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Hyperparameter optimization with approximate gradient

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HOAG

Hyperparameter optimization with approximate gradient

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Depends

  • scikit-learn 0.16

Usage

This package exports a LogisticRegressionCV class which automatically estimates the L2 regularization of logistic regression. As other scikit-learn objects, it has a .fit and .predict method. However, unlike scikit-learn objects, the .fit method takes 4 arguments consisting of the train set and the test set. For example:

>>> from hoag import LogisticRegressionCV
>>> clf = LogisticRegressionCV()
>>> clf.fit(X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test)

where X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test are numpy arrays representing the train and test set, respectively.

For full usage example check out this ipython notebook.

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Usage tips

Standardize features of the input data such that each feature has unit variance. This makes the Hessian better conditioned. This can be done using e.g. scikit-learn's StandardScaler.