[Numpy] Add sort op

python/mxnet/ndarray/numpy/_op.py

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
            'arctan2', 'sin', 'cos', 'tan', 'sinh', 'cosh', 'tanh', 'log10', 'sqrt', 'cbrt', 'abs',
            'absolute', 'exp', 'expm1', 'arcsin', 'arccos', 'arctan', 'sign', 'log', 'degrees', 'log2',
            'log1p', 'rint', 'radians', 'reciprocal', 'square', 'negative', 'fix', 'ceil', 'floor', 'histogram',
-           'trunc', 'logical_not', 'arcsinh', 'arccosh', 'arctanh', 'argsort', 'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace',
+           'trunc', 'logical_not', 'arcsinh', 'arccosh', 'arctanh', 'argsort', 'sort',
+           'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace',
            'logspace', 'expand_dims', 'tile', 'arange', 'array_split', 'split', 'vsplit', 'concatenate', 'append',
            'stack', 'vstack', 'row_stack', 'column_stack', 'hstack', 'dstack',
            'average', 'mean', 'maximum', 'minimum',
@@ -1224,6 +1225,50 @@ def argsort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
     return _npi.argsort(data=a, axis=axis, is_ascend=True, dtype='int64')
 
 
+@set_module('mxnet.ndarray.numpy')
+def sort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
+    """
+    Return a sorted copy of an array.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    a : ndarray
+        Array to be sorted.
+    axis : int or None, optional
+        Axis along which to sort.  The default is -1 (the last axis). If None,
+        the flattened array is used.
+    kind : string, optional
+        This argument can take any string, but it does not have any effect on the
+        final result.
+    order : str or list of str, optional
+        Not supported yet, will raise NotImplementedError if not None.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    sorted_array : ndarray
+        Array of the same type and shape as `a`.
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    This operator does not support different sorting algorithms.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> a = np.array([[1,4],[3,1]])
+    >>> np.sort(a)                # sort along the last axis
+    array([[1, 4],
+           [1, 3]])
+    >>> np.sort(a, axis=None)     # sort the flattened array
+    array([1, 1, 3, 4])
+    >>> np.sort(a, axis=0)        # sort along the first axis
+    array([[1, 1],
+           [3, 4]])
+    """
+    if order is not None:
+        raise NotImplementedError("order not supported here")
+    return _npi.sort(data=a, axis=axis, is_ascend=True)
+
+
 @set_module('mxnet.ndarray.numpy')
 def tensordot(a, b, axes=2):
     r"""

python/mxnet/numpy/multiarray.py

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
            'sqrt', 'cbrt', 'abs', 'absolute', 'exp', 'expm1', 'arcsin', 'arccos', 'arctan', 'sign', 'log',
            'degrees', 'log2', 'log1p', 'rint', 'radians', 'reciprocal', 'square', 'negative', 'histogram',
            'fix', 'ceil', 'floor', 'trunc', 'logical_not', 'arcsinh', 'arccosh', 'arctanh', 'append', 'argsort',
-           'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace', 'logspace', 'expand_dims', 'tile', 'arange', 'array_split',
+           'sort', 'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace', 'logspace', 'expand_dims', 'tile', 'arange', 'array_split',
            'split', 'vsplit', 'concatenate', 'stack', 'vstack', 'row_stack', 'column_stack', 'hstack', 'dstack',
            'average', 'mean', 'maximum', 'minimum', 'swapaxes', 'clip', 'argmax', 'argmin', 'std', 'var',
            'indices', 'copysign', 'ravel', 'unravel_index', 'hanning', 'hamming', 'blackman', 'flip', 'flipud',
@@ -1531,13 +1531,13 @@ def pick(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         raise AttributeError('mxnet.numpy.ndarray object has no attribute pick')
 
-    def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def sort(self, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):  # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
         """Convenience fluent method for :py:func:`sort`.
 
         The arguments are the same as for :py:func:`sort`, with
         this array as data.
         """
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        raise sort(self, axis=axis, kind=kind, order=order)
 
     def topk(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """Convenience fluent method for :py:func:`topk`.
@@ -4644,6 +4644,48 @@ def argsort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
     return _mx_nd_np.argsort(a, axis=axis, kind=kind, order=order)
 
 
+@set_module('mxnet.numpy')
+def sort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
+    """
+    Return a sorted copy of an array.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    a : ndarray
+        Array to be sorted.
+    axis : int or None, optional
+        Axis along which to sort.  The default is -1 (the last axis). If None,
+        the flattened array is used.
+    kind : string, optional
+        This argument can take any string, but it does not have any effect on the
+        final result.
+    order : str or list of str, optional
+        Not supported yet, will raise NotImplementedError if not None.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    sorted_array : ndarray
+        Array of the same type and shape as `a`.
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    This operator does not support different sorting algorithms.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> a = np.array([[1,4],[3,1]])
+    >>> np.sort(a)                # sort along the last axis
+    array([[1, 4],
+           [1, 3]])
+    >>> np.sort(a, axis=None)     # sort the flattened array
+    array([1, 1, 3, 4])
+    >>> np.sort(a, axis=0)        # sort along the first axis
+    array([[1, 1],
+           [3, 4]])
+    """
+    return _mx_nd_np.sort(a, axis=axis, kind=kind, order=order)
+
+
 @set_module('mxnet.numpy')
 def tensordot(a, b, axes=2):
     r"""

python/mxnet/numpy_dispatch_protocol.py

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ def _run_with_array_ufunc_proto(*args, **kwargs):
     'around',
     'round',
     'argsort',
+    'sort',
     'append',
     'broadcast_arrays',
     'broadcast_to',

python/mxnet/symbol/numpy/_symbol.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
            'sin', 'cos', 'tan', 'sinh', 'cosh', 'tanh', 'log10', 'sqrt', 'cbrt', 'abs', 'absolute', 'exp',
            'expm1', 'arcsin', 'arccos', 'arctan', 'sign', 'log', 'degrees', 'log2', 'log1p',
            'rint', 'radians', 'reciprocal', 'square', 'negative', 'fix', 'ceil', 'floor', 'histogram',
-           'trunc', 'logical_not', 'arcsinh', 'arccosh', 'arctanh', 'argsort', 'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace',
+           'trunc', 'logical_not', 'arcsinh', 'arccosh', 'arctanh', 'argsort', 'sort', 'tensordot', 'eye', 'linspace',
            'logspace', 'expand_dims', 'tile', 'arange', 'array_split', 'split', 'vsplit', 'concatenate', 'append',
            'stack', 'vstack', 'row_stack', 'column_stack', 'hstack', 'dstack',
            'average', 'mean', 'maximum', 'minimum',
@@ -472,13 +472,13 @@ def pick(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         raise AttributeError('_Symbol object has no attribute pick')
 
-    def sort(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def sort(self, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):  # pylint: disable=arguments-differ
         """Convenience fluent method for :py:func:`sort`.
 
         The arguments are the same as for :py:func:`sort`, with
         this array as data.
         """
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        raise sort(self, axis=axis, kind=kind, order=order)
 
     def topk(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """Convenience fluent method for :py:func:`topk`.
@@ -1625,6 +1625,39 @@ def argsort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
     return _npi.argsort(data=a, axis=axis, is_ascend=True, dtype='int64')
 
 
+@set_module('mxnet.symbol.numpy')
+def sort(a, axis=-1, kind=None, order=None):
+    """
+    Return a sorted copy of an array.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    a : _Symbol
+        Array to be sorted.
+    axis : int or None, optional
+        Axis along which to sort.  The default is -1 (the last axis). If None,
+        the flattened array is used.
+    kind : string, optional
+        This argument can take any string, but it does not have any effect on the
+        final result.
+    order : str or list of str, optional
+        Not supported yet, will raise NotImplementedError if not None.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    sorted_array : ndarray
+        Array of the same type and shape as `a`.
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    This operator does not support different sorting algorithms.
+    """
+    if order is not None:
+        raise NotImplementedError("order is not supported yet...")
+
+    return _npi.sort(data=a, axis=axis, is_ascend=True)
+
+
 @set_module('mxnet.symbol.numpy')
 def tensordot(a, b, axes=2):
     r"""

src/operator/tensor/ordering_op.cc

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ NNVM_REGISTER_OP(_backward_topk)
 });
 
 NNVM_REGISTER_OP(sort)
+.add_alias("_npi_sort")
 .describe(R"code(Returns a sorted copy of an input array along the given axis.
 
 Examples::

tests/python/unittest/test_numpy_interoperability.py

@@ -797,6 +797,17 @@ def _add_workload_argsort():
         OpArgMngr.add_workload('argsort', a, axis)
 
 
+def _add_workload_sort():
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.uniform(0, 100), axis=None)
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.uniform(0, 100, size=()), axis=None)
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.uniform(0, 100, size=(2, 3, 4)), axis=None)
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.uniform(0, 100, size=(4, 3, 0)), axis=None)
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.randint(0, 100, size=(2, 3, 4)), axis=-1)
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.randint(0, 100, size=(4, 3, 5)), axis=-1, kind='mergesort')
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.randint(0, 100, size=(2, 3, 4)), axis=None, kind='quicksort')
+    OpArgMngr.add_workload('sort', np.random.uniform(0, 100, size=(4, 3, 0)))
+
+
 def _add_workload_broadcast_arrays(array_pool):
     OpArgMngr.add_workload('broadcast_arrays', array_pool['4x1'], array_pool['1x2'])
 
@@ -1782,6 +1793,7 @@ def _prepare_workloads():
     _add_workload_around()
     _add_workload_round()
     _add_workload_argsort()
+    _add_workload_sort()
     _add_workload_append()
     _add_workload_bincount()
     _add_workload_broadcast_arrays(array_pool)

tests/python/unittest/test_numpy_op.py

@@ -1417,6 +1417,62 @@ def hybrid_forward(self, F, x):
             assert_almost_equal(mx_out.asnumpy(), np_out, rtol=1e-5, atol=1e-6, use_broadcast=False)
 
 
+@with_seed()
+@use_np
+def test_np_sort():
+    class TestSort(HybridBlock):
+        def __init__(self, axis, kind):
+            super(TestSort, self).__init__()
+            self._axis = axis
+            self._kind = kind
+
+        def hybrid_forward(self, F, x, *args, **kwargs):
+            return F.np.sort(x, self._axis, self._kind)
+
+    dtypes = [np.int8, np.uint8, np.int32, np.int64, np.float32, np.float64]
+    shapes = [
+        (),
+        (1,),
+        (5,),
+        (4, 3),
+        (3, 5),
+        (4, 4),
+        (4, 5),
+        (5, 5),
+        (5, 6),
+        (6, 6),
+        (0, 1),
+        (6, 5, 6),
+        (2, 3, 3, 4),
+        (4, 2, 1, 2),
+        (0, 5, 3, 3),
+        (5, 0, 3, 3),
+        (3, 3, 0, 0),
+    ]
+    flags = [True, False]
+    # Not include 'stable' as some old numpy versions do not support it
+    kind_list = ['quicksort', 'mergesort', 'heapsort']
+
+    for dtype, shape, hybridize, kind in itertools.product(dtypes, shapes, flags, kind_list):
+        a = np.random.uniform(low=0, high=100, size=shape, dtype='float64').astype(dtype)
+        axis_list = list(range(len(shape)))
+        axis_list.append(None)
+        axis_list.append(-1)
+        for axis in axis_list:
+            test = TestSort(axis, kind)
+            if hybridize:
+                test.hybridize()
+            if axis == -1 and len(shape)==0:
+                continue
+            ret = test(a)
+            expected_ret = _np.sort(a.asnumpy(), axis, kind)
+            assert_almost_equal(ret.asnumpy(), expected_ret, atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-5, use_broadcast=False)
+
+            # check imperative again
+            ret = np.sort(a, axis, kind)
+            assert_almost_equal(ret.asnumpy(), expected_ret, atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-5, use_broadcast=False)
+
+
 @with_seed()
 @use_np
 def test_np_squeeze():