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package org.apache.mahout.common.distance;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.mahout.common.parameters.DoubleParameter;
import org.apache.mahout.common.parameters.Parameter;
import org.apache.mahout.math.Vector;
import org.apache.mahout.math.function.Functions;

/** 
 * Implement Minkowski distance, a real-valued generalization of the 
 * integral L(n) distances: Manhattan = L1, Euclidean = L2. 
 * For high numbers of dimensions, very high exponents give more useful distances. 
 * 
 * Note: Math.pow is clever about integer-valued doubles.
 **/
public class MinkowskiDistanceMeasure implements DistanceMeasure {

  private static final double EXPONENT = 3.0;

  private List> parameters;
  private double exponent = EXPONENT;
  
  public MinkowskiDistanceMeasure() {
  }
  
  public MinkowskiDistanceMeasure(double exponent) {
    this.exponent = exponent;
  }

  @Override
  public void createParameters(String prefix, Configuration conf) {
    parameters = new ArrayList<>();
    Parameter param =
        new DoubleParameter(prefix, "exponent", conf, EXPONENT, "Exponent for Fractional Lagrange distance");
    parameters.add(param);
  }

  @Override
  public Collection> getParameters() {
    return parameters;
  }

  @Override
  public void configure(Configuration jobConf) {
    if (parameters == null) {
      ParameteredGeneralizations.configureParameters(this, jobConf);
    }
  }

  public double getExponent() {
    return exponent;
  }

  public void setExponent(double exponent) {
    this.exponent = exponent;
  }

  /**
   *  Math.pow is clever about integer-valued doubles
   */
  @Override
  public double distance(Vector v1, Vector v2) {
    return Math.pow(v1.aggregate(v2, Functions.PLUS, Functions.minusAbsPow(exponent)), 1.0 / exponent);
  }

  // TODO: how?
  @Override
  public double distance(double centroidLengthSquare, Vector centroid, Vector v) {
    return distance(centroid, v); // TODO - can this use centroidLengthSquare somehow?
  }

}




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