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#endregion

using HeuristicLab.Core;
using HeuristicLab.Problems.DataAnalysis;

namespace HeuristicLab.Algorithms.DataAnalysis {
  public interface INcaInitializer : IOperator {
    /// <summary>
    /// Calculates an initial projection for the NCA to start from.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="data">The problem data that contains the AllowedInputVariables and TrainingIndices.</param>
    /// <param name="dimensions">The amount of columns in the matrix</param>
    /// <returns>The matrix that projects the input variables into a lower dimensional space.</returns>
    double[,] Initialize(IClassificationProblemData data, int dimensions);
  }
}