mokolo

mokolo intends to become a collection of machine learning algorithms for Node.js. The current release supports only the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm; more are coming soon. Feedbacks and contributions are greatly appreciated.

Install

The easiest way to install mokolo is through npm, the nodejs package manager.

npm install mokolo

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)

NMF is an advanced technique which allows breaking down a set of numerical observations into their component parts. It can be used in numerous fields including text mining, spectral data analysis, scalable Internet distance prediction, non-stationary speech denoising and bioinformatics. Learn more on Wikipedia.

Prerequisite

NMF uses extensively <a href="http://sylvester.jcoglan.com/", target="_blank">Sylvester, a vector and matrix math library for JavaScript written by James Coglan. If Sylvester is not already installed, npm will do it for you during mokolo's installation.

Initialization

var mokolo = require('mokolo'), 
    nmf = new mokolo.NMF();

Usage

nmf.factorize(options, callback);

options

options is a hash with the following structure.

{
 matrix     : M       // matrix to be factorized; e.g. a matrix object generated from an array using Sylvester  
,features   : number  // the dimensions (number x number) of the features matrix to be computed; e.g. 2
,iterations : number  // the number of iterations; e.g. 1000 
,precision  : number  // the position at which the `diff` will be rounded; e.g. 1e-15 
}

callback

callback is a function taking six (6) parameters

callback(W, H, WH, diff, iter, precision){
}

• W - Computed Weights matrrix
• H - Computed Features matrix
• WH - multiplication of computed matrices W and H
• diff - Difference between M and WH
• iter - number of iterations needed to get WH close enough to M
• precision - same as above

Example

Given the following dataset represented by an array of arrays

var dArray;
dArray = [
    [29, 29],
    [43, 33],
    [15, 25],
    [40, 28],
    [24, 11],
    [29, 29],
    [37, 23],
    [21, 6]
];

Using Sylvester a matrix can be generated from the array above.

var $M = require('sylvester').Matrix.create;
var D = $M(dArray);

Now factorization can start.

nmf.factorize({
        matrix: D
       ,features: 2
       ,iterations: 1000
       ,precision: 1e-10
    }, 
    function(W, H, WH, diff, iter, precision){
        console.log('Weights matrix');
        console.log(W)
        console.log('Features matrix');
        console.log(H);
        console.log('Computed matrix');
        console.log(WH);
        console.log(iter);
        console.log(diff);
    }
);

TO DO

• Set default values to NMF parameters
• More test coverage
• Support for more algorithms; e.g. clustering, K-nearest neighbors, etc.

License

Copyright (c) 2012, Gustave Nganso

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