Sparse matrix memory problem
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I need to create really big sparse matrix, which will have very few non zero elements. I am trying to do this callling function:
A = sparse([1], [1000000000], 1);
But Matlab then allocates 7GB of memory! I think sparse matrices uses memory only for non zero elements, but it seems it allocates full matrix. Am I doing something wrong or this is Matlab bug? How can I bypass it?
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Teja Muppirala
2012년 4월 5일
Sparse matrices keep track of data by each column. This means that if you have a lot of columns (here you have one billion of them...), then you will need lots of memory even though it is sparse. A workaround would be to make it a single column vector with 1e9 rows instead.
A = sparse(1000000000, 1, 1);
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