/**
* Calculates the class membership probabilities for the given test instance.
*
* @param instance the instance to be classified
* @return predicted class probability distribution
* @exception Exception if distribution can't be computed successfully
*/
public double[] distributionForInstance(Instance instance) throws Exception {
if (instance.classAttribute().isNumeric()) {
throw new UnsupportedClassTypeException("Decorate can't handle a numeric class!");
}
double[] sums = new double[instance.numClasses()], newProbs;
Classifier curr;
for (int i = 0; i < m_Committee.size(); i++) {
curr = (Classifier) m_Committee.get(i);
newProbs = curr.distributionForInstance(instance);
for (int j = 0; j < newProbs.length; j++) sums[j] += newProbs[j];
}
if (Utils.eq(Utils.sum(sums), 0)) {
return sums;
} else {
Utils.normalize(sums);
return sums;
}
}
/**
* 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++;
}
}