train_dimensionality_reduction
Train and store a machine learning model to be loaded at a later point for prediction.
Dimensionality reduction with “Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection” (UMAP)
Generates numeric embeddings (vectors) of the input data with reduced dimensionality, preserving
local and global similarities between data points. Can be used for visualisation, for example,
to arrange data in 2 dimensions according to their similarity, or to create nearest neighbour graphs/networks
(also see step link_embeddings
in the latter case).
Can be used in supervised mode (providing a target
column as parameter) or unsupervised (without target).
The output will always be a new column with the trained model’s predictions on the training data, as well as a saved and named model file that can be used in other projects for prediction of new data.
Should contain the target column and the feature columns you wish to use in the model.
Target variable. Name of the column that contains your target values.
Toggle encoding of feature columns.
When enabled, Graphext will auto-convert any column types to the numeric type before
fitting the model. How this conversion is done can be configured using the feature_encoder
option below.
Configures encoding of feature columns.
By default (null
), Graphext chooses automatically how to convert any column types the model
may not understand natively to a numeric type.
A configuration object can be passed instead to overwrite specific parameter values with respect to their default values.
Numeric encoder. Configures encoding of numeric features.
Toggle the addition of a column using 0s and 1s to indicate where an input column contained missing values.
Whether and how to impute (replace/fill) missing values.
Values must be one of the following:
Mean
Median
MostFrequent
Const
None
Whether and how to scale the final numerical values (across a single column).
Values must be one of the following:
Standard
Robust
KNN
None
Further parameters passed to the scaler
function.
Details depend no the particular scaler used.
Boolean encoder. Configures encoding of boolean features.
Ordinal encoder. Configures encoding of categorical features that have a natural order.
Category encoder. May contain either a single configuration for all categorical variables, or two different configurations for low- and high-cardinality variables. For further details pick one of the two options below.
Multilabel encoder.
Configures encoding of multivalued categorical features (variable length lists of categories,
or the semantic type list[category]
for short). May contain either a single configuration for
all multilabel variables, or two different configurations for low- and high-cardinality variables.
For further details pick one of the two options below.
Datetime encoder. Configures encoding of datetime (timestamp) features.
Toggle the addition of a column using 0s and 1s to indicate where an input column contained missing values.
A list of numerical components to extract. Will create one numeric column for each component.
A list of cyclical time features to extract. “Cycles” are numerical transformations of features that should be represented on a circle. E.g. months, ranging from 1 to 12, should be arranged such that 12 and 1 are next to each other, rather than on opposite ends of a linear scale. We represent such cyclical time features on a circle by creating two columns for each original feature: the sin and cos of the numerical feature after appropriate scaling.
Whether to include the epoch as new feature (seconds since 01/01/1970).
Whether and how to impute (replace/fill) missing values.
Values must be one of the following:
Mean
Median
MostFrequent
Const
None
Whether and how to scale the final numerical values (across a single column).
Values must be one of the following:
Standard
Robust
KNN
None
How to scale the encoded (numerical columns).
Values must be one of the following:
Euclidean
KNN
Norm
None
Embedding/vector encoder.
Configures encoding of multivalued numerical features (variable length lists of numbers, i.e. vectors, or the semantic type list[number]
for short).
Text encoder. Configures encoding of text (natural language) features. Currently only allows Tf-Idf embeddings to represent texts. If you wish to use other embeddings, e.g. semantic, Word2Vec etc., transform your text column first using another step, and then use that result instead of the original texts.
include_text_features
below to active it.Toggle the addition of a column using 0s and 1s to indicate where an input column contained missing values.
Parameters to be passed to the text encoder (Tf-Idf parameters only for now). See scikit-learn’s documentation for detailed parameters and their explanation.
How many output features to generate. The resulting Tf-Idf vectors will be reduced to these many dimensions (columns) using scikit-learn’s truncated SVD. This performs a kind of latent semantic analysis. By default we will reduce to 200 components.
Values must be in the following range:
2 ≤ n_components ≤ 1024
How to scale the encoded (numerical columns).
Values must be one of the following:
Euclidean
KNN
Norm
None
Whether to include or ignore text columns during the processing of input data.
Enabling this will convert texts to their TfIdf representation. Each text will be
converted to an N-dimensional vector in which each component measures the relative
“over-representation” of a specific word (or n-gram) relative to its overall
frequency in the whole dataset. This is disabled by default because it will
often be better to convert texts explicitly using a previous step, such as
embed_text
or embed_text_with_model
.
Model parameters. See official UMAP documentation for details.
Number of neighbors. This determines the number of neighboring points used in local approximations of manifold structure. Larger values will result in more global structure being preserved at the loss of detailed local structure. In general this parameter should often be in the range 5 to 50, with a choice of 10 to 15 being a sensible default.
Values must be in the following range:
1 ≤ n_neighbors < inf
Minimum distance between reduced data points. Controls how tightly UMAP is allowed to pack points together in the reduced space. Smaller values will lead to points more tightly packed together (potentially useful if result is used to cluster the points). Larger values will distribute points with more space between them (which may be desirable for visualization, or to focus more on the global structure of the date).
For further details see here.
Values must be in the following range:
0 ≤ min_dist < inf
Number of n_components. Allows the user to determine the dimensionality of the reduced dimension space we will be embedding the data into.
Values must be in the following range:
1 ≤ n_components < inf
Metric to use for measuring similarity between data points.
Values must be one of the following:
euclidean
manhattan
chebyshev
minkowski
canberra
braycurtis
haversine
mahalanobis
wminkowski
seuclidean
cosine
correlation
hamming
jaccard
dice
russellrao
kulsinski
rogerstanimoto
sokalmichener
sokalsneath
yule
Number of training iterations used in optimizing the embedding.
Larger values result in more accurate embeddings. If null
is specified a value will be selected based on the size of the input dataset
(200 for large datasets, 500 for small).
How to initialize the low dimensional embedding.
When “spectral”, uses a (relatively expensive) spectral embedding. “pca” uses the first n_components
from a principal component analysis. “tswspectral” is a cheaper alternative to “spectral”. When “random”,
assigns initial embedding positions at random. This uses the least amount of memory and time but may make UMAP
slower to converge on the optimal embedding.
Values must be one of the following:
spectral
pca
tswspectral
random
Avoid excessive memory use.
For some datasets nearest neighbor computations can consume a lot of memory. If you find the step is failing due to memory constraints,
consider setting this option to true
. This approach is more computationally expensive, but avoids excessive memory use.
Weighting factor between features and target. A value of 0.0 weights entirely on data, and a value of 1.0 weights entirely on target. The default of 0.5 balances the weighting equally between data and target.
Seed for random number generator ensuring reproducibility.
Values must be in the following range:
0 ≤ seed < inf
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