⚡ Bolt: optimize topoplot grid interpolation

[suraj-ranganath]

• 💡 What: Optimized the griddata_v4 function in src/eegprep/functions/sigprocfunc/topoplot.py by replacing a double-nested Python loop with a vectorized NumPy implementation using broadcasting and matrix multiplication (@).
• 🎯 Why: The previous implementation iterated over every query point in the grid (e.g., 67x67), which is extremely slow in Python. Shifting this to NumPy broadcasting and BLAS matrix multiplication significantly improves performance.
• 📊 Impact: Measured a speedup of ~2.6x to ~4.8x for the griddata_v4 function.
• 🔬 Measurement: Verified using a temporary benchmark script tools/benchmark_topoplot.py (deleted before submission) and confirmed no regressions with uv run pytest tests/test_topoplot.py.
• 📓 Journal: Updated .jules/bolt.md with learnings from this optimization.

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Code review

• Overall assessment: Safe to merge. The vectorization is mathematically equivalent to the original nested loop.
• Highest-risk area: numerical equivalence of the Green's-function evaluation at query points.
• Merge recommendation: Safe to merge.

Blocking

None.

Important

None.

Nits

• .jules/bolt.md (added): this is an agent journal artifact rather than product code. It's harmless, but confirm it's intentional to check it into the repo history rather than keeping it as a local working note.

Test gaps

None. tests/test_topoplot.py already exercises the changed path well: test_basic_interpolation, test_interpolation_finite_results, test_zero_distance_handling (the d == 0 branch), test_collinear_points, and the MATLAB parity tests (test_parity_single_component_noplot, test_parity_multiple_components, test_parity_gridscale_32) all cover griddata_v4 output values, so a numerical regression from this change would be caught. Note: I was unable to run the suite in this environment (Bash approval restricted), so I verified equivalence by analysis rather than execution.

EEGLAB parity notes

None. The biharmonic-spline Green's function d²·(log(d) − 1) and the zero-distance handling are preserved exactly, matching MATLAB's gdatav4.

Analysis detail

The rewrite is correct and equivalent to the prior loop:

• Distances: d = |q[:, :, None] − xy[None, None, :]| produces the same per-query-point distances (shape (m, n, k)) that the loop computed one (i, j) at a time via xq[i,j] + 1j*yq[i,j] − xy.ravel().
• Green's function + zero handling: (d**2) * (log(d) − 1) under errstate(divide/invalid='ignore') followed by g[d == 0] = 0 reproduces the loop's g[d == 0] = 0 fix for coincident points.
• Reduction: g @ weights contracts the trailing electrode axis with weights (shape (k,)), yielding vq of shape (m, n) — identical to the per-cell np.dot(g, weights).
• dtype: g @ weights is real-valued (from np.abs and a real weights), and dropping vq = np.zeros_like(xq) actually avoids a latent dtype pitfall — if xq were ever integer, the old code would have truncated results; the new code always returns float.
• Memory: for a 67×67 grid and ~64 electrodes the intermediate g is ~287K floats — negligible for realistic EEG montages.

[suraj-ranganath]

🤖 Closing as a duplicate of the retained topoplot candidate #263. It makes the same array-construction optimization and adds materially the same test.

[google-labs-jules]

🤖 Closing as a duplicate of the retained topoplot candidate #263. It makes the same array-construction optimization and adds materially the same test.

Understood. Acknowledging that this work is a duplicate of #263 and stopping work on this task.