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30  package org.openimaj.ml.classification;
31  
32  public interface LabelledDataProvider {
33  
34  	/**
35  	 * Get the response for all items for a specific dimension of each feature
36  	 * vector
37  	 *
38  	 * @param dimension
39  	 *            the dimension to select
40  	 * @return a vector of responses
41  	 */
42  	float[] getFeatureResponse(int dimension);
43  
44  	/**
45  	 * Get the feature vector for a specific instance
46  	 *
47  	 * @param idx
48  	 *            the index of the instance
49  	 * @return the feature vector
50  	 */
51  	float[] getInstanceFeature(int idx);
52  
53  	/**
54  	 * @return get the classes.
55  	 */
56  	boolean[] getClasses();
57  
58  	int numInstances();
59  
60  	int numDimensions();
61  
62  	/**
63  	 * Get the indices of the responses corresponding to a specific dimension
64  	 * for all items ordered such that the responses are ascending.
65  	 *
66  	 * @param d
67  	 *            the dimension to select
68  	 * @return the indices ordered by the corresponding ascending response
69  	 *         values
70  	 */
71  	int[] getSortedResponseIndices(int d);
72  }