GClasses
GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner Class Reference

Detailed Description

A thin wrapper around a GNeuralNet that implements the GIncrementalLearner interface.

#include <GNeuralNet.h>

Inheritance diagram for GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner:
GClasses::GIncrementalLearner GClasses::GSupervisedLearner GClasses::GTransducer

Public Member Functions

 GNeuralNetLearner ()
 
 GNeuralNetLearner (const GDomNode *pNode)
 
virtual ~GNeuralNetLearner ()
 
virtual bool canImplicitlyHandleMissingFeatures () override
 See the comment for GTransducer::canImplicitlyHandleMissingFeatures. More...
 
virtual bool canImplicitlyHandleNominalFeatures () override
 See the comment for GTransducer::canImplicitlyHandleNominalFeatures. More...
 
virtual bool canImplicitlyHandleNominalLabels () override
 See the comment for GTransducer::canImplicitlyHandleNominalLabels. More...
 
virtual void clear () override
 See the comment for GSupervisedLearner::clear. More...
 
GNeuralNetnn ()
 Returns a reference to the neural net that this class wraps. More...
 
GNeuralNetOptimizeroptimizer ()
 Lazily creates an optimizer for the neural net that this class wraps, and returns a reference to it. More...
 
virtual void predict (const GVec &in, GVec &out) override
 See the comment for GSupervisedLearner::predict. More...
 
virtual void predictDistribution (const GVec &in, GPrediction *pOut) override
 See the comment for GSupervisedLearner::predictDistribution. More...
 
virtual GDomNodeserialize (GDom *pDoc) const override
 Saves the model to a text file. More...
 
virtual bool supportedFeatureRange (double *pOutMin, double *pOutMax) override
 See the comment for GTransducer::supportedFeatureRange. More...
 
virtual bool supportedLabelRange (double *pOutMin, double *pOutMax) override
 See the comment for GTransducer::supportedFeatureRange. More...
 
virtual void trainIncremental (const GVec &in, const GVec &out) override
 Pass a single input row and the corresponding label to incrementally train this model. More...
 
virtual void trainSparse (GSparseMatrix &features, GMatrix &labels) override
 Train using a sparse feature matrix. (A Typical implementation of this method will first call beginIncrementalLearning, then it will iterate over all of the feature rows, and for each row it will convert the sparse row to a dense row, call trainIncremental using the dense row, then discard the dense row and proceed to the next row.) More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GIncrementalLearner
 GIncrementalLearner ()
 General-purpose constructor. More...
 
 GIncrementalLearner (const GDomNode *pNode)
 Deserialization constructor. More...
 
virtual ~GIncrementalLearner ()
 Destructor. More...
 
void beginIncrementalLearning (const GRelation &featureRel, const GRelation &labelRel)
 You must call this method before you call trainIncremental. More...
 
void beginIncrementalLearning (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels)
 A version of beginIncrementalLearning that supports data-dependent filters. More...
 
virtual bool canTrainIncrementally ()
 Returns true. More...
 
virtual bool isFilter ()
 Only the GFilter class should return true to this method. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GSupervisedLearner
 GSupervisedLearner ()
 General-purpose constructor. More...
 
 GSupervisedLearner (const GDomNode *pNode)
 Deserialization constructor. More...
 
virtual ~GSupervisedLearner ()
 Destructor. More...
 
void basicTest (double minAccuracy1, double minAccuracy2, double deviation=1e-6, bool printAccuracy=false, double warnRange=0.035)
 This is a helper method used by the unit tests of several model learners. More...
 
virtual bool canGeneralize ()
 Returns true because fully supervised learners have an internal model that allows them to generalize previously unseen rows. More...
 
void confusion (GMatrix &features, GMatrix &labels, std::vector< GMatrix * > &stats)
 Generates a confusion matrix containing the total counts of the number of times each value was expected and predicted. (Rows represent target values, and columns represent predicted values.) stats should be an empty vector. This method will resize stats to the number of dimensions in the label vector. The caller is responsible to delete all of the matrices that it puts in this vector. For continuous labels, the value will be NULL. More...
 
void precisionRecall (double *pOutPrecision, size_t nPrecisionSize, GMatrix &features, GMatrix &labels, size_t label, size_t nReps)
 label specifies which output to measure. (It should be 0 if there is only one label dimension.) The measurement will be performed "nReps" times and results averaged together nPrecisionSize specifies the number of points at which the function is sampled pOutPrecision should be an array big enough to hold nPrecisionSize elements for every possible label value. (If the attribute is continuous, it should just be big enough to hold nPrecisionSize elements.) If bLocal is true, it computes the local precision instead of the global precision. More...
 
const GRelationrelFeatures ()
 Returns a reference to the feature relation (meta-data about the input attributes). More...
 
const GRelationrelLabels ()
 Returns a reference to the label relation (meta-data about the output attributes). More...
 
double sumSquaredError (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels, double *pOutSAE=NULL)
 Computes the sum-squared-error for predicting the labels from the features. For categorical labels, Hamming distance is used. More...
 
void train (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels)
 Call this method to train the model. More...
 
virtual double trainAndTest (const GMatrix &trainFeatures, const GMatrix &trainLabels, const GMatrix &testFeatures, const GMatrix &testLabels, double *pOutSAE=NULL)
 Trains and tests this learner. Returns sum-squared-error. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GTransducer
 GTransducer ()
 General-purpose constructor. More...
 
 GTransducer (const GTransducer &that)
 Copy-constructor. Throws an exception to prevent models from being copied by value. More...
 
virtual ~GTransducer ()
 
virtual bool canImplicitlyHandleContinuousFeatures ()
 Returns true iff this algorithm can implicitly handle continuous features. If it cannot, then the GDiscretize transform will be used to convert continuous features to nominal values before passing them to it. More...
 
virtual bool canImplicitlyHandleContinuousLabels ()
 Returns true iff this algorithm can implicitly handle continuous labels (a.k.a. regression). If it cannot, then the GDiscretize transform will be used during training to convert nominal labels to continuous values, and to convert nominal predictions back to continuous labels. More...
 
double crossValidate (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels, size_t nFolds, double *pOutSAE=NULL, RepValidateCallback pCB=NULL, size_t nRep=0, void *pThis=NULL)
 Perform n-fold cross validation on pData. Returns sum-squared error. Uses trainAndTest for each fold. pCB is an optional callback method for reporting intermediate stats. It can be NULL if you don't want intermediate reporting. nRep is just the rep number that will be passed to the callback. pThis is just a pointer that will be passed to the callback for you to use however you want. It doesn't affect this method. if pOutSAE is not NULL, the sum absolute error will be placed there. More...
 
GTransduceroperator= (const GTransducer &other)
 Throws an exception to prevent models from being copied by value. More...
 
GRandrand ()
 Returns a reference to the random number generator associated with this object. For example, you could use it to change the random seed, to make this algorithm behave differently. This might be important, for example, in an ensemble of learners. More...
 
double repValidate (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels, size_t reps, size_t nFolds, double *pOutSAE=NULL, RepValidateCallback pCB=NULL, void *pThis=NULL)
 Perform cross validation "nReps" times and return the average score. pCB is an optional callback method for reporting intermediate stats It can be NULL if you don't want intermediate reporting. pThis is just a pointer that will be passed to the callback for you to use however you want. It doesn't affect this method. if pOutSAE is not NULL, the sum absolute error will be placed there. More...
 
std::unique_ptr< GMatrixtransduce (const GMatrix &features1, const GMatrix &labels1, const GMatrix &features2)
 Predicts a set of labels to correspond with features2, such that these labels will be consistent with the patterns exhibited by features1 and labels1. More...
 
void transductiveConfusionMatrix (const GMatrix &trainFeatures, const GMatrix &trainLabels, const GMatrix &testFeatures, const GMatrix &testLabels, std::vector< GMatrix * > &stats)
 Makes a confusion matrix for a transduction algorithm. More...
 

Static Public Member Functions

static void test ()
 Performs unit tests for this class. Throws an exception if there is a failure. More...
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GSupervisedLearner
static void test ()
 Runs some unit tests related to supervised learning. Throws an exception if any problems are found. More...
 

Protected Member Functions

virtual void beginIncrementalLearningInner (const GRelation &featureRel, const GRelation &labelRel) override
 See the comment for GIncrementalLearner::beginIncrementalLearningInner. More...
 
virtual void trainInner (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels) override
 See the comment for GIncrementalLearner::trainInner. More...
 
- Protected Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GIncrementalLearner
virtual void beginIncrementalLearningInner (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels)
 
- Protected Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GSupervisedLearner
GDomNodebaseDomNode (GDom *pDoc, const char *szClassName) const
 Child classes should use this in their implementation of serialize. More...
 
size_t precisionRecallContinuous (GPrediction *pOutput, double *pFunc, GMatrix &trainFeatures, GMatrix &trainLabels, GMatrix &testFeatures, GMatrix &testLabels, size_t label)
 This is a helper method used by precisionRecall. More...
 
size_t precisionRecallNominal (GPrediction *pOutput, double *pFunc, GMatrix &trainFeatures, GMatrix &trainLabels, GMatrix &testFeatures, GMatrix &testLabels, size_t label, int value)
 This is a helper method used by precisionRecall. More...
 
void setupFilters (const GMatrix &features, const GMatrix &labels)
 This method determines which data filters (normalize, discretize, and/or nominal-to-cat) are needed and trains them. More...
 
virtual std::unique_ptr< GMatrixtransduceInner (const GMatrix &features1, const GMatrix &labels1, const GMatrix &features2)
 See GTransducer::transduce. More...
 

Protected Attributes

GNeuralNet m_nn
 
GNeuralNetOptimizerm_pOptimizer
 
bool m_ready
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from GClasses::GSupervisedLearner
GRelationm_pRelFeatures
 
GRelationm_pRelLabels
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from GClasses::GTransducer
GRand m_rand
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Static Protected Member Functions inherited from GClasses::GSupervisedLearner
static void addInterpolatedFunction (double *pOut, size_t nOutVals, double *pIn, size_t nInVals)
 Adds the function pIn to pOut after interpolating pIn to be the same size as pOut. (This is a helper-function used by precisionRecall.) More...
 

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::GNeuralNetLearner ( )
GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::GNeuralNetLearner ( const GDomNode pNode)
virtual GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::~GNeuralNetLearner ( )
virtual

Member Function Documentation

virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::beginIncrementalLearningInner ( const GRelation featureRel,
const GRelation labelRel 
)
overrideprotectedvirtual
virtual bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::canImplicitlyHandleMissingFeatures ( )
inlineoverridevirtual
virtual bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::canImplicitlyHandleNominalFeatures ( )
inlineoverridevirtual
virtual bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::canImplicitlyHandleNominalLabels ( )
inlineoverridevirtual

See the comment for GTransducer::canImplicitlyHandleNominalLabels.

Reimplemented from GClasses::GTransducer.

virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::clear ( )
overridevirtual

See the comment for GSupervisedLearner::clear.

Implements GClasses::GSupervisedLearner.

GNeuralNet& GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::nn ( )
inline

Returns a reference to the neural net that this class wraps.

GNeuralNetOptimizer& GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::optimizer ( )

Lazily creates an optimizer for the neural net that this class wraps, and returns a reference to it.

virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::predict ( const GVec in,
GVec out 
)
overridevirtual
virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::predictDistribution ( const GVec in,
GPrediction pOut 
)
overridevirtual
virtual GDomNode* GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::serialize ( GDom pDoc) const
overridevirtual

Saves the model to a text file.

Implements GClasses::GSupervisedLearner.

virtual bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::supportedFeatureRange ( double *  pOutMin,
double *  pOutMax 
)
overridevirtual

See the comment for GTransducer::supportedFeatureRange.

Reimplemented from GClasses::GTransducer.

virtual bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::supportedLabelRange ( double *  pOutMin,
double *  pOutMax 
)
overridevirtual

See the comment for GTransducer::supportedFeatureRange.

Reimplemented from GClasses::GTransducer.

static void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::test ( )
static

Performs unit tests for this class. Throws an exception if there is a failure.

virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::trainIncremental ( const GVec in,
const GVec out 
)
overridevirtual

Pass a single input row and the corresponding label to incrementally train this model.

Implements GClasses::GIncrementalLearner.

virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::trainInner ( const GMatrix features,
const GMatrix labels 
)
overrideprotectedvirtual
virtual void GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::trainSparse ( GSparseMatrix features,
GMatrix labels 
)
overridevirtual

Train using a sparse feature matrix. (A Typical implementation of this method will first call beginIncrementalLearning, then it will iterate over all of the feature rows, and for each row it will convert the sparse row to a dense row, call trainIncremental using the dense row, then discard the dense row and proceed to the next row.)

Implements GClasses::GIncrementalLearner.

Member Data Documentation

GNeuralNet GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::m_nn
protected
GNeuralNetOptimizer* GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::m_pOptimizer
protected
bool GClasses::GNeuralNetLearner::m_ready
protected