About: Mulan is an open-source Java library for learning from multi-label datasets. Multi-label datasets consist of training examples of a target function that has multiple binary target variables. This means that each item of a multi-label dataset can be a member of multiple categories or annotated by many labels (classes). This is actually the nature of many real world problems such as semantic annotation of images and video, web page categorization, direct marketing, functional genomics and music categorization into genres and emotions.

Learners

• BinaryRelevance.java: improved data handling that avoids copying the entire input space, leading to important speedups in case of large datasets and very large number of labels.
• RAkEL.java: updated technical information, added a check for the case where the number of labels is less or equal than the size of the subset.
• MultiLabelKNN.java: now checks whether the number of instances is less than the number of requested nearest neighbors.
• Addition of AdaBoostMH.java, an explicit implementation of AdaBoost.MH as combination of AdaBoostM1 and IncludeLabelsClassifier.
• Addition of MLPTO.java, the Multi Label Probabilistic Threshold Optimizer (MLTPTO) thresholding technique.
• Addition of ApproximateExampleBasedFMeasureOptimizer.java, an approximate method for the maximization of example-based F-measure.

Measures/Evaluation

• Addition of Specificity measure (example-based, micro/macro label-based)
• Addition of Mean Average Interpolated Precision (MAiP), Geometric Mean Average Precision (GMAP), Geometric Mean Average Interpolated Precision (GMAiP).
• New methods for stratified multi-label evaluation.
• Added support for outputting per label results for all measures that implement the MacroAverageMeasure interface.
• Simplifying the "strictness" issue of information retrieval measures, by adopting specific assumptions (outlined in the new class InformationRetrievalMeasures.java) to handle special cases, instead of the less clear and useful solution of outputting NaN and the less realistic solution or ignoring special cases.

Bug fixes

• Bug fix in LabelsBuilder.java.
• Bug fix in Ranker.java.
• Bug-fix in ThresholdPrediction.java.
• Fix for bug occurring when loading the XSD for mulan data outside the command-line environment (e.g. web applications).
• Javadoc comment updates.

API changes

• Upgrade to Java 1.6
• Upgrade to JUnit 4.10
• Upgrade to Weka 3.7.6.

Miscellaneous

• Meaningful messages are now shown when a DataLoadException is thrown.
• PT6(PT6Transformation.java): renamed to IncludeLabelsTransformation.java.
• MultiLabelInstances now support serialization, as needed by the improved binary relevance transformation.
• BinaryRelevanceAttributeEvaluator.java: updated according to latest BR improvements.

About: A Java framework for statistical analysis and classification of biological sequences

February 2, 2012: Jstacs 2.0 released

Jstacs 2.0 changes many names and the structure of several packages. It is not code-compatible with Jstacs 1.5 and earlier

RESTRUCTURING and RENAMING:

former ScoringFunction, NormalizableScoringFunction, Model

• new base-interface SequenceScore
• new sub-interface StatisticalModel of SequenceScore for all statistical models with sub-iterfaces DifferentiableStatisticalModel and TrainableStatisticalModel
• new interface DifferentiableSequenceScore replaces ScoringFunction
• new interface DifferentiableStatisticalModel replaces NormalizableScoringFunction
• new interface TrainableStatisticalModel replaces Model
• new abstract class AbstractDifferentiableSequenceScore
• new abstract class AbstractDifferentiableStatisticalModel replaces AbstractNormalizableScoringFunction
• new abstract class AbstractTrainableStatisticalModel replaces AbstractModel
• former Models renamed to TrainSM
• former ScoringFunction renamed to DiffSS or DiffSM
• getProbFor removed from TrainableStatisticalModel (former Model) and conceptually replaced by getLogProbFor
• getLogScore(Sequence,int,int) with changed meaning of arguments: getLogScore(Sequence,start,end) instead of getLogScore(Sequence,start,length)
• isTrained() replaced by common method isInitialized()

Parameters and Results

• new super-class of Parameters and Results: AnnotatedEntity
• common list-type for Parameters and Results: AnnotatedEntityList
• Renaming: CollectionParameter -> SelectionParameter, MultiSelectionCollectionParameter -> MultiSelectionParameter, new super-class AbstractSelectionParameter
• major refactoring due to common hierarchy and code-cleanup
• lazy evaluation of Parameter/ParameterSet hierarchies moved from ParameterSet (loadParameters()) to ParameterSetContainer (constructor on class)
• SubclassFinder adapted to lazy evaluation

performance measures

• new abstract super-class AbstractPerformanceMeasure of all performance measures
• new interface NumericalPerformanceMeasure for all performance measures that return a single number (as opposed, e.g., to curves)
• new class PerformanceMeasureParameterSet for a collection of general performance measures
• new class NumericalPerformanceMeasureParameterSet for a collection of NumericalPerformanceMeasures
• used in evaluate-method of AbstractClassifier and in ClassifierAssessments

further changes

• Sample renamed to DataSet
• evaluate and evaluateAll in AbstractClassifier joined
• new class IndependentProductDiffSS as super-class of IndepedentProductDiffSM (former IndependentProductScoringFunction)
• new class UniformDiffSS as super-class of UniformDiffSM (former UniformScoringFunction)

NEW FUNCTIONALITY:

• multi-threaded implementation of Baum-Welch and Viterbi training of hidden Markov models
• new Interface Singleton that can be used for singleton instances to save memory, current examples: DNAAlphabet, DNAAlphabetContainer, ProteinAlphabet
• added ProteinAlphabet
• added possibility to use NaN-values with ContinuousAlphabets
• added ArbitraryFloatSequence including static methods for DataSet creation for cases where double-precision is not needed
• new performance measure MaximumFMeasure
• access to Parameters in ParameterSets and Results in ResultSets by name
• emitDataSet in BayesianNetworkDiffSM
• new static method Time.getTimeInstance that returns UserTime or RealTime depending on availability of shared lib
• SubclassFinder allows for adding own base packages
• new method overlaps() in LocatedSequenceAnnotationWithLength
• AbstractTerminationCondition used in ScoreClassifier and sub-classes
• public method propagateESS in HMMFactory
• new method generateLog in DirichletMRG for drawing log-values
• added DifferentiableStatisticalModelFactory

BUGFIXES/IMPROVEMENTS:

• bugfix in propagation of equivalent sample size in HMMFactory
• bugfix in random initialization of BasicHigherOrderTransition
• improved Alignment implementation
• SafeOutputStream with new static factory method getSafeOutputStream, write methods now work on Objects

DOCUMENTATION:

• improved Javadocs in many classes and packages
• new Cookbook with extensive documentation and explanation

MISC:

• output of NonParsableException more verbose
• Exceptions in multi-threaded code now lead to exit of program instead of only stopping the thread
• update of RServe/RClient

About: The SSA Toolbox is an efficient, platform-independent, standalone implementation of the Stationary Subspace Analysis algorithm with a friendly graphical user interface and a bridge to Matlab. Stationary Subspace Analysis (SSA) is a general purpose algorithm for the explorative analysis of non-stationary data, i.e. data whose statistical properties change over time. SSA helps to detect, investigate and visualize temporal changes in complex high-dimensional data sets.

• Various bugfixes.