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Interface Model.Delta
- All Superinterfaces:
- QueueElementIF, QuickSerializable
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- HMM.Delta, SemanticDistanceModel.Delta
- Enclosing interface:
- Model
- public static interface Model.Delta
- extends QueueElementIF, QuickSerializable
A summary of the knowledge learned by a Model. It
contains updates to the model parameters, usually in the form of
sufficient statistics deltas, sufficient to update or initialize a
different Model. In general, each subclass of
Model has its own subclass of Delta.
- Version:
- $Id: Model.java,v 1.11 2002/07/22 20:54:53 srhea Exp $
- Author:
- Dennis Geels
sum
public Model.Delta sum(Model.Delta other)
- Produce the sum of this and another
Delta.
- Parameters:
other - The other Delta.
- Returns:
- a new
Delta, constructed such that applying
it to a Model produces an equivalent
Model to that produced by adding first
this, then other.
- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException - if other is not
an instance of a compatible Delta subclass.