dlib C++ Library - mlp_ex.cpp

    /*

        This is an example illustrating the use of the multilayer perceptron
        from the dlib C++ Library.

        This example creates a simple set of data to train on and shows
        you how to train a mlp object on that data.

        The data used in this example will be 2 dimensional data and will
        come from a distribution where points with a distance less than 10
        from the origin are labeled 1 and all other points are labeled
        as 0.

    */

    #include <iostream>
    #include "dlib/mlp.h"

    using namespace std;
    using namespace dlib;

    int main()
    {
        // The mlp takes column vectors as input and gives column vectors as output.  The dlib::matrix
        // object is used to represent the column vectors. So the first thing we do here is declare
        // a convenient typedef for the matrix object we will be using.

        // This typedef declares a matrix with 2 rows and 1 column.  It will be the
        // object that contains each of our 2 dimensional samples.   (Note that if you wanted
        // more than 2 features in this vector you can simply change the 2 to something else)
        typedef matrix<double, 2, 1> sample_type;

        // make an instance of a sample matrix so we can use it below
        sample_type sample;

        // Create a multi-layer perceptron network.   This network has 2 nodes on the input layer
        // (which means it takes column vectors of length 2 as input) and 5 nodes in the first
        // hidden layer.  Note that the other 4 variables in the mlp's constructor are left at
        // their default values.
        mlp::kernel_1a_c net(2,5);

        // Now lets put some data into our sample and train on it.  We do this
        // by looping over 41*41 points and labeling them according to their
        // distance from the origin.
        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
        {
            for (int r = -20; r <= 20; ++r)
            {
                for (int c = -20; c <= 20; ++c)
                {
                    sample(0) = r;
                    sample(1) = c;

                    // if this point is less than 10 from the origin
                    if (sqrt((double)r*r + c*c) <= 10)
                        net.train(sample,1);
                    else
                        net.train(sample,0);
                }
            }
        }

        // Now we have trained our mlp.  Lets see how well it did.
        // Note that if you run this program multiple times you will get different results. This
        // is because the mlp network is randomly initialized.

        // each of these statements prints out the output of the network given a particular sample.

        sample(0) = 3.123;
        sample(1) = 4;
        cout << "This sample should close to 1 and it is classified as a " << net(sample) << endl;

        sample(0) = 13.123;
        sample(1) = 9.3545;
        cout << "This sample should close to 0 and it is classified as a " << net(sample) << endl;

        sample(0) = 13.123;
        sample(1) = 0;
        cout << "This sample should close to 0 and it is classified as a " << net(sample) << endl;
    }