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Re: Question on Debugging a code line

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On Sunday, May 11, 2014 12:57:34 AM UTC+5:30, subhaba...@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Room,
> 
> 
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> I was trying to go through a code given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%E2%80%93backward_algorithm[ Forward Backward is an algorithm of Machine Learning-I am not talking on that
> 
> I am just trying to figure out a query on its Python coding.]
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> 
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> I came across the following codes.
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> 
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> >>> states = ('Healthy', 'Fever')
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> >>> end_state = 'E'
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> >>> observations = ('normal', 'cold', 'dizzy')
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> >>> start_probability = {'Healthy': 0.6, 'Fever': 0.4}
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> >>> transition_probability = {
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>    'Healthy' : {'Healthy': 0.69, 'Fever': 0.3, 'E': 0.01},
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>    'Fever' : {'Healthy': 0.4, 'Fever': 0.59, 'E': 0.01},
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>    }
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> >>> emission_probability = {
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>    'Healthy' : {'normal': 0.5, 'cold': 0.4, 'dizzy': 0.1},
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>    'Fever' : {'normal': 0.1, 'cold': 0.3, 'dizzy': 0.6},
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>    }
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> 
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> def fwd_bkw(x, states, a_0, a, e, end_st):
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>     L = len(x)
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>     fwd = []
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>     f_prev = {} #THE PROBLEM 
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>     # forward part of the algorithm
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>     for i, x_i in enumerate(x):
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>         f_curr = {}
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>         for st in states:
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>             if i == 0:
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>                 # base case for the forward part
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>                 prev_f_sum = a_0[st]
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>             else:
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>                 prev_f_sum = sum(f_prev[k]*a[k][st] for k in states) ##
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>  
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>             f_curr[st] = e[st][x_i] * prev_f_sum
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>  
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>         fwd.append(f_curr)
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>         f_prev = f_curr
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>  
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>     p_fwd = sum(f_curr[k]*a[k][end_st] for k in states)
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> 
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> As this value was being called in prev_f_sum = sum(f_prev[k]*a[k][st] for k in states marked ## 
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> I wanted to know what values it is generating.
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> So, I had made the following experiment, after 
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> for i, x_i in enumerate(x): 
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> I had put print f_prev 
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> but I am not getting how f_prev is getting the values.
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> 
> 
> Here, 
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> x=observations,
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> states= states,
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> a_0=start_probability,
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> a= transition_probability,
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> e=emission_probability,
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> end_st= end_state
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> 
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> Am I missing any minor aspect?
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> Code is running fine. 
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> 
> 
> If any one of the esteemed members may kindly guide me.
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> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Subhabrata Banerjee.

Dear Sir,
Thank you for your kind reply. I will check. 
Regards,
Subhabrata Banerjee. 

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Question on Debugging a code line subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2014-05-10 12:27 -0700
  Re: Question on Debugging a code line MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-10 21:44 +0100
  Re: Question on Debugging a code line subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2014-05-10 23:20 -0700
    Re: Question on Debugging a code line subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2014-05-11 00:45 -0700
      Re: Question on Debugging a code line Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-11 13:03 +0100

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