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CalfCV comparison plotΒΆ
A classifier comparison plot including Calf and CalfCV.
Using the grid [-2, 2] with Calf improves performance by
increasing the AUC mean and reducing variance.

import warnings
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
from sklearn.discriminant_analysis import LinearDiscriminantAnalysis
from sklearn.linear_model import LassoCV, ElasticNetCV
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score, KFold
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
import numpy as np
from calfcv import Calf, CalfCV
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
# Make a classification problem
X, y = make_classification(
n_samples=200,
n_features=20,
n_informative=10,
n_redundant=5,
n_classes=2,
random_state=11
)
scaler = StandardScaler()
X = scaler.fit_transform(X)
# Models to be compared
# ElasticNetCV and LassoCV are expected to fail using the accuracy metric
# Here we show the versatility of Calf and CalfCV under both accuracy and auc.
models = [
('Calf', Calf()),
('CalfCV', CalfCV()),
('Calf [-2, 2]', Calf(grid=np.arange(-2, 2, .1))),
('EN', ElasticNetCV()),
('LCV', LassoCV()),
('LR', LogisticRegression()),
('LDA', LinearDiscriminantAnalysis()),
('KNN', KNeighborsClassifier()),
('CART', DecisionTreeClassifier()),
('NB', GaussianNB()),
('SVM', SVC())
]
names = [x for (x, _) in models]
kfold = KFold(n_splits=10)
fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, sharex=True)
fig.suptitle('Algorithm Comparison')
# evaluate each model in turn against metrics auc and accuracy
plot_info = [('roc_auc', ax1), ('accuracy', ax2)]
for score, ax in plot_info:
results = []
for name, model in models:
# Lasso and ElasticNet will fail using accuracy
try:
cv_results = cross_val_score(model, X, y, cv=kfold, scoring=score)
results.append(cv_results)
ax.boxplot(results)
ax.set_ylabel(score)
except ValueError:
pass
ax2.set(xticks=range(1, len(models) + 1), xticklabels=names)
fig.set_size_inches(18.5, 10.5)
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 59.896 seconds)