The following operations are provided for SFSTs. Care must be taken that the input FSTs meet the specified requirements (e.g.
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The binary commands typically check their input requirements are satisfied or raise an error but the C++ versions may not check for efficiency (see the source code documentation for specific cases).
Operation |
Usage |
Description |
Complexity |
Approx |
Approx(ifst, &backoff_fst, phi_label, delta) |
approximates a normalized stochastic FST wrt a provided backoff-complete FST |
same as ShortestDistance on the intersection of the input and output FSTs |
Count |
Count() |
counts from stochastic FST wrt to a provided backoff-complete FST |
same as ShortestDistance on the intersection of the input and output FSTs |
CountNormalize |
CountNormalize(&fst) |
normalizes a count FST (e.g. as output by Count()) |
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RandGen |
fst::RandGen(ifst, &ofst, fst::RandGenOptions<SFstArcSelector>(...)) |
randomly generates paths in a stochastic FST (correctly dealing with failure transitions) |
see RandGen |
GlobalNormalize |
GlobalNormalize(&fst, phi_label, delta) |
globally normalizes, when possible1, a canonical weighted FST preserving total path weights (up to a global constant) |
same as ShortestDistance |
Intersect |
Intersect() |
intersects two canonical stochastic FSAs |
Time2: O(E1V2(max-label-multiplicity2 + max-phi-order2 log(max-out-degree2)) |
IsCanonical |
IsCanonical(fst, phi_label) |
checks the second property here holds for a weighted FST |
Time, Space: O(V + E) |
IsNormalized |
IsNormalized(fst, phi_label, delta) |
checks the two properties here hold for a weighted FST |
Time, Space: O(V + E) |
LocalNormalize |
LocalNormalize(&fst) |
locally normalizes, when possible, a canonical weighted FST preserving each state's out-going arc weights up to a state-specific constant |
Time, Space: O(V + E) |
NGramApprox |
NGramApprox(ifst, &ofst, order, phi_label, delta) |
approximates a normalized stochastic FST as an n-gram model (having phi_labels in OpenGrm NGram format) |
same as ShortestDistance on the intersection of the input and output FSTs |
Perplexity |
Perplexity(fst, phi_label, unknown_label, unknown_class_size) |
computes perplexity for a stochastic FST |
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PhiNormalize |
PhiNormalize(&fst, phi_label) |
normalizes, when possible, a canonical weighted FST by only modifying the failure transitions |
Time, Space: O(V + E) |
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sfstapprox[--phi_label=$l][--delta=$d] in.fst backoff.fst out.fst |
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sfstcount |
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Info |
sfstinfo |
prints out information about a stochastic FST |
Time, Space: O(V + E * max-phi-order) |
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sfstintersect |
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sfstngramapprox [--order=$o][--phi_label=$l][--delta=$d] in.fst out.fst |
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sfstnormalize [--method=global] [--phi_label=$l][--delta=$d] in.fst out.fst |
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sfstnormalize --method=phi [-phi_label=$l][--delta=$d] in.fst out.fst |
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sfstnormalize -method=local in.fst out.fst |
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sfstnormalize -method={kl_min,summed} in.fst out.fst |
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sfstperplexity [--phi_label=$l] [-unknown_label=$u][--unknown_class_size=$s] in.fst test.far |
(test sentences are in FST archive format) |
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sfstrandgen [--phi_label=$l] [--max_length=$l] [--npath=$n] [--seed=$s] in.fst out.fst |
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sfstshorttestdistance |
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sfsttopology |
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sfsttrim -phi_label=$l in.fst out.fst |
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ShortestDistance |
ShortestDistance() |
computes the shortest distance in the presence of failure transitions |
same as ShortestDistance |
Topology |
Topology() |
algorithms for constructing specific FST topologies |
Time, Space: O(V + E) |
Trim |
Trim(&fst, phi_label) |
removes useless states and transitions in stochastic automata (irrespective of weights) |
Time, Space: O(V + E * max-phi-order) |
Possible when the sum of weight of all successful paths from the initial state is finite (and the input is
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Assumes for each state (s1, s2) in the output, the out-degree of state s1 in FST1 is less than state s2 in FST2; otherwise the term for that state's contribution swaps s1 and s2.