The AUC kernel can be used to maximize the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) instead of margin in SVM training.
It takes as argument a sub-kernel and Labels based on which number of positive labels times number of negative labels many ``virtual'' examples are created that ensure that all positive examples get a higher score than all negative examples in training.
Definition at line 28 of file AUCKernel.h.

Public Member Functions | |
| CAUCKernel (int32_t size, CKernel *subkernel) | |
| virtual | ~CAUCKernel () |
| CLabels * | setup_auc_maximization (CLabels *labels) |
| virtual bool | init (CFeatures *l, CFeatures *r) |
| virtual bool | load_init (FILE *src) |
| virtual bool | save_init (FILE *dest) |
| virtual EKernelType | get_kernel_type () |
| virtual const char * | get_name () const |
Protected Member Functions | |
| virtual float64_t | compute (int32_t idx_a, int32_t idx_b) |
Protected Attributes | |
| CKernel * | subkernel |
| CAUCKernel::CAUCKernel | ( | int32_t | size, | |
| CKernel * | subkernel | |||
| ) |
constructor
| size | cache size | |
| subkernel | the subkernel |
Definition at line 18 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
| CAUCKernel::~CAUCKernel | ( | ) | [virtual] |
destructor
Definition at line 24 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
| float64_t CAUCKernel::compute | ( | int32_t | idx_a, | |
| int32_t | idx_b | |||
| ) | [protected, virtual] |
compute kernel function for features a and b idx_{a,b} denote the index of the feature vectors in the corresponding feature object
| idx_a | index a | |
| idx_b | index b |
Implements CKernel.
Definition at line 127 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
| virtual EKernelType CAUCKernel::get_kernel_type | ( | ) | [virtual] |
return what type of kernel we are
Implements CKernel.
Definition at line 75 of file AUCKernel.h.
| virtual const char* CAUCKernel::get_name | ( | ) | const [virtual] |
return the kernel's name
Implements CSGObject.
Definition at line 81 of file AUCKernel.h.
initialize kernel
| l | features of left-hand side | |
| r | features of right-hand side |
Reimplemented from CSimpleKernel< uint16_t >.
Definition at line 110 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
| bool CAUCKernel::load_init | ( | FILE * | src | ) | [virtual] |
load kernel init_data
| src | file to load from |
Implements CKernel.
Definition at line 117 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
| bool CAUCKernel::save_init | ( | FILE * | dest | ) | [virtual] |
save kernel init_data
| dest | file to save to |
Implements CKernel.
Definition at line 122 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
initialize kernel based on current labeling and subkernel
| labels | - current labeling |
Definition at line 30 of file AUCKernel.cpp.
CKernel* CAUCKernel::subkernel [protected] |
the subkernel
Definition at line 96 of file AUCKernel.h.