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do you have xgboost classifier but not regression?
do you have xgboost classifier in https://github.com/eriklindernoren/ML-From-Scratch/blob/master/mlfromscratch/supervised_learning/xgboost.py
but not regression?
@Sandy4321 It should suffice to replace LogisticLoss()
with a squared error:
class SquaredError():
def __init__(self):
pass
def loss(self, y, y_pred):
return 0.5 * ((y - y_pred) ** 2)
# gradient w.r.t y_pred
def gradient(self, y, y_pred):
return -(y - y_pred)
# w.r.t y_pred
def hess(self, y, y_pred):
return 1
Great thanks Did you coded regularization As in original xgboost they use derivation for regularization As they wrote Model Complexity¶ We have introduced the training step, but wait, there is one important thing, the regularization term! We need to define the complexity of the tree Ω(f). In order to do so, let us first refine the definition of the tree f(x) as
ft(x)=wq(x),w∈RT,q:Rd→{1,2,⋯,T}. Here w is the vector of scores on leaves, q is a function assigning each data point to the corresponding leaf, and T is the number of leaves. In XGBoost, we define the complexity as
Ω(f)=γT+12λ∑j=1Tw2j Of course, there is more than one way to define the complexity, but this one works well in practice. The regularization is one part most tree packages treat less carefully, or simply ignore. This was because the traditional treatment of tree learning only emphasized improving impurity, while the complexity control was left to heuristics. By defining it formally, we can get a better idea of what we are learning and obtain models that perform well in the wild.
@Sandy4321 I don't think this example has all the regularization mechanism as XGBoost does, as the example is quite simplified. There are min_samples_split
, min_impurity
, and max_depth
.
@hcho3 hi, sorry to interrupt. I am trying to learn xgboost by this project. I come up with some problem with function "def _gain(self, y, y_pred):" in supervised_learning/decision_tree.py.
def _gain(self, y, y_pred): nominator = np.power((y * self.loss.gradient(y, y_pred)).sum(), 2) denominator = self.loss.hess(y, y_pred).sum() return 0.5 * (nominator / denominator)
the variable nominator says ((y*self.loss.gradient(y, y_pred).sum())^2, but according to xgboost doc https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/model.html, shouldn't it be (self.loss.gradient(y, y_pred).sum())^2? I know I am wrong by changing this line to what I thought, because after changing this line the example just got wrong result. But I still don't know why it's like this. Could you explain it to me? thanks