Sklearn-genetic-opt

scikit-learn models hyperparameters tuning and feature selection, using evolutionary algorithms.

This is meant to be an alternative to popular methods inside scikit-learn such as Grid Search and Randomized Grid Search for hyperparameters tuning, and from RFE (Recursive Feature Elimination), Select From Model for feature selection.

Table of Contents

• Sklearn-genetic-opt Overview - Main Features - Demos on Features
• Installation - Basic Installation - Full Installation with Extras
• Usage - Hyperparameters Tuning - Feature Selection
• Documentation - Stable - Latest - Development
• Changelog
• Important Links
• Source Code
• Contributing
• Testing

Sklearn-genetic-opt uses evolutionary algorithms from the DEAP (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python) package to choose the set of hyperparameters that optimizes (max or min) the cross-validation scores, it can be used for both regression and classification problems.

Documentation is available here

Main Features:

• GASearchCV: Main class of the package for hyperparameters tuning, holds the evolutionary cross-validation optimization routine.
• GAFeatureSelectionCV: Main class of the package for feature selection.
• Algorithms: Set of different evolutionary algorithms to use as an optimization procedure.
• Callbacks: Custom evaluation strategies to generate early stopping rules, logging (into TensorBoard, .pkl files, etc) or your custom logic.
• Schedulers: Adaptive methods to control learning parameters.
• Plots: Generate pre-defined plots to understand the optimization process.
• MLflow: Build-in integration with mlflow to log all the hyperparameters, cv-scores and the fitted models.

Demos on Features:

Visualize the progress of your training:

Real-time metrics visualization and comparison across runs:

Sampled distribution of hyperparameters:

Artifacts logging:

Usage:

Install sklearn-genetic-opt

It's advised to install sklearn-genetic using a virtual env, inside the env use:

pip install sklearn-genetic-opt

If you want to get all the features, including plotting, tensorboard and mlflow logging capabilities, install all the extra packages:

pip install sklearn-genetic-opt[all]

Example: Hyperparameters Tuning

# Import necessary libraries
from sklearn_genetic import GASearchCV
from sklearn_genetic.space import Continuous, Categorical, Integer
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score

# Load the dataset
data = load_digits()
n_samples = len(data.images)
X = data.images.reshape((n_samples, -1))
y = data['target']

# Split the dataset into training and testing sets
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33, random_state=42)

# Define the RandomForestClassifier
clf = RandomForestClassifier()

# Define the parameter grid for GASearchCV
param_grid = {
    'min_weight_fraction_leaf': Continuous(0.01, 0.5, distribution='log-uniform'),
    'bootstrap': Categorical([True, False]),
    'max_depth': Integer(2, 30),
    'max_leaf_nodes': Integer(2, 35),
    'n_estimators': Integer(100, 300)
}

# Configure cross-validation
cv = StratifiedKFold(n_splits=3, shuffle=True)

# Initialize and configure GASearchCV
evolved_estimator = GASearchCV(
    estimator=clf,
    cv=cv,
    scoring='accuracy',
    population_size=20,
    generations=35,
    param_grid=param_grid,
    n_jobs=-1,
    verbose=True,
    keep_top_k=4
)

# Train and optimize the estimator
evolved_estimator.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Display best parameters found
print("Best parameters:", evolved_estimator.best_params_)

# Use the model fitted with the best parameters to make predictions
y_predict_ga = evolved_estimator.predict(X_test)
print("Test accuracy:", accuracy_score(y_test, y_predict_ga))

# Display additional information about the optimization process
print("Stats achieved in each generation:", evolved_estimator.history)
print("Best k solutions:", evolved_estimator.hof)

Example: Feature Selection

from sklearn_genetic import GAFeatureSelectionCV, ExponentialAdapter
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
import numpy as np

data = load_iris()
X, y = data["data"], data["target"]

# Add random non-important features
noise = np.random.uniform(5, 10, size=(X.shape[0], 5))
X = np.hstack((X, noise))

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33, random_state=0)

clf = SVC(gamma='auto')
mutation_scheduler = ExponentialAdapter(0.8, 0.2, 0.01)
crossover_scheduler = ExponentialAdapter(0.2, 0.8, 0.01)

evolved_estimator = GAFeatureSelectionCV(
    estimator=clf,
    scoring="accuracy",
    population_size=30,
    generations=20,
    mutation_probability=mutation_scheduler,
    crossover_probability=crossover_scheduler,
    n_jobs=-1)

# Train and select the features
evolved_estimator.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Features selected by the algorithm
features = evolved_estimator.support_
print(features)

# Predict only with the subset of selected features
y_predict_ga = evolved_estimator.predict(X_test)
print(accuracy_score(y_test, y_predict_ga))

# Transform the original data to the selected features
X_reduced = evolved_estimator.transform(X_test)

Changelog

See the changelog for notes on the changes of Sklearn-genetic-opt

Important links

• Official source code repo: https://github.com/rodrigo-arenas/Sklearn-genetic-opt/
• Download releases: https://pypi.org/project/sklearn-genetic-opt/
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/rodrigo-arenas/Sklearn-genetic-opt/issues
• Stable documentation: https://sklearn-genetic-opt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Source code

You can check the latest development version with the command:

git clone https://github.com/rodrigo-arenas/Sklearn-genetic-opt.git

Install the development dependencies:

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Check the latest in-development documentation: https://sklearn-genetic-opt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome! There are several opportunities on the ongoing project, so please get in touch if you would like to help out. Make sure to check the current issues and also the Contribution guide.

Big thanks to the people who are helping with this project!

Testing

After installation, you can launch the test suite from outside the source directory:

pytest sklearn_genetic