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Programmatic construction of sparse symbolic arrays #1319

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johannesnauta opened this issue Oct 21, 2024 · 0 comments
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Programmatic construction of sparse symbolic arrays #1319

johannesnauta opened this issue Oct 21, 2024 · 0 comments

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As mentioned in this discussion on Discourse, I am trying to programmatically construct symbols using sparse arrays. That is to say, I would like to programmatically generate/define a sparse array for which the non-zero entries are of type Sym, that can then subsequently be used in symbolic calculations and or other modules (e.g., ModelingToolkit.jl/DifferentialEquations.jl).

In general, I would be happy to use existing sparse array packages, like SparseArrays, and convert the sparse arrays to symbolic ones, i.e. something along the lines of

julia> a = sprand(10, 10, 0.1)
julia> nzrows, nzcols, nzvals = findnz(a)
julia> for (row,col) in zip(nzrows,nzcols)
           ## Make symbols A[row,col] B[row,col]
       end
julia> A*B
(A*B)[Base.OneTo(10),Base.OneTo(10)]

Is this possible? If yes, how? If not, how should I proceed? Note that the above example is just an illustrative example of what I would like to achieve. My personal use-case is to use sparse arrays as input variables of ODESystems (see the mentioned discussion), but in general I believe creating sparse array symbols that support sparse array methods can perhaps be useful.

If this is not the right place, or if anything is unclear, please let me know. Thanks a lot.

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