Class HyperPipes

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, CapabilitiesHandler, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler

    public class HyperPipes
    extends Classifier
    Class implementing a HyperPipe classifier. For each category a HyperPipe is constructed that contains all points of that category (essentially records the attribute bounds observed for each category). Test instances are classified according to the category that "most contains the instance".
    Does not handle numeric class, or missing values in test cases. Extremely simple algorithm, but has the advantage of being extremely fast, and works quite well when you have "smegloads" of attributes.

    Valid options are:

     -D
      If set, classifier is run in debug mode and
      may output additional info to the console
    Version:
    $Revision: 5528 $
    Author:
    Lucio de Souza Coelho (lucio@intelligenesis.net), Len Trigg (len@reeltwo.com)
    See Also:
    Serialized Form
    • Constructor Detail

      • HyperPipes

        public HyperPipes()
    • Method Detail

      • globalInfo

        public java.lang.String globalInfo()
        Returns a string describing classifier
        Returns:
        a description suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui
      • buildClassifier

        public void buildClassifier​(Instances instances)
                             throws java.lang.Exception
        Generates the classifier.
        Specified by:
        buildClassifier in class Classifier
        Parameters:
        instances - set of instances serving as training data
        Throws:
        java.lang.Exception - if the classifier has not been generated successfully
      • updateClassifier

        public void updateClassifier​(Instance instance)
                              throws java.lang.Exception
        Updates the classifier.
        Parameters:
        instance - the instance to be put into the classifier
        Throws:
        java.lang.Exception - if the instance could not be included successfully
      • distributionForInstance

        public double[] distributionForInstance​(Instance instance)
                                         throws java.lang.Exception
        Classifies the given test instance.
        Overrides:
        distributionForInstance in class Classifier
        Parameters:
        instance - the instance to be classified
        Returns:
        the predicted class for the instance
        Throws:
        java.lang.Exception - if the instance can't be classified
      • toString

        public java.lang.String toString()
        Returns a description of this classifier.
        Overrides:
        toString in class java.lang.Object
        Returns:
        a description of this classifier as a string.
      • main

        public static void main​(java.lang.String[] argv)
        Main method for testing this class.
        Parameters:
        argv - should contain command line arguments for evaluation (see Evaluation).