number of terms in the contraction. * 'greedy' An algorithm that chooses the best pair contraction at each step. Effectively, this algorithm searches the largest inner, Hadamard, and then outer products at each step. Scales cubically with the number of terms in the contraction. Equivalent to the 'optimal' path for most contractions. Default is 'greedy'. Returns ------- path : list of tuples A list representation of the einsum path. string_repr : str A printable representation of the einsum path. Notes ----- The resulting path indicates which terms of the input contraction should be contracted first, the result of this contraction is then appended to the end of the contraction list. This list can then be iterated over until all intermediate contractions are complete. See Also -------- einsum, linalg.multi_dot Examples -------- We can begin with a chain dot example. In this case, it is optimal to contract the ``b`` and ``c`` tensors first as represented by the first element of the path ``(1, 2)``. The resulting tensor is added to the end of the contraction and the remaining contraction ``(0, 1)`` is then completed. >>> np.random.seed(123) >>> a = np.random.rand(2, 2) >>> b = np.random.rand(2, 5) >>> c = np.random.rand(5, 2) >>> path_info = np.einsum_path('ij,jk,kl->il', a, b, c, optimize='greedy') >>> print(path_info[0]) ['einsum_path', (1, 2), (0, 1)] >>> print(path_info[1]) Complete contraction: ij,jk,kl->il # may vary Naive scaling: 4 Optimized scaling: 3 Naive FLOP count: 1.600e+02 Optimized FLOP count: 5.600e+01 Theoretical speedup: 2.857 Largest intermediate: 4.000e+00 elements ------------------------------------------------------------------------- scaling current remaining ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 kl,jk->jl ij,jl->il 3 jl,ij->il il->il A more complex index transformation example. >>> I = np.random.rand(10, 10, 10, 10) >>> C = np.random.rand(10, 10) >>> path_info = np.einsum_path('ea,fb,abcd,gc,hd->efgh', C, C, I, C, C, ... optimize='greedy') >>> print(path_info[0]) ['einsum_path', (0, 2), (0, 3), (0, 2), (0, 1)] >>> print(path_info[1]) Complete contraction: ea,fb,abcd,gc,hd->efgh # may vary Naive scaling: 8 Optimized scaling: 5 Naive FLOP count: 8.000e+08 Optimized FLOP count: 8.000e+05 Theoretical speedup: 1000.000 Largest intermediate: 1.000e+04 elements -------------------------------------------------------------------------- scaling current remaining -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 abcd,ea->bcde fb,gc,hd,bcde->efgh 5 bcde,fb->cdef gc,hd,cdef->efgh 5 cdef,gc->defg hd,defg->efgh 5 defg,hd->efgh efgh->efgh TrÅ