Numpy array indexing with complete vector-CodePudding

What does the following code do? (grad[range(m),y] -= 1)

def delta_cross_entropy(X,y):
    """
    X is the output from fully connected layer (num_examples x num_classes)
    y is labels (num_examples x 1)
        Note that y is not one-hot encoded vector. 
        It can be computed as y.argmax(axis=1) from one-hot encoded vectors of labels if required.
    """
    m = y.shape[0]
    grad = softmax(X)
# What does this do? Does it subtract y from grad? (As that is what is supposed to happen)
    grad[range(m),y] -= 1
    grad = grad/m
    return grad

EDIT: This is not about how slices update the arrays they are from inplace, as y is not a slice of grad, this question is about the syntax of NumPy.

CodePudding user response：

grad[range(m),y] -= 1 # It is the same as subtracting X[i,j] when j==y[i].