// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. // All Rights Reserved. // Author: ahmadab@google.com (Ahmad Abdulkader) // // neuron.cpp: The implementation of a class for an object // that represents a single neuron in a neural network #include "neuron.h" #include "input_file_buffer.h" namespace tesseract { // Instantiate all supported templates template bool Neuron::ReadBinary(InputFileBuffer *input_buffer); // default and only constructor Neuron::Neuron() { Init(); } // virtual destructor Neuron::~Neuron() { } // Initializer void Neuron::Init() { id_ = -1; frwd_dirty_ = false; fan_in_.clear(); fan_in_weights_.clear(); activation_ = 0.0f; output_ = 0.0f; bias_ = 0.0f; node_type_ = Unknown; } // Computes the activation and output of the neuron if not fresh // by pulling the outputs of all fan-in neurons void Neuron::FeedForward() { if (!frwd_dirty_ ) { return; } // nothing to do for input nodes: just pass the input to the o/p // otherwise, pull the output of all fan-in neurons if (node_type_ != Input) { int fan_in_cnt = fan_in_.size(); // sum out the activation activation_ = -bias_; for (int in = 0; in < fan_in_cnt; in++) { if (fan_in_[in]->frwd_dirty_) { fan_in_[in]->FeedForward(); } activation_ += ((*(fan_in_weights_[in])) * fan_in_[in]->output_); } // sigmoid it output_ = Sigmoid(activation_); } frwd_dirty_ = false; } // set the type of the neuron void Neuron::set_node_type(NeuronTypes Type) { node_type_ = Type; } // Adds new connections *to* this neuron *From* // a target neuron using specfied params // Note that what is actually copied in this function are pointers to the // specified Neurons and weights and not the actualt values. This is by // design to centralize the alloction of neurons and weights and so // increase the locality of reference and improve cache-hits resulting // in a faster net. This technique resulted in a 2X-10X speedup // (depending on network size and processor) void Neuron::AddFromConnection(Neuron *neurons, float *wts_offset, int from_cnt) { for (int in = 0; in < from_cnt; in++) { fan_in_.push_back(neurons + in); fan_in_weights_.push_back(wts_offset + in); } } // fast computation of sigmoid function using a lookup table // defined in sigmoid_table.cpp float Neuron::Sigmoid(float activation) { if (activation <= -10.0f) { return 0.0f; } else if (activation >= 10.0f) { return 1.0f; } else { return kSigmoidTable[static_cast(100 * (activation + 10.0))]; } } }