# mx.symbol.take¶

## Description¶

Takes elements from an input array along the given axis.

This function slices the input array along a particular axis with the provided indices.

Given data tensor of rank r >= 1, and indices tensor of rank q, gather entries of the axis dimension of data (by default outer-most one as axis=0) indexed by indices, and concatenates them in an output tensor of rank q + (r - 1).

Example:

x = [4.  5.  6.]

// Trivial case, take the second element along the first axis.

take(x, [1]) = [ 5. ]

// The other trivial case, axis=-1, take the third element along the first axis

take(x, [3], axis=-1, mode='clip') = [ 6. ]

x = [[ 1.,  2.],
[ 3.,  4.],
[ 5.,  6.]]

// In this case we will get rows 0 and 1, then 1 and 2. Along axis 0

take(x, [[0,1],[1,2]]) = [[[ 1.,  2.],
[ 3.,  4.]],

[[ 3.,  4.],
[ 5.,  6.]]]

// In this case we will get rows 0 and 1, then 1 and 2 (calculated by wrapping around).
// Along axis 1

take(x, [[0, 3], [-1, -2]], axis=1, mode='wrap') = [[[ 1.  2.]
[ 2.  1.]]

[[ 3.  4.]
[ 4.  3.]]

[[ 5.  6.]
[ 6.  5.]]]

The storage type of take output depends upon the input storage type:

- take(default, default) = default
- take(csr, default, axis=0) = csr

## Usage¶

mx.symbol.take(...)

## Arguments¶

Argument

Description

a

NDArray-or-Symbol.

The input array.

indices

NDArray-or-Symbol.

The indices of the values to be extracted.

axis

int, optional, default=’0’.

The axis of input array to be taken.For input tensor of rank r, it could be in the range of [-r, r-1]

mode

{‘clip’, ‘raise’, ‘wrap’},optional, default=’clip’.

Specify how out-of-bound indices bahave. Default is “clip”. “clip” means clip to the range. So, if all indices mentioned are too large, they are replaced by the index that addresses the last element along an axis. “wrap” means to wrap around. “raise” means to raise an error when index out of range.

name

string, optional.

Name of the resulting symbol.

## Value¶

out The result mx.symbol