ActivationElliott.java

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package org.encog.engine.network.activation;


/**
 * Computationally efficient alternative to ActivationSigmoid.
 * Its output is in the range [0, 1], and it is derivable.
 * 
 * It will approach the 0 and 1 more slowly than Sigmoid so it 
 * might be more suitable to classification tasks than predictions tasks.
 * 
 * Elliott, D.L. "A better activation function for artificial neural networks", 1993
 * <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46.7204&rep=rep1&type=pdf"></a>
 */
public class ActivationElliott implements ActivationFunction {

    /**
     * Serial id for this class.
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1234L;

    /**
     * The parameters.
     */
    private final double[] params;

    /**
     * Construct a basic HTAN activation function, with a slope of 1.
     */
    public ActivationElliott() {
        this.params = new double[1];
        this.params[0] = 1.0;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public final void activationFunction(final double[] x, final int start,
            final int size) {
        for (int i = start; i < start + size; i++) {
        	double s = params[0];
        	x[i] = ((x[i]*s) / 2) / (1 + Math.abs(x[i]*s)) + 0.5;        			
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return The object cloned;
     */
    @Override
    public final ActivationFunction clone() {
        return new ActivationElliott();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public final double derivativeFunction(final double b, final double a) {
    	double s = params[0];
    	return s/(2.0*(1.0+Math.abs(b*s))*(1+Math.abs(b*s)));
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public final String[] getParamNames() {
        final String[] result = { "Slope" };
        return result;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public final double[] getParams() {
        return this.params;
    }

    /**
     * @return Return true, Elliott activation has a derivative.
     */
    @Override
    public final boolean hasDerivative() {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public final void setParam(final int index, final double value) {
        this.params[index] = value;
    }
    
    /**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 */
	@Override
	public String getFactoryCode() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String getLabel() {
		return "elliott";
	}
}