def _create_L_ind(self, L):
        """Convert a label matrix with labels in 0...k to a one-hot format

        Args:
            L: An [n,m] scipy.sparse label matrix with values in {0,1,...,k}

        Returns:
            L_ind: An [n,m*k] dense np.ndarray with values in {0,1}

        Note that no column is required for 0 (abstain) labels.
        """
        # TODO: Update LabelModel to keep L variants as sparse matrices
        # throughout and remove this line.
        if issparse(L):
            L = L.todense()

        L_ind = np.zeros((self.n, self.m * self.k))
        for y in range(1, self.k + 1):
            # A[x::y] slices A starting at x at intervals of y
            # e.g., np.arange(9)[0::3] == np.array([0,3,6])
            L_ind[:, (y - 1) :: self.k] = np.where(L == y, 1, 0)
        return L_ind