/* This is an example illustrating the use of the support vector machine utilities from the dlib C++ Library. 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 #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 they operate on // So the first thing we do here is declare some convenient typedefs for matrix objects // we will be using. // This first 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) typedef matrix sample_type; // This is a typedef for a column vector of unknown length that contains our // sample_type objects. Instances of this object will contain our sample data. typedef matrix samples_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 typedef radial_basis_kernel kernel_type; // Now we make a samples_type object as well as a column vector to // store the label for each sample in samples. samples_type samples; matrix labels; // Now lets put some data into our samples and labels objects. We do this // by looping over 41*41 points and labeling them according to their // distance from the origin. samples.set_size(41*41); labels.set_size(41*41); int count = 0; for (int r = -20; r <= 20; ++r) { for (int c = -20; c <= 20; ++c) { samples(count)(0) = r; samples(count)(1) = c; // if this point is less than 10 from the origin if (sqrt((double)r*r + c*c) <= 10) labels(count) = +1; else labels(count) = -1; ++count; } } // Now that we have some data we want to train on it. However, there are two parameters to the // training. These are the nu 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 svm_nu_cross_validate() 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 do. 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); // The nu parameter has a maximum value that is dependent on the ratio of the +1 to -1 // labels in the training data. This function finds that value. const double max_nu = maximum_nu(labels); // Now we loop over some different nu and gamma values to see how good they are. Note // that this is just a simple brute force way to try out a few possible parameter // choices. You may want to investigate more sophisticated strategies for determining // good parameter choices. cout << "doing cross validation" << endl; for (double gamma = 0.00001; gamma <= 1; gamma += 0.1) { for (double nu = 0.00001; nu < max_nu; nu += 0.1) { cout << "gamma: " << gamma << " nu: " << nu; // Print out the cross validation accuracy for 3-fold cross validation using the current gamma and nu. // svm_nu_cross_validate() returns a column 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: " << svm_nu_cross_validate(samples, labels, kernel_type(gamma), nu, 3); } } // From looking at the output of the above loop it turns out that a good value for // nu and gamma for this problem is 0.1 for both. So that is what we will use. // Now we train on the full set of data and obtain the resulting decision function. We use the // value of 0.1 for nu and gamma. 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. decision_function learned_decision_function = svm_nu_train(samples, labels, kernel_type(0.1), 0.1); // print out the number of support vectors in the resulting decision function cout << "\nnumber of support vectors in our learned_decision_function is " << learned_decision_function.support_vectors.nr() << endl; // now lets try this decision_function on some samples we haven't seen before sample_type sample; sample(0) = 3.123; sample(1) = 2; cout << "This sample should be >= 0 and it is classified as a " << learned_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 3.123; sample(1) = 9.3545; cout << "This sample should be >= 0 and it is classified as a " << learned_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 13.123; sample(1) = 9.3545; cout << "This sample should be < 0 and it is classified as a " << learned_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 13.123; sample(1) = 0; cout << "This sample should be < 0 and it is classified as a " << learned_decision_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: probabilistic_decision_function learned_probabilistic_decision_function = svm_nu_train_prob(samples, labels, kernel_type(0.1), 0.1, 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_probabilistic_decision_function is " << learned_probabilistic_decision_function.decision_funct.support_vectors.nr() << endl; sample(0) = 3.123; sample(1) = 2; cout << "This +1 example should have high probability. It's probability is: " << learned_probabilistic_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 3.123; sample(1) = 9.3545; cout << "This +1 example should have high probability. It's probability is: " << learned_probabilistic_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 13.123; sample(1) = 9.3545; cout << "This -1 example should have low probability. It's probability is: " << learned_probabilistic_decision_function(sample) << endl; sample(0) = 13.123; sample(1) = 0; cout << "This -1 example should have low probability. It's probability is: " << learned_probabilistic_decision_function(sample) << endl; }