mxnet.ndarray.argsort¶

mxnet.ndarray.argsort(data=None, axis=_Null, is_ascend=_Null, dtype=_Null, out=None, name=None, **kwargs)¶

Returns the indices that would sort an input array along the given axis.

This function performs sorting along the given axis and returns an array of indices having same shape as an input array that index data in sorted order.

Examples:

x = [[ 0.3,  0.2,  0.4],
     [ 0.1,  0.3,  0.2]]

// sort along axis -1
argsort(x) = [[ 1.,  0.,  2.],
              [ 0.,  2.,  1.]]

// sort along axis 0
argsort(x, axis=0) = [[ 1.,  0.,  1.]
                      [ 0.,  1.,  0.]]

// flatten and then sort
argsort(x) = [ 3.,  1.,  5.,  0.,  4.,  2.]

Defined in src/operator/tensor/ordering_op.cc:L177

Parameters

data (NDArray) – The input array
axis (int or None, optional, default='-1') – Axis along which to sort the input tensor. If not given, the flattened array is used. Default is -1.
is_ascend (boolean, optional, default=1) – Whether to sort in ascending or descending order.
dtype ({'float16', 'float32', 'float64', 'int32', 'uint8'},optional, default='float32') – DType of the output indices. It is only valid when ret_typ is “indices” or “both”. An error will be raised if the selected data type cannot precisely represent the indices.
out (NDArray, optional) – The output NDArray to hold the result.

Returns

out – The output of this function.

Return type

NDArray or list of NDArrays