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scikit-learn: Using GridSearch to tune the hyper-parameters of VotingClassifier

In my last blog post I showed how to create a multi class classification ensemble using scikit-learn’s VotingClassifier and finished mentioning that I didn’t know which classifiers should be part of the ensemble.

We need to get a better score with each of the classifiers in the ensemble otherwise they can be excluded.

We have a TF/IDF based classifier as well as well as the classifiers I wrote about in the last post. This is the code describing the classifiers:

import pandas as pd
from sklearn import linear_model
from sklearn.ensemble import VotingClassifier
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer, TfidfVectorizer
 
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
 
Y_COLUMN = "author"
TEXT_COLUMN = "text"
 
unigram_log_pipe = Pipeline([
    ('cv', CountVectorizer()),
    ('logreg', linear_model.LogisticRegression())
])
 
ngram_pipe = Pipeline([
    ('cv', CountVectorizer(ngram_range=(1, 2))),
    ('mnb', MultinomialNB())
])
 
tfidf_pipe = Pipeline([
    ('tfidf', TfidfVectorizer(min_df=3, max_features=None,
                              strip_accents='unicode', analyzer='word', token_pattern=r'\w{1,}',
                              ngram_range=(1, 3), use_idf=1, smooth_idf=1, sublinear_tf=1,
                              stop_words='english')),
    ('mnb', MultinomialNB())
])
 
classifiers = [
    ("ngram", ngram_pipe),
    ("unigram", unigram_log_pipe),
    ("tfidf", tfidf_pipe),
]
 
mixed_pipe = Pipeline([
    ("voting", VotingClassifier(classifiers, voting="soft"))
])

Now we’re ready to work out which classifiers are needed. We’ll use GridSearchCV to do this.

from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
 
 
def combinations_on_off(num_classifiers):
    return [[int(x) for x in list("{0:0b}".format(i).zfill(num_classifiers))]
            for i in range(1, 2 ** num_classifiers)]
 
 
param_grid = dict(
    voting__weights=combinations_on_off(len(classifiers))
)
 
train_df = pd.read_csv("train.csv", usecols=[Y_COLUMN, TEXT_COLUMN])
y = train_df[Y_COLUMN].copy()
X = pd.Series(train_df[TEXT_COLUMN])
 
grid_search = GridSearchCV(mixed_pipe, param_grid=param_grid, n_jobs=-1, verbose=10, scoring="neg_log_loss")
 
grid_search.fit(X, y)
 
cv_results = grid_search.cv_results_
 
for mean_score, params in zip(cv_results["mean_test_score"], cv_results["params"]):
    print(params, mean_score)
 
print("Best score: %0.3f" % grid_search.best_score_)
print("Best parameters set:")
best_parameters = grid_search.best_estimator_.get_params()
for param_name in sorted(param_grid.keys()):
    print("\t%s: %r" % (param_name, best_parameters[param_name]))

Let’s run the grid scan and see what it comes up with:

{'voting__weights': [0, 0, 1]} -0.60533660756
{'voting__weights': [0, 1, 0]} -0.474562462086
{'voting__weights': [0, 1, 1]} -0.508363479586
{'voting__weights': [1, 0, 0]} -0.697231760084
{'voting__weights': [1, 0, 1]} -0.456599644003
{'voting__weights': [1, 1, 0]} -0.409406571361
{'voting__weights': [1, 1, 1]} -0.439084397238
 
Best score: -0.409
Best parameters set:
	voting__weights: [1, 1, 0]

We can see from the output that we’ve tried every combination of each of the classifiers. The output suggests that we should only include the ngram_pipe and unigram_log_pipe classifiers. tfidf_pipe should not be included – our log loss score is worse when it is added.

The code is on GitHub if you want to see it all in one place

Published on Web Code Geeks with permission by Mark Needham, partner at our WCG program. See the original article here: scikit-learn: Using GridSearch to tune the hyper-parameters of VotingClassifier

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