/*!
 * 
 *
 * \brief       implements the absolute loss, which is the distance between labels and predictions
 * 
 * 
 * 
 *
 * \author      Tobias Glasmachers
 * \date        2011
 *
 *
 * \par Copyright 1995-2015 Shark Development Team
 * 
 * <BR><HR>
 * This file is part of Shark.
 * <http://image.diku.dk/shark/>
 * 
 * Shark is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published 
 * by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * Shark is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with Shark.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 */
#ifndef SHARK_OBJECTIVEFUNCTIONS_LOSS_ABSOLUTELOSS_H
#define SHARK_OBJECTIVEFUNCTIONS_LOSS_ABSOLUTELOSS_H


#include <shark/ObjectiveFunctions/Loss/AbstractLoss.h>
namespace shark{


///
/// \brief absolute loss
///
/// The absolute loss is usually defined in a single dimension
/// as the absolute value of the difference between labels and
/// predictions. Here we generalize to multiple dimensions by
/// returning the norm.
///
template<class VectorType = RealVector>
class AbsoluteLoss : public AbstractLoss<VectorType, VectorType>
{
public:
	typedef AbstractLoss<VectorType, VectorType> base_type;
	typedef typename base_type::BatchLabelType BatchLabelType;
	typedef typename base_type::BatchOutputType BatchOutputType;

	/// constructor
	AbsoluteLoss()
	{ }


	/// \brief From INameable: return the class name.
	std::string name() const
	{ return "AbsoluteLoss"; }

	// annoyingness of C++ templates
	using base_type::eval;

	/// evaluate the loss \f$ \| labels - predictions \| \f$, which
	/// is a slight generalization of the absolute value of the difference.
	double eval(BatchLabelType const& labels, BatchOutputType const& predictions) const{
		SIZE_CHECK(labels.size1() == predictions.size1());
		SIZE_CHECK(labels.size2() == predictions.size2());

		double error = 0;
		for(std::size_t i = 0; i != labels.size1(); ++i){
			error+=blas::distance(row(predictions,i),row(labels,i));
		}
		return error;
	}
};


}
#endif

