/* * RapidMiner * * Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Rapid-I and the contributors * * Complete list of developers available at our web site: * * http://rapid-i.com * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License * along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.rapidminer.operator.learner.tree; import com.rapidminer.example.set.SplittedExampleSet; /** * This criterion implements the well known information gain in * order to calculate the benefit of a split. The information gain * is defined as the change in entropy from a prior state to a * state that takes some information as given: * * IG(E_x,a) = H(E_x) − H(E_x | a) * * @author Sebastian Land, Ingo Mierswa * @version $Id: InfoGainCriterion.java,v 1.6 2008/05/09 19:22:52 ingomierswa Exp $ */ public class InfoGainCriterion extends AbstractCriterion { private static double LOG_FACTOR = 1d / Math.log(2); private FrequencyCalculator calculator = new FrequencyCalculator(); public double getBenefit(SplittedExampleSet exampleSet) { double[] totalWeights = calculator.getLabelWeights(exampleSet); double totalWeight = calculator.getTotalWeight(totalWeights); double totalEntropy = getEntropy(totalWeights, totalWeight); double gain = 0; for (int i = 0; i < exampleSet.getNumberOfSubsets(); i++) { exampleSet.selectSingleSubset(i); double[] partitionWeights = calculator.getLabelWeights(exampleSet); double partitionWeight = calculator.getTotalWeight(partitionWeights); gain += getEntropy(partitionWeights, partitionWeight) * partitionWeight / totalWeight; } return totalEntropy - gain; } public double getEntropy(double[] labelWeights, double totalWeight) { double entropy = 0; for (int i = 0; i < labelWeights.length; i++) { if (labelWeights[i] > 0) { double proportion = labelWeights[i] / totalWeight; entropy -= (Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR) * proportion; } } return entropy; } public boolean supportsIncrementalCalculation() { return true; } public double getIncrementalBenefit() { double totalEntropy = getEntropy(totalLabelWeights, totalWeight); double gain = getEntropy(leftLabelWeights, leftWeight) * leftWeight / totalWeight; gain += getEntropy(rightLabelWeights, rightWeight) * rightWeight / totalWeight; return totalEntropy - gain; } }