SPIDER The Spider Objects
DISTANCE object Attributes: dist=[]; -- type of distance (SEE BELOW) child=kernel; -- if nonempty, generate distance from this kernel rather than from type described in dist distparam=[] -- parameters of the distance kercaching=0 -- yes if caching the distance (only for data_global) calc_on_output=0 -- calc distance on outputs (Ys), rather than inputs (Xs) output_kernel=0 -- output associated kernel (if any) rather than distance dat=[] -- storage of data (for use when training/testing dists) Methods: calc(d,d1,[d2]): calc inner products in feature space between data d1 and d2 (or itself if d2 not specified) using distance d train,test DISTANCE PARAMETERS & DESCRIPTION euclid d(x,y)=||x-y||_2 (same as using child=kernel) norm d(x,y)=||x-y||_p, p can be inf, -inf see help norm template_distance example to help make your own distance custom takes values from indices of matrix (distparam) custom_fast takes values from global variable K Example: calc(distance,data(rand(5)))