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package org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.loss

import org.apache.spark.annotation.DeveloperApi
import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint
import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model.TreeEnsembleModel
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD

/**
 * :: DeveloperApi ::
 * Trait for adding "pluggable" loss functions for the gradient boosting algorithm.
 */
@DeveloperApi
trait Loss extends Serializable {

  /**
   * Method to calculate the gradients for the gradient boosting calculation.
   * @param model Model of the weak learner.
   * @param point Instance of the training dataset.
   * @return Loss gradient.
   */
  def gradient(
      model: TreeEnsembleModel,
      point: LabeledPoint): Double

  /**
   * Method to calculate error of the base learner for the gradient boosting calculation.
   * Note: This method is not used by the gradient boosting algorithm but is useful for debugging
   * purposes.
   * @param model Model of the weak learner.
   * @param data Training dataset: RDD of [[org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint]].
   * @return
   */
  def computeError(model: TreeEnsembleModel, data: RDD[LabeledPoint]): Double

}
