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Bayesian Additive Regression Trees are similar to gradient boosting algorithms. Calls dbarts::bart() from dbarts.

Dictionary

This Learner can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_learners or with the associated sugar function lrn():

mlr_learners$get("regr.bart")
lrn("regr.bart")

Meta Information

  • Task type: “regr”

  • Predict Types: “response”

  • Feature Types: “integer”, “numeric”, “factor”, “ordered”

  • Required Packages: mlr3, mlr3extralearners, dbarts

Parameters

IdTypeDefaultLevelsRange
ntreeinteger200\([1, \infty)\)
sigestuntyped-
sigdfinteger3\([1, \infty)\)
sigquantnumeric0.9\([0, 1]\)
knumeric2\([0, \infty)\)
powernumeric2\([0, \infty)\)
basenumeric0.95\([0, 1]\)
ndpostinteger1000\([1, \infty)\)
nskipinteger100\([0, \infty)\)
printeveryinteger100\([0, \infty)\)
keepeveryinteger1\([1, \infty)\)
keeptrainfitslogicalTRUETRUE, FALSE-
usequantslogicalFALSETRUE, FALSE-
numcutinteger100\([1, \infty)\)
printcutoffsinteger0\((-\infty, \infty)\)
verboselogicalFALSETRUE, FALSE-
nthreadinteger1\((-\infty, \infty)\)
keeptreeslogicalFALSETRUE, FALSE-
keepcalllogicalTRUETRUE, FALSE-
sampleronlylogicalFALSETRUE, FALSE-
seedintegerNA\((-\infty, \infty)\)
proposalprobsuntyped-
splitprobsuntyped-
keepsamplerlogical-TRUE, FALSE-

Custom mlr3 parameters

  • Parameter: offset

    • The parameter is removed, because only dbarts::bart2 allows an offset during training, and therefore the offset parameter in dbarts:::predict.bart is irrelevant for dbarts::dbart.

  • Parameter: nchain, combineChains, combinechains

    • The parameters are removed as parallelization of multiple models is handled by future.

Initial parameter values

  • keeptrees is initialized to TRUE because it is required for prediction.

References

Sparapani, Rodney, Spanbauer, Charles, McCulloch, Robert (2021). “Nonparametric machine learning and efficient computation with bayesian additive regression trees: the BART R package.” Journal of Statistical Software, 97, 1--66.

Chipman, A H, George, I E, McCulloch, E R (2010). “BART: Bayesian additive regression trees.” The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4(1), 266--298.

See also

Author

ck37

Super classes

mlr3::Learner -> mlr3::LearnerRegr -> LearnerRegrBart

Methods

Inherited methods


Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage


Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

LearnerRegrBart$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

learner = mlr3::lrn("regr.bart")
print(learner)
#> <LearnerRegrBart:regr.bart>: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
#> * Model: -
#> * Parameters: keeptrees=TRUE
#> * Packages: mlr3, mlr3extralearners, dbarts
#> * Predict Types:  [response]
#> * Feature Types: integer, numeric, factor, ordered
#> * Properties: weights

# available parameters:
learner$param_set$ids()
#>  [1] "ntree"         "sigest"        "sigdf"         "sigquant"     
#>  [5] "k"             "power"         "base"          "ndpost"       
#>  [9] "nskip"         "printevery"    "keepevery"     "keeptrainfits"
#> [13] "usequants"     "numcut"        "printcutoffs"  "verbose"      
#> [17] "nthread"       "keeptrees"     "keepcall"      "sampleronly"  
#> [21] "seed"          "proposalprobs" "splitprobs"    "keepsampler"