NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

 mlpack_sparse_coding [-k int] [-i string] [-m unknown] [-l double] [-L double] [-n int] [-w double] [-N bool] [-o double] [-s int] [-T string] [-t string] [-V bool] [-c string] [-d string] [-M unknown] [-h -v] 

DESCRIPTION¶

The original data matrix X can then be reconstructed as Z * D. Therefore, this program finds a representation of each point in X as a sparse linear combination of atoms in the dictionary D.

The sparse coding is found with an algorithm which alternates between a dictionary step, which updates the dictionary D, and a sparse coding step, which updates the sparse coding matrix.

Once a dictionary D is found, the sparse coding model may be used to encode other matrices, and saved for future usage.

To run this program, either an input matrix or an already-saved sparse coding model must be specified. An input matrix may be specified with the ’--training_file (-t)' option, along with the number of atoms in the dictionary (specified with the '--atoms (-k)' parameter). It is also possible to specify an initial dictionary for the optimization, with the ’--initial_dictionary_file (-i)' parameter. An input model may be specified with the '--input_model_file (-m)' parameter.

As an example, to build a sparse coding model on the dataset 'data.csv' using 200 atoms and an l1-regularization parameter of 0.1, saving the model into ’model.bin', use

$ sparse_coding --training_file data.csv --atoms 200 --lambda1 0.1 --output_model_file model.bin

Then, this model could be used to encode a new matrix, 'otherdata.csv', and save the output codes to 'codes.csv':

$ sparse_coding --input_model_file model.bin --test_file otherdata.csv --codes_file codes.csv

OPTIONAL INPUT OPTIONS¶

--atoms (-k) [int]

Number of atoms in the dictionary. Default value 15.

--help (-h) [bool]

Default help info.

--info [string]

Get help on a specific module or option. Default value ''.

--initial_dictionary_file (-i) [string]

Optional initial dictionary matrix. Default value ''.

--input_model_file (-m) [unknown]

File containing input sparse coding model. Default value ''.

--lambda1 (-l) [double]

Sparse coding l1-norm regularization parameter. Default value 0.

--lambda2 (-L) [double]

Sparse coding l2-norm regularization parameter. Default value 0.

--max_iterations (-n) [int]

Maximum number of iterations for sparse coding (0 indicates no limit). Default value 0.

--newton_tolerance (-w) [double]

Tolerance for convergence of Newton method. Default value 1e-06.

--normalize (-N) [bool]

If set, the input data matrix will be normalized before coding.

--objective_tolerance (-o) [double]

Tolerance for convergence of the objective function. Default value 0.01.

--seed (-s) [int]

Random seed. If 0, 'std::time(NULL)' is used. Default value 0.

--test_file (-T) [string]

Optional matrix to be encoded by trained model. Default value ''.

--training_file (-t) [string]

Matrix of training data (X). Default value ''.

--verbose (-v) [bool]

Display informational messages and the full list of parameters and timers at the end of execution.

--version (-V) [bool]

Display the version of mlpack.

OPTIONAL OUTPUT OPTIONS¶

--codes_file (-c) [string]

Matrix to save the output sparse codes of the test matrix (--test_file) to. Default value ''.

--dictionary_file (-d) [string]

Matrix to save the output dictionary to. Default value ''.

--output_model_file (-M) [unknown]

File to save trained sparse coding model to. Default value ''.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION¶