Regression Abess Learner

Adaptive best-subset selection for regression. Calls abess::abess() from abess.

Dictionary

This Learner can be instantiated via lrn():

lrn("regr.abess")

Meta Information

• Task type: “regr”

• Predict Types: “response”

• Feature Types: “integer”, “numeric”

• Required Packages: mlr3, abess

Parameters

Id	Type	Default	Levels	Range
family	character	gaussian	gaussian, mgaussian, poisson, gamma	-
tune.path	character	sequence	sequence, gsection	-
tune.type	character	gic	gic, aic, bic, ebic, cv	-
normalize	integer	NULL		\((-\infty, \infty)\)
support.size	untyped	NULL		-
c.max	integer	2		\([1, \infty)\)
gs.range	untyped	NULL		-
lambda	numeric	0		\([0, \infty)\)
always.include	untyped	NULL		-
group.index	untyped	NULL		-
init.active.set	untyped	NULL		-
splicing.type	integer	2		\([1, 2]\)
max.splicing.iter	integer	20		\([1, \infty)\)
screening.num	integer	NULL		\([0, \infty)\)
important.search	integer	NULL		\([0, \infty)\)
warm.start	logical	TRUE	TRUE, FALSE	-
nfolds	integer	5		\((-\infty, \infty)\)
foldid	untyped	NULL		-
cov.update	logical	FALSE	TRUE, FALSE	-
newton	character	exact	exact, approx	-
newton.thresh	numeric	1e-06		\([0, \infty)\)
max.newton.iter	integer	NULL		\([1, \infty)\)
early.stop	logical	FALSE	TRUE, FALSE	-
ic.scale	numeric	1		\([0, \infty)\)
num.threads	integer	0		\([0, \infty)\)
seed	integer	1		\((-\infty, \infty)\)

Initial parameter values

• num.threads: This parameter is initialized to 1 (default is 0) to avoid conflicts with the mlr3 parallelization.

• family: Depends on the task type, if the parameter family is NULL, it is set to "binomial" for binary classification tasks and to "multinomial" for multiclass classification problems.

See also

• Dictionary of Learners: mlr3::mlr_learners.

• as.data.table(mlr_learners) for a table of available Learners in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/basics.html#learners

• mlr3learners for a selection of recommended learners.

• mlr3cluster for unsupervised clustering learners.

• mlr3pipelines to combine learners with pre- and postprocessing steps.

• mlr3tuning for tuning of hyperparameters, mlr3tuningspaces for established default tuning spaces.

Author

abess-team

Super classes

mlr3::Learner -> mlr3::LearnerRegr -> LearnerRegrAbess

Methods

Public methods

• LearnerRegrAbess$new()

• LearnerRegrAbess$selected_features()

• LearnerRegrAbess$clone()

Inherited methods

• mlr3::Learner$base_learner()
• mlr3::Learner$encapsulate()
• mlr3::Learner$format()
• mlr3::Learner$help()
• mlr3::Learner$predict()
• mlr3::Learner$predict_newdata()
• mlr3::Learner$print()
• mlr3::Learner$reset()
• mlr3::Learner$train()

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Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage

LearnerRegrAbess$new()

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Method selected_features()

Extract the name of selected features from the model by abess::extract().

Usage

LearnerRegrAbess$selected_features()

Returns

The names of selected features

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

LearnerRegrAbess$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

# Define the Learner
learner = mlr3::lrn("regr.abess")
print(learner)
#> <LearnerRegrAbess:regr.abess>: Fast Best Subset Selection for Regression
#> * Model: -
#> * Parameters: num.threads=1
#> * Packages: mlr3, abess
#> * Predict Types:  [response]
#> * Feature Types: integer, numeric
#> * Properties: selected_features, weights

# Define a Task
task = mlr3::tsk("mtcars")

# Create train and test set
ids = mlr3::partition(task)

# Train the learner on the training ids
learner$train(task, row_ids = ids$train)

print(learner$model)
#> Call:
#> abess.default(x = task$data(cols = task$feature_names), y = as.matrix(task$data(cols = task$target_names)), 
#>     num.threads = 1L)
#> 
#>   support.size       dev      GIC
#> 1            0 16.998050 59.49507
#> 2            1  3.694682 30.00835
#> 3            2  2.679939 25.82881
#> 4            3  2.409036 26.15447
#> 5            4  2.129968 26.13252
#> 6            5  2.097249 28.37100
#> 7            6  2.088764 30.84944
#> 8            7  2.067916 33.20235
#> 9            8  2.066768 35.75426


# Make predictions for the test rows
predictions = learner$predict(task, row_ids = ids$test)

# Score the predictions
predictions$score()
#> regr.mse 
#> 7.687728