higgs-numpy.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# this is the example script to use xgboost to train
import numpy as np

import xgboost as xgb

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'.encode('utf-8')) } )
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 range(len(label)) if label[i] == 1.0  )
sum_wneg = sum( weight[i] for i in range(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, use raw prediction before logistic transformation
# since we only need the rank
param['objective'] = 'binary:logitraw'
# scale weight of positive examples
param['scale_pos_weight'] = sum_wneg/sum_wpos
param['eta'] = 0.1
param['max_depth'] = 6
param['eval_metric'] = 'auc'
param['nthread'] = 16

# you can directly throw param in, though we want to watch multiple metrics here
plst = list(param.items())+[('eval_metric', 'ams@0.15')]

watchlist = [ (xgmat,'train') ]
# boost 120 trees
num_round = 120
print ('loading data end, start to boost trees')
bst = xgb.train( plst, xgmat, num_round, watchlist );
# save out model
bst.save_model('higgs.model')

print ('finish training')