.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "auto_examples/model_selection/plot_grid_search_refit_callable.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code. or to run this example in your browser via JupyterLite or Binder .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_grid_search_refit_callable.py: ================================================== Balance model complexity and cross-validated score ================================================== This example demonstrates how to balance model complexity and cross-validated score by finding a decent accuracy within 1 standard deviation of the best accuracy score while minimising the number of :class:`~sklearn.decomposition.PCA` components [1]. It uses :class:`~sklearn.model_selection.GridSearchCV` with a custom refit callable to select the optimal model. The figure shows the trade-off between cross-validated score and the number of PCA components. The balanced case is when `n_components=10` and `accuracy=0.88`, which falls into the range within 1 standard deviation of the best accuracy score. [1] Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R.,, Friedman, J. (2001). Model Assessment and Selection. The Elements of Statistical Learning (pp. 219-260). New York, NY, USA: Springer New York Inc.. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 21-35 .. code-block:: Python # Authors: The scikit-learn developers # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import polars as pl from sklearn.datasets import load_digits from sklearn.decomposition import PCA from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV, ShuffleSplit from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 36-44 Introduction ------------ When tuning hyperparameters, we often want to balance model complexity and performance. The "one-standard-error" rule is a common approach: select the simplest model whose performance is within one standard error of the best model's performance. This helps to avoid overfitting by preferring simpler models when their performance is statistically comparable to more complex ones. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 46-54 Helper functions ---------------- We define two helper functions: 1. `lower_bound`: Calculates the threshold for acceptable performance (best score - 1 std) 2. `best_low_complexity`: Selects the model with the fewest PCA components that exceeds this threshold .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 54-104 .. code-block:: Python def lower_bound(cv_results): """ Calculate the lower bound within 1 standard deviation of the best `mean_test_scores`. Parameters ---------- cv_results : dict of numpy(masked) ndarrays See attribute cv_results_ of `GridSearchCV` Returns ------- float Lower bound within 1 standard deviation of the best `mean_test_score`. """ best_score_idx = np.argmax(cv_results["mean_test_score"]) return ( cv_results["mean_test_score"][best_score_idx] - cv_results["std_test_score"][best_score_idx] ) def best_low_complexity(cv_results): """ Balance model complexity with cross-validated score. Parameters ---------- cv_results : dict of numpy(masked) ndarrays See attribute cv_results_ of `GridSearchCV`. Return ------ int Index of a model that has the fewest PCA components while has its test score within 1 standard deviation of the best `mean_test_score`. """ threshold = lower_bound(cv_results) candidate_idx = np.flatnonzero(cv_results["mean_test_score"] >= threshold) best_idx = candidate_idx[ cv_results["param_reduce_dim__n_components"][candidate_idx].argmin() ] return best_idx .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 105-113 Set up the pipeline and parameter grid -------------------------------------- We create a pipeline with two steps: 1. Dimensionality reduction using PCA 2. Classification using LogisticRegression We'll search over different numbers of PCA components to find the optimal complexity. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 113-123 .. code-block:: Python pipe = Pipeline( [ ("reduce_dim", PCA(random_state=42)), ("classify", LogisticRegression(random_state=42, C=0.01, max_iter=1000)), ] ) param_grid = {"reduce_dim__n_components": [6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35, 45, 55]} .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 124-130 Perform the search with GridSearchCV ------------------------------------ We use `GridSearchCV` with our custom `best_low_complexity` function as the refit parameter. This function will select the model with the fewest PCA components that still performs within one standard deviation of the best model. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 130-143 .. code-block:: Python grid = GridSearchCV( pipe, # Use a non-stratified CV strategy to make sure that the inter-fold # standard deviation of the test scores is informative. cv=ShuffleSplit(n_splits=30, random_state=0), n_jobs=1, # increase this on your machine to use more physical cores param_grid=param_grid, scoring="accuracy", refit=best_low_complexity, return_train_score=True, ) .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 144-146 Load the digits dataset and fit the model ----------------------------------------- .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 146-150 .. code-block:: Python X, y = load_digits(return_X_y=True) grid.fit(X, y) .. raw:: html 
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.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 151-157 Visualize the results --------------------- We'll create a bar chart showing the test scores for different numbers of PCA components, along with horizontal lines indicating the best score and the one-standard-deviation threshold. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 157-322 .. code-block:: Python n_components = grid.cv_results_["param_reduce_dim__n_components"] test_scores = grid.cv_results_["mean_test_score"] # Create a polars DataFrame for better data manipulation and visualization results_df = pl.DataFrame( { "n_components": n_components, "mean_test_score": test_scores, "std_test_score": grid.cv_results_["std_test_score"], "mean_train_score": grid.cv_results_["mean_train_score"], "std_train_score": grid.cv_results_["std_train_score"], "mean_fit_time": grid.cv_results_["mean_fit_time"], "rank_test_score": grid.cv_results_["rank_test_score"], } ) # Sort by number of components results_df = results_df.sort("n_components") # Calculate the lower bound threshold lower = lower_bound(grid.cv_results_) # Get the best model information best_index_ = grid.best_index_ best_components = n_components[best_index_] best_score = grid.cv_results_["mean_test_score"][best_index_] # Add a column to mark the selected model results_df = results_df.with_columns( pl.when(pl.col("n_components") == best_components) .then(pl.lit("Selected")) .otherwise(pl.lit("Regular")) .alias("model_type") ) # Get the number of CV splits from the results n_splits = sum( 1 for key in grid.cv_results_.keys() if key.startswith("split") and key.endswith("test_score") ) # Extract individual scores for each split test_scores = np.array( [ [grid.cv_results_[f"split{i}_test_score"][j] for i in range(n_splits)] for j in range(len(n_components)) ] ) train_scores = np.array( [ [grid.cv_results_[f"split{i}_train_score"][j] for i in range(n_splits)] for j in range(len(n_components)) ] ) # Calculate mean and std of test scores mean_test_scores = np.mean(test_scores, axis=1) std_test_scores = np.std(test_scores, axis=1) # Find best score and threshold best_mean_score = np.max(mean_test_scores) threshold = best_mean_score - std_test_scores[np.argmax(mean_test_scores)] # Create a single figure for visualization fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 8)) # Plot individual points for i, comp in enumerate(n_components): # Plot individual test points plt.scatter( [comp] * n_splits, test_scores[i], alpha=0.2, color="blue", s=20, label="Individual test scores" if i == 0 else "", ) # Plot individual train points plt.scatter( [comp] * n_splits, train_scores[i], alpha=0.2, color="green", s=20, label="Individual train scores" if i == 0 else "", ) # Plot mean lines with error bands plt.plot( n_components, np.mean(test_scores, axis=1), "-", color="blue", linewidth=2, label="Mean test score", ) plt.fill_between( n_components, np.mean(test_scores, axis=1) - np.std(test_scores, axis=1), np.mean(test_scores, axis=1) + np.std(test_scores, axis=1), alpha=0.15, color="blue", ) plt.plot( n_components, np.mean(train_scores, axis=1), "-", color="green", linewidth=2, label="Mean train score", ) plt.fill_between( n_components, np.mean(train_scores, axis=1) - np.std(train_scores, axis=1), np.mean(train_scores, axis=1) + np.std(train_scores, axis=1), alpha=0.15, color="green", ) # Add threshold lines plt.axhline( best_mean_score, color="#9b59b6", # Purple linestyle="--", label="Best score", linewidth=2, ) plt.axhline( threshold, color="#e67e22", # Orange linestyle="--", label="Best score - 1 std", linewidth=2, ) # Highlight selected model plt.axvline( best_components, color="#9b59b6", # Purple alpha=0.2, linewidth=8, label="Selected model", ) # Set titles and labels plt.xlabel("Number of PCA components", fontsize=12) plt.ylabel("Score", fontsize=12) plt.title("Model Selection: Balancing Complexity and Performance", fontsize=14) plt.grid(True, linestyle="--", alpha=0.7) plt.legend( bbox_to_anchor=(1.02, 1), loc="upper left", borderaxespad=0, ) # Set axis properties plt.xticks(n_components) plt.ylim((0.85, 1.0)) # # Adjust layout plt.tight_layout() .. image-sg:: /auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_grid_search_refit_callable_001.png :alt: Model Selection: Balancing Complexity and Performance :srcset: /auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_grid_search_refit_callable_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 323-328 Print the results ----------------- We print information about the selected model, including its complexity and performance. We also show a summary table of all models using polars. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 328-357 .. code-block:: Python print("Best model selected by the one-standard-error rule:") print(f"Number of PCA components: {best_components}") print(f"Accuracy score: {best_score:.4f}") print(f"Best possible accuracy: {np.max(test_scores):.4f}") print(f"Accuracy threshold (best - 1 std): {lower:.4f}") # Create a summary table with polars summary_df = results_df.select( pl.col("n_components"), pl.col("mean_test_score").round(4).alias("test_score"), pl.col("std_test_score").round(4).alias("test_std"), pl.col("mean_train_score").round(4).alias("train_score"), pl.col("std_train_score").round(4).alias("train_std"), pl.col("mean_fit_time").round(3).alias("fit_time"), pl.col("rank_test_score").alias("rank"), ) # Add a column to mark the selected model summary_df = summary_df.with_columns( pl.when(pl.col("n_components") == best_components) .then(pl.lit("*")) .otherwise(pl.lit("")) .alias("selected") ) print("\nModel comparison table:") print(summary_df) .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out .. code-block:: none Best model selected by the one-standard-error rule: Number of PCA components: 25 Accuracy score: 0.9643 Best possible accuracy: 0.9944 Accuracy threshold (best - 1 std): 0.9623 Model comparison table: shape: (9, 8) ┌──────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐ │ n_components ┆ test_score ┆ test_std ┆ train_score ┆ train_std ┆ fit_time ┆ rank ┆ selected │ │ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │ │ i64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ f64 ┆ i32 ┆ str │ ╞══════════════╪════════════╪══════════╪═════════════╪═══════════╪══════════╪══════╪══════════╡ │ 6 ┆ 0.8631 ┆ 0.0241 ┆ 0.8697 ┆ 0.0048 ┆ 0.088 ┆ 9 ┆ │ │ 8 ┆ 0.9037 ┆ 0.0192 ┆ 0.9146 ┆ 0.0028 ┆ 0.08 ┆ 8 ┆ │ │ 10 ┆ 0.9341 ┆ 0.0148 ┆ 0.9493 ┆ 0.0023 ┆ 0.056 ┆ 7 ┆ │ │ 15 ┆ 0.95 ┆ 0.0162 ┆ 0.9662 ┆ 0.0022 ┆ 0.054 ┆ 6 ┆ │ │ 20 ┆ 0.9563 ┆ 0.0144 ┆ 0.9759 ┆ 0.0019 ┆ 0.053 ┆ 5 ┆ │ │ 25 ┆ 0.9643 ┆ 0.0126 ┆ 0.9836 ┆ 0.0014 ┆ 0.05 ┆ 4 ┆ * │ │ 35 ┆ 0.9685 ┆ 0.0115 ┆ 0.9903 ┆ 0.0013 ┆ 0.053 ┆ 3 ┆ │ │ 45 ┆ 0.9711 ┆ 0.0093 ┆ 0.9926 ┆ 0.001 ┆ 0.057 ┆ 2 ┆ │ │ 55 ┆ 0.9717 ┆ 0.0093 ┆ 0.993 ┆ 0.001 ┆ 0.059 ┆ 1 ┆ │ └──────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘ .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 358-378 Conclusion ---------- The one-standard-error rule helps us select a simpler model (fewer PCA components) while maintaining performance statistically comparable to the best model. This approach can help prevent overfitting and improve model interpretability and efficiency. In this example, we've seen how to implement this rule using a custom refit callable with :class:`~sklearn.model_selection.GridSearchCV`. Key takeaways: 1. The one-standard-error rule provides a good rule of thumb to select simpler models 2. Custom refit callables in :class:`~sklearn.model_selection.GridSearchCV` allow for flexible model selection strategies 3. Visualizing both train and test scores helps identify potential overfitting This approach can be applied to other model selection scenarios where balancing complexity and performance is important, or in cases where a use-case specific selection of the "best" model is desired. .. 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