stacked_ensemble_classifier#

Stacked Ensemble Classifier.

Module Contents#

Classes Summary#

StackedEnsembleClassifier

Stacked Ensemble Classifier.

Contents#

class evalml.pipelines.components.ensemble.stacked_ensemble_classifier.StackedEnsembleClassifier(final_estimator=None, n_jobs=- 1, random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#

Stacked Ensemble Classifier.

Parameters
  • final_estimator (Estimator or subclass) – The classifier used to combine the base estimators. If None, uses ElasticNetClassifier.

  • n_jobs (int or None) – Integer describing level of parallelism used for pipelines. None and 1 are equivalent. If set to -1, all CPUs are used. For n_jobs below -1, (n_cpus + 1 + n_jobs) are used. Defaults to -1. - Note: there could be some multi-process errors thrown for values of n_jobs != 1. If this is the case, please use n_jobs = 1.

  • random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Example

>>> from evalml.pipelines.component_graph import ComponentGraph
>>> from evalml.pipelines.components.estimators.classifiers.decision_tree_classifier import DecisionTreeClassifier
>>> from evalml.pipelines.components.estimators.classifiers.elasticnet_classifier import ElasticNetClassifier
...
>>> component_graph = {
...     "Decision Tree": [DecisionTreeClassifier(random_seed=3), "X", "y"],
...     "Decision Tree B": [DecisionTreeClassifier(random_seed=4), "X", "y"],
...     "Stacked Ensemble": [
...         StackedEnsembleClassifier(n_jobs=1, final_estimator=DecisionTreeClassifier()),
...         "Decision Tree.x",
...         "Decision Tree B.x",
...         "y",
...     ],
... }
...
>>> cg = ComponentGraph(component_graph)
>>> assert cg.default_parameters == {
...     'Decision Tree Classifier': {'criterion': 'gini',
...                                  'max_features': 'auto',
...                                  'max_depth': 6,
...                                  'min_samples_split': 2,
...                                  'min_weight_fraction_leaf': 0.0},
...     'Stacked Ensemble Classifier': {'final_estimator': ElasticNetClassifier,
...                                     'n_jobs': -1}}

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges

{}

model_family

ModelFamily.ENSEMBLE

modifies_features

True

modifies_target

False

name

Stacked Ensemble Classifier

supported_problem_types

[ ProblemTypes.BINARY, ProblemTypes.MULTICLASS, ProblemTypes.TIME_SERIES_BINARY, ProblemTypes.TIME_SERIES_MULTICLASS,]

training_only

False

Methods

clone

Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.

default_parameters

Returns the default parameters for stacked ensemble classes.

describe

Describe a component and its parameters.

feature_importance

Not implemented for StackedEnsembleClassifier and StackedEnsembleRegressor.

fit

Fits estimator to data.

load

Loads component at file path.

needs_fitting

Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.

parameters

Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.

predict

Make predictions using selected features.

predict_proba

Make probability estimates for labels.

save

Saves component at file path.

clone(self)#

Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.

Returns

A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.

default_parameters(cls)#

Returns the default parameters for stacked ensemble classes.

Returns

default parameters for this component.

Return type

dict

describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#

Describe a component and its parameters.

Parameters
  • print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component

  • return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}

Returns

Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.

Return type

None or dict

property feature_importance(self)#

Not implemented for StackedEnsembleClassifier and StackedEnsembleRegressor.

fit(self, X, y=None)#

Fits estimator to data.

Parameters
  • X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

  • y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

self

static load(file_path)#

Loads component at file path.

Parameters

file_path (str) – Location to load file.

Returns

ComponentBase object

needs_fitting(self)#

Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.

This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.

Returns

True.

property parameters(self)#

Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.

predict(self, X)#

Make predictions using selected features.

Parameters

X (pd.DataFrame) – Data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

Returns

Predicted values.

Return type

pd.Series

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If estimator does not have a predict method or a component_obj that implements predict.

predict_proba(self, X)#

Make probability estimates for labels.

Parameters

X (pd.DataFrame) – Features.

Returns

Probability estimates.

Return type

pd.Series

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If estimator does not have a predict_proba method or a component_obj that implements predict_proba.

save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#

Saves component at file path.

Parameters
  • file_path (str) – Location to save file.

  • pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.