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first hg version after svn
author wolffd
date Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:05:51 +0000
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wolffd@0 1 function s = logsumexpv(a)
wolffd@0 2 % Returns log(sum(exp(a))) while avoiding numerical underflow.
wolffd@0 3 %
wolffd@0 4 % e.g., log(e^a1 + e^a2) = a1 + log(1 + e^(a2-a1)) if a1>a2
wolffd@0 5 % If a1 ~ a2, and a1>a2, then e^(a2-a1) is exp(small negative number),
wolffd@0 6 % which can be computed without underflow.
wolffd@0 7
wolffd@0 8 % Same as logsumexp, except we assume a is a vector.
wolffd@0 9 % This avoids a call to repmat, which takes 50% of the time!
wolffd@0 10
wolffd@0 11 a = a(:)'; % make row vector
wolffd@0 12 m = max(a);
wolffd@0 13 b = a - m*ones(1,length(a));
wolffd@0 14 s = m + log(sum(exp(b)));
wolffd@0 15