#!/usr/local/bin/python # this is the example script to use xgboost to train import sys import numpy as np # add path of xgboost python module sys.path.append('../../python/') import xgboost as xgb from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingClassifier import time test_size = 550000 # path to where the data lies dpath = 'data' # load in training data, directly use numpy dtrain = np.loadtxt( dpath+'/training.csv', delimiter=',', skiprows=1, converters={32: lambda x:int(x=='s') } ) print 'finish loading from csv ' label = dtrain[:,32] data = dtrain[:,1:31] # rescale weight to make it same as test set weight = dtrain[:,31] * float(test_size) / len(label) sum_wpos = sum( weight[i] for i in xrange(len(label)) if label[i] == 1.0 ) sum_wneg = sum( weight[i] for i in xrange(len(label)) if label[i] == 0.0 ) # print weight statistics print 'weight statistics: wpos=%g, wneg=%g, ratio=%g' % ( sum_wpos, sum_wneg, sum_wneg/sum_wpos ) # construct xgboost.DMatrix from numpy array, treat -999.0 as missing value xgmat = xgb.DMatrix( data, label=label, missing = -999.0, weight=weight ) # setup parameters for xgboost param = {} # use logistic regression loss param['loss_type'] = 1 # scale weight of positive examples param['scale_pos_weight'] = sum_wneg/sum_wpos param['bst:eta'] = 0.1 param['bst:max_depth'] = 6 param['eval_metric'] = 'auc' param['silent'] = 1 param['nthread'] = 4 # you can directly throw param in, though we want to watch multiple metrics here plst = param.items()+[('eval_metric', 'ams@0.15')] watchlist = [ (xgmat,'train') ] # boost 135 tres num_round = 135 print 'loading data end, start to boost trees' print "training GBM from sklearn" tmp = time.time() gbm = GradientBoostingClassifier(n_estimators=135, max_depth=6, verbose=2) gbm.fit(data, label) print "GBM costs: %s seconds" % str(time.time() - tmp) #raw_input() print "training xgboost" tmp = time.time() bst = xgb.train( plst, xgmat, num_round, watchlist ); print "XGBoost costs: %s seconds" % str(time.time() - tmp) print 'finish training'