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Fix symmetrical case for hellinger distance. Fix #1854#1860

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Fix symmetrical case for hellinger distance. Fix #1854#1860
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This changes fix the bugs that return different distance when we call hellinger(x, y) and hellinger(y,x) ( #1854)
The cause of this bug is that we compute the distance based on one distribution's index previously, but we should iterate all the index appears in two probability distributions.

This changes fix the bugs that return different distance when we
call hellinger(x, y) and hellinger(y, x).
The cause of this bug is that we compute the distance based on one
distribution's index previously, but we should iterate all the
index appears in two probability distributions.
Comment thread gensim/matutils.py Outdated
vec1, vec2 = dict(vec1), dict(vec2)
if len(vec2) < len(vec1):
vec1, vec2 = vec2, vec1 # swap references so that we iterate over the shorter vector
indexs = set(vec1.keys() + vec2.keys())
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indexs -> indices

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indexs = set(vec1.keys() + vec2.keys())
sim = np.sqrt(
0.5 * sum((np.sqrt(value) - np.sqrt(vec2.get(index, 0.0)))**2 for index, value in iteritems(vec1))
0.5 * sum((np.sqrt(vec1.get(index, 0.0)) - np.sqrt(vec2.get(index, 0.0)))**2 for index in indexs)
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Also please add a test for it (you can use an example from original issue).

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Should I add a test in this function https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/blob/develop/gensim/test/test_similarity_metrics.py#L106 or anywhere else ? And it seems that the current two different length BOW inputs test in Line109 has a wrong expected value, I'm tring to correct it.

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Yes, please fix current test & add needed tests to TestHellinger class

@menshikh-iv menshikh-iv changed the title Fix #1854: return different hellinger distance when calling d(x,y) and d(y,x) Fix symmetrical case for hellinger distance. Fix #1854 Jan 26, 2018
* fix the currrent test for different length BOW inputs
* add a test for symmetrical inputs
@menshikh-iv menshikh-iv merged commit 1f357a7 into piskvorky:develop Jan 30, 2018
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Good work @caiyulun, congratz with first contribution 👍

sj29-innovate pushed a commit to sj29-innovate/gensim that referenced this pull request Feb 21, 2018
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* fix: fix bugs in hellinger distance computing

This changes fix the bugs that return different distance when we
call hellinger(x, y) and hellinger(y, x).
The cause of this bug is that we compute the distance based on one
distribution's index previously, but we should iterate all the
index appears in two probability distributions.

* rename variable + fix union indices error in python3

* fix and add tests for hellinger distance

* fix the currrent test for different length BOW inputs
* add a test for symmetrical inputs
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