% Polynomial discrimination % Section 8.6.2, Boyd & Vandenberghe "Convex Optimization" % Original by Lieven Vandenberghe % Adapted for CVX by Joelle Skaf - 10/23/05 % (a figure is generated) % % The goal is to find the polynomial of degree 4 on R^n that separates % two sets of points {x_1,...,x_N} and {y_1,...,y_N}. We are trying to find % the coefficients of an order-4-polynomial P(x) that would satisfy: % minimize t % s.t. P(x_i) <= t for i = 1,...,N % P(y_i) >= t for i = 1,...,M % Data generation rand('state',0); N = 100; M = 120; % The points X lie within a circle of radius 0.9, with a wedge of points % near [1.1,0] removed. The points Y lie outside a circle of radius 1.1, % with a wedge of points near [1.1,0] added. The wedges are precisely what % makes the separation difficult and interesting. X = 2 * rand(2,N) - 1; X = X * diag(0.9*rand(1,N)./sqrt(sum(X.^2))); Y = 2 * rand(2,M) - 1; Y = Y * diag((1.1+rand(1,M))./sqrt(sum(Y.^2))); d = sqrt(sum((X-[1.1;0]*ones(1,N)).^2)); Y = [ Y, X(:,d<0.9) ]; X = X(:,d>1); N = size(X,2); M = size(Y,2); % Construct Vandermonde-style monomial matrices p1 = [0,0,1,0,1,2,0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3,4]'; p2 = [0,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4]'-p1; np = length(p1); op = ones(np,1); monX = X(op,:) .^ p1(:,ones(1,N)) .* X(2*op,:) .^ p2(:,ones(1,N)); monY = Y(op,:) .^ p1(:,ones(1,M)) .* Y(2*op,:) .^ p2(:,ones(1,M)); % Solution via CVX fprintf(1,'Finding the optimal polynomial of order 4 that separates the 2 classes...'); cvx_begin variables a(np) t(1) minimize ( t ) a'*monX <= t; a'*monY >= -t; % For normalization purposes only norm(a) <= 1; cvx_end fprintf(1,'Done! \n'); % Displaying results nopts = 2000; angles = linspace(0,2*pi,nopts); cont = zeros(2,nopts); for i=1:nopts v = [cos(angles(i)); sin(angles(i))]; l = 0; u = 1; while ( u - l > 1e-3 ) s = (u+l)/2; x = s * v; if a' * ( x(op,:) .^ p1 .* x(2*op) .^ p2 ) > 0, u = s; else l = s; end end; s = (u+l)/2; cont(:,i) = s*v; end; graph = plot(X(1,:),X(2,:),'o', Y(1,:), Y(2,:),'o', cont(1,:), cont(2,:), '-'); set(graph(2),'MarkerFaceColor',[0 0.5 0]); title('Optimal order-4 polynomial that separates the 2 classes') % print -deps min-deg-discr.eps %%%% Dual infeasible ?????