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package org.apache.mahout.classifier.sgd;

import org.apache.mahout.classifier.AbstractVectorClassifier;
import org.apache.mahout.math.Vector;
import org.apache.mahout.math.function.Functions;

/**
 * Implements the basic logistic training law.
 */
public class DefaultGradient implements Gradient {
  /**
   * Provides a default gradient computation useful for logistic regression.  
   *
   * @param groupKey     A grouping key to allow per-something AUC loss to be used for training.
   * @param actual       The target variable value.
   * @param instance     The current feature vector to use for gradient computation
   * @param classifier   The classifier that can compute scores
   * @return  The gradient to be applied to beta
   */
  @Override
  public final Vector apply(String groupKey, int actual, Vector instance, AbstractVectorClassifier classifier) {
    // what does the current model say?
    Vector v = classifier.classify(instance);

    Vector r = v.like();
    if (actual != 0) {
      r.setQuick(actual - 1, 1);
    }
    r.assign(v, Functions.MINUS);
    return r;
  }
}