Model Understanding

Model understanding tools.

Subpackages

• prediction_explanations
  • explainers

Submodules

• decision_boundary
• feature_explanations
• force_plots
• metrics
• partial_dependence_functions
• permutation_importance
• visualizations

Package Contents

Functions

binary_objective_vs_threshold	Computes objective score as a function of potential binary classification decision thresholds for a fitted binary classification pipeline.
calculate_permutation_importance	Calculates permutation importance for features.
calculate_permutation_importance_one_column	Calculates permutation importance for one column in the original dataframe.
confusion_matrix	Confusion matrix for binary and multiclass classification.
explain_predictions	Creates a report summarizing the top contributing features for each data point in the input features.
explain_predictions_best_worst	Creates a report summarizing the top contributing features for the best and worst points in the dataset as measured by error to true labels.
find_confusion_matrix_per_thresholds	Gets the confusion matrix and histogram bins for each threshold as well as the best threshold per objective. Only works with Binary Classification Pipelines.
get_linear_coefficients	Returns a dataframe showing the features with the greatest predictive power for a linear model.
get_prediction_vs_actual_data	Combines y_true and y_pred into a single dataframe and adds a column for outliers. Used in graph_prediction_vs_actual().
get_prediction_vs_actual_over_time_data	Get the data needed for the prediction_vs_actual_over_time plot.
graph_binary_objective_vs_threshold	Generates a plot graphing objective score vs. decision thresholds for a fitted binary classification pipeline.
graph_confusion_matrix	Generate and display a confusion matrix plot.
graph_partial_dependence	Create an one-way or two-way partial dependence plot.
graph_permutation_importance	Generate a bar graph of the pipeline's permutation importance.
graph_precision_recall_curve	Generate and display a precision-recall plot.
graph_prediction_vs_actual	Generate a scatter plot comparing the true and predicted values. Used for regression plotting.
graph_prediction_vs_actual_over_time	Plot the target values and predictions against time on the x-axis.
graph_roc_curve	Generate and display a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) plot for binary and multiclass classification problems.
graph_t_sne	Plot high dimensional data into lower dimensional space using t-SNE.
normalize_confusion_matrix	Normalizes a confusion matrix.
partial_dependence	Calculates one or two-way partial dependence.
precision_recall_curve	Given labels and binary classifier predicted probabilities, compute and return the data representing a precision-recall curve.
roc_curve	Given labels and classifier predicted probabilities, compute and return the data representing a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. Works with binary or multiclass problems.
t_sne	Get the transformed output after fitting X to the embedded space using t-SNE.

Contents

evalml.model_understanding.binary_objective_vs_threshold(pipeline, X, y, objective, steps=100)

Computes objective score as a function of potential binary classification decision thresholds for a fitted binary classification pipeline.

Parameters

• pipeline (BinaryClassificationPipeline obj) – Fitted binary classification pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input data used to compute objective score.

• y (pd.Series) – The target labels.

• objective (ObjectiveBase obj, str) – Objective used to score.

• steps (int) – Number of intervals to divide and calculate objective score at.

Returns

DataFrame with thresholds and the corresponding objective score calculated at each threshold.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

• ValueError – If objective is not a binary classification objective.

• ValueError – If objective’s score_needs_proba is not False.

evalml.model_understanding.calculate_permutation_importance(pipeline, X, y, objective, n_repeats=5, n_jobs=None, random_seed=0)

Calculates permutation importance for features.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input data used to score and compute permutation importance.

• y (pd.Series) – The target data.

• objective (str, ObjectiveBase) – Objective to score on.

• n_repeats (int) – Number of times to permute a feature. Defaults to 5.

• n_jobs (int or None) – Non-negative 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 None.

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

Returns

Mean feature importance scores over a number of shuffles.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If objective cannot be used with the given pipeline.

evalml.model_understanding.calculate_permutation_importance_one_column(pipeline, X, y, col_name, objective, n_repeats=5, fast=True, precomputed_features=None, random_seed=0)

Calculates permutation importance for one column in the original dataframe.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input data used to score and compute permutation importance.

• y (pd.Series) – The target data.

• col_name (str, int) – The column in X to calculate permutation importance for.

• objective (str, ObjectiveBase) – Objective to score on.

• n_repeats (int) – Number of times to permute a feature. Defaults to 5.

• fast (bool) – Whether to use the fast method of calculating the permutation importance or not. Defaults to True.

• precomputed_features (pd.DataFrame) – Precomputed features necessary to calculate permutation importance using the fast method. Defaults to None.

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

Returns

Mean feature importance scores over a number of shuffles.

Return type

float

Raises

• ValueError – If pipeline does not support fast permutation importance calculation.

• ValueError – If precomputed_features is None.

evalml.model_understanding.confusion_matrix(y_true, y_predicted, normalize_method='true')

Confusion matrix for binary and multiclass classification.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True binary labels.

• y_predicted (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a binary classifier.

• normalize_method ({'true', 'pred', 'all', None}) – Normalization method to use, if not None. Supported options are: ‘true’ to normalize by row, ‘pred’ to normalize by column, or ‘all’ to normalize by all values. Defaults to ‘true’.

Returns

Confusion matrix. The column header represents the predicted labels while row header represents the actual labels.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

evalml.model_understanding.explain_predictions(pipeline, input_features, y, indices_to_explain, top_k_features=3, include_explainer_values=False, include_expected_value=False, output_format='text', training_data=None, training_target=None, algorithm='shap')

Creates a report summarizing the top contributing features for each data point in the input features.

XGBoost models and CatBoost multiclass classifiers are not currently supported with the SHAP algorithm. To explain XGBoost model predictions, use the LIME algorithm. The LIME algorithm does not currently support any CatBoost models. For Stacked Ensemble models, the SHAP value for each input pipeline’s predict function into the metalearner is used.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase) – Fitted pipeline whose predictions we want to explain with SHAP or LIME.

• input_features (pd.DataFrame) – Dataframe of input data to evaluate the pipeline on.

• y (pd.Series) – Labels for the input data.

• indices_to_explain (list[int]) – List of integer indices to explain.

• top_k_features (int) – How many of the highest/lowest contributing feature to include in the table for each data point. Default is 3.

• include_explainer_values (bool) – Whether explainer (SHAP or LIME) values should be included in the table. Default is False.

• include_expected_value (bool) – Whether the expected value should be included in the table. Default is False.

• output_format (str) – Either “text”, “dict”, or “dataframe”. Default is “text”.

• training_data (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – Data the pipeline was trained on. Required and only used for time series pipelines.

• training_target (pd.Series, np.ndarray) – Targets used to train the pipeline. Required and only used for time series pipelines.

• algorithm (str) – Algorithm to use while generating top contributing features, one of “shap” or “lime”. Defaults to “shap”.

Returns

A report explaining the top contributing features to each prediction for each row of input_features.

The report will include the feature names, prediction contribution, and explainer value (optional).

Return type

str, dict, or pd.DataFrame

Raises

• ValueError – if input_features is empty.

• ValueError – if an output_format outside of “text”, “dict” or “dataframe is provided.

• ValueError – if the requested index falls outside the input_feature’s boundaries.

evalml.model_understanding.explain_predictions_best_worst(pipeline, input_features, y_true, num_to_explain=5, top_k_features=3, include_explainer_values=False, metric=None, output_format='text', callback=None, training_data=None, training_target=None, algorithm='shap')

Creates a report summarizing the top contributing features for the best and worst points in the dataset as measured by error to true labels.

XGBoost models and CatBoost multiclass classifiers are not currently supported with the SHAP algorithm. To explain XGBoost model predictions, use the LIME algorithm. The LIME algorithm does not currently support any CatBoost models. For Stacked Ensemble models, the SHAP value for each input pipeline’s predict function into the metalearner is used.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase) – Fitted pipeline whose predictions we want to explain with SHAP or LIME.

• input_features (pd.DataFrame) – Input data to evaluate the pipeline on.

• y_true (pd.Series) – True labels for the input data.

• num_to_explain (int) – How many of the best, worst, random data points to explain.

• top_k_features (int) – How many of the highest/lowest contributing feature to include in the table for each data point.

• include_explainer_values (bool) – Whether explainer (SHAP or LIME) values should be included in the table. Default is False.

• metric (callable) – The metric used to identify the best and worst points in the dataset. Function must accept the true labels and predicted value or probabilities as the only arguments and lower values must be better. By default, this will be the absolute error for regression problems and cross entropy loss for classification problems.

• output_format (str) – Either “text” or “dict”. Default is “text”.

• callback (callable) – Function to be called with incremental updates. Has the following parameters: - progress_stage: stage of computation - time_elapsed: total time in seconds that has elapsed since start of call

• training_data (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – Data the pipeline was trained on. Required and only used for time series pipelines.

• training_target (pd.Series, np.ndarray) – Targets used to train the pipeline. Required and only used for time series pipelines.

• algorithm (str) – Algorithm to use while generating top contributing features, one of “shap” or “lime”. Defaults to “shap”.

Returns

A report explaining the top contributing features for the best/worst predictions in the input_features.

For each of the best/worst rows of input_features, the predicted values, true labels, metric value, feature names, prediction contribution, and explainer value (optional) will be listed.

Return type

str, dict, or pd.DataFrame

Raises

• ValueError – If input_features does not have more than twice the requested features to explain.

• ValueError – If y_true and input_features have mismatched lengths.

• ValueError – If an output_format outside of “text”, “dict” or “dataframe is provided.

• PipelineScoreError – If the pipeline errors out while scoring.

evalml.model_understanding.find_confusion_matrix_per_thresholds(pipeline, X, y, n_bins=None, top_k=5, to_json=False)

Gets the confusion matrix and histogram bins for each threshold as well as the best threshold per objective. Only works with Binary Classification Pipelines.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase) – A fitted Binary Classification Pipeline to get the confusion matrix with.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input features.

• y (pd.Series) – The input target.

• n_bins (int) – The number of bins to use to calculate the threshold values. Defaults to None, which will default to using Freedman-Diaconis rule.

• top_k (int) – The maximum number of row indices per bin to include as samples. -1 includes all row indices that fall between the bins. Defaults to 5.

• to_json (bool) – Whether or not to return a json output. If False, returns the (DataFrame, dict) tuple, otherwise returns a json.

Returns

The dataframe has the actual positive histogram, actual negative histogram,

the confusion matrix, and a sample of rows that fall in the bin, all for each threshold value. The threshold value, represented through the dataframe index, represents the cutoff threshold at that value. The dictionary contains the ideal threshold and score per objective, keyed by objective name. If json, returns the info for both the dataframe and dictionary as a json output.

Return type

(tuple(pd.DataFrame, dict)), json)

Raises

ValueError – If the pipeline isn’t a binary classification pipeline or isn’t yet fitted on data.

evalml.model_understanding.get_linear_coefficients(estimator, features=None)

Returns a dataframe showing the features with the greatest predictive power for a linear model.

Parameters

• estimator (Estimator) – Fitted linear model family estimator.

• features (list[str]) – List of feature names associated with the underlying data.

Returns

Displaying the features by importance.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

• ValueError – If the model is not a linear model.

• NotFittedError – If the model is not yet fitted.

evalml.model_understanding.get_prediction_vs_actual_data(y_true, y_pred, outlier_threshold=None)

Combines y_true and y_pred into a single dataframe and adds a column for outliers. Used in graph_prediction_vs_actual().

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series, or np.ndarray) – The real target values of the data

• y_pred (pd.Series, or np.ndarray) – The predicted values outputted by the regression model.

• outlier_threshold (int, float) – A positive threshold for what is considered an outlier value. This value is compared to the absolute difference between each value of y_true and y_pred. Values within this threshold will be blue, otherwise they will be yellow. Defaults to None.

Returns

• prediction: Predicted values from regression model.

• actual: Real target values.

• outlier: Colors indicating which values are in the threshold for what is considered an outlier value.

Return type

pd.DataFrame with the following columns

Raises

ValueError – If threshold is not positive.

evalml.model_understanding.get_prediction_vs_actual_over_time_data(pipeline, X, y, X_train, y_train, dates)

Get the data needed for the prediction_vs_actual_over_time plot.

Parameters

• pipeline (TimeSeriesRegressionPipeline) – Fitted time series regression pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features used to generate new predictions.

• y (pd.Series) – Target values to compare predictions against.

• X_train (pd.DataFrame) – Data the pipeline was trained on.

• y_train (pd.Series) – Target values for training data.

• dates (pd.Series) – Dates corresponding to target values and predictions.

Returns

Predictions vs. time.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

evalml.model_understanding.graph_binary_objective_vs_threshold(pipeline, X, y, objective, steps=100)

Generates a plot graphing objective score vs. decision thresholds for a fitted binary classification pipeline.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input data used to score and compute scores

• y (pd.Series) – The target labels

• objective (ObjectiveBase obj, str) – Objective used to score, shown on the y-axis of the graph

• steps (int) – Number of intervals to divide and calculate objective score at

Returns

plotly.Figure representing the objective score vs. threshold graph generated

evalml.model_understanding.graph_confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred, normalize_method='true', title_addition=None)

Generate and display a confusion matrix plot.

If normalize_method is set, hover text will show raw count, otherwise hover text will show count normalized with method ‘true’.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True binary labels.

• y_pred (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a binary classifier.

• normalize_method ({'true', 'pred', 'all', None}) – Normalization method to use, if not None. Supported options are: ‘true’ to normalize by row, ‘pred’ to normalize by column, or ‘all’ to normalize by all values. Defaults to ‘true’.

• title_addition (str) – If not None, append to plot title. Defaults to None.

Returns

plotly.Figure representing the confusion matrix plot generated.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_partial_dependence(pipeline, X, features, class_label=None, grid_resolution=100, kind='average')

Create an one-way or two-way partial dependence plot.

Passing a single integer or string as features will create a one-way partial dependence plot with the feature values plotted against the partial dependence. Passing features a tuple of int/strings will create a two-way partial dependence plot with a contour of feature[0] in the y-axis, feature[1] in the x-axis and the partial dependence in the z-axis.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – The input data used to generate a grid of values for feature where partial dependence will be calculated at.

• features (int, string, tuple[int or string]) – The target feature for which to create the partial dependence plot for. If features is an int, it must be the index of the feature to use. If features is a string, it must be a valid column name in X. If features is a tuple of strings, it must contain valid column int/names in X.

• class_label (string, optional) – Name of class to plot for multiclass problems. If None, will plot the partial dependence for each class. This argument does not change behavior for regression or binary classification pipelines. For binary classification, the partial dependence for the positive label will always be displayed. Defaults to None.

• grid_resolution (int) – Number of samples of feature(s) for partial dependence plot.

• kind ({'average', 'individual', 'both'}) – Type of partial dependence to plot. ‘average’ creates a regular partial dependence (PD) graph, ‘individual’ creates an individual conditional expectation (ICE) plot, and ‘both’ creates a single-figure PD and ICE plot. ICE plots can only be shown for one-way partial dependence plots.

Returns

figure object containing the partial dependence data for plotting

Return type

plotly.graph_objects.Figure

Raises

• PartialDependenceError – if a graph is requested for a class name that isn’t present in the pipeline.

• PartialDependenceError – if an ICE plot is requested for a two-way partial dependence.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_permutation_importance(pipeline, X, y, objective, importance_threshold=0)

Generate a bar graph of the pipeline’s permutation importance.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input data used to score and compute permutation importance.

• y (pd.Series) – The target data.

• objective (str, ObjectiveBase) – Objective to score on.

• importance_threshold (float, optional) – If provided, graph features with a permutation importance whose absolute value is larger than importance_threshold. Defaults to 0.

Returns

plotly.Figure, a bar graph showing features and their respective permutation importance.

Raises

ValueError – If importance_threshold is not greater than or equal to 0.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_precision_recall_curve(y_true, y_pred_proba, title_addition=None)

Generate and display a precision-recall plot.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True binary labels.

• y_pred_proba (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a binary classifier, before thresholding has been applied. Note this should be the predicted probability for the “true” label.

• title_addition (str or None) – If not None, append to plot title. Defaults to None.

Returns

plotly.Figure representing the precision-recall plot generated

evalml.model_understanding.graph_prediction_vs_actual(y_true, y_pred, outlier_threshold=None)

Generate a scatter plot comparing the true and predicted values. Used for regression plotting.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series) – The real target values of the data.

• y_pred (pd.Series) – The predicted values outputted by the regression model.

• outlier_threshold (int, float) – A positive threshold for what is considered an outlier value. This value is compared to the absolute difference between each value of y_true and y_pred. Values within this threshold will be blue, otherwise they will be yellow. Defaults to None.

Returns

plotly.Figure representing the predicted vs. actual values graph

Raises

ValueError – If threshold is not positive.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_prediction_vs_actual_over_time(pipeline, X, y, X_train, y_train, dates, single_series=None)

Plot the target values and predictions against time on the x-axis.

Parameters

• pipeline (TimeSeriesRegressionPipeline) – Fitted time series regression pipeline.

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features used to generate new predictions. If problem is multiseries, X should be stacked.

• y (pd.Series) – Target values to compare predictions against. If problem is multiseries, y should be stacked.

• X_train (pd.DataFrame) – Data the pipeline was trained on.

• y_train (pd.Series) – Target values for training data.

• dates (pd.Series) – Dates corresponding to target values and predictions.

• single_series (str) – A single series id value to plot just one series in a multiseries dataset. Defaults to None.

Returns

Showing the prediction vs actual over time.

Return type

plotly.Figure

Raises

ValueError – If the pipeline is not a time-series regression pipeline.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_roc_curve(y_true, y_pred_proba, custom_class_names=None, title_addition=None)

Generate and display a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) plot for binary and multiclass classification problems.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True labels.

• y_pred_proba (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a classifier, before thresholding has been applied. Note this should a one dimensional array with the predicted probability for the “true” label in the binary case.

• custom_class_names (list or None) – If not None, custom labels for classes. Defaults to None.

• title_addition (str or None) – if not None, append to plot title. Defaults to None.

Returns

plotly.Figure representing the ROC plot generated

Raises

ValueError – If the number of custom class names does not match number of classes in the input data.

evalml.model_understanding.graph_t_sne(X, n_components=2, perplexity=30.0, learning_rate=200.0, metric='euclidean', marker_line_width=2, marker_size=7, **kwargs)

Plot high dimensional data into lower dimensional space using t-SNE.

Parameters

• X (np.ndarray, pd.DataFrame) – Data to be transformed. Must be numeric.

• n_components (int) – Dimension of the embedded space. Defaults to 2.

• perplexity (float) – Related to the number of nearest neighbors that is used in other manifold learning algorithms. Larger datasets usually require a larger perplexity. Consider selecting a value between 5 and 50. Defaults to 30.

• learning_rate (float) – Usually in the range [10.0, 1000.0]. If the cost function gets stuck in a bad local minimum, increasing the learning rate may help. Must be positive. Defaults to 200.

• metric (str) – The metric to use when calculating distance between instances in a feature array. The default is “euclidean” which is interpreted as the squared euclidean distance.

• marker_line_width (int) – Determines the line width of the marker boundary. Defaults to 2.

• marker_size (int) – Determines the size of the marker. Defaults to 7.

• kwargs – Arbitrary keyword arguments.

Returns

Figure representing the transformed data.

Return type

plotly.Figure

Raises

ValueError – If marker_line_width or marker_size are not valid values.

evalml.model_understanding.normalize_confusion_matrix(conf_mat, normalize_method='true')

Normalizes a confusion matrix.

Parameters

• conf_mat (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – Confusion matrix to normalize.

• normalize_method ({'true', 'pred', 'all'}) – Normalization method. Supported options are: ‘true’ to normalize by row, ‘pred’ to normalize by column, or ‘all’ to normalize by all values. Defaults to ‘true’.

Returns

normalized version of the input confusion matrix. The column header represents the predicted labels while row header represents the actual labels.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If configuration is invalid, or if the sum of a given axis is zero and normalization by axis is specified.

evalml.model_understanding.partial_dependence(pipeline, X, features, percentiles=(0.05, 0.95), grid_resolution=100, kind='average', fast_mode=False, X_train=None, y_train=None)

Calculates one or two-way partial dependence.

If a single integer or string is given for features, one-way partial dependence is calculated. If a tuple of two integers or strings is given, two-way partial dependence is calculated with the first feature in the y-axis and second feature in the x-axis.

Parameters

• pipeline (PipelineBase or subclass) – Fitted pipeline

• X (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – The input data used to generate a grid of values for feature where partial dependence will be calculated at

• features (int, string, tuple[int or string]) – The target feature for which to create the partial dependence plot for. If features is an int, it must be the index of the feature to use. If features is a string, it must be a valid column name in X. If features is a tuple of int/strings, it must contain valid column integers/names in X.

• percentiles (tuple[float]) – The lower and upper percentile used to create the extreme values for the grid. Must be in [0, 1]. Defaults to (0.05, 0.95).

• grid_resolution (int) – Number of samples of feature(s) for partial dependence plot. If this value is less than the maximum number of categories present in categorical data within X, it will be set to the max number of categories + 1. Defaults to 100.

• kind ({'average', 'individual', 'both'}) – The type of predictions to return. ‘individual’ will return the predictions for all of the points in the grid for each sample in X. ‘average’ will return the predictions for all of the points in the grid but averaged over all of the samples in X.

• fast_mode (bool, optional) – Whether or not performance optimizations should be used for partial dependence calculations. Defaults to False. Note that user-specified components may not produce correct partial dependence results, so fast mode should only be used with EvalML-native components. Additionally, some components are not compatible with fast mode; in those cases, an error will be raised indicating that fast mode should not be used.

• X_train (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – The data that was used to train the original pipeline. Will be used in fast mode to train the cloned pipelines. Defaults to None.

• y_train (pd.Series, np.ndarray) – The target data that was used to train the original pipeline. Will be used in fast mode to train the cloned pipelines. Defaults to None.

Returns

When kind=’average’: DataFrame with averaged predictions for all points in the grid averaged over all samples of X and the values used to calculate those predictions.

When kind=’individual’: DataFrame with individual predictions for all points in the grid for each sample of X and the values used to calculate those predictions. If a two-way partial dependence is calculated, then the result is a list of DataFrames with each DataFrame representing one sample’s predictions.

When kind=’both’: A tuple consisting of the averaged predictions (in a DataFrame) over all samples of X and the individual predictions (in a list of DataFrames) for each sample of X.

In the one-way case: The dataframe will contain two columns, “feature_values” (grid points at which the partial dependence was calculated) and “partial_dependence” (the partial dependence at that feature value). For classification problems, there will be a third column called “class_label” (the class label for which the partial dependence was calculated). For binary classification, the partial dependence is only calculated for the “positive” class.

In the two-way case: The data frame will contain grid_resolution number of columns and rows where the index and column headers are the sampled values of the first and second features, respectively, used to make the partial dependence contour. The values of the data frame contain the partial dependence data for each feature value pair.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, list(pd.DataFrame), or tuple(pd.DataFrame, list(pd.DataFrame))

Raises

• ValueError – Error during call to scikit-learn’s partial dependence method.

• Exception – All other errors during calculation.

• PartialDependenceError – if the user provides a tuple of not exactly two features.

• PartialDependenceError – if the provided pipeline isn’t fitted.

• PartialDependenceError – if the provided pipeline is a Baseline pipeline.

• PartialDependenceError – if any of the features passed in are completely NaN

• PartialDependenceError – if any of the features are low-variance. Defined as having one value occurring more than the upper percentile passed by the user. By default 95%.

evalml.model_understanding.precision_recall_curve(y_true, y_pred_proba, pos_label_idx=- 1)

Given labels and binary classifier predicted probabilities, compute and return the data representing a precision-recall curve.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True binary labels.

• y_pred_proba (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a binary classifier, before thresholding has been applied. Note this should be the predicted probability for the “true” label.

• pos_label_idx (int) – the column index corresponding to the positive class. If predicted probabilities are two-dimensional, this will be used to access the probabilities for the positive class.

Returns

Dictionary containing metrics used to generate a precision-recall plot, with the following keys:

• precision: Precision values.

• recall: Recall values.

• thresholds: Threshold values used to produce the precision and recall.

• auc_score: The area under the ROC curve.

Return type

list

Raises

NoPositiveLabelException – If predicted probabilities do not contain a column at the specified label.

evalml.model_understanding.roc_curve(y_true, y_pred_proba)

Given labels and classifier predicted probabilities, compute and return the data representing a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. Works with binary or multiclass problems.

Parameters

• y_true (pd.Series or np.ndarray) – True labels.

• y_pred_proba (pd.Series or pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – Predictions from a classifier, before thresholding has been applied.

Returns

A list of dictionaries (with one for each class) is returned. Binary classification problems return a list with one dictionary.

Each dictionary contains metrics used to generate an ROC plot with the following keys:

• fpr_rate: False positive rate.

• tpr_rate: True positive rate.

• threshold: Threshold values used to produce each pair of true/false positive rates.

• auc_score: The area under the ROC curve.

Return type

list(dict)

evalml.model_understanding.t_sne(X, n_components=2, perplexity=30.0, learning_rate=200.0, metric='euclidean', **kwargs)

Get the transformed output after fitting X to the embedded space using t-SNE.

Parameters

• X (np.ndarray, pd.DataFrame) – Data to be transformed. Must be numeric.

• n_components (int, optional) – Dimension of the embedded space.

• perplexity (float, optional) – Related to the number of nearest neighbors that is used in other manifold learning algorithms. Larger datasets usually require a larger perplexity. Consider selecting a value between 5 and 50.

• learning_rate (float, optional) – Usually in the range [10.0, 1000.0]. If the cost function gets stuck in a bad local minimum, increasing the learning rate may help.

• metric (str, optional) – The metric to use when calculating distance between instances in a feature array.

• kwargs – Arbitrary keyword arguments.

Returns

TSNE output.

Return type

np.ndarray (n_samples, n_components)

Raises

ValueError – If specified parameters are not valid values.