Esempio n. 1
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  /**
   * Buildclassifier selects a classifier from the set of classifiers by minimising error on the
   * training data.
   *
   * @param data the training data to be used for generating the boosted classifier.
   * @exception Exception if the classifier could not be built successfully
   */
  public void buildClassifier(Instances data) throws Exception {

    if (m_Classifiers.length == 0) {
      throw new Exception("No base classifiers have been set!");
    }
    Instances newData = new Instances(data);
    newData.deleteWithMissingClass();
    newData.randomize(new Random(m_Seed));
    if (newData.classAttribute().isNominal() && (m_NumXValFolds > 1))
      newData.stratify(m_NumXValFolds);
    Instances train = newData; // train on all data by default
    Instances test = newData; // test on training data by default
    Classifier bestClassifier = null;
    int bestIndex = -1;
    double bestPerformance = Double.NaN;
    int numClassifiers = m_Classifiers.length;
    for (int i = 0; i < numClassifiers; i++) {
      Classifier currentClassifier = getClassifier(i);
      Evaluation evaluation;
      if (m_NumXValFolds > 1) {
        evaluation = new Evaluation(newData);
        for (int j = 0; j < m_NumXValFolds; j++) {
          train = newData.trainCV(m_NumXValFolds, j);
          test = newData.testCV(m_NumXValFolds, j);
          currentClassifier.buildClassifier(train);
          evaluation.setPriors(train);
          evaluation.evaluateModel(currentClassifier, test);
        }
      } else {
        currentClassifier.buildClassifier(train);
        evaluation = new Evaluation(train);
        evaluation.evaluateModel(currentClassifier, test);
      }

      double error = evaluation.errorRate();
      if (m_Debug) {
        System.err.println(
            "Error rate: "
                + Utils.doubleToString(error, 6, 4)
                + " for classifier "
                + currentClassifier.getClass().getName());
      }

      if ((i == 0) || (error < bestPerformance)) {
        bestClassifier = currentClassifier;
        bestPerformance = error;
        bestIndex = i;
      }
    }
    m_ClassifierIndex = bestIndex;
    m_Classifier = bestClassifier;
    if (m_NumXValFolds > 1) {
      m_Classifier.buildClassifier(newData);
    }
  }
Esempio n. 2
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  /**
   * Build Decorate classifier
   *
   * @param data the training data to be used for generating the classifier
   * @exception Exception if the classifier could not be built successfully
   */
  public void buildClassifier(Instances data) throws Exception {
    if (m_Classifier == null) {
      throw new Exception("A base classifier has not been specified!");
    }
    if (data.checkForStringAttributes()) {
      throw new UnsupportedAttributeTypeException("Cannot handle string attributes!");
    }
    if (data.classAttribute().isNumeric()) {
      throw new UnsupportedClassTypeException("Decorate can't handle a numeric class!");
    }
    if (m_NumIterations < m_DesiredSize)
      throw new Exception("Max number of iterations must be >= desired ensemble size!");

    // initialize random number generator
    if (m_Seed == -1) m_Random = new Random();
    else m_Random = new Random(m_Seed);

    int i = 1; // current committee size
    int numTrials = 1; // number of Decorate iterations
    Instances divData = new Instances(data); // local copy of data - diversity data
    divData.deleteWithMissingClass();
    Instances artData = null; // artificial data

    // compute number of artficial instances to add at each iteration
    int artSize = (int) (Math.abs(m_ArtSize) * divData.numInstances());
    if (artSize == 0) artSize = 1; // atleast add one random example
    computeStats(data); // Compute training data stats for creating artificial examples

    // initialize new committee
    m_Committee = new Vector();
    Classifier newClassifier = m_Classifier;
    newClassifier.buildClassifier(divData);
    m_Committee.add(newClassifier);
    double eComm = computeError(divData); // compute ensemble error
    if (m_Debug)
      System.out.println(
          "Initialize:\tClassifier " + i + " added to ensemble. Ensemble error = " + eComm);

    // repeat till desired committee size is reached OR the max number of iterations is exceeded
    while (i < m_DesiredSize && numTrials < m_NumIterations) {
      // Generate artificial training examples
      artData = generateArtificialData(artSize, data);

      // Label artificial examples
      labelData(artData);
      addInstances(divData, artData); // Add new artificial data

      // Build new classifier
      Classifier tmp[] = Classifier.makeCopies(m_Classifier, 1);
      newClassifier = tmp[0];
      newClassifier.buildClassifier(divData);
      // Remove all the artificial data
      removeInstances(divData, artSize);

      // Test if the new classifier should be added to the ensemble
      m_Committee.add(newClassifier); // add new classifier to current committee
      double currError = computeError(divData);
      if (currError <= eComm) { // adding the new member did not increase the error
        i++;
        eComm = currError;
        if (m_Debug)
          System.out.println(
              "Iteration: "
                  + (1 + numTrials)
                  + "\tClassifier "
                  + i
                  + " added to ensemble. Ensemble error = "
                  + eComm);
      } else { // reject the current classifier because it increased the ensemble error
        m_Committee.removeElementAt(m_Committee.size() - 1); // pop the last member
      }
      numTrials++;
    }
  }
Esempio n. 3
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  /**
   * Generates the classifier.
   *
   * @param data set of instances serving as training data
   * @throws Exception if the classifier has not been generated successfully
   */
  public void buildClassifier(Instances data) throws Exception {

    // can classifier handle the data?
    getCapabilities().testWithFail(data);

    // remove instances with missing class
    m_theInstances = new Instances(data);
    m_theInstances.deleteWithMissingClass();

    m_rr = new Random(1);

    if (m_theInstances.classAttribute().isNominal()) { // 	 Set up class priors
      m_classPriorCounts = new double[data.classAttribute().numValues()];
      Arrays.fill(m_classPriorCounts, 1.0);
      for (int i = 0; i < data.numInstances(); i++) {
        Instance curr = data.instance(i);
        m_classPriorCounts[(int) curr.classValue()] += curr.weight();
      }
      m_classPriors = m_classPriorCounts.clone();
      Utils.normalize(m_classPriors);
    }

    setUpEvaluator();

    if (m_theInstances.classAttribute().isNumeric()) {
      m_disTransform = new weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Discretize();
      m_classIsNominal = false;

      // use binned discretisation if the class is numeric
      ((weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Discretize) m_disTransform).setBins(10);
      ((weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Discretize) m_disTransform).setInvertSelection(true);

      // Discretize all attributes EXCEPT the class
      String rangeList = "";
      rangeList += (m_theInstances.classIndex() + 1);
      // System.out.println("The class col: "+m_theInstances.classIndex());

      ((weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.Discretize) m_disTransform)
          .setAttributeIndices(rangeList);
    } else {
      m_disTransform = new weka.filters.supervised.attribute.Discretize();
      ((weka.filters.supervised.attribute.Discretize) m_disTransform).setUseBetterEncoding(true);
      m_classIsNominal = true;
    }

    m_disTransform.setInputFormat(m_theInstances);
    m_theInstances = Filter.useFilter(m_theInstances, m_disTransform);

    m_numAttributes = m_theInstances.numAttributes();
    m_numInstances = m_theInstances.numInstances();
    m_majority = m_theInstances.meanOrMode(m_theInstances.classAttribute());

    // Perform the search
    int[] selected = m_search.search(m_evaluator, m_theInstances);

    m_decisionFeatures = new int[selected.length + 1];
    System.arraycopy(selected, 0, m_decisionFeatures, 0, selected.length);
    m_decisionFeatures[m_decisionFeatures.length - 1] = m_theInstances.classIndex();

    // reduce instances to selected features
    m_delTransform = new Remove();
    m_delTransform.setInvertSelection(true);

    // set features to keep
    m_delTransform.setAttributeIndicesArray(m_decisionFeatures);
    m_delTransform.setInputFormat(m_theInstances);
    m_dtInstances = Filter.useFilter(m_theInstances, m_delTransform);

    // reset the number of attributes
    m_numAttributes = m_dtInstances.numAttributes();

    // create hash table
    m_entries = new Hashtable((int) (m_dtInstances.numInstances() * 1.5));

    // insert instances into the hash table
    for (int i = 0; i < m_numInstances; i++) {
      Instance inst = m_dtInstances.instance(i);
      insertIntoTable(inst, null);
    }

    // Replace the global table majority with nearest neighbour?
    if (m_useIBk) {
      m_ibk = new IBk();
      m_ibk.buildClassifier(m_theInstances);
    }

    // Save memory
    if (m_saveMemory) {
      m_theInstances = new Instances(m_theInstances, 0);
      m_dtInstances = new Instances(m_dtInstances, 0);
    }
    m_evaluation = null;
  }