/* * 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. */ /* * OneR.java * Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand * */ package weka.classifiers.rules; import weka.classifiers.Classifier; import weka.classifiers.AbstractClassifier; import weka.classifiers.Sourcable; import weka.core.Attribute; import weka.core.Capabilities; import weka.core.Instance; import weka.core.Instances; import weka.core.Option; import weka.core.RevisionHandler; import weka.core.RevisionUtils; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation; import weka.core.TechnicalInformationHandler; import weka.core.Utils; import weka.core.WekaException; import weka.core.Capabilities.Capability; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Field; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Type; import java.io.Serializable; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Vector; /** * Class for building and using a 1R classifier; in other words, uses the minimum-error attribute for prediction, discretizing numeric attributes. For more information, see:
*
* R.C. Holte (1993). Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets. Machine Learning. 11:63-91. *

* * BibTeX: *

 * @article{Holte1993,
 *    author = {R.C. Holte},
 *    journal = {Machine Learning},
 *    pages = {63-91},
 *    title = {Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets},
 *    volume = {11},
 *    year = {1993}
 * }
 * 
*

* * Valid options are:

* *

 -B <minimum bucket size>
 *  The minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6).
* * * @author Ian H. Witten (ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz) * @version $Revision: 5928 $ */ public class OneR extends AbstractClassifier implements TechnicalInformationHandler, Sourcable { /** for serialization */ static final long serialVersionUID = -2459427002147861445L; /** * Returns a string describing classifier * @return a description suitable for * displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui */ public String globalInfo() { return "Class for building and using a 1R classifier; in other words, uses " + "the minimum-error attribute for prediction, discretizing numeric " + "attributes. For more information, see:\n\n" + getTechnicalInformation().toString(); } /** * Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing * detailed information about the technical background of this class, * e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on. * * @return the technical information about this class */ public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation() { TechnicalInformation result; result = new TechnicalInformation(Type.ARTICLE); result.setValue(Field.AUTHOR, "R.C. Holte"); result.setValue(Field.YEAR, "1993"); result.setValue(Field.TITLE, "Very simple classification rules perform well on most commonly used datasets"); result.setValue(Field.JOURNAL, "Machine Learning"); result.setValue(Field.VOLUME, "11"); result.setValue(Field.PAGES, "63-91"); return result; } /** * Class for storing store a 1R rule. */ private class OneRRule implements Serializable, RevisionHandler { /** for serialization */ static final long serialVersionUID = 1152814630957092281L; /** The class attribute. */ private Attribute m_class; /** The number of instances used for building the rule. */ private int m_numInst; /** Attribute to test */ private Attribute m_attr; /** Training set examples this rule gets right */ private int m_correct; /** Predicted class for each value of attr */ private int[] m_classifications; /** Predicted class for missing values */ private int m_missingValueClass = -1; /** Breakpoints (numeric attributes only) */ private double[] m_breakpoints; /** * Constructor for nominal attribute. * * @param data the data to work with * @param attribute the attribute to use * @throws Exception if something goes wrong */ public OneRRule(Instances data, Attribute attribute) throws Exception { m_class = data.classAttribute(); m_numInst = data.numInstances(); m_attr = attribute; m_correct = 0; m_classifications = new int[m_attr.numValues()]; } /** * Constructor for numeric attribute. * * @param data the data to work with * @param attribute the attribute to use * @param nBreaks the break point * @throws Exception if something goes wrong */ public OneRRule(Instances data, Attribute attribute, int nBreaks) throws Exception { m_class = data.classAttribute(); m_numInst = data.numInstances(); m_attr = attribute; m_correct = 0; m_classifications = new int[nBreaks]; m_breakpoints = new double[nBreaks - 1]; // last breakpoint is infinity } /** * Returns a description of the rule. * * @return a string representation of the rule */ public String toString() { try { StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer(); text.append(m_attr.name() + ":\n"); for (int v = 0; v < m_classifications.length; v++) { text.append("\t"); if (m_attr.isNominal()) { text.append(m_attr.value(v)); } else if (v < m_breakpoints.length) { text.append("< " + m_breakpoints[v]); } else if (v > 0) { text.append(">= " + m_breakpoints[v - 1]); } else { text.append("not ?"); } text.append("\t-> " + m_class.value(m_classifications[v]) + "\n"); } if (m_missingValueClass != -1) { text.append("\t?\t-> " + m_class.value(m_missingValueClass) + "\n"); } text.append("(" + m_correct + "/" + m_numInst + " instances correct)\n"); return text.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { return "Can't print OneR classifier!"; } } /** * Returns the revision string. * * @return the revision */ public String getRevision() { return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5928 $"); } } /** A 1-R rule */ private OneRRule m_rule; /** The minimum bucket size */ private int m_minBucketSize = 6; /** a ZeroR model in case no model can be built from the data */ private Classifier m_ZeroR; /** * Classifies a given instance. * * @param inst the instance to be classified * @return the classification of the instance */ public double classifyInstance(Instance inst) throws Exception { // default model? if (m_ZeroR != null) { return m_ZeroR.classifyInstance(inst); } int v = 0; if (inst.isMissing(m_rule.m_attr)) { if (m_rule.m_missingValueClass != -1) { return m_rule.m_missingValueClass; } else { return 0; // missing values occur in test but not training set } } if (m_rule.m_attr.isNominal()) { v = (int) inst.value(m_rule.m_attr); } else { while (v < m_rule.m_breakpoints.length && inst.value(m_rule.m_attr) >= m_rule.m_breakpoints[v]) { v++; } } return m_rule.m_classifications[v]; } /** * Returns default capabilities of the classifier. * * @return the capabilities of this classifier */ public Capabilities getCapabilities() { Capabilities result = super.getCapabilities(); result.disableAll(); // attributes result.enable(Capability.NOMINAL_ATTRIBUTES); result.enable(Capability.NUMERIC_ATTRIBUTES); result.enable(Capability.DATE_ATTRIBUTES); result.enable(Capability.MISSING_VALUES); // class result.enable(Capability.NOMINAL_CLASS); result.enable(Capability.MISSING_CLASS_VALUES); return result; } /** * Generates the classifier. * * @param instances the instances to be used for building the classifier * @throws Exception if the classifier can't be built successfully */ public void buildClassifier(Instances instances) throws Exception { boolean noRule = true; // can classifier handle the data? getCapabilities().testWithFail(instances); // remove instances with missing class Instances data = new Instances(instances); data.deleteWithMissingClass(); // only class? -> build ZeroR model if (data.numAttributes() == 1) { System.err.println( "Cannot build model (only class attribute present in data!), " + "using ZeroR model instead!"); m_ZeroR = new weka.classifiers.rules.ZeroR(); m_ZeroR.buildClassifier(data); return; } else { m_ZeroR = null; } // for each attribute ... Enumeration enu = instances.enumerateAttributes(); while (enu.hasMoreElements()) { try { OneRRule r = newRule((Attribute) enu.nextElement(), data); // if this attribute is the best so far, replace the rule if (noRule || r.m_correct > m_rule.m_correct) { m_rule = r; } noRule = false; } catch (Exception ex) { } } if (noRule) throw new WekaException("No attributes found to work with!"); } /** * Create a rule branching on this attribute. * * @param attr the attribute to branch on * @param data the data to be used for creating the rule * @return the generated rule * @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully */ public OneRRule newRule(Attribute attr, Instances data) throws Exception { OneRRule r; // ... create array to hold the missing value counts int[] missingValueCounts = new int [data.classAttribute().numValues()]; if (attr.isNominal()) { r = newNominalRule(attr, data, missingValueCounts); } else { r = newNumericRule(attr, data, missingValueCounts); } r.m_missingValueClass = Utils.maxIndex(missingValueCounts); if (missingValueCounts[r.m_missingValueClass] == 0) { r.m_missingValueClass = -1; // signal for no missing value class } else { r.m_correct += missingValueCounts[r.m_missingValueClass]; } return r; } /** * Create a rule branching on this nominal attribute. * * @param attr the attribute to branch on * @param data the data to be used for creating the rule * @param missingValueCounts to be filled in * @return the generated rule * @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully */ public OneRRule newNominalRule(Attribute attr, Instances data, int[] missingValueCounts) throws Exception { // ... create arrays to hold the counts int[][] counts = new int [attr.numValues()] [data.classAttribute().numValues()]; // ... calculate the counts Enumeration enu = data.enumerateInstances(); while (enu.hasMoreElements()) { Instance i = (Instance) enu.nextElement(); if (i.isMissing(attr)) { missingValueCounts[(int) i.classValue()]++; } else { counts[(int) i.value(attr)][(int) i.classValue()]++; } } OneRRule r = new OneRRule(data, attr); // create a new rule for (int value = 0; value < attr.numValues(); value++) { int best = Utils.maxIndex(counts[value]); r.m_classifications[value] = best; r.m_correct += counts[value][best]; } return r; } /** * Create a rule branching on this numeric attribute * * @param attr the attribute to branch on * @param data the data to be used for creating the rule * @param missingValueCounts to be filled in * @return the generated rule * @throws Exception if the rule can't be built successfully */ public OneRRule newNumericRule(Attribute attr, Instances data, int[] missingValueCounts) throws Exception { // ... can't be more than numInstances buckets int [] classifications = new int[data.numInstances()]; double [] breakpoints = new double[data.numInstances()]; // create array to hold the counts int [] counts = new int[data.classAttribute().numValues()]; int correct = 0; int lastInstance = data.numInstances(); // missing values get sorted to the end of the instances data.sort(attr); while (lastInstance > 0 && data.instance(lastInstance-1).isMissing(attr)) { lastInstance--; missingValueCounts[(int) data.instance(lastInstance). classValue()]++; } int i = 0; int cl = 0; // index of next bucket to create int it; while (i < lastInstance) { // start a new bucket for (int j = 0; j < counts.length; j++) counts[j] = 0; do { // fill it until it has enough of the majority class it = (int) data.instance(i++).classValue(); counts[it]++; } while (counts[it] < m_minBucketSize && i < lastInstance); // while class remains the same, keep on filling while (i < lastInstance && (int) data.instance(i).classValue() == it) { counts[it]++; i++; } while (i < lastInstance && // keep on while attr value is the same (data.instance(i - 1).value(attr) == data.instance(i).value(attr))) { counts[(int) data.instance(i++).classValue()]++; } for (int j = 0; j < counts.length; j++) { if (counts[j] > counts[it]) { it = j; } } if (cl > 0) { // can we coalesce with previous class? if (counts[classifications[cl - 1]] == counts[it]) { it = classifications[cl - 1]; } if (it == classifications[cl - 1]) { cl--; // yes! } } correct += counts[it]; classifications[cl] = it; if (i < lastInstance) { breakpoints[cl] = (data.instance(i - 1).value(attr) + data.instance(i).value(attr)) / 2; } cl++; } if (cl == 0) { throw new Exception("Only missing values in the training data!"); } OneRRule r = new OneRRule(data, attr, cl); // new rule with cl branches r.m_correct = correct; for (int v = 0; v < cl; v++) { r.m_classifications[v] = classifications[v]; if (v < cl-1) { r.m_breakpoints[v] = breakpoints[v]; } } return r; } /** * Returns an enumeration describing the available options.. * * @return an enumeration of all the available options. */ public Enumeration listOptions() { String string = "\tThe minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6)."; Vector newVector = new Vector(1); newVector.addElement(new Option(string, "B", 1, "-B ")); return newVector.elements(); } /** * Parses a given list of options.

* * Valid options are:

* *

 -B <minimum bucket size>
   *  The minimum number of objects in a bucket (default: 6).
* * * @param options the list of options as an array of strings * @throws Exception if an option is not supported */ public void setOptions(String[] options) throws Exception { String bucketSizeString = Utils.getOption('B', options); if (bucketSizeString.length() != 0) { m_minBucketSize = Integer.parseInt(bucketSizeString); } else { m_minBucketSize = 6; } } /** * Gets the current settings of the OneR classifier. * * @return an array of strings suitable for passing to setOptions */ public String [] getOptions() { String [] options = new String [2]; int current = 0; options[current++] = "-B"; options[current++] = "" + m_minBucketSize; while (current < options.length) { options[current++] = ""; } return options; } /** * Returns a string that describes the classifier as source. The * classifier will be contained in a class with the given name (there may * be auxiliary classes), * and will contain a method with the signature: *

   * public static double classify(Object[] i);
   * 
* where the array i contains elements that are either * Double, String, with missing values represented as null. The generated * code is public domain and comes with no warranty. * * @param className the name that should be given to the source class. * @return the object source described by a string * @throws Exception if the souce can't be computed */ public String toSource(String className) throws Exception { StringBuffer result; int i; result = new StringBuffer(); if (m_ZeroR != null) { result.append(((ZeroR) m_ZeroR).toSource(className)); } else { result.append("class " + className + " {\n"); result.append(" public static double classify(Object[] i) {\n"); result.append(" // chosen attribute: " + m_rule.m_attr.name() + " (" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + ")\n"); result.append("\n"); // missing values result.append(" // missing value?\n"); result.append(" if (i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "] == null)\n"); if (m_rule.m_missingValueClass != -1) result.append(" return Double.NaN;\n"); else result.append(" return 0;\n"); result.append("\n"); // actual prediction result.append(" // prediction\n"); result.append(" double v = 0;\n"); result.append(" double[] classifications = new double[]{" + Utils.arrayToString(m_rule.m_classifications) + "};"); result.append(" // "); for (i = 0; i < m_rule.m_classifications.length; i++) { if (i > 0) result.append(", "); result.append(m_rule.m_class.value(m_rule.m_classifications[i])); } result.append("\n"); if (m_rule.m_attr.isNominal()) { for (i = 0; i < m_rule.m_attr.numValues(); i++) { result.append(" "); if (i > 0) result.append("else "); result.append("if (((String) i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "]).equals(\"" + m_rule.m_attr.value(i) + "\"))\n"); result.append(" v = " + i + "; // " + m_rule.m_class.value(m_rule.m_classifications[i]) + "\n"); } } else { result.append(" double[] breakpoints = new double[]{" + Utils.arrayToString(m_rule.m_breakpoints) + "};\n"); result.append(" while (v < breakpoints.length && \n"); result.append(" ((Double) i[" + m_rule.m_attr.index() + "]) >= breakpoints[(int) v]) {\n"); result.append(" v++;\n"); result.append(" }\n"); } result.append(" return classifications[(int) v];\n"); result.append(" }\n"); result.append("}\n"); } return result.toString(); } /** * Returns a description of the classifier * * @return a string representation of the classifier */ public String toString() { // only ZeroR model? if (m_ZeroR != null) { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); buf.append(this.getClass().getName().replaceAll(".*\\.", "") + "\n"); buf.append(this.getClass().getName().replaceAll(".*\\.", "").replaceAll(".", "=") + "\n\n"); buf.append("Warning: No model could be built, hence ZeroR model is used:\n\n"); buf.append(m_ZeroR.toString()); return buf.toString(); } if (m_rule == null) { return "OneR: No model built yet."; } return m_rule.toString(); } /** * Returns the tip text for this property * @return tip text for this property suitable for * displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui */ public String minBucketSizeTipText() { return "The minimum bucket size used for discretizing numeric " + "attributes."; } /** * Get the value of minBucketSize. * @return Value of minBucketSize. */ public int getMinBucketSize() { return m_minBucketSize; } /** * Set the value of minBucketSize. * @param v Value to assign to minBucketSize. */ public void setMinBucketSize(int v) { m_minBucketSize = v; } /** * Returns the revision string. * * @return the revision */ public String getRevision() { return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 5928 $"); } /** * Main method for testing this class * * @param argv the commandline options */ public static void main(String [] argv) { runClassifier(new OneR(), argv); } }