Assignment #8 (demo). Implementation of online regressor

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Same assignment as a Kaggle Notebook + solution.

Here we’ll implement a regressor trained with stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Fill in the missing code. If you do everything right, you’ll pass a simple embedded test.

Linear regression and Stochastic Gradient Descent

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator
from sklearn.metrics import log_loss, mean_squared_error, roc_auc_score
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from tqdm import tqdm

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

Implement class SGDRegressor. Specification:

• class is inherited from sklearn.base.BaseEstimator

• constructor takes parameters eta – gradient step (\(10^{-3}\) by default) and n_epochs – dataset pass count (3 by default)

• constructor also creates mse_ and weights_ lists in order to track mean squared error and weight vector during gradient descent iterations

• Class has fit and predict methods

• The fit method takes matrix X and vector y (numpy.array objects) as parameters, appends column of ones to X on the left side, initializes weight vector w with zeros and then makes n_epochs iterations of weight updates (you may refer to this article for details), and for every iteration logs mean squared error and weight vector w in corresponding lists we created in the constructor.

• Additionally the fit method will create w_ variable to store weights which produce minimal mean squared error

• The fit method returns current instance of the SGDRegressor class, i.e. self

• The predict method takes X matrix, adds column of ones to the left side and returns prediction vector, using weight vector w_, created by the fit method.

class SGDRegressor(BaseEstimator):
    # you code here
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def fit(self, X, y):
        pass

    def predict(self, X):
        pass

Let’s test out the algorithm on height/weight data. We will predict heights (in inches) based on weights (in lbs).

# for Jupyter-book, we copy data from GitHub, locally, to save Internet traffic,
# you can specify the data/ folder from the root of your cloned
# https://github.com/Yorko/mlcourse.ai repo, to save Internet traffic
DATA_PATH = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yorko/mlcourse.ai/main/data/"

data_demo = pd.read_csv(DATA_PATH + "weights_heights.csv")

plt.scatter(data_demo["Weight"], data_demo["Height"])
plt.xlabel("Weight (lbs)")
plt.ylabel("Height (Inch)")
plt.grid();

X, y = data_demo["Weight"].values, data_demo["Height"].values

Perform train/test split and scale data.

X_train, X_valid, y_train, y_valid = train_test_split(
    X, y, test_size=0.3, random_state=17
)

scaler = StandardScaler()
X_train_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(X_train.reshape([-1, 1]))
X_valid_scaled = scaler.transform(X_valid.reshape([-1, 1]))

Train created SGDRegressor with (X_train_scaled, y_train) data. Leave default parameter values for now.

# you code here

Draw a chart with training process – dependency of mean squared error from the i-th SGD iteration number.

# you code here

Print the minimal value of mean squared error and the best weights vector.

# you code here

Draw chart of model weights (\(w_0\) and \(w_1\)) behavior during training.

# you code here

Make a prediction for hold-out set (X_valid_scaled, y_valid) and check MSE value.

# you code here
sgd_holdout_mse = 10

Do the same thing for LinearRegression class from sklearn.linear_model. Evaluate MSE for hold-out set.

# you code here
linreg_holdout_mse = 9

try:
    assert (sgd_holdout_mse - linreg_holdout_mse) < 1e-4
    print("Correct!")
except AssertionError:
    print(
        "Something's not good.\n Linreg's holdout MSE: {}"
        "\n SGD's holdout MSE: {}".format(linreg_holdout_mse, sgd_holdout_mse)
    )

Something's not good.
 Linreg's holdout MSE: 9
 SGD's holdout MSE: 10