/** @internal ** @file aib.c ** @author Brian Fulkerson ** @author Andrea Vedaldi ** @brief Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) - Definition **/ /* AUTORIGHTS Copyright (C) 2007-09 Andrea Vedaldi and Brian Fulkerson This file is part of VLFeat, available in the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. */ /** @file aib.h ** @brief Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) This provides an implementation of Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) as first described in: [Slonim] N. Slonim and N. Tishby. Agglomerative information bottleneck. In Proc. NIPS, 1999 AIB takes a discrete valued feature \f$x\f$ and a label \f$c\f$ and gradually compresses \f$x\f$ by iteratively merging values which minimize the loss in mutual information \f$I(x,c)\f$. While the algorithm is equivalent to the one described in [Slonim], it has some speedups that enable handling much larger datasets. Let N be the number of feature values and C the number of labels. The algorithm of [Slonim] is \f$O(N^2)\f$ in space and \f$O(C N^3)\f$ in time. This algorithm is \f$O(N)\f$ space and \f$O(C N^2)\f$ time in common cases (\f$O(C N^3)\f$ in the worst case). @section aib-overview Overview Given a discrete feature @f$x \in \mathcal{X} = \{x_1,\dots,x_N\}@f$ and a category label @f$c = 1,\dots,C@f$ with joint probability @f$p(x,c)@f$, AIB computes a compressed feature @f$[x]_{ij}@f$ by merging two values @f$x_i@f$ and @f$x_j@f$. Among all the pairs @f$ij@f$, AIB chooses the one that yields the smallest loss in the mutual information @f[ D_{ij} = I(x,c) - I([x]_{ij},c) = \sum_c p(x_i) \log \frac{p(x_i,c)}{p(x_i)p(c)} + \sum_c p(x_i) \log \frac{p(x_i,c)}{p(x_i)p(c)} - \sum_c (p(x_i)+p(x_j)) \log \frac {p(x_i,c)+p(x_i,c)}{(p(x_i)+p(x_j))p(c)} @f] AIB iterates this procedure until the desired level of compression is achieved. @section aib-algorithm Algorithm details Computing \f$D_{ij}\f$ requires \f$O(C)\f$ operations. For example, in standard AIB we need to calculate @f[ D_{ij} = I(x,c) - I([x]_{ij},c) = \sum_c p(x_i) \log \frac{p(x_i,c)}{p(x_i)p(c)} + \sum_c p(x_i) \log \frac{p(x_i,c)}{p(x_i)p(c)} - \sum_c (p(x_i)+p(x_j)) \log \frac {p(x_i,c)+p(x_i,c)}{(p(x_i)+p(x_j))p(c)} @f] Thus in a basic implementation of AIB, finding the optimal pair \f$ij\f$ of feature values requires \f$O(CN^2)\f$ operations in total. In order to join all the \f$N\f$ values, we repeat this procedure \f$O(N)\f$ times, yielding \f$O(N^3 C)\f$ time and \f$O(1)\f$ space complexity (this does not account for the space need to store the input). The complexity can be improved by reusing computations. For instance, we can store the matrix \f$D = [ D_{ij} ]\f$ (which requires \f$O(N^2)\f$ space). Then, after joining \f$ij\f$, all of the matrix D except the rows and columns (the matrix is symmetric) of indexes i and j is unchanged. These two rows and columns are deleted and a new row and column, whose computation requires \f$O(NC)\f$ operations, are added for the merged value \f$x_{ij}\f$. Finding the minimal element of the matrix still requires \f$O(N^2)\f$ operations, so the complexity of this algorithm is \f$O(N^2C + N^3)\f$ time and \f$O(N^2)\f$ space. We can obtain a much better expected complexity as follows. First, instead of storing the whole matrix D, we store the smallest element (index and value) of each row as \f$(q_i, D_i)\f$ (notice that this is also the best element of each column since D is symmetric). This requires \f$O(N)\f$ space and finding the minimal element of the matrix requires \f$O(N)\f$ operations. After joining \f$ij\f$, we have to efficiently update this representation. This is done as follows: - The entries \f$(q_i,D_i)\f$ and \f$(q_j,D_j)\f$ are deleted. - A new entry \f$(q_{ij},D_{ij})\f$ for the joint value \f$x_{ij}\f$ is added. This requires \f$O(CN)\f$ operations. - We test which other entries \f$(q_{k},D_{k})\f$ need to be updated. Recall that \f$(q_{k},D_{k})\f$ means that, before the merge, the value closest to \f$x_k\f$ was \f$x_{q_k}\f$ at a distance \f$D_k\f$. Then - If \f$q_k \not = i\f$, \f$q_k \not = j\f$ and \f$D_{k,ij} \geq D_k\f$, then \f$q_k\f$ is still the closest element and we do not do anything. - If \f$q_k \not = i\f$, \f$q_k \not = j\f$ and \f$D_{k,ij} < D_k\f$, then the closest element is \f$ij\f$ and we update the entry in constant time. - If \f$q_k = i\f$ or \f$q_k = j\f$, then we need to re-compute the closest element in \f$O(CN)\f$ operations. This algorithm requires only \f$O(N)\f$ space and \f$O(\gamma(N) C N^2)\f$ time, where \f$\gamma(N)\f$ is the expected number of times we fall in the last case. In common cases one has \f$\gamma(N) \approx \mathrm{const.}\f$, so the time saving is significant. **/ #include "aib.h" #include #include #include /* DBL_MAX */ #include /** @internal @brief The maximum value which beta may take */ #define BETA_MAX DBL_MAX /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @internal ** @brief Normalizes an array of probabilities to sum to 1 ** ** @param P The array of probabilities ** @param nelem The number of elements in the array ** ** @return Modifies P to contain values which sum to 1 **/ void vl_aib_normalize_P (double * P, vl_uint nelem) { vl_uint i; double sum = 0; for(i=0; ibeta to find the minimum value and fills @a minbeta and ** @a besti and @a bestj with this information. **/ void vl_aib_min_beta (VlAIB * aib, vl_uint * besti, vl_uint * bestj, double * minbeta) { vl_uint i; *minbeta = aib->beta[0]; *besti = 0; *bestj = aib->bidx[0]; for(i=0; inentries; i++) { if(aib->beta[i] < *minbeta) { *minbeta = aib->beta[i]; *besti = i; *bestj = aib->bidx[i]; } } } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @internal ** @brief Merges two nodes i,j in the internal datastructure ** ** @param aib A pointer to the internal data structure ** @param i The index of one member of the pair to merge ** @param j The index of the other member of the pair to merge ** @param new The index of the new node which corresponds to the union of ** (@a i, @a j). ** ** Nodes are merged by replacing the entry @a i with the union of @c ** ij, moving the node stored in last position (called @c lastnode) ** back to jth position and the entry at the end. ** ** After the nodes have been merged, it updates which nodes should be ** considered on the next iteration based on which beta values could ** potentially change. The merged node will always be part of this ** list. **/ void vl_aib_merge_nodes (VlAIB * aib, vl_uint i, vl_uint j, vl_uint new) { vl_uint last_entry = aib->nentries - 1 ; vl_uint c, n ; /* clear the list of nodes to update */ aib->nwhich = 0; /* make sure that i is smaller than j */ if(i > j) { vl_uint tmp = j; j = i; i = tmp; } /* ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Merge entries i and j, storing the result in i * -------------------------------------------------------------- */ aib-> Px [i] += aib->Px[j] ; aib-> beta [i] = BETA_MAX ; aib-> nodes[i] = new ; for (c = 0; c < aib->nlabels; c++) aib-> Pcx [i*aib->nlabels + c] += aib-> Pcx [j*aib->nlabels + c] ; /* ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Move last entry to j * -------------------------------------------------------------- */ aib-> Px [j] = aib-> Px [last_entry]; aib-> beta [j] = aib-> beta [last_entry]; aib-> bidx [j] = aib-> bidx [last_entry]; aib-> nodes [j] = aib-> nodes [last_entry]; for (c = 0 ; c < aib->nlabels ; c++) aib-> Pcx[j*aib->nlabels + c] = aib-> Pcx [last_entry*aib->nlabels + c] ; /* delete last entry */ aib-> nentries -- ; /* ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Scan for entries to update * -------------------------------------------------------------- */ /* * After mergin entries i and j, we need to update all other entries * that had one of these two as closest match. We also need to * update the renewend entry i. This is added by the loop below * since bidx [i] = j exactly because i was merged. * * Additionaly, since we moved the last entry back to the entry j, * we need to adjust the valeus of bidx to reflect this. */ for (n = 0 ; n < aib->nentries; n++) { if(aib->bidx[n] == i || aib->bidx[n] == j) { aib->bidx [n] = 0; aib->beta [n] = BETA_MAX; aib->which [aib->nwhich++] = n ; } else if(aib->bidx[n] == last_entry) { aib->bidx[n] = j ; } } } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @internal ** @brief Updates @c aib->beta and @c aib->bidx according to @c aib->which ** ** @param aib AIB data structure. ** ** The function calculates @c beta[i] and @c bidx[i] for the nodes @c ** i listed in @c aib->which. @c beta[i] is the minimal variation of mutual ** information (or other score) caused by merging entry @c i with another entry ** and @c bidx[i] is the index of this best matching entry. ** ** Notice that for each entry @c i that we need to update, a full ** scan of all the other entries must be performed. **/ void vl_aib_update_beta (VlAIB * aib) { #define PLOGP(x) ((x)*log((x))) vl_uint i; double * Px = aib->Px; double * Pcx = aib->Pcx; double * tmp = vl_malloc(sizeof(double)*aib->nentries); vl_uint a, b, c ; /* * T1 = I(x,c) - I([x]_ij) = A + B - C * * A = \sum_c p(xa,c) \log ( p(xa,c) / p(xa) ) * B = \sum_c p(xb,c) \log ( p(xb,c) / p(xb) ) * C = \sum_c (p(xa,c)+p(xb,c)) \log ((p(xa,c)+p(xb,c)) / (p(xa)+p(xb))) * * C = C1 + C2 * C1 = \sum_c (p(xa,c)+p(xb,c)) \log (p(xa,c)+p(xb,c)) * C2 = - (p(xa)+p(xb) \log (p(xa)+p(xb)) */ /* precalculate A and B */ for (a = 0; a < aib->nentries; a++) { tmp[a] = 0; for (c = 0; c < aib->nlabels; c++) { double Pac = Pcx [a*aib->nlabels + c] ; if(Pac != 0) tmp[a] += Pac * log (Pac / Px[a]) ; } } /* for each entry listed in which */ for (i = 0 ; i < aib->nwhich; i++) { a = aib->which[i]; /* for each other entry */ for(b = 0 ; b < aib->nentries ; b++) { double T1 = 0 ; if (a == b || Px [a] == 0 || Px [b] == 0) continue ; T1 = PLOGP ((Px[a] + Px[b])) ; /* - C2 */ T1 += tmp[a] + tmp[b] ; /* + A + B */ for (c = 0 ; c < aib->nlabels; ++ c) { double Pac = Pcx [a*aib->nlabels + c] ; double Pbc = Pcx [b*aib->nlabels + c] ; if (Pac == 0 && Pbc == 0) continue; T1 += - PLOGP ((Pac + Pbc)) ; /* - C1 */ } /* * Now we have beta(a,b). We check wether this is the best beta * for entries a and b. */ { double beta = T1 ; if (beta < aib->beta[a]) { aib->beta[a] = beta; aib->bidx[a] = b; } if (beta < aib->beta[b]) { aib->beta[b] = beta; aib->bidx[b] = a; } } } } vl_free(tmp); } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @internal @brief Calculates the current information and entropy ** ** @param aib A pointer to the internal data structure ** @param I The current mutual information (out). ** @param H The current entropy (out). ** ** Calculates the current mutual information and entropy of Pcx and sets ** @a I and @a H to these new values. **/ void vl_aib_calculate_information(VlAIB * aib, double * I, double * H) { vl_uint r, c; *H = 0; *I = 0; /* * H(x) = - sum_x p(x) \ log p(x) * I(x,c) = sum_xc p(x,c) \ log (p(x,c) / p(x)p(c)) */ /* for each entry */ for(r = 0 ; r< aib->nentries ; r++) { if (aib->Px[r] == 0) continue ; *H += -log(aib->Px[r]) * aib->Px[r] ; for(c=0; cnlabels; c++) { if (aib->Pcx[r*aib->nlabels+c] == 0) continue; *I += aib->Pcx[r*aib->nlabels+c] * log (aib->Pcx[r*aib->nlabels+c] / (aib->Px[r]*aib->Pc[c])) ; } } } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @brief Allocates and initializes the internal data structure ** ** @param Pcx A pointer to a 2D array of probabilities ** @param nvalues The number of rows in the array ** @param nlabels The number of columns in the array ** ** Creates a new @a VlAIB struct containing pointers to all the data that ** will be used during the AIB process. ** ** Allocates memory for the following: ** - Px (nvalues*sizeof(double)) ** - Pc (nlabels*sizeof(double)) ** - nodelist (nvalues*sizeof(vl_uint)) ** - which (nvalues*sizeof(vl_uint)) ** - beta (nvalues*sizeof(double)) ** - bidx (nvalues*sizeof(vl_uint)) ** - parents ((2*nvalues-1)*sizeof(vl_uint)) ** - costs (nvalues*sizeof(double)) ** ** Since it simply copies to pointer to Pcx, the total additional memory ** requirement is: ** ** (3*nvalues+nlabels)*sizeof(double) + 4*nvalues*sizeof(vl_uint) ** ** @returns An allocated and initialized @a VlAIB pointer **/ VlAIB * vl_aib_new(double * Pcx, vl_uint nvalues, vl_uint nlabels) { VlAIB * aib = vl_malloc(sizeof(VlAIB)); vl_uint i ; aib->Pcx = Pcx ; aib->nvalues = nvalues ; aib->nlabels = nlabels ; vl_aib_normalize_P (aib->Pcx, aib->nvalues * aib->nlabels) ; aib->Px = vl_aib_new_Px (aib->Pcx, aib->nvalues, aib->nlabels) ; aib->Pc = vl_aib_new_Pc (aib->Pcx, aib->nvalues, aib->nlabels) ; aib->nentries = aib->nvalues ; aib->nodes = vl_aib_new_nodelist(aib->nentries) ; aib->beta = vl_malloc(sizeof(double) * aib->nentries) ; aib->bidx = vl_malloc(sizeof(vl_uint) * aib->nentries) ; for(i = 0 ; i < aib->nentries ; i++) aib->beta [i] = BETA_MAX ; /* Initially we must consider all nodes */ aib->nwhich = aib->nvalues; aib->which = vl_aib_new_nodelist (aib->nwhich) ; aib->parents = vl_malloc(sizeof(vl_uint)*(aib->nvalues*2-1)); /* Initially, all parents point to a nonexistent node */ for (i = 0 ; i < 2 * aib->nvalues - 1 ; i++) aib->parents [i] = 2 * aib->nvalues ; /* Allocate cost output vector */ aib->costs = vl_malloc (sizeof(double) * (aib->nvalues - 1 + 1)) ; return aib ; } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @brief Deletes AIB data structure ** @param aib data structure to delete. **/ void vl_aib_delete (VlAIB * aib) { if (aib) { if (aib-> nodes) vl_free (aib-> nodes); if (aib-> beta) vl_free (aib-> beta); if (aib-> bidx) vl_free (aib-> bidx); if (aib-> which) vl_free (aib-> which); if (aib-> Px) vl_free (aib-> Px); if (aib-> Pc) vl_free (aib-> Pc); if (aib-> parents) vl_free (aib-> parents); if (aib-> costs) vl_free (aib-> costs); vl_free (aib) ; } } /** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** @brief Runs AIB on Pcx ** ** @param aib AIB object to process ** ** The function runs Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) on ** the joint probability table @a aib->Pcx which has labels along the ** columns and feature values along the rows. AIB iteratively merges ** the two values of the feature @c x that causes the smallest ** decrease in mutual information between the random variables @c x ** and @c c. ** ** Merge operations are arranged in a binary tree. The nodes of the ** tree correspond to the original feature values and any other value ** obtained as a result of a merge operation. The nodes are indexed ** in breadth-first order, starting from the leaves. The first index ** is zero. In this way, the leaves correspond directly to the ** original feature values. In total there are @c 2*nvalues-1 nodes. ** ** The results may be accessed through vl_aib_get_parents which ** returns an array with one element per tree node. Each ** element is the index the parent node. The root parent is equal to ** zero. The array has @c 2*nvalues-1 elements. ** ** Feature values with null probability are ignored by the algorithm ** and their nodes have parents indexing a non-existent tree node (a ** value bigger than @c 2*nvalues-1). ** ** Then the function will also compute the information level after each ** merge. vl_get_costs will return a vector with the information level ** after each merge. @a ** cost has @c nvalues entries: The first is the value of the cost ** functional before any merge, and the others are the cost after the ** @c nvalues-1 merges. ** **/ VL_EXPORT void vl_aib_process(VlAIB *aib) { vl_uint i, besti, bestj, newnode, nodei, nodej; double I, H; double minbeta; /* Calculate initial value of cost function */ vl_aib_calculate_information (aib, &I, &H) ; aib->costs[0] = I; /* Initially which = all */ /* For each merge */ for(i = 0 ; i < aib->nvalues - 1 ; i++) { /* update entries in aib-> which */ vl_aib_update_beta(aib); /* find best pair of nodes to merge */ vl_aib_min_beta (aib, &besti, &bestj, &minbeta); if(minbeta == BETA_MAX) /* only null-probability entries remain */ break; /* Add the parent pointers for the new node */ newnode = aib->nvalues + i ; nodei = aib->nodes[besti]; nodej = aib->nodes[bestj]; aib->parents [nodei] = newnode ; aib->parents [nodej] = newnode ; aib->parents [newnode] = 0 ; /* Merge the nodes which produced the minimum beta */ vl_aib_merge_nodes (aib, besti, bestj, newnode) ; vl_aib_calculate_information (aib, &I, &H) ; aib->costs[i+1] = I; VL_PRINTF ("aib: (%5d,%5d)=%5d dE: %10.3g I: %6.4g H: %6.4g updt: %5d\n", nodei, nodej, newnode, minbeta, I, H, aib->nwhich) ; } /* fill ignored entries with NaNs */ for(; i < aib->nvalues - 1 ; i++) aib->costs[i+1] = VL_NAN_D ; }