/* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ /* * ThresholdCurve.java * Copyright (C) 2002 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand * */ package weka.classifiers.evaluation; import weka.classifiers.Classifier; import weka.classifiers.AbstractClassifier; import weka.core.Attribute; import weka.core.FastVector; import weka.core.Instance; import weka.core.DenseInstance; import weka.core.Instances; import weka.core.RevisionHandler; import weka.core.RevisionUtils; import weka.core.Utils; /** * Generates points illustrating prediction tradeoffs that can be obtained * by varying the threshold value between classes. For example, the typical * threshold value of 0.5 means the predicted probability of "positive" must be * higher than 0.5 for the instance to be predicted as "positive". The * resulting dataset can be used to visualize precision/recall tradeoff, or * for ROC curve analysis (true positive rate vs false positive rate). * Weka just varies the threshold on the class probability estimates in each * case. The Mann Whitney statistic is used to calculate the AUC. * * @author Len Trigg (len@reeltwo.com) * @version $Revision: 5987 $ */ public class ThresholdCurve implements RevisionHandler { /** The name of the relation used in threshold curve datasets */ public static final String RELATION_NAME = "ThresholdCurve"; /** attribute name: True Positives */ public static final String TRUE_POS_NAME = "True Positives"; /** attribute name: False Negatives */ public static final String FALSE_NEG_NAME = "False Negatives"; /** attribute name: False Positives */ public static final String FALSE_POS_NAME = "False Positives"; /** attribute name: True Negatives */ public static final String TRUE_NEG_NAME = "True Negatives"; /** attribute name: False Positive Rate" */ public static final String FP_RATE_NAME = "False Positive Rate"; /** attribute name: True Positive Rate */ public static final String TP_RATE_NAME = "True Positive Rate"; /** attribute name: Precision */ public static final String PRECISION_NAME = "Precision"; /** attribute name: Recall */ public static final String RECALL_NAME = "Recall"; /** attribute name: Fallout */ public static final String FALLOUT_NAME = "Fallout"; /** attribute name: FMeasure */ public static final String FMEASURE_NAME = "FMeasure"; /** attribute name: Sample Size */ public static final String SAMPLE_SIZE_NAME = "Sample Size"; /** attribute name: Lift */ public static final String LIFT_NAME = "Lift"; /** attribute name: Threshold */ public static final String THRESHOLD_NAME = "Threshold"; /** * Calculates the performance stats for the default class and return * results as a set of Instances. The * structure of these Instances is as follows:
* For the definitions of these measures, see TwoClassStats
* * @see TwoClassStats * @param predictions the predictions to base the curve on * @return datapoints as a set of instances, null if no predictions * have been made. */ public Instances getCurve(FastVector predictions) { if (predictions.size() == 0) { return null; } return getCurve(predictions, ((NominalPrediction)predictions.elementAt(0)) .distribution().length - 1); } /** * Calculates the performance stats for the desired class and return * results as a set of Instances. * * @param predictions the predictions to base the curve on * @param classIndex index of the class of interest. * @return datapoints as a set of instances. */ public Instances getCurve(FastVector predictions, int classIndex) { if ((predictions.size() == 0) || (((NominalPrediction)predictions.elementAt(0)) .distribution().length <= classIndex)) { return null; } double totPos = 0, totNeg = 0; double [] probs = getProbabilities(predictions, classIndex); // Get distribution of positive/negatives for (int i = 0; i < probs.length; i++) { NominalPrediction pred = (NominalPrediction)predictions.elementAt(i); if (pred.actual() == Prediction.MISSING_VALUE) { System.err.println(getClass().getName() + " Skipping prediction with missing class value"); continue; } if (pred.weight() < 0) { System.err.println(getClass().getName() + " Skipping prediction with negative weight"); continue; } if (pred.actual() == classIndex) { totPos += pred.weight(); } else { totNeg += pred.weight(); } } Instances insts = makeHeader(); int [] sorted = Utils.sort(probs); TwoClassStats tc = new TwoClassStats(totPos, totNeg, 0, 0); double threshold = 0; double cumulativePos = 0; double cumulativeNeg = 0; for (int i = 0; i < sorted.length; i++) { if ((i == 0) || (probs[sorted[i]] > threshold)) { tc.setTruePositive(tc.getTruePositive() - cumulativePos); tc.setFalseNegative(tc.getFalseNegative() + cumulativePos); tc.setFalsePositive(tc.getFalsePositive() - cumulativeNeg); tc.setTrueNegative(tc.getTrueNegative() + cumulativeNeg); threshold = probs[sorted[i]]; insts.add(makeInstance(tc, threshold)); cumulativePos = 0; cumulativeNeg = 0; if (i == sorted.length - 1) { break; } } NominalPrediction pred = (NominalPrediction)predictions.elementAt(sorted[i]); if (pred.actual() == Prediction.MISSING_VALUE) { System.err.println(getClass().getName() + " Skipping prediction with missing class value"); continue; } if (pred.weight() < 0) { System.err.println(getClass().getName() + " Skipping prediction with negative weight"); continue; } if (pred.actual() == classIndex) { cumulativePos += pred.weight(); } else { cumulativeNeg += pred.weight(); } /* System.out.println(tc + " " + probs[sorted[i]] + " " + (pred.actual() == classIndex)); */ /*if ((i != (sorted.length - 1)) && ((i == 0) || (probs[sorted[i]] != probs[sorted[i - 1]]))) { insts.add(makeInstance(tc, probs[sorted[i]])); }*/ } return insts; } /** * Calculates the n point precision result, which is the precision averaged * over n evenly spaced (w.r.t recall) samples of the curve. * * @param tcurve a previously extracted threshold curve Instances. * @param n the number of points to average over. * @return the n-point precision. */ public static double getNPointPrecision(Instances tcurve, int n) { if (!RELATION_NAME.equals(tcurve.relationName()) || (tcurve.numInstances() == 0)) { return Double.NaN; } int recallInd = tcurve.attribute(RECALL_NAME).index(); int precisInd = tcurve.attribute(PRECISION_NAME).index(); double [] recallVals = tcurve.attributeToDoubleArray(recallInd); int [] sorted = Utils.sort(recallVals); double isize = 1.0 / (n - 1); double psum = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { int pos = binarySearch(sorted, recallVals, i * isize); double recall = recallVals[sorted[pos]]; double precis = tcurve.instance(sorted[pos]).value(precisInd); /* System.err.println("Point " + (i + 1) + ": i=" + pos + " r=" + (i * isize) + " p'=" + precis + " r'=" + recall); */ // interpolate figures for non-endpoints while ((pos != 0) && (pos < sorted.length - 1)) { pos++; double recall2 = recallVals[sorted[pos]]; if (recall2 != recall) { double precis2 = tcurve.instance(sorted[pos]).value(precisInd); double slope = (precis2 - precis) / (recall2 - recall); double offset = precis - recall * slope; precis = isize * i * slope + offset; /* System.err.println("Point2 " + (i + 1) + ": i=" + pos + " r=" + (i * isize) + " p'=" + precis2 + " r'=" + recall2 + " p''=" + precis); */ break; } } psum += precis; } return psum / n; } /** * Calculates the area under the ROC curve as the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic. * * @param tcurve a previously extracted threshold curve Instances. * @return the ROC area, or Double.NaN if you don't pass in * a ThresholdCurve generated Instances. */ public static double getROCArea(Instances tcurve) { final int n = tcurve.numInstances(); if (!RELATION_NAME.equals(tcurve.relationName()) || (n == 0)) { return Double.NaN; } final int tpInd = tcurve.attribute(TRUE_POS_NAME).index(); final int fpInd = tcurve.attribute(FALSE_POS_NAME).index(); final double [] tpVals = tcurve.attributeToDoubleArray(tpInd); final double [] fpVals = tcurve.attributeToDoubleArray(fpInd); double area = 0.0, cumNeg = 0.0; final double totalPos = tpVals[0]; final double totalNeg = fpVals[0]; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { double cip, cin; if (i < n - 1) { cip = tpVals[i] - tpVals[i + 1]; cin = fpVals[i] - fpVals[i + 1]; } else { cip = tpVals[n - 1]; cin = fpVals[n - 1]; } area += cip * (cumNeg + (0.5 * cin)); cumNeg += cin; } area /= (totalNeg * totalPos); return area; } /** * Gets the index of the instance with the closest threshold value to the * desired target * * @param tcurve a set of instances that have been generated by this class * @param threshold the target threshold * @return the index of the instance that has threshold closest to * the target, or -1 if this could not be found (i.e. no data, or * bad threshold target) */ public static int getThresholdInstance(Instances tcurve, double threshold) { if (!RELATION_NAME.equals(tcurve.relationName()) || (tcurve.numInstances() == 0) || (threshold < 0) || (threshold > 1.0)) { return -1; } if (tcurve.numInstances() == 1) { return 0; } double [] tvals = tcurve.attributeToDoubleArray(tcurve.numAttributes() - 1); int [] sorted = Utils.sort(tvals); return binarySearch(sorted, tvals, threshold); } /** * performs a binary search * * @param index the indices * @param vals the values * @param target the target to look for * @return the index of the target */ private static int binarySearch(int [] index, double [] vals, double target) { int lo = 0, hi = index.length - 1; while (hi - lo > 1) { int mid = lo + (hi - lo) / 2; double midval = vals[index[mid]]; if (target > midval) { lo = mid; } else if (target < midval) { hi = mid; } else { while ((mid > 0) && (vals[index[mid - 1]] == target)) { mid --; } return mid; } } return lo; } /** * * @param predictions the predictions to use * @param classIndex the class index * @return the probabilities */ private double [] getProbabilities(FastVector predictions, int classIndex) { // sort by predicted probability of the desired class. double [] probs = new double [predictions.size()]; for (int i = 0; i < probs.length; i++) { NominalPrediction pred = (NominalPrediction)predictions.elementAt(i); probs[i] = pred.distribution()[classIndex]; } return probs; } /** * generates the header * * @return the header */ private Instances makeHeader() { FastVector fv = new FastVector(); fv.addElement(new Attribute(TRUE_POS_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(FALSE_NEG_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(FALSE_POS_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(TRUE_NEG_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(FP_RATE_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(TP_RATE_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(PRECISION_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(RECALL_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(FALLOUT_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(FMEASURE_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(SAMPLE_SIZE_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(LIFT_NAME)); fv.addElement(new Attribute(THRESHOLD_NAME)); return new Instances(RELATION_NAME, fv, 100); } /** * generates an instance out of the given data * * @param tc the statistics * @param prob the probability * @return the generated instance */ private Instance makeInstance(TwoClassStats tc, double prob) { int count = 0; double [] vals = new double[13]; vals[count++] = tc.getTruePositive(); vals[count++] = tc.getFalseNegative(); vals[count++] = tc.getFalsePositive(); vals[count++] = tc.getTrueNegative(); vals[count++] = tc.getFalsePositiveRate(); vals[count++] = tc.getTruePositiveRate(); vals[count++] = tc.getPrecision(); vals[count++] = tc.getRecall(); vals[count++] = tc.getFallout(); vals[count++] = tc.getFMeasure(); double ss = (tc.getTruePositive() + tc.getFalsePositive()) / (tc.getTruePositive() + tc.getFalsePositive() + tc.getTrueNegative() + tc.getFalseNegative()); vals[count++] = ss; double expectedByChance = (ss * (tc.getTruePositive() + tc.getFalseNegative())); if (expectedByChance < 1) { vals[count++] = Utils.missingValue(); } else { vals[count++] = tc.getTruePositive() / expectedByChance; } vals[count++] = prob; return new DenseInstance(1.0, vals); } /** * Returns the revision string. * * @return the revision */ public String getRevision() { return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5987 $"); } /** * Tests the ThresholdCurve generation from the command line. * The classifier is currently hardcoded. Pipe in an arff file. * * @param args currently ignored */ public static void main(String [] args) { try { Instances inst = new Instances(new java.io.InputStreamReader(System.in)); if (false) { System.out.println(ThresholdCurve.getNPointPrecision(inst, 11)); } else { inst.setClassIndex(inst.numAttributes() - 1); ThresholdCurve tc = new ThresholdCurve(); EvaluationUtils eu = new EvaluationUtils(); Classifier classifier = new weka.classifiers.functions.Logistic(); FastVector predictions = new FastVector(); for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) { // Do two runs. eu.setSeed(i); predictions.appendElements(eu.getCVPredictions(classifier, inst, 10)); //System.out.println("\n\n\n"); } Instances result = tc.getCurve(predictions); System.out.println(result); } } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } }