From 89b662b51373f0f466d62a65d3f0a164d1d31b1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Dyer <cdyer@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:08 -0500
Subject: rename vest to dpmert (dynamic programming mert), rename variables
 and types to correspond to standard geometric concepts

---
 dpmert/line_optimizer.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 dpmert/line_optimizer.h

(limited to 'dpmert/line_optimizer.h')

diff --git a/dpmert/line_optimizer.h b/dpmert/line_optimizer.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83819f41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dpmert/line_optimizer.h
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#ifndef LINE_OPTIMIZER_H_
+#define LINE_OPTIMIZER_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "sparse_vector.h"
+#include "error_surface.h"
+#include "sampler.h"
+
+class EvaluationMetric;
+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 EvaluationMetric* metric,
+     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
+     , bool include_primary=true
+    );
+
+};
+
+#endif
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