RIPE

Implementation of a rule based prediction algorithm called RIPE (Rule Induction Partitioning Estimate). RIPE is a deterministic and interpretable algorithm, for regression problem. It has been presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition 2018 (MLDM 18). The paper is available in arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04602.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

RIPE is developed in Python version 2.7. It requires some usual packages

• NumPy (post 1.13.0)
• Scikit-Learn (post 0.19.0)
• Pandas (post 0.16.0)
• SciPy (post 1.0.0)
• Matplotlib (post 2.0.2)
• Seaborn (post 0.8.1)

See requirements.txt.

sudo pip install package_name

To install a specific version

sudo pip install package_name==version

Installing

The latest version can be installed from the master branch using pip:

pip install git+git://github.com/VMargot/RIPE.git

Another option is to clone the repository and install using python setup.py install or python setup.py develop.

Usage

RIPE has been developed to be used as a regressor from the package scikit-learn.

Training

from sklearn import datasets
iris = datasets.load_iris()
X, y = iris.data, iris.target

ripe = RIPE.Learning()
ripe.fit(X, y)

Predict

ripe.predict(X)

Score

ripe.score(X,y)

Inspect rules:

To have the Pandas DataFrame of the selected rules

ripe.selected_rs.to_df()

Or, one can use

ripe.make_selected_df()

To draw the distance between selected rules

ripe.plot_dist()

To draw the count of occurrence of variables in the selected rules

ripe.plot_counter_variables()

Notes

This implementation is in progress. If you find a bug, or something witch could be improve don't hesitate to contact me.

Authors

• Vincent Margot

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU v3.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details