ivp returns erroneous results for a stiff differential equation
I'm using scipy's solve_ivp for solving a stiff differential equation. I'm using method BDF for solving the same.
I have already used MATLAB's ode23s and I'm getting correct results in MATLAB.
However,...
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A parallelized GMRES solver?
My application calls for solving a dense, 40,000 x 40,000, ill-conditioned linear system. The native SciPy GMRES solver with preconditioning has worked well for my application and solving a single ...
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Is LAPACK behind the cutting edge of dense linear algebra?
I have been digging into some numerical linear algebra lately, and reading in particular about how LAPACK solves symmetric eigenvalue problems. I noticed that the ...
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Comparing custom linear regression solver to SciPy equivalent in Python
From a given data set, I set out to complete a task which is below
Fit the data of the previous exercise to fit Eq. (8.18) using the SciPy function ...
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Functions from Scipy, Blas, or Lapack that compute only upper triangular matrix
My goal is to transform a matrix into upper triangular form in Python. I know the function scipy.linalg.lu will do LU decomposition and get both upper and lower ...
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Why is 'scipy.sparse.linalg.spilu' less efficient than 'scipy.linalg.lu' for sparse matrix?
I have a matrix B which is sparse and try to utilize a function scipy.sparse.linalg.spilu specialized for sparse matrix to ...
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Algorithm to factorize matrix whose many rows are already of upper triangular form?
I have a matrix whose many rows are already in the upper triangular form.
$$\begin{bmatrix}
x_{11} & x_{12} & x_{13} & x_{14} & x_{5} \\
0 & x_{22} & x_{23} & x_{...
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Computing numeric derivative via FFT - SciPy
I wrote the following code to compute the approximate derivative of a function using FFT:
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Fast nonzero indices per row/column for (sparse) 2D numpy array
I am looking for the fastest way to obtain a list of the nonzero indices of a 2D array per row and per column. The following is a working piece of code:
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How to optimize linear programming subproblems with respect to global constraints?
I have an optimization problem where I have several categories and for each category $j$ I have entries $i = 1....m$, I wish to assign some value $x_{ij}$ for each entry of each category but:
I need ...
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How to plot a function for multiple values of a parameter in the same set of axes in Python?
I'm currently trying to plot a graph wich describes a photoionization cross section as a function of incident photon energy for optical transition in a semiconductor for different values of the $\...
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How do I get scipy.minimize to terminate below a certain loss threshold?
I was looking at the scipy.minimize documentation to see if I could find a way to terminate optimization when the loss gets below some cut-off, and I couldn't see ...
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How to numerically evaluate this double Integral?
I want to evaluate the following integral:
$$\int_{0}^{60} \ \left(\int_{0}^{2z} 0.5\cdot t \left(\mathrm{erf}(t-a) -1 \right)J_{0}(qt)\mathrm{d}t \right)^2 \mathrm{exp}\left(-\frac{(z-a)^2}{2s^2}\...
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Solving an ODE using odeint in Python and continuing the integration
The following relates to the linked question:
Scattering of waves in a symmetrical potential (using python)
I have attempted to solve the problem for $U(r)$ using ...
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How to change the value of a variable at some point lying in the time interval of solver in solve_ivp
The following code solves a differential equation with scipy:
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solve_ivp - Overflow encountered in double_scalars
I'm modeling an electron that orbits the nucleus. Of course, charged particles radiate away there energy so it'll crash into the nucleus. My approach has been to to evaluate the coulomb force and add ...
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How to implement Simpson's rule for double integral (without numeric limits of first integral)
I want to use Simpson's rule to evaluate the following double integral:
$$\int_{a}^{b}\left|\int_{0}^{z}x\cdot \mathrm{erf}(x-10)\cdot J_{0}(x) \mathrm{dx}\right|^{2}\exp(-0.5*(z-40)^2)\mathrm{dz} $$
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Scipy.integrate.odeint is returning curves with almost the same frequency for different damping ratios, shouldn't they be different?
I am trying to solve the ODE for a harmonic oscillator using Scipy's odeint solver for different dampening factors.
I'm using the following code, based off of this example:
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