Gradient Boosting regularizationΒΆ
Illustration of the effect of different regularization strategies for Gradient Boosting. The example is taken from Hastie et al 2009.
The loss function used is binomial deviance. Regularization via
shrinkage (learning_rate < 1.0
) improves performance considerably.
In combination with shrinkage, stochastic gradient boosting
(subsample < 1.0
) can produce more accurate models by reducing the
variance via bagging.
Subsampling without shrinkage usually does poorly.
Another strategy to reduce the variance is by subsampling the features
analogous to the random splits in Random Forests
(via the max_features
parameter).
[1] | T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, “Elements of Statistical Learning Ed. 2”, Springer, 2009. |
Python source code: plot_gradient_boosting_regularization.py
print(__doc__)
# Author: Peter Prettenhofer <peter.prettenhofer@gmail.com>
#
# License: BSD 3 clause
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn import ensemble
from sklearn import datasets
X, y = datasets.make_hastie_10_2(n_samples=12000, random_state=1)
X = X.astype(np.float32)
# map labels from {-1, 1} to {0, 1}
labels, y = np.unique(y, return_inverse=True)
X_train, X_test = X[:2000], X[2000:]
y_train, y_test = y[:2000], y[2000:]
original_params = {'n_estimators': 1000, 'max_leaf_nodes': 4, 'max_depth': None, 'random_state': 2,
'min_samples_split': 5}
plt.figure()
for label, color, setting in [('No shrinkage', 'orange',
{'learning_rate': 1.0, 'subsample': 1.0}),
('learning_rate=0.1', 'turquoise',
{'learning_rate': 0.1, 'subsample': 1.0}),
('subsample=0.5', 'blue',
{'learning_rate': 1.0, 'subsample': 0.5}),
('learning_rate=0.1, subsample=0.5', 'gray',
{'learning_rate': 0.1, 'subsample': 0.5}),
('learning_rate=0.1, max_features=2', 'magenta',
{'learning_rate': 0.1, 'max_features': 2})]:
params = dict(original_params)
params.update(setting)
clf = ensemble.GradientBoostingClassifier(**params)
clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
# compute test set deviance
test_deviance = np.zeros((params['n_estimators'],), dtype=np.float64)
for i, y_pred in enumerate(clf.staged_decision_function(X_test)):
# clf.loss_ assumes that y_test[i] in {0, 1}
test_deviance[i] = clf.loss_(y_test, y_pred)
plt.plot((np.arange(test_deviance.shape[0]) + 1)[::5], test_deviance[::5],
'-', color=color, label=label)
plt.legend(loc='upper left')
plt.xlabel('Boosting Iterations')
plt.ylabel('Test Set Deviance')
plt.show()
Total running time of the example: 36.05 seconds ( 0 minutes 36.05 seconds)