// Copyright 2008 Google Inc. // All Rights Reserved. // Author: ahmadab@google.com (Ahmad Abdulkader) // // neuron.h: Declarations of a class for an object that // represents a single neuron in a neural network // #ifndef NEURON_H #define NEURON_H #include #include #ifdef USE_STD_NAMESPACE using std::vector; #endif namespace tesseract { // Input Node bias values static const float kInputNodeBias = 0.0f; class Neuron { public: // Types of nodes enum NeuronTypes { Unknown = 0, Input, Hidden, Output }; Neuron(); ~Neuron(); // set the forward dirty flag indicating that the // activation of the net is not fresh void Clear() { frwd_dirty_ = true; } // Read a binary representation of the neuron info from // an input buffer. template bool ReadBinary(BuffType *input_buff) { float val; if (input_buff->Read(&val, sizeof(val)) != sizeof(val)) { return false; } // input nodes should have no biases if (node_type_ == Input) { bias_ = kInputNodeBias; } else { bias_ = val; } // read fanin count int fan_in_cnt; if (input_buff->Read(&fan_in_cnt, sizeof(fan_in_cnt)) != sizeof(fan_in_cnt)) { return false; } // validate fan-in cnt if (fan_in_cnt != fan_in_.size()) { return false; } // read the weights for (int in = 0; in < fan_in_cnt; in++) { if (input_buff->Read(&val, sizeof(val)) != sizeof(val)) { return false; } *(fan_in_weights_[in]) = val; } return true; } // Add a new connection from 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 AddFromConnection(Neuron *neuron_vec, float *wts_offset, int from_cnt); // Set the type of a neuron void set_node_type(NeuronTypes type); // Computes the output of the node by // "pulling" the output of the fan-in nodes void FeedForward(); // fast computation of sigmoid function using a lookup table // defined in sigmoid_table.cpp static float Sigmoid(float activation); // Accessor functions float output() const { return output_; } void set_output(float out_val) { output_ = out_val; } int id() const { return id_; } int fan_in_cnt() const { return fan_in_.size(); } Neuron * fan_in(int idx) const { return fan_in_[idx]; } float fan_in_wts(int idx) const { return *(fan_in_weights_[idx]); } void set_id(int id) { id_ = id; } float bias() const { return bias_; } Neuron::NeuronTypes node_type() const { return node_type_; } protected: // Type of Neuron NeuronTypes node_type_; // unqique id of the neuron int id_; // node bias float bias_; // node net activation float activation_; // node output float output_; // pointers to fanin nodes vector fan_in_; // pointers to fanin weights vector fan_in_weights_; // Sigmoid function lookup table used for fast computation // of sigmoid function static const float kSigmoidTable[]; // flag determining if the activation of the node // is fresh or not (dirty) bool frwd_dirty_; // Initializer void Init(); }; } #endif // NEURON_H__