I think Eigen uses compressed methods to store sparse matrices. Is there any way that I can extract Triplet-format vectors of an Eigen sparse matrix in from of std::vectors?
Thanks.
More info (an example of triplet format) Triplet format of matrix :
A=
3 0 4 0
0 0 1 0
0 2 0 5
4 0 0 0
i = 1 1 2 3 3 4 // row
j = 1 3 3 2 4 1 // column
S = 3 4 1 2 5 4 // values
Simply as shown in the tutorial:
#include <Eigen/Sparse>
#include <iostream>
using namespace Eigen;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
typedef Triplet<int> Trip;
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
std::vector<Trip> trp, tmp;
// I subtracted 1 from the indices so that the output matches your question
trp.push_back(Trip(1-1,1-1,3));
trp.push_back(Trip(1-1,3-1,4));
trp.push_back(Trip(2-1,3-1,1));
trp.push_back(Trip(3-1,2-1,2));
trp.push_back(Trip(3-1,4-1,5));
trp.push_back(Trip(4-1,1-1,4));
int rows, cols;
rows = cols = 4;
SparseMatrix<int> A(rows,cols);
A.setFromTriplets(trp.begin(), trp.end());
cout << "Matrix from triplets:" << endl;
cout << A << endl;
cout << endl << "Triplets:" << endl;
cout << "Row\tCol\tVal" <<endl;
for (int k=0; k < A.outerSize(); ++k)
{
for (SparseMatrix<int>::InnerIterator it(A,k); it; ++it)
{
cout << 1+it.row() << "\t"; // row index
cout << 1+it.col() << "\t"; // col index (here it is equal to k)
cout << it.value() << endl;
}
}
return 0;
}