ppforest2 v0.1.0
Projection Pursuit Decision Trees and Random Forests
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ppforest2::dr::DRStrategy Struct Referenceabstract

Abstract strategy for dimensionality reduction. More...

#include <DRStrategy.hpp>

Public Member Functions

DRResult operator() (types::FeatureMatrix const &x, stats::GroupPartition const &group_spec, stats::RNG &rng) const
 Convenience operator: equivalent to select().
 
virtual DRResult select (types::FeatureMatrix const &x, stats::GroupPartition const &group_spec, stats::RNG &rng) const =0
 Select a subset of variables.
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from Strategy< DRStrategy >
virtual ~Strategy ()=default
 
virtual std::string display_name () const=0
 Human-readable name for display in summaries.
 
virtual void to_json (nlohmann::json &j) const=0
 Serialize this strategy's configuration to JSON.
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Public Types inherited from Strategy< DRStrategy >
using Factory
 Factory function type for deserializing a strategy from JSON.
 
using Ptr
 
- Static Public Member Functions inherited from Strategy< DRStrategy >
static Ptr from_json (nlohmann::json const &j)
 Construct a strategy from its JSON representation.
 
static bool register_strategy (std::string const &name, Factory factory)
 Register a concrete strategy for JSON deserialization.
 

Detailed Description

Abstract strategy for dimensionality reduction.

Before projection pursuit optimization, a DR strategy selects a subset of variables (columns) to work with. This reduces the cost of the PP step and introduces randomness in forests.

Implementations must also provide to_json() for serialization.

Member Function Documentation

◆ operator()()

DRResult ppforest2::dr::DRStrategy::operator() ( types::FeatureMatrix const & x,
stats::GroupPartition const & group_spec,
stats::RNG & rng ) const
inline

Convenience operator: equivalent to select().

◆ select()

virtual DRResult ppforest2::dr::DRStrategy::select ( types::FeatureMatrix const & x,
stats::GroupPartition const & group_spec,
stats::RNG & rng ) const
pure virtual

Select a subset of variables.

Parameters
xFeature matrix (n × p).
group_specGroup partition.
rngRandom number generator.
Returns
DRResult recording which columns were selected.

Implemented in ppforest2::dr::DRNoopStrategy, and ppforest2::dr::DRUniformStrategy.


The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: