Programming Assignment 3 Solution

In this assignment you will create a calculator for performing matrix operations that exploits the (expected) sparseness of it’s matrix operands. An n n square matrix is said to be sparse if the number of non-zero entries (abbreviated NNZ) is small compared to the total number of entries, 2. The result will be a Java program capable of performing fast matrix operations, even on very large matrices, provided they are sparse.




Given




n n




matrices A and B, their product C

n

Cij




k 1




A B




Aik Bkj .




is the




n n




matrix whose




ij




th entry is given by



Thus the element in the ith row and jth column of C is the vector dot product of the i th row of A with the jth column of B. If we consider addition and multiplication of real numbers to be our basic operations, then



the above formula can be computed in time







3
)
(n



, which is impractical for matrix sizes n of more than a
few thousand. If it so happens that A and B are sparse, then a great many of these arithmetic operations involve adding or multiplying by zero, hence are unnecessary.



The sum S, and difference D, of A and B are the




n n




matrices having




ij




th entries:



S
ij
A
B


ij
ij



and Dij Aij Bij



The scalar product of a real number x with A is denoted




xA




, and has




ij




th entry ( xA)ij x Aij . The transpose



of A, denoted







A
T





, is the matrix whose







ij
th





entry is the







ji
th





entry of A:







T


( A )
ij








A
ji





. In other words, the



rows of A are the columns of AT , and the columns of A are the rows of AT . Each of these operations can

be computed in time
(n
2
) , and just as for multiplication, their cost can be improved upon significantly





when A and B are sparse.




As one would expect, the cost of a matrix operation depends heavily on the choice of data structure used to represent the matrix operands. There are several ways to represent a matrix with real entries. The standard approach is to use a 2-dimensional n n array of doubles. The advantage of this representation is that all of the above matrix operations have a straight-forward implementation using nested loops. This project will use a very different representation however. Here you will represent a matrix as a 1-dimensional array of Lists. Each List will represent one row of the Matrix, but only the non-zero entries will be stored. Therefore List elements must store, not just the matrix entries, but the columns in which those entries reside. For example, the matrix below would have the following representation as an array of Lists.




1.0
0.0
2.0


1:
(1, 1.0)
(3, 2.0)
M3.0
0.0
0.0
Array of Lists:
2 :
(1, 3.0)
















0.0
4.0
5.0


3 :
(2, 4.0)
(3, 5.0)

















This method obviously results in a substantial space savings when the Matrix is sparse. In addition, the standard matrix operations defined above can be performed more efficiently on sparse matrices. As you will see though, the matrix operations are much more difficult to implement using this representation. The
trade-off then, is a gain in space and time efficiency for sparse matrices, at the expense of more complicated algorithms for performing standard matrix operations. Designing these algorithms in terms of our List ADT operations will constitute the majority of the work you do on this assignment.




It will be necessary to make some minor changes to your List ADT from pa1. First you must convert your List ADT from a List of ints to a List of Objects. This entails changing certain field types, declaration statements, method parameters, and return types from int to Object. The Objects referred to by these List elements will be defined in the Matrix ADT specified below. Second, it will be necessary to eliminate the List operations copy() and cat() (which was optional anyway.) All other List operations from pa1 will be retained. The equals() operation however will be altered slightly so as to override, rather than overload Object's built in equals() method. This is done by changing it's signature from boolean equals(List L), as in pa1 to public boolean equals(Object x), which is it's signature in the superclass Object. Indeed, all equals() methods in this project should carry this same signature.




File Formats




The top level client module for this project will be called Sparse.java. It will take two command line arguments giving the names of the input and output files, respectively. The input file will begin with a single line containing three integers n, a, and b, separated by spaces. The second line will be blank, and the following a lines will specify the non-zero entries of an n n matrix A. Each of these lines will contain a space separated list of three numbers: two integers and a double, giving the row, column, and value of the corresponding matrix entry. After another blank line, will follow b lines specifying the non-zero entries of an n n matrix B. For example, the two matrices






1.0
2.0
3.0
A


4.0
5.0
6.0
















7.0
8.0
9.0















are encoded by the following input file:




3 9 5




111.0

122.0

133.0

214.0

225.0

236.0

317.0

328.0




339.0




111.0

131.0

311.0

321.0

331.0










and









1.0
0.0
1.0
B


0.0
0.0
0.0
















1.0
1.0
1.0

















Your program will read an input file such as above, initialize and build the Array of Lists representation of the matrices A and B, then calculate and print the following matrices to the output file: A, B, (1.5) , + ,
+ , − , − , , and 2. The output file format is illustrated by the following example, which corresponds to the above input file.




A has 9 non-zero entries:

(1, 1.0) (2, 2.0) (3, 3.0)
(1, 4.0) (2, 5.0) (3, 6.0)
(1, 7.0) (2, 8.0) (3, 9.0)



B has 5 non-zero entries:

1: (1, 1.0) (3, 1.0)

3: (1, 1.0) (2, 1.0) (3, 1.0)




(1.5)*A =

(1, 1.5) (2, 3.0) (3, 4.5)
(1, 6.0) (2, 7.5) (3, 9.0)
(1, 10.5) (2, 12.0) (3, 13.5)



A+B =

(1, 2.0) (2, 2.0) (3, 4.0)
(1, 4.0) (2, 5.0) (3, 6.0)
(1, 8.0) (2, 9.0) (3, 10.0)



A+A =

(1, 2.0) (2, 4.0) (3, 6.0)
(1, 8.0) (2, 10.0) (3, 12.0)
(1, 14.0) (2, 16.0) (3, 18.0)



B-A =

(2, -2.0) (3, -2.0)
(1, -4.0) (2, -5.0) (3, -6.0)
(1, -6.0) (2, -7.0) (3, -8.0)



A-A =




Transpose(A) =

(1, 1.0) (2, 4.0) (3, 7.0)
(1, 2.0) (2, 5.0) (3, 8.0)
(1, 3.0) (2, 6.0) (3, 9.0)



A*B =

(1, 4.0) (2, 3.0) (3, 4.0)
(1, 10.0) (2, 6.0) (3, 10.0)
(1, 16.0) (2, 9.0) (3, 16.0)



B*B =

(1, 2.0) (2, 1.0) (3, 2.0)
(1, 2.0) (2, 1.0) (3, 2.0)



Notice that the rows are to be printed in column sorted order, and zero rows are skipped altogether. On the other hand, the input file may give the matrix entries in any order.




Matrix ADT Specifications




In addition to the main program Sparse.java and the altered List.java from pa1, you will implement a Matrix ADT in a file called Matrix.java, which defines the Matrix class. This class will contain a private inner

class (similar to Node in your List ADT) that encapsulates the column and value information corresponding to a matrix entry. You may give this inner class any name you wish, but I will refer to it here as Entry. Thus Entry will have two fields that store types int and double respectively. Entry must also contain its own equals() and toString() methods which override the corresponding methods in the Object superclass. Your Matrix class will represent a matrix as an array of Lists of Entry Objects. It is required that these Lists be maintained in column sorted order. Your Matrix ADT will export the following operations.




// Constructor

Matrix(int n) // Makes a new n x n zero Matrix. pre: n=1




// Access functions




int getSize() // Returns n, the number of rows and columns of this Matrix int getNNZ() // Returns the number of non-zero entries in this Matrix public boolean equals(Object x) // overrides Object's equals() method




// Manipulation procedures

void makeZero() // sets this Matrix to the zero state




Matrix copy()// returns a new Matrix having the same entries as this Matrix void changeEntry(int i, int j, double x)

changes ith row, jth column of this Matrix to x
pre: 1<=i<=getSize(), 1<=j<=getSize()



returns a new Matrix that is the scalar product of this Matrix with x Matrix add(Matrix M)



returns a new Matrix that is the sum of this Matrix with M
pre: getSize()==M.getSize()



returns a new Matrix that is the difference of this Matrix with M
pre: getSize()==M.getSize()



returns a new Matrix that is the transpose of this Matrix Matrix mult(Matrix M)
returns a new Matrix that is the product of this Matrix with M
pre: getSize()==M.getSize()



Other functions
public String toString() // overrides Object's toString() method




It is required that your program perform these operations efficiently. Let n be the number of rows in A, and let a and b denote the number of non-zero entries in A and B respectively. Then the worst case run times of the above functions should have the following asymptotic growth rates.




A.changeEntry():

A.copy():

A.scalarMult(x):

A.transpose():

A.add(B):

A.sub(B):

A.mult(B):

Θ( )

Θ( + )

Θ( + )

Θ( + )

Θ( + + )

Θ( + + )

Θ( 2 + ⋅ )



It will be helpful to include a private function with signature
private static double dot(List P, List Q)




that computes the vector dot product of two matrix rows represented by Lists P and Q. Use this function together with function transpose() to help implement mult(). Similar helper functions for the operations add() and sub() will also be useful, and are highly recommended.




What to Turn In




Your project will be structured in three files: Sparse.java, Matrix.java, and List.java. The main program, Sparse, will handle the input and output files and is the client of Matrix, which is itself the client of List. Note that Sparse is not itself a direct client of List, since it need not call any List operations. You will also write separate client modules ListTest.java and MatrixTest.java to test the List and Matrix ADTs in isolation. Students often ask what should be the contents of these test files. In each case, include enough calls to ADT operations to convince the grader that you did in fact test your List and Matrix ADT modules in isolation before using them in the larger project. The best way to do this is to actually use them for this purpose. At minimum they should call every public function in their respective ADT modules at least once.




Also submit a README file and a Makefile that creates an executable jar file called Sparse. Thus seven files in all will be turned in:




Sparse.java

Matrix.java

List.java

MatrixTest.java

ListTest.java

Makefile

README




Submit these to the assignment name pa3 by the due date. As always, start early and ask questions.