thrust::unique_by_key

Defined in thrust/unique.h

template<typename DerivedPolicy, typename ForwardIterator1, typename ForwardIterator2> thrust::pair<ForwardIterator1, ForwardIterator2> thrust::unique_by_key(const thrust::detail::execution_policy_base<DerivedPolicy> &exec, ForwardIterator1 keys_first, ForwardIterator1 keys_last, ForwardIterator2 values_first)

unique_by_key is a generalization of unique to key-value pairs. For each group of consecutive keys in the range [keys_first, keys_last) that are equal, unique_by_key removes all but the first element of the group. Similarly, the corresponding values in the range [values_first, values_first + (keys_last - keys_first)) are also removed.

The return value is a pair of iterators (new_keys_last,new_values_last) such that no two consecutive elements in the range [keys_first, new_keys_last) are equal.

This version of unique_by_key uses operator== to test for equality and project1st to reduce values with equal keys.

The algorithm’s execution is parallelized as determined by exec.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use unique_by_key to compact a sequence of key/value pairs to remove consecutive duplicates using the thrust::host execution policy for parallelization:

#include <thrust/unique.h>
#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
...
const int N = 7;
int A[N] = {1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1}; // keys
int B[N] = {9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3}; // values

thrust::pair<int*,int*> new_end;
new_end = thrust::unique_by_key(thrust::host, A, A + N, B);

// The first four keys in A are now {1, 3, 2, 1} and new_end.first - A is 4.
// The first four values in B are now {9, 8, 5, 3} and new_end.second - B is 4.