hpbandster-sklearn

hpbandster-sklearn is a Python library providing a scikit-learn wrapper - HpBandSterSearchCV - for HpBandSter, a hyper parameter tuning library.

Motivation

HpBandSter implements several cutting-edge hyper parameter algorithms, including HyperBand and BOHB. They often outperform standard Random Search, finding best parameter combinations in less time.

HpBandSter is powerful and configurable, but its usage is often unintuitive for beginners and necessitating a large amount of boilerplate code. In order to solve that issue, HpBandSterSearchCV was created as a drop-in replacement for scikit-learn hyper parameter searchers, following its well-known and popular API, making it possible to tune scikit-learn API estimators with minimal setup.

HpBandSterSearchCV API has been based on scikit-learn's HalvingRandomSearchCV, implementing nearly all of the parameters it does.

Installation

pip install hpbandster-sklearn

Usage

Use it like any other scikit-learn hyper parameter searcher:

import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.utils.validation import check_is_fitted
from hpbandster_sklearn import HpBandSterSearchCV

X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True)
clf = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=0)
np.random.seed(0)

param_distributions = {"max_depth": [2, 3, 4], "min_samples_split": list(range(2, 12))}

search = HpBandSterSearchCV(clf, param_distributions,random_state=0, n_jobs=1, n_iter=10, verbose=1).fit(X, y)
search.best_parameters_

You can also use ConfigSpace.ConfigurationSpace objects instead of dicts (in fact, it is recommended)!

import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.utils.validation import check_is_fitted
from hpbandster_sklearn import HpBandSterSearchCV
import ConfigSpace as CS
import ConfigSpace.hyperparameters as CSH

X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True)
clf = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=0)
np.random.seed(0)

param_distributions = CS.ConfigurationSpace(seed=42)
param_distributions.add_hyperparameter(CSH.UniformIntegerHyperparameter("min_samples_split", 2, 11))
param_distributions.add_hyperparameter(CSH.UniformIntegerHyperparameter("max_depth", 2, 4))

search = HpBandSterSearchCV(clf, param_distributions,random_state=0, n_jobs=1, n_iter=10, verbose=1).fit(X, y)
search.best_parameters_

Please refer to the documentation of this library, as well as to the documentation of HpBandSter and ConfigSpace for more information.

Early stopping

As almost every search algorithm in HpBandSter leverages early stopping (tmostly through Successive Halving), the user can configure the resource and budget to be used through the arguments of HpBandSterSearchCV object.

search = HpBandSterSearchCV(
    clf,
    param_distributions,
    resource_name='n_samples', # can be either 'n_samples' or a string corresponding to an estimator attribute, eg. 'n_estimators' for an ensemble
    resource_type=float, # if specified, the resource value will be cast to that type before being passed to the estimator, otherwise it will be derived automatically
    min_budget=0.2,
    max_budget=1,
)

search = HpBandSterSearchCV(
    clf,
    param_distributions,
    resource_name='n_estimators', # can be either 'n_samples' or a string corresponding to an estimator attribute, eg. 'n_estimators' for an ensemble
    resource_type=int, # if specified, the resource value will be cast to that type before being passed to the estimator, otherwise it will be derived automatically
    min_budget=20,
    max_budget=200,
)

By default, the object will try to automatically determine the best resource, by checking the following in order:

• 'n_estimators', if the model has that attribute and the warm_start attribute
• 'max_iter', if the model has that attribute and the warm_start attribute
• 'n_samples' - if the model doesn't support warm_start, the dataset samples will be used as the resource instead, meaing the model will be iteratively fitted on a bigger and bigger portion of the dataset.

Furthermore, special support has been added for LightGBM, XGBoost and CatBoost scikit-learn estimators.

Documentation

https://hpbandster-sklearn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

References

• HpBandSter - https://github.com/automl/HpBandSter
• ConfigSpace - https://github.com/automl/ConfigSpace
• scikit-learn - http://scikit-learn.org/

Author

Antoni Baum (Yard1)

License

MIT