Added initial version of a distributed structural svm solver.

dlib/svm/structural_svm_distributed_abstract.h

+// Copyright (C) 2011  Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
+// License: Boost Software License   See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
+#undef DLIB_STRUCTURAL_SVM_DISTRIBUTeD_ABSTRACT_H__
+#ifdef DLIB_STRUCTURAL_SVM_DISTRIBUTeD_ABSTRACT_H__
+
+
+#include "structural_svm_problem_abstract.h"
+#include "../optimization/optimization_oca_abstract.h"
+
+namespace dlib
+{
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    class svm_struct_processing_node : noncopyable
+    {
+        /*!
+            WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
+        !*/
+
+    public:
+
+        template <
+            typename T,
+            typename U 
+            >
+        svm_struct_processing_node (
+            const structural_svm_problem<T,U>& problem,
+            unsigned short port,
+            unsigned short num_threads
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+    };
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    class svm_struct_controller_node : noncopyable
+    {
+        /*!
+            WHAT THIS OBJECT REPRESENTS
+        !*/
+
+    public:
+
+        svm_struct_controller_node (
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void set_epsilon (
+            double eps
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        double get_epsilon (
+        ) const;
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void be_verbose (
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void be_quiet(
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        double get_c (
+        ) const;
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void set_c (
+            double C
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void add_processing_node (
+            const std::string& ip,
+            unsigned short port
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        unsigned long get_num_processing_nodes (
+        ) const;
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        void remove_processing_nodes (
+        );
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+        template <typename matrix_type>
+        double operator() (
+            const oca& solver,
+            matrix_type& w
+        ) const;
+        /*!
+        !*/
+
+    };
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+}
+
+#endif // DLIB_STRUCTURAL_SVM_DISTRIBUTeD_ABSTRACT_H__
+
+

dlib/svm_threaded.h

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "svm.h"
 #include "svm/svm_threaded.h"
 #include "svm/structural_svm_problem_threaded.h"
+#include "svm/structural_svm_distributed.h"
 
 #endif // DLIB_SVm_THREADED_HEADER