rfcp: Relative Frequency Contrast Profile

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Relative Frequency Contrast Profile

Description

Computes an exact, NA-aware Relative Frequency Contrast Profile (RFCP) between a positive series and a negative series. For every valid positive window, RFCP compares ordered non-overlapping neighbor ranks from the positive self-join and the positive-to-negative AB-join.

Usage

rfcp(
  positive_data,
  negative_data,
  window_size,
  max_freq,
  exclusion_radius = NULL,
  query_begin = 1L,
  query_end = NULL,
  return_profiles = FALSE,
  n_workers = 1L,
  progress = TRUE,
  backend = "cpu"
)

Arguments

positive_data	Numeric positive/query time series.
negative_data	Numeric negative/reference time series.
window_size	Integer subsequence length, at least 2 and no larger than either input series.
max_freq	Integer number of non-overlapping neighbor ranks requested.
exclusion_radius	Integer exclusion radius between accepted neighbor starts. NULL uses window_size, the RFCP protocol setting.
query_begin	First positive query start to process, using one-based inclusive coordinates. Defaults to the first start.
query_end	Last positive query start to process, using one-based inclusive coordinates. NULL processes through the final start.
return_profiles	Whether to return the complete RFMP, RFCP, and index matrices for the requested query block. This validation mode is limited to 5,000,000 rank-query cells. Defaults to FALSE.
n_workers	Number of native worker threads for the CPU backend. Ignored when backend = "cuda". Defaults to 1. For parallel execution across processes, prefer a PSOCK cluster and use n_workers = 1 within each worker. See matrixprofiler for fork limitations.
progress	Logical progress flag. Reserved for native progress reporting; defaults to TRUE.
backend	Computation backend: "cpu" (default) or "cuda". The CUDA backend is optional and requires a local build with CUDA enabled (see inst/cuda/build_cuda_rcpp.sh).

Details

NA, NaN, Inf, and -Inf are barriers. Windows touching a barrier, constant windows, and otherwise non-normalizable windows cannot be queries or neighbors. Returned neighbor indices are one-based global coordinates. Candidates are ordered by increasing distance and then increasing index. After accepting a neighbor at j, the closed interval ⁠[j - exclusion_radius, j + exclusion_radius]⁠ is excluded. The same neighborhood around the query is excluded before AA selection.

For rank k, distances are clipped at sqrt(2 * window_size) before calculating max((AB - AA) / sqrt(2 * window_size), 0). Missing ranks contribute zero while the RMSC denominator remains the requested max_freq. effective_max_freq is diagnostic: it is the largest number of paired finite AA/AB ranks observed for any completed query and never changes the denominator.

The default mode materializes only the RMSC values for the requested query block and the rank vectors for the selected Plato. Blocks use global query coordinates and can be concatenated for checkpointed execution. With return_profiles = TRUE, RFMP matrices contain unclipped z-normalized Euclidean distances and RFCP contains the corresponding clipped contrasts. Native query tiles use min(32768, max(1024, 16 * window_size)), further capped at the ceiling of the requested query count divided by the effective worker count. The first tile starts at query_begin, so checkpoint blocks do not perform discarded warm-up rows. The CUDA backend executes the full join query-by-query with optional profile matrices returned identically to the CPU backend.

Value

A list with RFCP outputs:

• rms_profile: numeric vector of root-mean-square contrasts.

• valid_window_positive: logical mask of valid query windows.

• valid_window_negative: logical mask of valid reference windows.

• plato_index: one-based index of the highest-contrast query.

• plato_rms: contrast score at plato_index.

• plato_twin_index: one-based index of the nearest self-join neighbor at plato_index.

• rfcp_at_plato: clipped contrasts across accepted neighbor ranks.

• rfmp_aa_at_plato: positive self-join distances at plato.

• rfmp_ab_at_plato: negative AB distances at plato.

• rfmpi_aa_at_plato: positive neighbor indices at plato.

• rfmpi_ab_at_plato: negative neighbor indices at plato.

• requested_max_freq: requested rank count.

• effective_max_freq: highest paired rank observed.

• query_begin, query_end: one-based query range.

• completed_query_end: end of completed queries.

• partial: whether computation stopped early.

• rfmp_aa, rfmp_ab, rfcp, rfmpi_aa, rfmpi_ab: optional full profile matrices when return_profiles = TRUE.

Examples

pos <- c(sin(seq(0, 4 * pi, length.out = 100)))
neg <- c(cos(seq(0, 10 * pi, length.out = 150)))
res <- rfcp(pos, neg, window_size = 10, max_freq = 2)
res$plato_index

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