/** @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
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*/
/** @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 ;
}