CopyWeight.java

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/*
 *    CopyWeight.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
 */
package mulan.transformations.multiclass;

import java.util.List;
import weka.core.Instance;

/**
 * Class that implement the Copy-Weight transformation method
 * @author Stavros
 */
public class CopyWeight extends Copy {

    /**
     * Transforms a multi-label instance to a list of single-label instances,
     * one for each of the labels that annotate the instance, by copying the
     * feature vector and attaching a weight equal to 1/(list size).
     *
     * @param instance a multi-label instance
     * @return a list with the transformed single-label instances
     */
    @Override
    List<Instance> transformInstance(Instance instance) {
        List<Instance> copy = super.transformInstance(instance);
        for (Instance anInstance : copy) {
            anInstance.setWeight(1.0 / copy.size());
        }
        return copy;
    }
}