package com.thealgorithms.misc; /** * Utility class for calculating the sparsity of a matrix. * A matrix is considered sparse if a large proportion of its elements are zero. * Typically, if more than 2/3 of the elements are zero, the matrix is considered sparse. * * Sparsity is defined as: * sparsity = (number of zero elements) / (total number of elements) * * This can lead to significant computational optimizations. */ public final class Sparsity { private Sparsity() { } /** * Calculates the sparsity of a given 2D matrix. * * @param matrix the input matrix * @return the sparsity value between 0 and 1 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the matrix is null, empty, or contains empty rows */ public static double sparsity(double[][] matrix) { if (matrix == null || matrix.length == 0 || matrix[0].length == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Matrix cannot be null or empty"); } int zeroCount = 0; int totalElements = 0; // Count the number of zero elements and total elements for (double[] row : matrix) { for (double value : row) { if (value == 0.0) { zeroCount++; } totalElements++; } } // Return sparsity as a double return (double) zeroCount / totalElements; } }