Add specification for the __binsparse__
protocol
#912
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This pull request adds the specification for the binsparse protocol (closes #840).
@willow-ahrens @BenBrock from the binsparse team.
@mtsokol @ivirshup for
scipy.sparse
@leofang for
cupyx.sparse
@pearu for
torch.sparse
@jakevdp for JAX/TensorFlow
Introduction
The binsparse protocol is meant to be a specification for on-disk storage of ND sparse arrays. It requires just two things from a back-end implementing it:
a. A way to store 1D and 2D (dense) arrays (we have this via DLPack)
b. A way to parse and interpret JSON (we have this via the
json
module)Psuedocode implementation
Here's a psuedocode example using two libraries,
xp1
andxp2
, both supporting sparse arrays:Compare this to the following example converting SciPy COO arrays to PyData/Sparse:
Parallel implementation in
sparse
: pydata/sparse#764Parallel implementation in SciPy: scipy/scipy#22553