Transferring a matrix from Mathematica to Julia

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What is the recommended ways to transfer a matrix generated in Mathematica to Julia and benefits/disadvantages? My workflow is the following:

  1. generate matrices in Mathematica
  2. transfer the matrices to Julia (via some standardized data format like MatrixMarket,…)
  3. use those in further applications/packages
  4. going back and forth

Some other methods that I am considering is:

  • call directly the function in 3 using Mathematica ExternalEvaluate
  • or call 1 using Julia’s interoperability

I guess interoperability cannot be much more seamless than this. If you have any other methods please let me know.

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If I’m not mistaken Mathematica supports HDF5. Julia does as well, see HDF5.jl. So you could export your matrix into a HDF5 file and load it in Julia.

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Frankly, I would just use CSV, with the standard library DelimitedFiles on the Julia end.

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Thanks guys. My matrix is sparse and big so I guess I will stick to best data format for these.