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+## Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Arno Onken <asnelt@asnelt.org>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program 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 General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{vpath} =} hmmviterbi (@var{sequence}, @var{transprob}, @var{outprob})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hmmviterbi (@dots{}, 'symbols', @var{symbols})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} hmmviterbi (@dots{}, 'statenames', @var{statenames})
+## Use the Viterbi algorithm to find the Viterbi path of a hidden Markov
+## model given a sequence of outputs. The model assumes that the generation
+## starts in state @code{1} at step @code{0} but does not include step
+## @code{0} in the generated states and sequence.
+##
+## @subheading Arguments
+##
+## @itemize @bullet
+## @item
+## @var{sequence} is the vector of length @var{len} of given outputs. The
+## outputs must be integers ranging from @code{1} to
+## @code{columns (outprob)}.
+##
+## @item
+## @var{transprob} is the matrix of transition probabilities of the states.
+## @code{transprob(i, j)} is the probability of a transition to state
+## @code{j} given state @code{i}.
+##
+## @item
+## @var{outprob} is the matrix of output probabilities.
+## @code{outprob(i, j)} is the probability of generating output @code{j}
+## given state @code{i}.
+## @end itemize
+##
+## @subheading Return values
+##
+## @itemize @bullet
+## @item
+## @var{vpath} is the vector of the same length as @var{sequence} of the
+## estimated hidden states. The states are integers ranging from @code{1} to
+## @code{columns (transprob)}.
+## @end itemize
+##
+## If @code{'symbols'} is specified, then @var{sequence} is expected to be a
+## sequence of the elements of @var{symbols} instead of integers ranging
+## from @code{1} to @code{columns (outprob)}. @var{symbols} can be a cell array.
+##
+## If @code{'statenames'} is specified, then the elements of
+## @var{statenames} are used for the states in @var{vpath} instead of
+## integers ranging from @code{1} to @code{columns (transprob)}.
+## @var{statenames} can be a cell array.
+##
+## @subheading Examples
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## transprob = [0.8, 0.2; 0.4, 0.6];
+## outprob = [0.2, 0.4, 0.4; 0.7, 0.2, 0.1];
+## [sequence, states] = hmmgenerate (25, transprob, outprob)
+## vpath = hmmviterbi (sequence, transprob, outprob)
+## @end group
+##
+## @group
+## symbols = @{'A', 'B', 'C'@};
+## statenames = @{'One', 'Two'@};
+## [sequence, states] = hmmgenerate (25, transprob, outprob,
+## 'symbols', symbols, 'statenames', statenames)
+## vpath = hmmviterbi (sequence, transprob, outprob,
+## 'symbols', symbols, 'statenames', statenames)
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @subheading References
+##
+## @enumerate
+## @item
+## Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez. @cite{Computational Statistics
+## Handbook with MATLAB}. Appendix E, pages 547-557, Chapman & Hall/CRC,
+## 2001.
+##
+## @item
+## Lawrence R. Rabiner. A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected
+## Applications in Speech Recognition. @cite{Proceedings of the IEEE},
+## 77(2), pages 257-286, February 1989.
+## @end enumerate
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Arno Onken <asnelt@asnelt.org>
+## Description: Viterbi path of a hidden Markov model
+
+function vpath = hmmviterbi (sequence, transprob, outprob, varargin)
+
+ # Check arguments
+ if (nargin < 3 || mod (length (varargin), 2) != 0)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! ismatrix (transprob))
+ error ("hmmviterbi: transprob must be a non-empty numeric matrix");
+ endif
+ if (! ismatrix (outprob))
+ error ("hmmviterbi: outprob must be a non-empty numeric matrix");
+ endif
+
+ len = length (sequence);
+ # nstate is the number of states of the hidden Markov model
+ nstate = rows (transprob);
+ # noutput is the number of different outputs that the hidden Markov model
+ # can generate
+ noutput = columns (outprob);
+
+ # Check whether transprob and outprob are feasible for a hidden Markov model
+ if (columns (transprob) != nstate)
+ error ("hmmviterbi: transprob must be a square matrix");
+ endif
+ if (rows (outprob) != nstate)
+ error ("hmmviterbi: outprob must have the same number of rows as transprob");
+ endif
+
+ # Flag for symbols
+ usesym = false;
+ # Flag for statenames
+ usesn = false;
+
+ # Process varargin
+ for i = 1:2:length (varargin)
+ # There must be an identifier: 'symbols' or 'statenames'
+ if (! ischar (varargin{i}))
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+ # Upper case is also fine
+ lowerarg = lower (varargin{i});
+ if (strcmp (lowerarg, 'symbols'))
+ if (length (varargin{i + 1}) != noutput)
+ error ("hmmviterbi: number of symbols does not match number of possible outputs");
+ endif
+ usesym = true;
+ # Use the following argument as symbols
+ symbols = varargin{i + 1};
+ # The same for statenames
+ elseif (strcmp (lowerarg, 'statenames'))
+ if (length (varargin{i + 1}) != nstate)
+ error ("hmmviterbi: number of statenames does not match number of states");
+ endif
+ usesn = true;
+ # Use the following argument as statenames
+ statenames = varargin{i + 1};
+ else
+ error ("hmmviterbi: expected 'symbols' or 'statenames' but found '%s'", varargin{i});
+ endif
+ endfor
+
+ # Transform sequence from symbols to integers if necessary
+ if (usesym)
+ # sequenceint is used to build the transformed sequence
+ sequenceint = zeros (1, len);
+ for i = 1:noutput
+ # Search for symbols(i) in the sequence, isequal will have 1 at
+ # corresponding indices; i is the right integer for that symbol
+ isequal = ismember (sequence, symbols(i));
+ # We do not want to change sequenceint if the symbol appears a second
+ # time in symbols
+ if (any ((sequenceint == 0) & (isequal == 1)))
+ isequal *= i;
+ sequenceint += isequal;
+ endif
+ endfor
+ if (! all (sequenceint))
+ index = max ((sequenceint == 0) .* (1:len));
+ error (["hmmviterbi: sequence(" int2str (index) ") not in symbols"]);
+ endif
+ sequence = sequenceint;
+ else
+ if (! isvector (sequence) && ! isempty (sequence))
+ error ("hmmviterbi: sequence must be a vector");
+ endif
+ if (! all (ismember (sequence, 1:noutput)))
+ index = max ((ismember (sequence, 1:noutput) == 0) .* (1:len));
+ error (["hmmviterbi: sequence(" int2str (index) ") out of range"]);
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ # Each row in transprob and outprob should contain probabilities
+ # => scale so that the sum is 1
+ # A zero row remains zero
+ # - for transprob
+ s = sum (transprob, 2);
+ s(s == 0) = 1;
+ transprob = transprob ./ (s * ones (1, columns (transprob)));
+ # - for outprob
+ s = sum (outprob, 2);
+ s(s == 0) = 1;
+ outsprob = outprob ./ (s * ones (1, columns (outprob)));
+
+ # Store the path starting from i in spath(i, :)
+ spath = ones (nstate, len + 1);
+ # Set the first state for each path
+ spath(:, 1) = (1:nstate)';
+ # Store the probability of path i in spathprob(i)
+ spathprob = transprob(1, :);
+
+ # Find the most likely paths for the given output sequence
+ for i = 1:len
+ # Calculate the new probabilities of the continuation with each state
+ nextpathprob = ((spathprob' .* outprob(:, sequence(i))) * ones (1, nstate)) .* transprob;
+ # Find the paths with the highest probabilities
+ [spathprob, mindex] = max (nextpathprob);
+ # Update spath and spathprob with the new paths
+ spath = spath(mindex, :);
+ spath(:, i + 1) = (1:nstate)';
+ endfor
+
+ # Set vpath to the most likely path
+ # We do not want the last state because we do not have an output for it
+ [m, mindex] = max (spathprob);
+ vpath = spath(mindex, 1:len);
+
+ # Transform vpath into statenames if requested
+ if (usesn)
+ vpath = reshape (statenames(vpath), 1, len);
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+%!test
+%! sequence = [1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3];
+%! transprob = [0.8, 0.2; 0.4, 0.6];
+%! outprob = [0.2, 0.4, 0.4; 0.7, 0.2, 0.1];
+%! vpath = hmmviterbi (sequence, transprob, outprob);
+%! expected = [1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1];
+%! assert (vpath, expected);
+
+%!test
+%! sequence = {'A', 'B', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'C', 'C', 'C', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'C', 'C', 'B', 'C', 'A', 'C'};
+%! transprob = [0.8, 0.2; 0.4, 0.6];
+%! outprob = [0.2, 0.4, 0.4; 0.7, 0.2, 0.1];
+%! symbols = {'A', 'B', 'C'};
+%! statenames = {'One', 'Two'};
+%! vpath = hmmviterbi (sequence, transprob, outprob, 'symbols', symbols, 'statenames', statenames);
+%! expected = {'One', 'One', 'Two', 'Two', 'Two', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'Two', 'Two', 'Two', 'Two', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One', 'One'};
+%! assert (vpath, expected);