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+// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt
+/*
+
+ This is an example illustrating the use of the support vector machine
+ utilities from the dlib C++ Library. In particular, we show how to use the
+ C parametrization of the SVM in this example.
+
+ This example creates a simple set of data to train on and then shows
+ you how to use the cross validation and svm training functions
+ to find a good decision function that can classify examples in our
+ data set.
+
+
+ The data used in this example will be 2 dimensional data and will
+ come from a distribution where points with a distance less than 10
+ from the origin are labeled +1 and all other points are labeled
+ as -1.
+
+*/
+
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include <dlib/svm.h>
+
+using namespace std;
+using namespace dlib;
+
+
+int main()
+{
+ // The svm functions use column vectors to contain a lot of the data on
+ // which they operate. So the first thing we do here is declare a convenient
+ // typedef.
+
+ // This typedef declares a matrix with 2 rows and 1 column. It will be the
+ // object that contains each of our 2 dimensional samples. (Note that if
+ // you wanted more than 2 features in this vector you can simply change the
+ // 2 to something else. Or if you don't know how many features you want
+ // until runtime then you can put a 0 here and use the matrix.set_size()
+ // member function)
+ typedef matrix<double, 2, 1> sample_type;
+
+ // This is a typedef for the type of kernel we are going to use in this
+ // example. In this case I have selected the radial basis kernel that can
+ // operate on our 2D sample_type objects. You can use your own custom
+ // kernels with these tools as well, see custom_trainer_ex.cpp for an
+ // example.
+ typedef radial_basis_kernel<sample_type> kernel_type;
+
+
+ // Now we make objects to contain our samples and their respective labels.
+ std::vector<sample_type> samples;
+ std::vector<double> labels;
+
+ // Now let's put some data into our samples and labels objects. We do this
+ // by looping over a bunch of points and labeling them according to their
+ // distance from the origin.
+ for (int r = -20; r <= 20; ++r)
+ {
+ for (int c = -20; c <= 20; ++c)
+ {
+ sample_type samp;
+ samp(0) = r;
+ samp(1) = c;
+ samples.push_back(samp);
+
+ // if this point is less than 10 from the origin
+ if (sqrt((double)r*r + c*c) <= 10)
+ labels.push_back(+1);
+ else
+ labels.push_back(-1);
+
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ // Here we normalize all the samples by subtracting their mean and dividing
+ // by their standard deviation. This is generally a good idea since it
+ // often heads off numerical stability problems and also prevents one large
+ // feature from smothering others. Doing this doesn't matter much in this
+ // example so I'm just doing this here so you can see an easy way to
+ // accomplish it.
+ vector_normalizer<sample_type> normalizer;
+ // Let the normalizer learn the mean and standard deviation of the samples.
+ normalizer.train(samples);
+ // now normalize each sample
+ for (unsigned long i = 0; i < samples.size(); ++i)
+ samples[i] = normalizer(samples[i]);
+
+
+ // Now that we have some data we want to train on it. However, there are
+ // two parameters to the training. These are the C and gamma parameters.
+ // Our choice for these parameters will influence how good the resulting
+ // decision function is. To test how good a particular choice of these
+ // parameters are we can use the cross_validate_trainer() function to perform
+ // n-fold cross validation on our training data. However, there is a
+ // problem with the way we have sampled our distribution above. The problem
+ // is that there is a definite ordering to the samples. That is, the first
+ // half of the samples look like they are from a different distribution than
+ // the second half. This would screw up the cross validation process but we
+ // can fix it by randomizing the order of the samples with the following
+ // function call.
+ randomize_samples(samples, labels);
+
+
+ // here we make an instance of the svm_c_trainer object that uses our kernel
+ // type.
+ svm_c_trainer<kernel_type> trainer;
+
+ // Now we loop over some different C and gamma values to see how good they
+ // are. Note that this is a very simple way to try out a few possible
+ // parameter choices. You should look at the model_selection_ex.cpp program
+ // for examples of more sophisticated strategies for determining good
+ // parameter choices.
+ cout << "doing cross validation" << endl;
+ for (double gamma = 0.00001; gamma <= 1; gamma *= 5)
+ {
+ for (double C = 1; C < 100000; C *= 5)
+ {
+ // tell the trainer the parameters we want to use
+ trainer.set_kernel(kernel_type(gamma));
+ trainer.set_c(C);
+
+ cout << "gamma: " << gamma << " C: " << C;
+ // Print out the cross validation accuracy for 3-fold cross validation using
+ // the current gamma and C. cross_validate_trainer() returns a row vector.
+ // The first element of the vector is the fraction of +1 training examples
+ // correctly classified and the second number is the fraction of -1 training
+ // examples correctly classified.
+ cout << " cross validation accuracy: "
+ << cross_validate_trainer(trainer, samples, labels, 3);
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ // From looking at the output of the above loop it turns out that good
+ // values for C and gamma for this problem are 5 and 0.15625 respectively.
+ // So that is what we will use.
+
+ // Now we train on the full set of data and obtain the resulting decision
+ // function. The decision function will return values >= 0 for samples it
+ // predicts are in the +1 class and numbers < 0 for samples it predicts to
+ // be in the -1 class.
+ trainer.set_kernel(kernel_type(0.15625));
+ trainer.set_c(5);
+ typedef decision_function<kernel_type> dec_funct_type;
+ typedef normalized_function<dec_funct_type> funct_type;
+
+ // Here we are making an instance of the normalized_function object. This
+ // object provides a convenient way to store the vector normalization
+ // information along with the decision function we are going to learn.
+ funct_type learned_function;
+ learned_function.normalizer = normalizer; // save normalization information
+ learned_function.function = trainer.train(samples, labels); // perform the actual SVM training and save the results
+
+ // print out the number of support vectors in the resulting decision function
+ cout << "\nnumber of support vectors in our learned_function is "
+ << learned_function.function.basis_vectors.size() << endl;
+
+ // Now let's try this decision_function on some samples we haven't seen before.
+ sample_type sample;
+
+ sample(0) = 3.123;
+ sample(1) = 2;
+ cout << "This is a +1 class example, the classifier output is " << learned_function(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 3.123;
+ sample(1) = 9.3545;
+ cout << "This is a +1 class example, the classifier output is " << learned_function(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 13.123;
+ sample(1) = 9.3545;
+ cout << "This is a -1 class example, the classifier output is " << learned_function(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 13.123;
+ sample(1) = 0;
+ cout << "This is a -1 class example, the classifier output is " << learned_function(sample) << endl;
+
+
+ // We can also train a decision function that reports a well conditioned
+ // probability instead of just a number > 0 for the +1 class and < 0 for the
+ // -1 class. An example of doing that follows:
+ typedef probabilistic_decision_function<kernel_type> probabilistic_funct_type;
+ typedef normalized_function<probabilistic_funct_type> pfunct_type;
+
+ pfunct_type learned_pfunct;
+ learned_pfunct.normalizer = normalizer;
+ learned_pfunct.function = train_probabilistic_decision_function(trainer, samples, labels, 3);
+ // Now we have a function that returns the probability that a given sample is of the +1 class.
+
+ // print out the number of support vectors in the resulting decision function.
+ // (it should be the same as in the one above)
+ cout << "\nnumber of support vectors in our learned_pfunct is "
+ << learned_pfunct.function.decision_funct.basis_vectors.size() << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 3.123;
+ sample(1) = 2;
+ cout << "This +1 class example should have high probability. Its probability is: "
+ << learned_pfunct(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 3.123;
+ sample(1) = 9.3545;
+ cout << "This +1 class example should have high probability. Its probability is: "
+ << learned_pfunct(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 13.123;
+ sample(1) = 9.3545;
+ cout << "This -1 class example should have low probability. Its probability is: "
+ << learned_pfunct(sample) << endl;
+
+ sample(0) = 13.123;
+ sample(1) = 0;
+ cout << "This -1 class example should have low probability. Its probability is: "
+ << learned_pfunct(sample) << endl;
+
+
+
+ // Another thing that is worth knowing is that just about everything in dlib
+ // is serializable. So for example, you can save the learned_pfunct object
+ // to disk and recall it later like so:
+ serialize("saved_function.dat") << learned_pfunct;
+
+ // Now let's open that file back up and load the function object it contains.
+ deserialize("saved_function.dat") >> learned_pfunct;
+
+ // Note that there is also an example program that comes with dlib called
+ // the file_to_code_ex.cpp example. It is a simple program that takes a
+ // file and outputs a piece of C++ code that is able to fully reproduce the
+ // file's contents in the form of a std::string object. So you can use that
+ // along with the std::istringstream to save learned decision functions
+ // inside your actual C++ code files if you want.
+
+
+
+
+ // Lastly, note that the decision functions we trained above involved well
+ // over 200 basis vectors. Support vector machines in general tend to find
+ // decision functions that involve a lot of basis vectors. This is
+ // significant because the more basis vectors in a decision function, the
+ // longer it takes to classify new examples. So dlib provides the ability
+ // to find an approximation to the normal output of a trainer using fewer
+ // basis vectors.
+
+ // Here we determine the cross validation accuracy when we approximate the
+ // output using only 10 basis vectors. To do this we use the reduced2()
+ // function. It takes a trainer object and the number of basis vectors to
+ // use and returns a new trainer object that applies the necessary post
+ // processing during the creation of decision function objects.
+ cout << "\ncross validation accuracy with only 10 support vectors: "
+ << cross_validate_trainer(reduced2(trainer,10), samples, labels, 3);
+
+ // Let's print out the original cross validation score too for comparison.
+ cout << "cross validation accuracy with all the original support vectors: "
+ << cross_validate_trainer(trainer, samples, labels, 3);
+
+ // When you run this program you should see that, for this problem, you can
+ // reduce the number of basis vectors down to 10 without hurting the cross
+ // validation accuracy.
+
+
+ // To get the reduced decision function out we would just do this:
+ learned_function.function = reduced2(trainer,10).train(samples, labels);
+ // And similarly for the probabilistic_decision_function:
+ learned_pfunct.function = train_probabilistic_decision_function(reduced2(trainer,10), samples, labels, 3);
+}
+