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+#ifndef LINE_OPTIMIZER_H_
+#define LINE_OPTIMIZER_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "error_surface.h"
+#include "sampler.h"
+
+template <typename T> class SparseVector;
+class Weights;
+
+struct LineOptimizer {
+
+  // use MINIMIZE_SCORE for things like TER, WER
+  // MAXIMIZE_SCORE for things like BLEU
+  enum ScoreType { MAXIMIZE_SCORE, MINIMIZE_SCORE };
+
+  // merge all the error surfaces together into a global
+  // error surface and find (the middle of) the best segment
+  static double LineOptimize(
+     const std::vector<ErrorSurface>& envs,
+     const LineOptimizer::ScoreType type,
+     float* best_score,
+     const double epsilon = 1.0/65536.0);
+
+  // return a random vector of length 1 where all dimensions
+  // not listed in dimensions will be 0.
+  static void RandomUnitVector(const std::vector<int>& dimensions,
+                               SparseVector<double>* axis,
+                               RandomNumberGenerator<boost::mt19937>* rng);
+
+  // generate a list of directions to optimize; the list will
+  // contain the orthogonal vectors corresponding to the dimensions in
+  // primary and then additional_random_directions directions in those
+  // dimensions as well.  All vectors will be length 1.
+  static void CreateOptimizationDirections(
+     const std::vector<int>& primary,
+     int additional_random_directions,
+     RandomNumberGenerator<boost::mt19937>* rng,
+     std::vector<SparseVector<double> >* dirs);
+
+};
+
+#endif