// 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 linear_manifold_regularizer and empirical_kernel_map from the dlib C++ Library. This example program assumes you are familiar with some general elements of the library. In particular, you should have at least read the svm_ex.cpp and matrix_ex.cpp examples. You should also have read the empirical_kernel_map_ex.cpp example program as the present example builds upon it. This program shows an example of what is called semi-supervised learning. That is, a small amount of labeled data is augmented with a large amount of unlabeled data. A learning algorithm is then run on all the data and the hope is that by including the unlabeled data we will end up with a better result. In this particular example we will generate 200,000 sample points of unlabeled data along with 2 samples of labeled data. The sample points will be drawn randomly from two concentric circles. One labeled data point will be drawn from each circle. The goal is to learn to correctly separate the two circles using only the 2 labeled points and the unlabeled data. To do this we will first run an approximate form of k nearest neighbors to determine which of the unlabeled samples are closest together. We will then make the manifold assumption, that is, we will assume that points close to each other should share the same classification label. Once we have determined which points are near neighbors we will use the empirical_kernel_map and linear_manifold_regularizer to transform all the data points into a new vector space where any linear rule will have similar output for points which we have decided are near neighbors. Finally, we will classify all the unlabeled data according to which of the two labeled points are nearest. Normally this would not work but by using the manifold assumption we will be able to successfully classify all the unlabeled data. For further information on this subject you should begin with the following paper as it discusses a very similar application of manifold regularization. Beyond the Point Cloud: from Transductive to Semi-supervised Learning by Vikas Sindhwani, Partha Niyogi, and Mikhail Belkin ******** SAMPLE PROGRAM OUTPUT ******** Testing manifold regularization with an intrinsic_regularization_strength of 0. number of edges generated: 49998 Running simple test... error: 0.37022 error: 0.44036 error: 0.376715 error: 0.307545 error: 0.463455 error: 0.426065 error: 0.416155 error: 0.288295 error: 0.400115 error: 0.46347 Testing manifold regularization with an intrinsic_regularization_strength of 10000. number of edges generated: 49998 Running simple test... error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 error: 0 */ #include "dlib/manifold_regularization.h" #include "dlib/svm.h" #include "dlib/rand.h" #include "dlib/statistics.h" #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace dlib; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // First lets make a typedef for the kind of samples we will be using. typedef matrix sample_type; // We will be using the radial_basis_kernel in this example program. typedef radial_basis_kernel kernel_type; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- void generate_circle ( std::vector& samples, double radius, const long num ); /*! requires - num > 0 - radius > 0 ensures - generates num points centered at (0,0) with the given radius. Adds these points into the given samples vector. !*/ // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- void test_manifold_regularization ( const double intrinsic_regularization_strength ); /*! ensures - Runs an example test using the linear_manifold_regularizer with the given intrinsic_regularization_strength. !*/ // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main() { // Run the test without any manifold regularization. test_manifold_regularization(0); // Run the test with manifold regularization. You can think of this number as // a measure of how much we trust the manifold assumption. So if you are really // confident that you can select neighboring points which should have the same // classification then make this number big. test_manifold_regularization(10000.0); } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- void test_manifold_regularization ( const double intrinsic_regularization_strength ) { cout << "Testing manifold regularization with an intrinsic_regularization_strength of " << intrinsic_regularization_strength << ".\n"; std::vector samples; // Declare an instance of the kernel we will be using. const kernel_type kern(0.1); const unsigned long num_points = 100000; // create a large dataset with two concentric circles. There will be 100000 points on each circle // for a total of 200000 samples. generate_circle(samples, 2, num_points); // circle of radius 2 generate_circle(samples, 4, num_points); // circle of radius 4 // Create a set of sample_pairs that tells us which samples are "close" and should thus // be classified similarly. These edges will be used to define the manifold regularizer. // To find these edges we use a simple function that samples point pairs randomly and // returns the top 5% with the shortest edges. std::vector edges; find_percent_shortest_edges_randomly(samples, squared_euclidean_distance(), 0.05, 1000000, time(0), edges); cout << "number of edges generated: " << edges.size() << endl; empirical_kernel_map ekm; // Since the circles are not linearly separable we will use an empirical kernel map to // map them into a space where they are separable. We create an empirical_kernel_map // using a random subset of our data samples as basis samples. Note, however, that even // though the circles are linearly separable in this new space given by the empirical_kernel_map // we still won't be able to correctly classify all the points given just the 2 labeled examples. // We will need to make use of the nearest neighbor information stored in edges. To do that // we will use the linear_manifold_regularizer. ekm.load(kern, randomly_subsample(samples, 50)); // Project all the samples into the span of our 50 basis samples for (unsigned long i = 0; i < samples.size(); ++i) samples[i] = ekm.project(samples[i]); // Now create the manifold regularizer. The result is a transformation matrix that // embodies the manifold assumption discussed above. linear_manifold_regularizer lmr; // use_gaussian_weights is a function object that tells lmr how to weight each edge. In this // case we let the weight decay as edges get longer. So shorter edges are more important than // longer edges. lmr.build(samples, edges, use_gaussian_weights(0.1)); const matrix T = lmr.get_transformation_matrix(intrinsic_regularization_strength); // Apply the transformation generated by the linear_manifold_regularizer to // all our samples. for (unsigned long i = 0; i < samples.size(); ++i) samples[i] = T*samples[i]; // For convenience, generate a projection_function and merge the transformation // matrix T into it. That is, we will have: proj(x) == T*ekm.project(x). projection_function proj = ekm.get_projection_function(); proj.weights = T*proj.weights; cout << "Running simple test..." << endl; // Pick 2 different labeled points. One on the inner circle and another on the outer. // For each of these test points we will see if using the single plane that separates // them is a good way to separate the concentric circles. We also do this a bunch // of times with different randomly chosen points so we can see how robust the result is. for (int itr = 0; itr < 10; ++itr) { std::vector test_points; // generate a random point from the radius 2 circle generate_circle(test_points, 2, 1); // generate a random point from the radius 4 circle generate_circle(test_points, 4, 1); // project the two test points into kernel space. Recall that this projection_function // has the manifold regularizer incorporated into it. const sample_type class1_point = proj(test_points[0]); const sample_type class2_point = proj(test_points[1]); double num_wrong = 0; // Now attempt to classify all the data samples according to which point // they are closest to. The output of this program shows that without manifold // regularization this test will fail but with it it will perfectly classify // all the points. for (unsigned long i = 0; i < samples.size(); ++i) { double distance_to_class1 = length(samples[i] - class1_point); double distance_to_class2 = length(samples[i] - class2_point); bool predicted_as_class_1 = (distance_to_class1 < distance_to_class2); bool really_is_class_1 = (i < num_points); // now count how many times we make a mistake if (predicted_as_class_1 != really_is_class_1) ++num_wrong; } cout << "error: "<< num_wrong/samples.size() << endl; } cout << endl; } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dlib::rand::float_1a rnd; void generate_circle ( std::vector& samples, double radius, const long num ) { sample_type m(2,1); for (long i = 0; i < num; ++i) { double sign = 1; if (rnd.get_random_double() < 0.5) sign = -1; m(0) = 2*radius*rnd.get_random_double()-radius; m(1) = sign*sqrt(radius*radius - m(0)*m(0)); samples.push_back(m); } } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------