Predict labels for observations not used for training
returns
class labels predicted by the cross-validated ECOC model composed
of linear classification models Label
= kfoldPredict(CVMdl
)CVMdl
. That is,
for every fold, kfoldPredict
predicts class labels
for observations that it holds out when it trains using all other
observations. kfoldPredict
applies the same data
used create CVMdl
(see fitcecoc
).
Also, Label
contains class labels for each
regularization strength in the linear classification models that compose CVMdl
.
returns
predicted class labels with additional options specified by one or
more Label
= kfoldPredict(CVMdl
,Name,Value
)Name,Value
pair arguments. For example,
specify the posterior probability estimation method, decoding scheme,
or verbosity level.
CVMdl
— Cross-validated, ECOC model composed of linear classification modelsClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
model
objectCross-validated, ECOC model composed of linear classification
models, specified as a ClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
model
object. You can create a ClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
model
using fitcecoc
and by:
Specifying any one of the cross-validation, name-value
pair arguments, for example, CrossVal
Setting the name-value pair argument Learners
to
'linear'
or a linear classification model template
returned by templateLinear
To obtain estimates, kfoldPredict applies the same data used
to cross-validate the ECOC model (X
and Y
).
Specify optional
comma-separated pairs of Name,Value
arguments. Name
is
the argument name and Value
is the corresponding value.
Name
must appear inside quotes. You can specify several name and value
pair arguments in any order as
Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN
.
'BinaryLoss'
— Binary learner loss function'hamming'
| 'linear'
| 'logit'
| 'exponential'
| 'binodeviance'
| 'hinge'
| 'quadratic'
| function handleBinary learner loss function, specified as the comma-separated
pair consisting of 'BinaryLoss'
and a built-in,
loss-function name or function handle.
This table contains names and descriptions of the built-in functions, where yj is a class label for a particular binary learner (in the set {-1,1,0}), sj is the score for observation j, and g(yj,sj) is the binary loss formula.
Value | Description | Score Domain | g(yj,sj) |
---|---|---|---|
'binodeviance' | Binomial deviance | (–∞,∞) | log[1 + exp(–2yjsj)]/[2log(2)] |
'exponential' | Exponential | (–∞,∞) | exp(–yjsj)/2 |
'hamming' | Hamming | [0,1] or (–∞,∞) | [1 – sign(yjsj)]/2 |
'hinge' | Hinge | (–∞,∞) | max(0,1 – yjsj)/2 |
'linear' | Linear | (–∞,∞) | (1 – yjsj)/2 |
'logit' | Logistic | (–∞,∞) | log[1 + exp(–yjsj)]/[2log(2)] |
'quadratic' | Quadratic | [0,1] | [1 – yj(2sj – 1)]2/2 |
The software normalizes the binary losses such that the loss is 0.5 when yj = 0. Also, the software calculates the mean binary loss for each class.
For a custom binary loss function, e.g., customFunction
,
specify its function handle 'BinaryLoss',@customFunction
.
customFunction
should have this form
bLoss = customFunction(M,s)
M
is the K-by-L coding
matrix stored in Mdl.CodingMatrix
.
s
is the 1-by-L row
vector of classification scores.
bLoss
is the classification loss.
This scalar aggregates the binary losses for every learner in a particular
class. For example, you can use the mean binary loss to aggregate
the loss over the learners for each class.
K is the number of classes.
L is the number of binary learners.
For an example of passing a custom binary loss function, see Predict Test-Sample Labels of ECOC Model Using Custom Binary Loss Function.
By default, if all binary learners are linear classification models using:
SVM, then BinaryLoss
is 'hinge'
Logistic regression, then BinaryLoss
is 'quadratic'
Example: 'BinaryLoss','binodeviance'
Data Types: char
| string
| function_handle
'Decoding'
— Decoding scheme'lossweighted'
(default) | 'lossbased'
Decoding scheme that aggregates the binary losses, specified as the comma-separated pair
consisting of 'Decoding'
and 'lossweighted'
or
'lossbased'
. For more information, see Binary Loss.
Example: 'Decoding','lossbased'
'NumKLInitializations'
— Number of random initial values0
(default) | nonnegative integerNumber of random initial values for fitting posterior probabilities
by Kullback-Leibler divergence minimization, specified as the comma-separated
pair consisting of 'NumKLInitializations'
and a
nonnegative integer.
To use this option, you must:
Return the fourth output argument (Posterior
).
The linear classification models that compose the
ECOC models must use logistic regression learners (that is, CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners{1}.Learner
must
be 'logistic'
).
PosteriorMethod
must be 'kl'
.
For more details, see Posterior Estimation Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence.
Example: 'NumKLInitializations',5
Data Types: single
| double
'Options'
— Estimation options[]
(default) | structure array returned by statset
Estimation options, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting
of 'Options'
and a structure array returned by statset
.
To invoke parallel computing:
You need a Parallel Computing Toolbox™ license.
Specify 'Options',statset('UseParallel',true)
.
'PosteriorMethod'
— Posterior probability estimation method'kl'
(default) | 'qp'
Posterior probability estimation method, specified as the comma-separated
pair consisting of 'PosteriorMethod'
and 'kl'
or 'qp'
.
To use this option, you must return the fourth output
argument (Posterior
) and the linear classification
models that compose the ECOC models must use logistic regression learners
(that is, CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners{1}.Learner
must
be 'logistic'
).
If PosteriorMethod
is
'kl'
, then the software estimates
multiclass posterior probabilities by minimizing the
Kullback-Leibler divergence between the predicted and expected
posterior probabilities returned by binary learners. For
details, see Posterior Estimation Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence.
If PosteriorMethod
is
'qp'
, then the software estimates
multiclass posterior probabilities by solving a least-squares
problem using quadratic programming. You need an Optimization Toolbox™ license to use this option. For details, see Posterior Estimation Using Quadratic Programming.
Example: 'PosteriorMethod','qp'
'Verbose'
— Verbosity level0
(default) | 1
Verbosity level, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of
'Verbose'
and 0
or 1
.
Verbose
controls the number of diagnostic messages that the
software displays in the Command Window.
If Verbose
is 0
, then the software does not display
diagnostic messages. Otherwise, the software displays diagnostic messages.
Example: 'Verbose',1
Data Types: single
| double
Label
— Cross-validated, predicted class labelsCross-validated, predicted class labels, returned as a categorical or character array, logical or numeric matrix, or cell array of character vectors.
In most cases, Label
is an n-by-L
array of the same data type as the observed class labels (Y
) used to create
CVMdl
. (The software treats string arrays as cell arrays of character
vectors.)
n is the number of observations in the predictor data
(X
) and L
is the number of regularization strengths in the linear classification
models that compose the cross-validated ECOC model. That is,
Label(
is the predicted class label for observation i
,j
)i
using the ECOC model of linear classification models that has regularization
strength
CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners{1}.Lambda(
.j
)
If Y
is a character array and L >
1, then Label
is a cell array of class labels.
The software assigns the predicted label corresponding to the
class with the largest, negated, average binary loss (NegLoss
),
or, equivalently, the smallest average binary loss.
NegLoss
— Cross-validated, negated, average binary lossesCross-validated, negated, average binary losses, returned as
an n-by-K-by-L numeric
matrix or array. K is the number of distinct classes
in the training data and columns correspond to the classes in CVMdl.ClassNames
.
For n and L, see Label
. NegLoss(
is
the negated, average binary loss for classifying observation i
,k
,j
)i
into
class k
using the linear classification
model that has regularization strength CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLoss{1}.Lambda(
.j
)
PBScore
— Cross-validated, positive-class scoresCross-validated, positive-class scores, returned as an n-by-B-by-L numeric
array. B is the number of binary learners in the
cross-validated ECOC model and columns correspond to the binary learners
in CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners
. For n and L,
see Label
. PBScore(
is
the positive-class score of binary learner b for
classifying observation i
,b
,j
)i
into its positive
class, using the linear classification model that has regularization
strength CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners{1}.Lambda(
.j
)
If the coding matrix varies across folds (that is, if the coding
scheme is sparserandom
or denserandom
),
then PBScore
is empty ([]
).
Posterior
— Cross-validated posterior class probabilitiesCross-validated posterior class probabilities, returned as an n-by-K-by-L numeric
array. For dimension definitions, see NegLoss
. Posterior(
is
the posterior probability for classifying observation i
,k
,j
)i
into
class k
using the linear classification
model that has regularization strength CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearners{1}.Lambda(
.j
)
To return posterior probabilities, CVMdl.Trained{1}.BinaryLearner{1}.Learner
must
be 'logistic'
.
Load the NLP data set.
load nlpdata
X
is a sparse matrix of predictor data, and Y
is a categorical vector of class labels.
Cross-validate an ECOC model of linear classification models.
rng(1); % For reproducibility CVMdl = fitcecoc(X,Y,'Learner','linear','CrossVal','on');
CVMdl
is a ClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
model. By default, the software implements 10-fold cross validation.
Predict labels for the observations that fitcecoc
did not use in training the folds.
label = kfoldPredict(CVMdl);
Because there is one regularization strength in CVMdl
, label
is a column vector of predictions containing as many rows as observations in X
.
Construct a confusion matrix.
cm = confusionchart(Y,label);
Load the NLP data set. Transpose the predictor data.
load nlpdata
X = X';
For simplicity, use the label 'others' for all observations in Y
that are not 'simulink'
, 'dsp'
, or 'comm'
.
Y(~(ismember(Y,{'simulink','dsp','comm'}))) = 'others';
Create a linear classification model template that specifies optimizing the objective function using SpaRSA.
t = templateLinear('Solver','sparsa');
Cross-validate an ECOC model of linear classification models using 5-fold cross-validation. Specify that the predictor observations correspond to columns.
rng(1); % For reproducibility CVMdl = fitcecoc(X,Y,'Learners',t,'KFold',5,'ObservationsIn','columns'); CMdl1 = CVMdl.Trained{1}
CMdl1 = CompactClassificationECOC ResponseName: 'Y' ClassNames: [comm dsp simulink others] ScoreTransform: 'none' BinaryLearners: {6x1 cell} CodingMatrix: [4x6 double] Properties, Methods
CVMdl
is a ClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
model. It contains the property Trained
, which is a 5-by-1 cell array holding a CompactClassificationECOC
models that the software trained using the training set of each fold.
By default, the linear classification models that compose the ECOC models use SVMs. SVM scores are signed distances from the observation to the decision boundary. Therefore, the domain is . Create a custom binary loss function that:
Maps the coding design matrix (M) and positive-class classification scores (s) for each learner to the binary loss for each observation
Uses linear loss
Aggregates the binary learner loss using the median.
You can create a separate function for the binary loss function, and then save it on the MATLAB® path. Or, you can specify an anonymous binary loss function.
customBL = @(M,s)nanmedian(1 - bsxfun(@times,M,s),2)/2;
Predict cross-validation labels and estimate the median binary loss per class. Print the median negative binary losses per class for a random set of 10 out-of-fold observations.
[label,NegLoss] = kfoldPredict(CVMdl,'BinaryLoss',customBL); idx = randsample(numel(label),10); table(Y(idx),label(idx),NegLoss(idx,1),NegLoss(idx,2),NegLoss(idx,3),... NegLoss(idx,4),'VariableNames',[{'True'};{'Predicted'};... categories(CVMdl.ClassNames)])
ans=10×6 table
True Predicted comm dsp simulink others
________ _________ _________ ________ ________ _______
others others -1.2319 -1.0488 0.048758 1.6175
simulink simulink -16.407 -12.218 21.531 11.218
dsp dsp -0.7387 -0.11534 -0.88466 -0.2613
others others -0.1251 -0.8749 -0.99766 0.14517
dsp dsp 2.5867 6.4187 -3.5867 -4.4165
others others -0.025358 -1.2287 -0.97464 0.19747
others others -2.6725 -0.56708 -0.51092 2.7453
others others -1.1605 -0.88321 -0.11679 0.43504
others others -1.9511 -1.3175 0.24735 0.95111
simulink others -7.848 -5.8203 4.8203 6.8457
The software predicts the label based on the maximum negated loss.
ECOC models composed of linear classification models return posterior probabilities for logistic regression learners only. This example requires the Parallel Computing Toolbox™ and the Optimization Toolbox™
Load the NLP data set and preprocess the data as in Specify Custom Binary Loss.
load nlpdata X = X'; Y(~(ismember(Y,{'simulink','dsp','comm'}))) = 'others';
Create a set of 5 logarithmically-spaced regularization strengths from through
.
Lambda = logspace(-6,-0.5,5);
Create a linear classification model template that specifies optimizing the objective function using SpaRSA and to use logistic regression learners.
t = templateLinear('Solver','sparsa','Learner','logistic','Lambda',Lambda);
Cross-validate an ECOC model of linear classification models using 5-fold cross-validation. Specify that the predictor observations correspond to columns, and to use parallel computing.
rng(1); % For reproducibility Options = statset('UseParallel',true); CVMdl = fitcecoc(X,Y,'Learners',t,'KFold',5,'ObservationsIn','columns',... 'Options',Options);
Starting parallel pool (parpool) using the 'local' profile ... connected to 6 workers.
Predict the cross-validated posterior class probabilities. Specify to use parallel computing and to estimate posterior probabilities using quadratic programming.
[label,~,~,Posterior] = kfoldPredict(CVMdl,'Options',Options,... 'PosteriorMethod','qp'); size(label) label(3,4) size(Posterior) Posterior(3,:,4)
ans = 31572 5 ans = categorical others ans = 31572 4 5 ans = 0.0293 0.0373 0.1738 0.7596
Because there are five regularization strengths:
label
is a 31572-by-5 categorical array. label(3,4)
is the predicted, cross-validated label for observation 3 using the model trained with regularization strength Lambda(4)
.
Posterior
is a 31572-by-4-by-5 matrix. Posterior(3,:,4)
is the vector of all estimated, posterior class probabilities for observation 3 using the model trained with regularization strength Lambda(4)
. The order of the second dimension corresponds to CVMdl.ClassNames
. Display a random set of 10 posterior class probabilities.
Display a random sample of cross-validated labels and posterior probabilities for the model trained using Lambda(4)
.
idx = randsample(size(label,1),10); table(Y(idx),label(idx,4),Posterior(idx,1,4),Posterior(idx,2,4),... Posterior(idx,3,4),Posterior(idx,4,4),... 'VariableNames',[{'True'};{'Predicted'};categories(CVMdl.ClassNames)])
ans = 10×6 table True Predicted comm dsp simulink others ________ _________ __________ __________ ________ _________ others others 0.030309 0.022454 0.10401 0.84323 simulink simulink 3.5104e-05 4.3154e-05 0.99877 0.0011543 dsp others 0.15837 0.25784 0.18567 0.39811 others others 0.093212 0.063752 0.12927 0.71376 dsp dsp 0.0057401 0.89678 0.014939 0.082538 others others 0.085715 0.054451 0.083765 0.77607 others others 0.0061121 0.0057884 0.02409 0.96401 others others 0.066741 0.074103 0.168 0.69115 others others 0.05236 0.025631 0.13245 0.78956 simulink simulink 0.00039812 0.00045575 0.73724 0.2619
A binary loss is a function of the class and classification score that determines how well a binary learner classifies an observation into the class.
Suppose the following:
mkj is element (k,j) of the coding design matrix M (that is, the code corresponding to class k of binary learner j).
sj is the score of binary learner j for an observation.
g is the binary loss function.
is the predicted class for the observation.
In loss-based decoding [Escalera et al.], the class producing the minimum sum of the binary losses over binary learners determines the predicted class of an observation, that is,
In loss-weighted decoding [Escalera et al.], the class producing the minimum average of the binary losses over binary learners determines the predicted class of an observation, that is,
Allwein et al. suggest that loss-weighted decoding improves classification accuracy by keeping loss values for all classes in the same dynamic range.
This table summarizes the supported loss functions, where yj is a class label for a particular binary learner (in the set {–1,1,0}), sj is the score for observation j, and g(yj,sj).
Value | Description | Score Domain | g(yj,sj) |
---|---|---|---|
'binodeviance' | Binomial deviance | (–∞,∞) | log[1 + exp(–2yjsj)]/[2log(2)] |
'exponential' | Exponential | (–∞,∞) | exp(–yjsj)/2 |
'hamming' | Hamming | [0,1] or (–∞,∞) | [1 – sign(yjsj)]/2 |
'hinge' | Hinge | (–∞,∞) | max(0,1 – yjsj)/2 |
'linear' | Linear | (–∞,∞) | (1 – yjsj)/2 |
'logit' | Logistic | (–∞,∞) | log[1 + exp(–yjsj)]/[2log(2)] |
'quadratic' | Quadratic | [0,1] | [1 – yj(2sj – 1)]2/2 |
The software normalizes binary losses such that the loss is 0.5 when yj = 0, and aggregates using the average of the binary learners [Allwein et al.].
Do not confuse the binary loss with the overall classification loss (specified by the
'LossFun'
name-value pair argument of the loss
and
predict
object functions), which measures how well an ECOC classifier
performs as a whole.
The software can estimate class posterior probabilities by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence or by using quadratic programming. For the following descriptions of the posterior estimation algorithms, assume that:
mkj is the element (k,j) of the coding design matrix M.
I is the indicator function.
is the class posterior probability estimate for class k of an observation, k = 1,...,K.
rj is the positive-class posterior probability for binary learner j. That is, rj is the probability that binary learner j classifies an observation into the positive class, given the training data.
By default, the software minimizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence to estimate class posterior probabilities. The Kullback-Leibler divergence between the expected and observed positive-class posterior probabilities is
where is the weight for binary learner j.
Sj is the set of observation indices on which binary learner j is trained.
is the weight of observation i.
The software minimizes the divergence iteratively. The first step is to choose initial values for the class posterior probabilities.
If you do not specify 'NumKLIterations'
, then the software
tries both sets of deterministic initial values described next, and selects the
set that minimizes Δ.
is the solution of the system
where
M01 is
M with all
mkj = –1 replaced
with 0, and r is a vector of positive-class
posterior probabilities returned by the L binary
learners [Dietterich et al.]. The software uses lsqnonneg
to solve
the system.
If you specify 'NumKLIterations',c
, where
c
is a natural number, then the software does the
following to choose the set , and selects the set that minimizes Δ.
The software tries both sets of deterministic initial values as described previously.
The software randomly generates c
vectors of
length K using rand
, and then
normalizes each vector to sum to 1.
At iteration t, the software completes these steps:
Compute
Estimate the next class posterior probability using
Normalize so that they sum to 1.
Check for convergence.
For more details, see [Hastie et al.] and [Zadrozny].
Posterior probability estimation using quadratic programming requires an Optimization Toolbox license. To estimate posterior probabilities for an observation using this method, the software completes these steps:
Estimate the positive-class posterior probabilities, rj, for binary learners j = 1,...,L.
Using the relationship between rj and [Wu et al.], minimize
with respect to and the restrictions
The software performs minimization using quadprog
(Optimization Toolbox).
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To run in parallel, set the 'UseParallel'
option to true
.
Set the 'UseParallel'
field of the options structure to true
using statset
and specify the 'Options'
name-value pair argument in the call to this function.
For example: 'Options',statset('UseParallel',true)
For more information, see the 'Options'
name-value pair argument.
For more general information about parallel computing, see Run MATLAB Functions with Automatic Parallel Support (Parallel Computing Toolbox).
ClassificationECOC
| ClassificationLinear
| ClassificationPartitionedLinearECOC
| confusionchart
| fitcecoc
| perfcurve
| predict
| statset
| testcholdout
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