dlib/examples/krls_ex.cpp
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/*
This is an example illustrating the use of the krls object
from the dlib C++ Library.
The krls object allows you to perform online regression. This
example will train an instance of it on the sinc function.
*/
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include "dlib/svm.h"
using namespace std;
using namespace dlib;
// Here is the sinc function we will be trying to learn with the krls
// object.
double sinc(double x)
{
if (x == 0)
return 1;
return sin(x)/x;
}
int main()
{
// Here we declare that our samples will be 1 dimensional column vectors. The reason for
// using a matrix here is that in general you can use N dimensional vectors as inputs to the
// krls object. But here we only have 1 dimension to make the example simple.
// (Note that if you don't know the dimensionality of your vectors at compile time
// you can change the first number to a 0 and then set the size at runtime)
typedef matrix<double,1,1> sample_type;
// Now we are making a typedef for the kind of kernel we want to use. I picked the
// radial basis kernel because it only has one parameter and generally gives good
// results without much fiddling.
typedef radial_basis_kernel<sample_type> kernel_type;
// Here we declare an instance of the krls object. The first argument to the constructor
// is the kernel we wish to use. The second is a parameter that determines the numerical
// accuracy with which the object will perform part of the regression algorithm. Generally
// smaller values give better results but cause the algorithm to run slower. You just have
// to play with it to decide what balance of speed and accuracy is right for your problem.
// Here we have set it to 0.001.
krls<kernel_type> test(kernel_type(0.1),0.001);
// now we train our object on a few samples of the sinc function.
sample_type m;
for (double x = -10; x <= 4; x += 1)
{
m(0) = x;
test.train(m, sinc(x));
}
// now we output the value of the sinc function for a few test points as well as the
// value predicted by krls object.
m(0) = 2.5; cout << sinc(m(0)) << " " << test(m) << endl;
m(0) = 0.1; cout << sinc(m(0)) << " " << test(m) << endl;
m(0) = -4; cout << sinc(m(0)) << " " << test(m) << endl;
m(0) = 5.0; cout << sinc(m(0)) << " " << test(m) << endl;
// The output is as follows:
// 0.239389 0.239362
// 0.998334 0.998333
// -0.189201 -0.189201
// -0.191785 -0.197267
// The first column is the true value of the sinc function and the second
// column is the output from the krls estimate.
}