dotproductkernel.java

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/*
 * LingPipe v. 3.5
 * Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Alias-i
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package com.aliasi.matrix;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * The <code>DotProductKernel</code> is the trivial kernel function
 * computed by taking the dot product of the input vectors.  The
 * dot-product kernel is, for instance, the kernel to use for the
 * ordinary (non-kernel) perceptron.  Typically, this kernel is used
 * as a baseline, as polynomial and radial basis kernels tend to
 * perform better in practice for classification and clustering
 * problems.
 *
 * @author  Bob Carpenter
 * @version 3.1
 * @since   LingPipe3.1
 */
public class DotProductKernel
    implements KernelFunction, Serializable {

    static final long serialVersionUID = -3943009270761485840L;

    /**
     * Construct a dot-product kernel.
     */
    public DotProductKernel() {
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string-based representation of this kernel.
     *
     * @return A string representing this kernel.
     */
    public String toString() {
        return "DotProductKernel()";
    }


    /**
     * Returns the dot product of the input vectors.
     *
     * @param v1 First vector.
     * @param v2 Second vector.
     * @return The dot product of the two vectors.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the vectors are not of the
     * same dimensionality.
     */
    public double proximity(Vector v1, Vector v2) {
        return v1.dotProduct(v2);
    }

}