我需要写一个加权版的random。选择(列表中的每个元素有不同的被选择的概率)。这是我想到的:
def weightedChoice(choices):
"""Like random.choice, but each element can have a different chance of
being selected.
choices can be any iterable containing iterables with two items each.
Technically, they can have more than two items, the rest will just be
ignored. The first item is the thing being chosen, the second item is
its weight. The weights can be any numeric values, what matters is the
relative differences between them.
"""
space = {}
current = 0
for choice, weight in choices:
if weight > 0:
space[current] = choice
current += weight
rand = random.uniform(0, current)
for key in sorted(space.keys() + [current]):
if rand < key:
return choice
choice = space[key]
return None
这个函数对我来说太复杂了，而且很丑。我希望这里的每个人都能提供一些改进的建议或其他方法。对我来说，效率没有代码的整洁和可读性重要。
我需要做这样的事情非常快速非常简单，从搜索的想法，我终于建立了这个模板。其思想是以json的形式从api接收加权值，这里是由dict模拟的。
然后将其转换为一个列表，其中每个值都与它的权重成比例地重复，只需使用random。选择从列表中选择一个值。
我尝试了10次、100次和1000次迭代。分布似乎很稳定。
def weighted_choice(weighted_dict):
"""Input example: dict(apples=60, oranges=30, pineapples=10)"""
weight_list = []
for key in weighted_dict.keys():
weight_list += [key] * weighted_dict[key]
return random.choice(weight_list)
下面是Python 3.6标准库中包含的版本:
import itertools as _itertools
import bisect as _bisect
class Random36(random.Random):
"Show the code included in the Python 3.6 version of the Random class"
def choices(self, population, weights=None, *, cum_weights=None, k=1):
"""Return a k sized list of population elements chosen with replacement.
If the relative weights or cumulative weights are not specified,
the selections are made with equal probability.
"""
random = self.random
if cum_weights is None:
if weights is None:
_int = int
total = len(population)
return [population[_int(random() * total)] for i in range(k)]
cum_weights = list(_itertools.accumulate(weights))
elif weights is not None:
raise TypeError('Cannot specify both weights and cumulative weights')
if len(cum_weights) != len(population):
raise ValueError('The number of weights does not match the population')
bisect = _bisect.bisect
total = cum_weights[-1]
return [population[bisect(cum_weights, random() * total)] for i in range(k)]
来源:https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/random.py l340
将权重排列成a
累积分布。
使用random.random()来选择一个随机的
浮点0.0 <= x < total。
搜索
用等分法进行分布。二等分的
如http://docs.python.org/dev/library/bisect.html#other-examples中的示例所示。
from random import random
from bisect import bisect
def weighted_choice(choices):
values, weights = zip(*choices)
total = 0
cum_weights = []
for w in weights:
total += w
cum_weights.append(total)
x = random() * total
i = bisect(cum_weights, x)
return values[i]
>>> weighted_choice([("WHITE",90), ("RED",8), ("GREEN",2)])
'WHITE'
如果需要做出多个选择，可以将其分成两个函数，一个用于构建累积权重，另一个用于对随机点进行等分。
这取决于你想对分布进行多少次抽样。
假设要对分布进行K次抽样。当n是分布中的项数时，每次使用np.random.choice()的时间复杂度为O(K(n + log(n)))。
在我的例子中，我需要对相同的分布进行多次采样，阶数为10^3其中n阶数为10^6。我使用了下面的代码，它预先计算了累积分布，并在O(log(n))中对其进行采样。总体时间复杂度为O(n+K*log(n))。
import numpy as np
n,k = 10**6,10**3
# Create dummy distribution
a = np.array([i+1 for i in range(n)])
p = np.array([1.0/n]*n)
cfd = p.cumsum()
for _ in range(k):
x = np.random.uniform()
idx = cfd.searchsorted(x, side='right')
sampled_element = a[idx]
为random.choice()提供一个预先加权的列表:
解决方案和测试:
import random
options = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
weights = [1, 2, 5, 2]
weighted_options = [[opt]*wgt for opt, wgt in zip(options, weights)]
weighted_options = [opt for sublist in weighted_options for opt in sublist]
print(weighted_options)
# test
counts = {c: 0 for c in options}
for x in range(10000):
counts[random.choice(weighted_options)] += 1
for opt, wgt in zip(options, weights):
wgt_r = counts[opt] / 10000 * sum(weights)
print(opt, counts[opt], wgt, wgt_r)
输出:
['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'd']
a 1025 1 1.025
b 1948 2 1.948
c 5019 5 5.019
d 2008 2 2.008
