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Great question! Your per-timestep loop is indeed a classic bottleneck here—Python loops are slow when dealing with large datasets, but we've got several solid ways to speed this up. Let's walk through the most effective approaches:

The biggest win comes from ditching the Python for loop over timesteps entirely and letting numpy handle all calculations in parallel via broadcasting. Here's how to rewrite the time-step matching logic to work with the entire Int3det tensor at once:

# Reshape tensors to support broadcasting
matrix3pol_reshaped = matrix3pol[:, :, np.newaxis, :]  # Shape: (xpdens, ypdens, 1, 3)
int3det_reshaped = Int3det.values[np.newaxis, np.newaxis, :, :]  # Shape: (1, 1, N_timesteps, 3)

# Compute norm differences for ALL timesteps in one go
norm_diff = np.linalg.norm(matrix3pol_reshaped - int3det_reshaped, axis=-1)  # Shape: (xpdens, ypdens, N_timesteps)

# Find the flat index of the minimum norm for each timestep
flat_indices = np.argmin(norm_diff.reshape(-1, norm_diff.shape[-1]), axis=0)

# Convert flat indices back to theta/phi indices
indices3 = np.unravel_index(flat_indices, matrix3pol[:, :, 0].shape)

# Populate the result matrix
Int3res[:, 0] = thetarange[indices3[0]]
Int3res[:, 1] = phirange[indices3[1]]

This works because numpy's underlying C implementation handles the bulk of the computation without Python loop overhead—this alone can cut runtime by an order of magnitude or more for large N_timesteps.

Since we only care about finding the minimum norm (not the actual norm value), we can skip the square root operation entirely by working with squared norms. This reduces computation time without changing the final argmin result:

# Precompute squared norms for the lookup table
matrix_norm_sq = np.sum(matrix3pol ** 2, axis=-1)  # Shape: (xpdens, ypdens)
# Precompute squared norms for each timestep's intensity vector
int3det_norm_sq = np.sum(Int3det.values ** 2, axis=1)  # Shape: (N_timesteps,)
# Compute dot products between lookup table vectors and timestep vectors
dot_product = np.tensordot(matrix3pol, Int3det.values.T, axes=([2], [0]))  # Shape: (xpdens, ypdens, N_timesteps)

# Calculate squared norm differences using the identity: ||a-b||² = ||a||² + ||b||² - 2a·b
norm_sq_diff = matrix_norm_sq[:, :, np.newaxis] + int3det_norm_sq[np.newaxis, np.newaxis, :] - 2 * dot_product

# Find minimum indices (same result as using actual norms)
flat_indices = np.argmin(norm_sq_diff.reshape(-1, norm_sq_diff.shape[-1]), axis=0)
indices3 = np.unravel_index(flat_indices, matrix3pol[:, :, 0].shape)

Int3res[:, 0] = thetarange[indices3[0]]
Int3res[:, 1] = phirange[indices3[1]]

Combine this with the vectorization from approach 1 for the fastest possible pure-numpy solution.

If your N_timesteps is so large that vectorization uses too much RAM, you can use Numba to compile your loop into optimized machine code. This eliminates Python loop overhead while keeping a memory-friendly per-timestep approach:

from numba import jit

@jit(nopython=True)
def find_best_angles_numba(thetarange, phirange, matrix3pol, int3det_values, int3res):
    xpdens, ypdens, _ = matrix3pol.shape
    n_timesteps = int3det_values.shape[0]
    for tstep in range(n_timesteps):
        current_int = int3det_values[tstep]
        min_norm = np.inf
        best_theta_idx = 0
        best_phi_idx = 0
        for i in range(xpdens):
            for j in range(ypdens):
                diff = matrix3pol[i,j] - current_int
                norm = np.linalg.norm(diff)
                if norm < min_norm:
                    min_norm = norm
                    best_theta_idx = i
                    best_phi_idx = j
        int3res[tstep, 0] = thetarange[best_theta_idx]
        int3res[tstep, 1] = phirange[best_phi_idx]
    return int3res

# Run the optimized function
find_best_angles_numba(thetarange, phirange, matrix3pol, Int3det.values, Int3res)

The nopython=True flag tells Numba to compile the function to pure machine code—no Python interpreter involved during execution.

If you have multiple CPU cores available, you can split the timestep workload across cores using tools like joblib:

from joblib import Parallel, delayed

def process_single_timestep(tstep):
    current_int = Int3det.values[tstep]
    norm_diff = np.linalg.norm(matrix3pol - current_int, axis=-1)
    idx = np.unravel_index(np.argmin(norm_diff), matrix3pol[:, :, 0].shape)
    return (thetarange[idx[0]], phirange[idx[1]])

# Process all timesteps in parallel (use all available cores with n_jobs=-1)
results = Parallel(n_jobs=-1)(delayed(process_single_timestep)(t) for t in range(len(Int3det)))

# Unpack results into the output matrix
Int3res[:, 0], Int3res[:, 1] = zip(*results)

This is a good middle ground if vectorization uses too much RAM but you still want to leverage multiple cores.

If you don't need pixel-perfect angle precision, you can first perform a coarse search to narrow down the angle range, then run a fine search only in that region. For example:

1. Generate a smaller lookup table with xpdens=30 and ypdens=60
2. Find the rough theta/phi indices from the coarse table
3. Generate a fine-grained lookup table around those indices
4. Run the matching on the small fine table

This cuts down the total number of norm calculations significantly.

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