| File: Dynamic\Trainers\MulticlassClassification\PermutationFeatureImportance.cs | Web Access |
| Project: src\docs\samples\Microsoft.ML.Samples\Microsoft.ML.Samples.csproj (Microsoft.ML.Samples) |
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.ML; namespace Samples.Dynamic.Trainers.MulticlassClassification { public static class PermutationFeatureImportance { public static void Example() { // Create a new context for ML.NET operations. It can be used for // exception tracking and logging, as a catalog of available operations // and as the source of randomness. var mlContext = new MLContext(seed: 1); // Create sample data. var samples = GenerateData(); // Load the sample data as an IDataView. var data = mlContext.Data.LoadFromEnumerable(samples); // Define a training pipeline that concatenates features into a vector, // normalizes them, and then trains a linear model. var featureColumns = new string[] { nameof(Data.Feature1), nameof(Data.Feature2) }; var pipeline = mlContext.Transforms .Concatenate("Features", featureColumns) .Append(mlContext.Transforms.Conversion.MapValueToKey("Label")) .Append(mlContext.Transforms.NormalizeMinMax("Features")) .Append(mlContext.MulticlassClassification.Trainers .SdcaMaximumEntropy()); // Fit the pipeline to the data. var model = pipeline.Fit(data); // Transform the dataset. var transformedData = model.Transform(data); // Extract the predictor. var linearPredictor = model.LastTransformer; // Compute the permutation metrics for the linear model using the // normalized data. var permutationMetrics = mlContext.MulticlassClassification .PermutationFeatureImportance(linearPredictor, transformedData, permutationCount: 30); // Now let's look at which features are most important to the model // overall. Get the feature indices sorted by their impact on // microaccuracy. var sortedIndices = permutationMetrics .Select((metrics, index) => new { index, metrics.MicroAccuracy }) .OrderByDescending(feature => Math.Abs(feature.MicroAccuracy.Mean)) .Select(feature => feature.index); Console.WriteLine("Feature\tChange in MicroAccuracy\t95% Confidence in " + "the Mean Change in MicroAccuracy"); var microAccuracy = permutationMetrics.Select(x => x.MicroAccuracy) .ToArray(); foreach (int i in sortedIndices) { Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1:G4}\t{2:G4}", featureColumns[i], microAccuracy[i].Mean, 1.96 * microAccuracy[i].StandardError); } // Expected output: //Feature Change in MicroAccuracy 95% Confidence in the Mean Change in MicroAccuracy //Feature2 -0.1395 0.0006567 //Feature1 -0.05367 0.0006908 } private class Data { public float Label { get; set; } public float Feature1 { get; set; } public float Feature2 { get; set; } } /// <summary> /// Generate an enumerable of Data objects, creating the label as a simple /// linear combination of the features. /// </summary> /// <param name="nExamples">The number of examples.</param> /// <param name="bias">The bias, or offset, in the calculation of the /// label.</param> /// <param name="weight1">The weight to multiply the first feature with to /// compute the label.</param> /// <param name="weight2">The weight to multiply the second feature with to /// compute the label.</param> /// <param name="seed">The seed for generating feature values and label /// noise.</param> /// <returns>An enumerable of Data objects.</returns> private static IEnumerable<Data> GenerateData(int nExamples = 10000, double bias = 0, double weight1 = 1, double weight2 = 2, int seed = 1) { var rng = new Random(seed); var max = bias + 4.5 * weight1 + 4.5 * weight2 + 0.5; for (int i = 0; i < nExamples; i++) { var data = new Data { Feature1 = (float)(rng.Next(10) * (rng.NextDouble() - 0.5)), Feature2 = (float)(rng.Next(10) * (rng.NextDouble() - 0.5)), }; // Create a noisy label. var value = (float) (bias + weight1 * data.Feature1 + weight2 * data.Feature2 + rng.NextDouble() - 0.5); if (value < max / 3) data.Label = 0; else if (value < 2 * max / 3) data.Label = 1; else data.Label = 2; yield return data; } } } }