/**
* Compute and store statistics required for generating artificial data.
*
* @param data training instances
* @exception Exception if statistics could not be calculated successfully
*/
protected void computeStats(Instances data) throws Exception {
int numAttributes = data.numAttributes();
m_AttributeStats = new Vector(numAttributes); // use to map attributes to their stats
for (int j = 0; j < numAttributes; j++) {
if (data.attribute(j).isNominal()) {
// Compute the probability of occurence of each distinct value
int[] nomCounts = (data.attributeStats(j)).nominalCounts;
double[] counts = new double[nomCounts.length];
if (counts.length < 2)
throw new Exception("Nominal attribute has less than two distinct values!");
// Perform Laplace smoothing
for (int i = 0; i < counts.length; i++) counts[i] = nomCounts[i] + 1;
Utils.normalize(counts);
double[] stats = new double[counts.length - 1];
stats[0] = counts[0];
// Calculate cumulative probabilities
for (int i = 1; i < stats.length; i++) stats[i] = stats[i - 1] + counts[i];
m_AttributeStats.add(j, stats);
} else if (data.attribute(j).isNumeric()) {
// Get mean and standard deviation from the training data
double[] stats = new double[2];
stats[0] = data.meanOrMode(j);
stats[1] = Math.sqrt(data.variance(j));
m_AttributeStats.add(j, stats);
} else System.err.println("Decorate can only handle numeric and nominal values.");
}
}
/**
* Build Decorate classifier
*
* @param data the training data to be used for generating the classifier
* @exception Exception if the classifier could not be built successfully
*/
public void buildClassifier(Instances data) throws Exception {
if (m_Classifier == null) {
throw new Exception("A base classifier has not been specified!");
}
if (data.checkForStringAttributes()) {
throw new UnsupportedAttributeTypeException("Cannot handle string attributes!");
}
if (data.classAttribute().isNumeric()) {
throw new UnsupportedClassTypeException("Decorate can't handle a numeric class!");
}
if (m_NumIterations < m_DesiredSize)
throw new Exception("Max number of iterations must be >= desired ensemble size!");
// initialize random number generator
if (m_Seed == -1) m_Random = new Random();
else m_Random = new Random(m_Seed);
int i = 1; // current committee size
int numTrials = 1; // number of Decorate iterations
Instances divData = new Instances(data); // local copy of data - diversity data
divData.deleteWithMissingClass();
Instances artData = null; // artificial data
// compute number of artficial instances to add at each iteration
int artSize = (int) (Math.abs(m_ArtSize) * divData.numInstances());
if (artSize == 0) artSize = 1; // atleast add one random example
computeStats(data); // Compute training data stats for creating artificial examples
// initialize new committee
m_Committee = new Vector();
Classifier newClassifier = m_Classifier;
newClassifier.buildClassifier(divData);
m_Committee.add(newClassifier);
double eComm = computeError(divData); // compute ensemble error
if (m_Debug)
System.out.println(
"Initialize:\tClassifier " + i + " added to ensemble. Ensemble error = " + eComm);
// repeat till desired committee size is reached OR the max number of iterations is exceeded
while (i < m_DesiredSize && numTrials < m_NumIterations) {
// Generate artificial training examples
artData = generateArtificialData(artSize, data);
// Label artificial examples
labelData(artData);
addInstances(divData, artData); // Add new artificial data
// Build new classifier
Classifier tmp[] = Classifier.makeCopies(m_Classifier, 1);
newClassifier = tmp[0];
newClassifier.buildClassifier(divData);
// Remove all the artificial data
removeInstances(divData, artSize);
// Test if the new classifier should be added to the ensemble
m_Committee.add(newClassifier); // add new classifier to current committee
double currError = computeError(divData);
if (currError <= eComm) { // adding the new member did not increase the error
i++;
eComm = currError;
if (m_Debug)
System.out.println(
"Iteration: "
+ (1 + numTrials)
+ "\tClassifier "
+ i
+ " added to ensemble. Ensemble error = "
+ eComm);
} else { // reject the current classifier because it increased the ensemble error
m_Committee.removeElementAt(m_Committee.size() - 1); // pop the last member
}
numTrials++;
}
}