#region License Information
/* HeuristicLab
 * Copyright (C) 2002-2015 Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL)
 * and the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.
 * 
 * This file is part of HeuristicLab.
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 * HeuristicLab is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 */
#endregion

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace HeuristicLab.Algorithms.DataAnalysis {
  // represents an interface for loss functions used by gradient boosting
  // target represents the target vector  (original targets from the problem data, never changed)
  // pred   represents the current vector of predictions (a weighted combination of models learned so far, this vector is updated after each step)
  public interface ILossFunction {
    // returns the loss of the current prediction vector 
    double GetLoss(IEnumerable<double> target, IEnumerable<double> pred);

    // returns an enumerable of the loss gradient for each row
    IEnumerable<double> GetLossGradient(IEnumerable<double> target, IEnumerable<double> pred);

    // returns the optimal value for the partition of rows stored in idx[startIdx] .. idx[endIdx] inclusive
    double LineSearch(double[] targetArr, double[] predArr, int[] idx, int startIdx, int endIdx);
  }
}