I have two numpy arrays of different shapes, but with the same length (leading dimension). I want to shuffle each of them, such that corresponding elements continue to correspond -- i.e. shuffle them in unison with respect to their leading indices.
This code works, and illustrates my goals:
def shuffle_in_unison(a, b):
assert len(a) == len(b)
shuffled_a = numpy.empty(a.shape, dtype=a.dtype)
shuffled_b = numpy.empty(b.shape, dtype=b.dtype)
permutation = numpy.random.permutation(len(a))
for old_index, new_index in enumerate(permutation):
shuffled_a[new_index] = a[old_index]
shuffled_b[new_index] = b[old_index]
return shuffled_a, shuffled_b
For example:
>>> a = numpy.asarray([[1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 3]])
>>> b = numpy.asarray([1, 2, 3])
>>> shuffle_in_unison(a, b)
(array([[2, 2],
[1, 1],
[3, 3]]), array([2, 1, 3]))
However, this feels clunky, inefficient, and slow, and it requires making a copy of the arrays -- I"d rather shuffle them in-place, since they"ll be quite large.
Is there a better way to go about this? Faster execution and lower memory usage are my primary goals, but elegant code would be nice, too.
One other thought I had was this:
def shuffle_in_unison_scary(a, b):
rng_state = numpy.random.get_state()
numpy.random.shuffle(a)
numpy.random.set_state(rng_state)
numpy.random.shuffle(b)
This works...but it"s a little scary, as I see little guarantee it"ll continue to work -- it doesn"t look like the sort of thing that"s guaranteed to survive across numpy version, for example.
