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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2021 Haifeng Li. All rights reserved.
 *
 * Smile is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Smile is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with Smile.  If not, see .
 */

package smile.feature.transform;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import smile.data.transform.InvertibleColumnTransform;
import smile.data.type.StructField;
import smile.math.Function;
import smile.math.MathEx;
import smile.data.DataFrame;
import smile.data.type.StructType;

/**
 * Scales the numeric variables into the range [0, 1].
 * If the dataset has outliers, normalization will certainly scale
 * the "normal" data to a very small interval. In this case, the
 * Winsorization procedure should be applied: values greater than the
 * specified upper limit are replaced with the upper limit, and those
 * below the lower limit are replaced with the lower limit. Often, the
 * specified range is indicate in terms of percentiles of the original
 * distribution (like the 5th and 95th percentile).
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public class Scaler {
    /**
     * Fits the data transformation.
     * @param data the training data.
     * @param columns the columns to transform.
     *                If empty, transform all the numeric columns.
     * @return the transform.
     */
    public static InvertibleColumnTransform fit(DataFrame data, String... columns) {
        if (data.isEmpty()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty data frame");
        }

        StructType schema = data.schema();
        if (columns.length == 0) {
            columns = Arrays.stream(schema.fields())
                    .filter(StructField::isNumeric)
                    .map(field -> field.name)
                    .toArray(String[]::new);
        }

        Map transforms = new HashMap<>();
        Map inverses = new HashMap<>();
        for (String column : columns) {
            StructField field = schema.field(column);
            if (!field.isNumeric()) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("%s is not numeric", field.name));
            }

            double[] vector = data.column(column).toDoubleArray();
            double lo = MathEx.min(vector);
            double hi = MathEx.max(vector);
            double span = hi - lo;
            double scale = MathEx.isZero(span) ? 1.0 : hi - lo;

            Function transform = new Function() {
                @Override
                public double f(double x) {
                    double y = (x - lo) / scale;
                    if (y < 0.0) y = 0.0;
                    if (y > 1.0) y = 1.0;
                    return y;
                }

                @Override
                public String toString() {
                    return (lo >= 0.0) ?
                            String.format("(%s - %.4f) / %.4f", field.name,  lo, scale)
                          : String.format("(%s + %.4f) / %.4f", field.name, -lo, scale);
                }
            };

            Function inverse = (double x) -> x * scale + lo;
            transforms.put(field.name, transform);
            inverses.put(field.name, inverse);
        }

        return new InvertibleColumnTransform("Scaler", transforms, inverses);
    }
}