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#endregion
using System;
using HeuristicLab.Common;
using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Optimization.Operators;
using HEAL.Attic;
namespace HeuristicLab.Encodings.RealVectorEncoding {
[Item("Euclidean Similarity Calculator for RealVector", "Calculates the solution similarity based on the Euclidean distance and a transformation into (0;1] between two real vectors.")]
[StorableType("535B4987-9EB4-48AB-8189-FA5100F01ADF")]
public sealed class EuclideanSimilarityCalculator : SingleObjectiveSolutionSimilarityCalculator {
protected override bool IsCommutative {
get { return true; }
}
[Storable]
private double scaling;
///
/// The higher the scaling, the higher the similarity score for solutions of larger Euclidean distance.
/// A value of 1 means no scaling is applied. The function for squashing the numbers into (0;1] is
/// 1 / (1 + x / scaling) where x is the Euclidean distance.
///
public double Scaling {
get { return scaling; }
set { scaling = value; }
}
[StorableConstructor]
private EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(StorableConstructorFlag _) : base(_) { }
private EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(EuclideanSimilarityCalculator original, Cloner cloner)
: base(original, cloner) {
scaling = original.scaling;
}
public EuclideanSimilarityCalculator() {
scaling = 1;
}
public override IDeepCloneable Clone(Cloner cloner) {
return new EuclideanSimilarityCalculator(this, cloner);
}
public static double CalculateSimilarity(RealVector left, RealVector right, double scaling = 1.0) {
if (left == null || right == null)
throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because one or both of the provided solutions is null.");
if (left.Length != right.Length)
throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because the provided solutions have different lengths.");
if (left.Length == 0)
throw new ArgumentException("Cannot calculate similarity because solutions are of length 0.");
if (scaling <= 0)
throw new ArgumentException("Cannot choose a 0 or negative scaling value.");
if (ReferenceEquals(left, right)) return 1.0;
var distance = 0.0;
for (int i = 0; i < left.Length; i++)
distance += (left[i] - right[i]) * (left[i] - right[i]);
return 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.Sqrt(distance) / scaling);
}
public override double CalculateSolutionSimilarity(IScope leftSolution, IScope rightSolution) {
var left = leftSolution.Variables[SolutionVariableName].Value as RealVector;
var right = rightSolution.Variables[SolutionVariableName].Value as RealVector;
return CalculateSimilarity(left, right, Scaling);
}
}
}