a = np.arange(6).reshape(2,3) + 10 >>> a array([[10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15]]) >>> np.argmax(a) 5 >>> np.argmax(a, axis=0) array([1, 1, 1]) >>> np.argmax(a, axis=1) array([2, 2]) Indexes of the maximal elements of a N-dimensional array: >>> ind = np.unravel_index(np.argmax(a, axis=None), a.shape) >>> ind (1, 2) >>> a[ind] 15 >>> b = np.arange(6) >>> b[1] = 5 >>> b array([0, 5, 2, 3, 4, 5]) >>> np.argmax(b) # Only the first occurrence is returned. 1 >>> x = np.array([[4,2,3], [1,0,3]]) >>> index_array = np.argmax(x, axis=-1) >>> # Same as np.amax(x, axis=-1, keepdims=True) >>> np.take_along_axis(x, np.expand_dims(index_array, axis=-1), axis=-1) array([[4], [3]]) >>> # Same as np.amax(x, axis=-1) >>> np.take_along_axis(x, np.expand_dims(index_array, axis=-1), axis=-1).squeeze(axis=-1) array([4, 3]) Setting `keepdims` to `True`, >>> x = np.arange(24).reshape((2, 3, 4)) >>> res = np.argmax(x, axis=1, keepdims=True) >>> res.shape (2, 1, 4) r”