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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.criterions; import com.rapidminer.operator.learner.tree.MinimalGainHandler; /** * 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 by the entropy. * * @author Sebastian Land, Ingo Mierswa */ public class InfoGainColumnCriterion extends AbstractColumnCriterion implements MinimalGainHandler { private static double LOG_FACTOR = 1d / Math.log(2); protected double minimalGain = 0.1; public InfoGainColumnCriterion() {} public InfoGainColumnCriterion(double minimalGain) { this.minimalGain = minimalGain; } @Override public void setMinimalGain(double minimalGain) { this.minimalGain = minimalGain; } @Override public double getBenefit(double[][] weightCounts) { return getBenefit(weightCounts, true); } /** * Calculates the information gain. Only sets the information gain to zero in case it is below * the minimal gain if trim is <code>true</code>. * * @param weightCounts * @param trim * if <code>true</code> the benefit is set to zero if the gain is not at least * minimalGain of the entropy * @return */ public double getBenefit(double[][] weightCounts, boolean trim) { int numberOfValues = weightCounts.length; int numberOfLabels = weightCounts[0].length; // calculate entropies double[] entropies = new double[numberOfValues]; double[] totalWeights = new double[numberOfValues]; int differentValues = 0; for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { totalWeights[v] += weightCounts[v][l]; } if (totalWeights[v] > 0) { differentValues++; for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { if (weightCounts[v][l] > 0) { double proportion = weightCounts[v][l] / totalWeights[v]; entropies[v] -= Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR * proportion; } } } } // if the attribute has only one value left, discourage a split if (differentValues < 2) { return Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY; } // calculate information amount WITH this attribute double totalWeight = 0.0d; for (double w : totalWeights) { totalWeight += w; } double information = 0.0d; for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { information += totalWeights[v] / totalWeight * entropies[v]; } // calculate information amount WITHOUT this attribute double[] classWeights = new double[numberOfLabels]; for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { for (int v = 0; v < numberOfValues; v++) { classWeights[l] += weightCounts[v][l]; } } double totalClassWeight = 0.0d; for (double w : classWeights) { totalClassWeight += w; } double classEntropy = 0.0d; for (int l = 0; l < numberOfLabels; l++) { if (classWeights[l] > 0) { double proportion = classWeights[l] / totalClassWeight; classEntropy -= Math.log(proportion) * LOG_FACTOR * proportion; } } // calculate and return information gain double informationGain = classEntropy - information; if (trim && informationGain < minimalGain * classEntropy) { informationGain = 0; } return informationGain; } protected 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; } @Override public boolean supportsIncrementalCalculation() { return true; } @Override public double getIncrementalBenefit(WeightDistribution distribution) { double totalEntropy = getEntropy(distribution.getTotalLabelWeigths(), distribution.getTotalWeigth()); double gain = getEntropy(distribution.getLeftLabelWeigths(), distribution.getLeftWeigth()) * distribution.getLeftWeigth() / distribution.getTotalWeigth(); gain += getEntropy(distribution.getRightLabelWeigths(), distribution.getRightWeigth()) * distribution.getRightWeigth() / distribution.getTotalWeigth(); if (distribution.hasMissingValues()) { gain += getEntropy(distribution.getMissingsLabelWeigths(), distribution.getMissingsWeigth()) * distribution.getMissingsWeigth() / distribution.getTotalWeigth(); } // check if gain is enough if (totalEntropy - gain < minimalGain * totalEntropy) { return 0; } return totalEntropy - gain; } }