prototorch_models/docs/source/library.rst

.. Available Models

Models
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Unsupervised Methods
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.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.unsupervised.KNN
   :members:

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.unsupervised.NeuralGas
   :members:


Classical Learning Vector Quantization
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Original LVQ models introduced by :cite:t:`kohonen1989`.
These heuristic algorithms do not use gradient descent.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.lvq.LVQ1
   :members:
.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.lvq.LVQ21
   :members:

It is also possible to use the GLVQ structure as shown by :cite:t:`sato1996` in chapter 4.
This allows the use of gradient descent methods.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.GLVQ1
   :members:
.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.GLVQ21
   :members:

Generalized Learning Vector Quantization
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:cite:t:`sato1996` presented a LVQ variant with a cost function called GLVQ.
This allows the use of gradient descent methods.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.GLVQ
   :members:

The cost function of GLVQ can be extended by a learnable dissimilarity.
These learnable dissimilarities assign relevances to each data dimension during the learning phase.
For example GRLVQ :cite:p:`hammer2002` and GMLVQ :cite:p:`schneider2009` .

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.GRLVQ
   :members:

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.GMLVQ
   :members:

The dissimilarity from GMLVQ can be interpreted as a projection into another dataspace.
Applying this projection only to the data results in LVQMLN

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.LVQMLN
   :members:

The projection idea from GMLVQ can be extended to an arbitrary transformation with learnable parameters.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.glvq.SiameseGLVQ
   :members:

Probabilistic Models
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Probabilistic variants assume, that the prototypes generate a probability distribution over the classes.
For a test sample they return a distribution instead of a class assignment.

The following two algorihms were presented by :cite:t:`seo2003` . 
Every prototypes is a center of a gaussian distribution of its class, generating a mixture model.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.probabilistic.LikelihoodRatioLVQ
   :members:

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.probabilistic.RSLVQ
   :members:

Missing:

- PLVQ

Classification by Component
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The Classification by Component (CBC) has been introduced by :cite:t:`saralajew2019` .
In a CBC architecture there is no class assigned to the prototypes.
Instead the dissimilarities are used in a reasoning process, that favours or rejects a class by a learnable degree.
The output of a CBC network is a probability distribution over all classes.

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.cbc.CBC
   :members:

.. autoclass:: prototorch.models.cbc.ImageCBC
   :members:

Visualization
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Visualization is very specific to its application.
PrototorchModels delivers visualization for two dimensional data and image data.

The visulizations can be shown in a seperate window and inside a tensorboard.

.. automodule:: prototorch.models.vis
   :members:
   :undoc-members:

Bibliography
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.. bibliography::