import os import numpy as np import xgboost as xgb ### # advanced: customized loss function # print('start running example to used customized objective function') CURRENT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__) dtrain = xgb.DMatrix(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, '../data/agaricus.txt.train')) dtest = xgb.DMatrix(os.path.join(CURRENT_DIR, '../data/agaricus.txt.test')) # note: for customized objective function, we leave objective as default # note: what we are getting is margin value in prediction # you must know what you are doing param = {'max_depth': 2, 'eta': 1} watchlist = [(dtest, 'eval'), (dtrain, 'train')] num_round = 2 # user define objective function, given prediction, return gradient and second # order gradient this is log likelihood loss def logregobj(preds, dtrain): labels = dtrain.get_label() preds = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-preds)) grad = preds - labels hess = preds * (1.0 - preds) return grad, hess # user defined evaluation function, return a pair metric_name, result # NOTE: when you do customized loss function, the default prediction value is # margin. this may make builtin evaluation metric not function properly for # example, we are doing logistic loss, the prediction is score before logistic # transformation the builtin evaluation error assumes input is after logistic # transformation Take this in mind when you use the customization, and maybe # you need write customized evaluation function def evalerror(preds, dtrain): labels = dtrain.get_label() # return a pair metric_name, result. The metric name must not contain a # colon (:) or a space since preds are margin(before logistic # transformation, cutoff at 0) return 'my-error', float(sum(labels != (preds > 0.0))) / len(labels) # training with customized objective, we can also do step by step training # simply look at xgboost.py's implementation of train bst = xgb.train(param, dtrain, num_round, watchlist, obj=logregobj, feval=evalerror)