weka.core.neighboursearch.balltrees

Class MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint

java.lang.Object

weka.core.neighboursearch.balltrees.BallSplitter

weka.core.neighboursearch.balltrees.MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, TechnicalInformationHandler

public class MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint
extends BallSplitter
implements TechnicalInformationHandler

Class that splits a BallNode of a ball tree using Uhlmann's described method.

For information see:

Jeffrey K. Uhlmann (1991). Satisfying general proximity/similarity queries with metric trees. Information Processing Letters. 40(4):175-179.

Ashraf Masood Kibriya (2007). Fast Algorithms for Nearest Neighbour Search. Hamilton, New Zealand.

BibTeX:

 @article{Uhlmann1991,
    author = {Jeffrey K. Uhlmann},
    journal = {Information Processing Letters},
    month = {November},
    number = {4},
    pages = {175-179},
    title = {Satisfying general proximity/similarity queries with metric trees},
    volume = {40},
    year = {1991}
 }
 
 @mastersthesis{Kibriya2007,
    address = {Hamilton, New Zealand},
    author = {Ashraf Masood Kibriya},
    school = {Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato},
    title = {Fast Algorithms for Nearest Neighbour Search},
    year = {2007}
 }
 

Valid options are:

 -S <num>
  The seed value for the random number generator.
  (default: 17)

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Ashraf M. Kibriya (amk14[at-the-rate]cs[dot]waikato[dot]ac[dot]nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint() Constructor.
MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint(int[] instList, Instances insts, EuclideanDistance e) Constructor.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String[]	getOptions() Gets the current settings of the object.
int	getRandomSeed() Returns the seed value of random number generator.
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
TechnicalInformation	getTechnicalInformation() Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this nearest neighbour search algorithm.
Enumeration	listOptions() Returns an enumeration describing the available options.
String	randomSeedTipText() Returns the tip text for this property.
void	setOptions(String[] options) Parses a given list of options.
void	setRandomSeed(int seed) Sets the seed for random number generator.
void	splitNode(BallNode node, int numNodesCreated) Splits a ball into two.

Methods inherited from class weka.core.neighboursearch.balltrees.BallSplitter

setEuclideanDistanceFunction, setInstanceList, setInstances

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint

public MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint()

Constructor.

MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint

public MedianDistanceFromArbitraryPoint(int[] instList,
                                Instances insts,
                                EuclideanDistance e)

Constructor.

Parameters:

instList - The master index array.

insts - The instances on which the tree is (or is to be) built.

e - The Euclidean distance function to use for splitting.

Method Detail

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this nearest neighbour search algorithm.

Returns:

a description of the algorithm for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getTechnicalInformation

public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation()

Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.

Specified by:

getTechnicalInformation in interface TechnicalInformationHandler

Returns:

the technical information about this class

listOptions

public Enumeration listOptions()

Returns an enumeration describing the available options.

Specified by:

listOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

listOptions in class BallSplitter

Returns:

an enumeration of all the available options.

setOptions

public void setOptions(String[] options)
                throws Exception

Parses a given list of options. Valid options are:

 -S <num>
  The seed value for the random number generator.
  (default: 17)

Specified by:

setOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

setOptions in class BallSplitter

Parameters:

options - the list of options as an array of strings

Throws:

Exception - if an option is not supported

getOptions

public String[] getOptions()

Gets the current settings of the object.

Specified by:

getOptions in interface OptionHandler

Overrides:

getOptions in class BallSplitter

Returns:

an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions

setRandomSeed

public void setRandomSeed(int seed)

Sets the seed for random number generator.

Parameters:

seed - The seed value to set.

getRandomSeed

public int getRandomSeed()

Returns the seed value of random number generator.

Returns:

The random seed currently in use.

randomSeedTipText

public String randomSeedTipText()

Returns the tip text for this property.

Returns:

tip text for this property suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui.

splitNode

public void splitNode(BallNode node,
             int numNodesCreated)
               throws Exception

Splits a ball into two.

Specified by:

splitNode in class BallSplitter

Parameters:

node - The node to split.

numNodesCreated - The number of nodes that so far have been created for the tree, so that the newly created nodes are assigned correct/meaningful node numbers/ids.

Throws:

Exception - If there is some problem in splitting the given node.

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Overrides:

getRevision in class BallSplitter

Returns:

the revision