paramEstimator.h

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/** @file
 * @brief the base class for estimating parameters of CPTs
 *
 * @author Christophe GONZALES(@AMU) and Pierre-Henri WUILLEMIN(@LIP6)
 */
#ifndef GUM_LEARNING_PARAM_ESTIMATOR_H
#define GUM_LEARNING_PARAM_ESTIMATOR_H

#include <type_traits>

#include <agrum/agrum.h>
#include <agrum/tools/database/databaseTable.h>
#include <agrum/BN/learning/aprioris/apriori.h>
#include <agrum/tools/stattests/recordCounter.h>
#include <agrum/tools/multidim/potential.h>

namespace gum {

  namespace learning {


    /** @class ParamEstimator
     * @brief The base class for estimating parameters of CPTs
     * @headerfile paramEstimator.h <agrum/BN/learning/paramUtils/paramEstimator.h>
     * @ingroup learning_param_utils
     */
    template < template < typename > class ALLOC = std::allocator >
    class ParamEstimator {
      public:
      /// type for the allocators passed in arguments of methods
      using allocator_type = ALLOC< NodeId >;

      // ##########################################################################
      /// @name Constructors / Destructors
      // ##########################################################################
      /// @{

      /// default constructor
      /** @param parser the parser used to parse the database
       * @param external_apriori An apriori that we add to the computation
       * of the score
       * @param score_internal_apriori The apriori within the score used
       * to learn the data structure (might be a NoApriori)
       * @param ranges a set of pairs {(X1,Y1),...,(Xn,Yn)} of database's rows
       * indices. The countings are then performed only on the union of the
       * rows [Xi,Yi), i in {1,...,n}. This is useful, e.g, when performing
       * cross validation tasks, in which part of the database should be ignored.
       * An empty set of ranges is equivalent to an interval [X,Y) ranging over
       * the whole database.
       * @param nodeId2Columns a mapping from the ids of the nodes in the
       * graphical model to the corresponding column in the DatabaseTable
       * parsed by the parser. This enables estimating from a database in
       * which variable A corresponds to the 2nd column the parameters of a BN
       * in which variable A has a NodeId of 5. An empty nodeId2Columns
       * bijection means that the mapping is an identity, i.e., the value of a
       * NodeId is equal to the index of the column in the DatabaseTable.
       * @param alloc the allocator used to allocate the structures within the
       * Score.
       * @warning If nodeId2columns is not empty, then only the scores over the
       * ids belonging to this bijection can be computed: applying method
       * score() over other ids will raise exception NotFound. */
      ParamEstimator(const DBRowGeneratorParser< ALLOC >& parser,
                     const Apriori< ALLOC >&              external_apriori,
                     const Apriori< ALLOC >&              _score_internal_apriori,
                     const std::vector< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t >,
                                        ALLOC< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t > > >& ranges,
                     const Bijection< NodeId, std::size_t, ALLOC< std::size_t > >& nodeId2columns
                     = Bijection< NodeId, std::size_t, ALLOC< std::size_t > >(),
                     const allocator_type& alloc = allocator_type());

      /// default constructor
      /** @param parser the parser used to parse the database
       * @param external_apriori An apriori that we add to the computation
       * of the score
       * @param score_internal_apriori The apriori within the score used
       * to learn the data structure (might be a NoApriori)
       * @param nodeId2Columns a mapping from the ids of the nodes in the
       * graphical model to the corresponding column in the DatabaseTable
       * parsed by the parser. This enables estimating from a database in
       * which variable A corresponds to the 2nd column the parameters of a BN
       * in which variable A has a NodeId of 5. An empty nodeId2Columns
       * bijection means that the mapping is an identity, i.e., the value of a
       * NodeId is equal to the index of the column in the DatabaseTable.
       * @param alloc the allocator used to allocate the structures within the
       * Score.
       * @warning If nodeId2columns is not empty, then only the scores over the
       * ids belonging to this bijection can be computed: applying method
       * score() over other ids will raise exception NotFound. */
      ParamEstimator(const DBRowGeneratorParser< ALLOC >& parser,
                     const Apriori< ALLOC >&              external_apriori,
                     const Apriori< ALLOC >&              _score_internal_apriori,
                     const Bijection< NodeId, std::size_t, ALLOC< std::size_t > >& nodeId2columns
                     = Bijection< NodeId, std::size_t, ALLOC< std::size_t > >(),
                     const allocator_type& alloc = allocator_type());

      /// copy constructor
      ParamEstimator(const ParamEstimator< ALLOC >& from);

      /// copy constructor with a given allocator
      ParamEstimator(const ParamEstimator< ALLOC >& from, const allocator_type& alloc);

      /// move constructor
      ParamEstimator(ParamEstimator< ALLOC >&& from);

      /// move constructor with a given allocator
      ParamEstimator(ParamEstimator< ALLOC >&& from, const allocator_type& alloc);

      /// virtual copy constructor
      virtual ParamEstimator< ALLOC >* clone() const = 0;

      /// virtual copy constructor with a given allocator
      virtual ParamEstimator< ALLOC >* clone(const allocator_type& alloc) const = 0;

      /// destructor
      virtual ~ParamEstimator();

      /// @}


      // ##########################################################################
      /// @name Accessors / Modifiers
      // ##########################################################################
      /// @{

      /// clears all the data structures from memory
      virtual void clear();

      /// changes the max number of threads used to parse the database
      virtual void setMaxNbThreads(std::size_t nb) const;

      /// returns the number of threads used to parse the database
      virtual std::size_t nbThreads() const;

      /** @brief changes the number min of rows a thread should process in a
       * multithreading context
       *
       * When computing score, several threads are used by record counters to
       * perform countings on the rows of the database, the MinNbRowsPerThread
       * method indicates how many rows each thread should at least process.
       * This is used to compute the number of threads actually run. This number
       * is equal to the min between the max number of threads allowed and the
       * number of records in the database divided by nb. */
      virtual void setMinNbRowsPerThread(const std::size_t nb) const;

      /// returns the minimum of rows that each thread should process
      virtual std::size_t minNbRowsPerThread() const;

      /// sets new ranges to perform the countings used by the parameter estimator
      /** @param ranges a set of pairs {(X1,Y1),...,(Xn,Yn)} of database's rows
       * indices. The countings are then performed only on the union of the
       * rows [Xi,Yi), i in {1,...,n}. This is useful, e.g, when performing
       * cross validation tasks, in which part of the database should be ignored.
       * An empty set of ranges is equivalent to an interval [X,Y) ranging over
       * the whole database. */
      template < template < typename > class XALLOC >
      void setRanges(
         const std::vector< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t >,
                            XALLOC< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t > > >& new_ranges);

      /// reset the ranges to the one range corresponding to the whole database
      void clearRanges();

      /// returns the current ranges
      const std::vector< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t >,
                         ALLOC< std::pair< std::size_t, std::size_t > > >&
         ranges() const;

      /// returns the CPT's parameters corresponding to a given target node
      std::vector< double, ALLOC< double > > parameters(const NodeId target_node);

      /// returns the CPT's parameters corresponding to a given nodeset
      /** The vector contains the parameters of an n-dimensional CPT. The
       * distribution of the dimensions of the CPT within the vector is as
       * follows:
       * first, there is the target node, then the conditioning nodes (in the
       * order in which they were specified). */
      virtual std::vector< double, ALLOC< double > >
         parameters(const NodeId                                  target_node,
                    const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > >& conditioning_nodes)
         = 0;

      /// sets the CPT's parameters corresponding to a given Potential
      /** The potential is assumed to be a conditional probability, the first
       * variable of its variablesSequence() being the target variable, the
       * other ones being on the right side of the conditioning bar. */
      template < typename GUM_SCALAR >
      void setParameters(const NodeId                                  target_node,
                         const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > >& conditioning_nodes,
                         Potential< GUM_SCALAR >&                      pot);

      /// returns the mapping from ids to column positions in the database
      /** @warning An empty nodeId2Columns bijection means that the mapping is
       * an identity, i.e., the value of a NodeId is equal to the index of the
       * column in the DatabaseTable. */
      const Bijection< NodeId, std::size_t, ALLOC< std::size_t > >& nodeId2Columns() const;

      /// returns the database on which we perform the counts
      const DatabaseTable< ALLOC >& database() const;

      /// assign a new Bayes net to all the counter's generators depending on a BN
      /** Typically, generators based on EM or K-means depend on a model to
       * compute correctly their outputs. Method setBayesNet enables to
       * update their BN model. */
      template < typename GUM_SCALAR >
      void setBayesNet(const BayesNet< GUM_SCALAR >& new_bn);

      /// returns the allocator used by the score
      allocator_type getAllocator() const;

      /// @}

      protected:
      /// an external a priori
      Apriori< ALLOC >* external_apriori_{nullptr};

      /** @brief if a score was used for learning the structure of the PGM, this
       * is the a priori internal to the score */
      Apriori< ALLOC >* score_internal_apriori_{nullptr};

      /// the record counter used to parse the database
      RecordCounter< ALLOC > counter_;

      /// an empty vector of nodes, used for empty conditioning
      const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > > empty_nodevect_;


      /// copy operator
      ParamEstimator< ALLOC >& operator=(const ParamEstimator< ALLOC >& from);

      /// move operator
      ParamEstimator< ALLOC >& operator=(ParamEstimator< ALLOC >&& from);

      private:
#ifndef DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS

      /** @brief check the coherency between the parameters passed to
       * the setParameters functions */
      template < typename GUM_SCALAR >
      void _checkParameters_(const NodeId                                  target_node,
                             const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > >& conditioning_nodes,
                             Potential< GUM_SCALAR >&                      pot);

      // sets the CPT's parameters corresponding to a given Potential
      // when the potential belongs to a BayesNet<GUM_SCALAR> when
      // GUM_SCALAR is different from a double
      template < typename GUM_SCALAR >
      typename std::enable_if< !std::is_same< GUM_SCALAR, double >::value, void >::type
         _setParameters_(const NodeId                                  target_node,
                         const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > >& conditioning_nodes,
                         Potential< GUM_SCALAR >&                      pot);

      // sets the CPT's parameters corresponding to a given Potential
      // when the potential belongs to a BayesNet<GUM_SCALAR> when
      // GUM_SCALAR is equal to double (the code is optimized for doubles)
      template < typename GUM_SCALAR >
      typename std::enable_if< std::is_same< GUM_SCALAR, double >::value, void >::type
         _setParameters_(const NodeId                                  target_node,
                         const std::vector< NodeId, ALLOC< NodeId > >& conditioning_nodes,
                         Potential< GUM_SCALAR >&                      pot);

#endif /* DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS */
    };

  } /* namespace learning */

} /* namespace gum */

/// include the template implementation
#include <agrum/BN/learning/paramUtils/paramEstimator_tpl.h>

#endif /* GUM_LEARNING_PARAM_ESTIMATOR_H */