File: Dynamic\Trainers\Regression\FastTree.cs
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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;
using Microsoft.ML.Data;
 
namespace Samples.Dynamic.Trainers.Regression
{
    public static class FastTreeRegression
    {
        // This example requires installation of additional NuGet
        // package for Microsoft.ML.FastTree found at
        // https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.ML.FastTree/
        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. Setting the seed to a fixed number
            // in this example to make outputs deterministic.
            var mlContext = new MLContext(seed: 0);
 
            // Create a list of training data points.
            var dataPoints = GenerateRandomDataPoints(1000);
 
            // Convert the list of data points to an IDataView object, which is
            // consumable by ML.NET API.
            var trainingData = mlContext.Data.LoadFromEnumerable(dataPoints);
 
            // Define the trainer.
            var pipeline = mlContext.Regression.Trainers.FastTree(
                labelColumnName: nameof(DataPoint.Label),
                featureColumnName: nameof(DataPoint.Features));
 
            // Train the model.
            var model = pipeline.Fit(trainingData);
 
            // Create testing data. Use different random seed to make it different
            // from training data.
            var testData = mlContext.Data.LoadFromEnumerable(
                GenerateRandomDataPoints(5, seed: 123));
 
            // Run the model on test data set.
            var transformedTestData = model.Transform(testData);
 
            // Convert IDataView object to a list.
            var predictions = mlContext.Data.CreateEnumerable<Prediction>(
                transformedTestData, reuseRowObject: false).ToList();
 
            // Look at 5 predictions for the Label, side by side with the actual
            // Label for comparison.
            foreach (var p in predictions)
                Console.WriteLine($"Label: {p.Label:F3}, Prediction: {p.Score:F3}");
 
            // Expected output:
            //   Label: 0.985, Prediction: 0.938
            //   Label: 0.155, Prediction: 0.131
            //   Label: 0.515, Prediction: 0.517
            //   Label: 0.566, Prediction: 0.519
            //   Label: 0.096, Prediction: 0.089
 
            // Evaluate the overall metrics
            var metrics = mlContext.Regression.Evaluate(transformedTestData);
            PrintMetrics(metrics);
 
            // Expected output:
            //   Mean Absolute Error: 0.03
            //   Mean Squared Error: 0.00
            //   Root Mean Squared Error: 0.03
            //   RSquared: 0.99 (closer to 1 is better. The worst case is 0)
        }
 
        private static IEnumerable<DataPoint> GenerateRandomDataPoints(int count,
            int seed = 0)
        {
            var random = new Random(seed);
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                float label = (float)random.NextDouble();
                yield return new DataPoint
                {
                    Label = label,
                    // Create random features that are correlated with the label.
                    Features = Enumerable.Repeat(label, 50).Select(
                        x => x + (float)random.NextDouble()).ToArray()
                };
            }
        }
 
        // Example with label and 50 feature values. A data set is a collection of
        // such examples.
        private class DataPoint
        {
            public float Label { get; set; }
            [VectorType(50)]
            public float[] Features { get; set; }
        }
 
        // Class used to capture predictions.
        private class Prediction
        {
            // Original label.
            public float Label { get; set; }
            // Predicted score from the trainer.
            public float Score { get; set; }
        }
 
        // Print some evaluation metrics to regression problems.
        private static void PrintMetrics(RegressionMetrics metrics)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Mean Absolute Error: " + metrics.MeanAbsoluteError);
            Console.WriteLine("Mean Squared Error: " + metrics.MeanSquaredError);
            Console.WriteLine(
                "Root Mean Squared Error: " + metrics.RootMeanSquaredError);
 
            Console.WriteLine("RSquared: " + metrics.RSquared);
        }
    }
}