SequentialSplitter.h

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// -*- C++ -*-

// SequentialSplitter.h
// 
// Copyright (C) 1998 Pascal Vincent
// Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Pascal Vincent, Yoshua Bengio and University of Montreal
// Copyright (C) 2002 Frederic Morin
// Copyright (C) 2004 Rejean Ducharme
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/* *******************************************************      
   * $Id: SequentialSplitter.h,v 1.8 2004/05/06 21:22:12 ducharme Exp $ 
   ******************************************************* */

#ifndef SequentialSplitter_INC
#define SequentialSplitter_INC

#include "Splitter.h"

namespace PLearn {
using namespace std;

class SequentialSplitter: public Splitter
{
    typedef Splitter inherited;

public:
    // ************************
    // * public build options *
    // ************************

    int horizon;
    int init_train_size;
    bool return_entire_vmat; 

    // ****************
    // * Constructors *
    // ****************

    // Default constructor, make sure the implementation in the .cc
    // initializes all fields to reasonable default values.
    SequentialSplitter(int horizon_=1, int init_train_size_=1, bool return_entire_vmat_=true);

  // ******************
  // * Object methods *
  // ******************

private: 
    // (Please implement in .cc)
    void build_();

protected: 
    // (Please implement in .cc)
    static void declareOptions(OptionList& ol);

public:
    // simply calls inherited::build() then build_() 
    virtual void build();

    PLEARN_DECLARE_OBJECT(SequentialSplitter);


    // ********************************
    // *        Splitter methods      *
    // * (must be implemented in .cc) *
    // ********************************

    virtual int nsplits() const;

  virtual int nSetsPerSplit() const;

    virtual TVec<VMat> getSplit(int i=0);

};

// Declares a few other classes and functions related to this class
DECLARE_OBJECT_PTR(SequentialSplitter);
  
} // end of namespace PLearn

#endif // SequentialSplitter_INC

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