megalap 0.1.1

Native dense LAP and windowed cleanup kernels for point-to-grid assignment.

megalap

megalap is a Python package with a native C++ core and nanobind bindings for point-to-grid assignment.

The public API has three functions:

1. linear_sum_assignment(cost_matrix)
2. window_cleanup(points, initial_assignment, rows, cols, budget_seconds, ...)
3. snap_to_grid(points, width=None, height=None, cleanup_seconds=30.0, ...)

Install

python -m pip install megalap

To run the matplotlib example from the source tree:

python -m pip install -e '.[examples]'
python examples/basic_usage.py

API

linear_sum_assignment(cost_matrix)

Solve a dense square linear assignment problem with the native C++ Jonker-Volgenant implementation.

Returns:

• row_ind: int64 NumPy array of shape (n,)
• col_ind: int64 NumPy array of shape (n,)
• total_cost: Python float

window_cleanup(points, initial_assignment, rows, cols, budget_seconds, ...)

Run the overlapping-window cleanup kernel using native C++ threads.

Key options:

• window_size=6
• num_threads=None to use std::thread::hardware_concurrency()
• num_threads=1 to force serial execution
• fixed_suffix_count to keep a suffix of target cells fixed

Returns a dict with:

• assignment
• passes_completed
• elapsed_s
• final_cost

snap_to_grid(points, width=None, height=None, cleanup_seconds=30.0, ...)

High-level wrapper for snapping a 2D point cloud onto a destination grid.

Behavior:

• chooses a destination grid automatically when width and height are omitted
• prefers exact rectangular sizes with aspect ratio in [1:1, 2:1]
• falls back to a near-square enclosing grid in that same band when exact factors do not exist
• pads with edge ghost points when the chosen grid has more cells than real points
• runs the native LAP solver and 30s of cleanup by default
• set cleanup_seconds=0.0 to disable cleanup

Returns:

• grid_points: (n, 2) float64 NumPy array of assigned destination points in original point order
• assignment: (n,) int64 NumPy array of destination-grid indices in original point order
• (width, height): destination-grid size tuple

More

• Source repository: https://github.com/kylemcdonald/megalap
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/kylemcdonald/megalap/issues
• Example scripts: https://github.com/kylemcdonald/megalap/tree/main/examples