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// Copyright (C) 2002 Samy Bengio (bengio@idiap.ch)
//                
//
// This file is part of Torch. Release II.
// [The Ultimate Machine Learning Library]
//
// Torch is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// Torch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with Torch; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

#ifndef EMTRAINER_INC
#define EMTRAINER_INC

#include "Trainer.h"
#include "Distribution.h"
#include "SeqDataSet.h"

namespace Torch {

/** This class is used to train any distribution using the EM algorithm.
    
    @author Samy Bengio (bengio@idiap.ch)
*/
class EMTrainer : public Trainer
{
  public:
    /// the distribution to train
    Distribution *distribution;
    /// the training set is a SeqDataSet, since we are working with distributions
    SeqDataSet *sdata;
    /// the stopping criterion regarding the accuracy for EM
    real end_accuracy;
    /// the stopping criterion regarding the number of iterations for EM
    int max_iter;

    ///
    EMTrainer(Distribution *distribution_, SeqDataSet *data_);

    virtual void train(List *measurers);
    virtual void test(List *measurers);

    /** this method computes the most likely path into the distribution.
        mainly used for sequential distribution such as HMMs.
    */
    virtual void decode(List *measurers);

    virtual ~EMTrainer();
};


}

#endif