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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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 */

package org.apache.spark.ml.evaluation

import org.apache.spark.annotation.{DeveloperApi, Since}
import org.apache.spark.ml.param.{ParamMap, Params}
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame

/**
 * :: DeveloperApi ::
 * Abstract class for evaluators that compute metrics from predictions.
 */
@Since("1.5.0")
@DeveloperApi
abstract class Evaluator extends Params {

  /**
   * Evaluates model output and returns a scalar metric (larger is better).
   *
   * @param dataset a dataset that contains labels/observations and predictions.
   * @param paramMap parameter map that specifies the input columns and output metrics
   * @return metric
   */
  @Since("1.5.0")
  def evaluate(dataset: DataFrame, paramMap: ParamMap): Double = {
    this.copy(paramMap).evaluate(dataset)
  }

  /**
   * Evaluates the output.
   * @param dataset a dataset that contains labels/observations and predictions.
   * @return metric
   */
  @Since("1.5.0")
  def evaluate(dataset: DataFrame): Double

  /**
   * Indicates whether the metric returned by [[evaluate()]] should be maximized (true, default)
   * or minimized (false).
   * A given evaluator may support multiple metrics which may be maximized or minimized.
   */
  @Since("1.5.0")
  def isLargerBetter: Boolean = true

  @Since("1.5.0")
  override def copy(extra: ParamMap): Evaluator
}