tf.sparse.SparseTensor

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Represents a sparse tensor.

tf.sparse.SparseTensor(
    indices, values, dense_shape
)

TensorFlow represents a sparse tensor as three separate dense tensors: indices, values, and dense_shape. In Python, the three tensors are collected into a SparseTensor class for ease of use. If you have separate indices, values, and dense_shape tensors, wrap them in a SparseTensor object before passing to the ops below.

Concretely, the sparse tensor SparseTensor(indices, values, dense_shape) comprises the following components, where N and ndims are the number of values and number of dimensions in the SparseTensor, respectively:

• indices: A 2-D int64 tensor of shape [N, ndims], which specifies the indices of the elements in the sparse tensor that contain nonzero values (elements are zero-indexed). For example, indices=[[1,3], [2,4]] specifies that the elements with indexes of [1,3] and [2,4] have nonzero values.

• values: A 1-D tensor of any type and shape [N], which supplies the values for each element in indices. For example, given indices=[[1,3], [2,4]], the parameter values=[18, 3.6] specifies that element [1,3] of the sparse tensor has a value of 18, and element [2,4] of the tensor has a value of 3.6.

• dense_shape: A 1-D int64 tensor of shape [ndims], which specifies the dense_shape of the sparse tensor. Takes a list indicating the number of elements in each dimension. For example, dense_shape=[3,6] specifies a two-dimensional 3x6 tensor, dense_shape=[2,3,4] specifies a three-dimensional 2x3x4 tensor, and dense_shape=[9] specifies a one-dimensional tensor with 9 elements.

The corresponding dense tensor satisfies:

dense.shape = dense_shape
dense[tuple(indices[i])] = values[i]

By convention, indices should be sorted in row-major order (or equivalently lexicographic order on the tuples indices[i]). This is not enforced when SparseTensor objects are constructed, but most ops assume correct ordering. If the ordering of sparse tensor st is wrong, a fixed version can be obtained by calling tf.sparse.reorder(st).

Example: The sparse tensor

SparseTensor(indices=[[0, 0], [1, 2]], values=[1, 2], dense_shape=[3, 4])

represents the dense tensor

[[1, 0, 0, 0]
 [0, 0, 2, 0]
 [0, 0, 0, 0]]

Methods

consumers

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consumers()

eval

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eval(
    feed_dict=None, session=None
)

Evaluates this sparse tensor in a Session.

Calling this method will execute all preceding operations that produce the inputs needed for the operation that produces this tensor.

from_value

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@classmethod
from_value(
    sparse_tensor_value
)

get_shape

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get_shape()

Get the TensorShape representing the shape of the dense tensor.

with_values

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with_values(
    new_values
)

Returns a copy of self with values replaced by new_values.

This method produces a new SparseTensor that has the same nonzero indices and same dense_shape, but updated values.

Example usage:

st = tf.sparse.from_dense([[1, 0, 2, 0], [3, 0, 0, 4]])
tf.sparse.to_dense(st.with_values([10, 20, 30, 40]))  # 4 nonzero values
<tf.Tensor: shape=(2, 4), dtype=int32, numpy=
array([[10,  0, 20,  0],
       [30,  0,  0, 40]], dtype=int32)>

__div__

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__div__(
    y
)

Component-wise divides a SparseTensor by a dense Tensor.

Limitation: this Op only broadcasts the dense side to the sparse side, but not the other direction.

__mul__

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__mul__(
    y
)

Component-wise multiplies a SparseTensor by a dense Tensor.

The output locations corresponding to the implicitly zero elements in the sparse tensor will be zero (i.e., will not take up storage space), regardless of the contents of the dense tensor (even if it's +/-INF and that INF*0 == NaN).

Limitation: this Op only broadcasts the dense side to the sparse side, but not the other direction.

__truediv__

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__truediv__(
    y
)

Internal helper function for 'sp_t / dense_t'.