Chapter 6 – Decision Trees

This notebook contains all the sample code and solutions to the exercices in chapter 6.

Setup

First, let's make sure this notebook works well in both python 2 and 3, import a few common modules, ensure MatplotLib plots figures inline and prepare a function to save the figures:



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#Advanced: Using other libs...

# To support both python 2 and python 3
from __future__ import division, print_function, unicode_literals

# Common imports
import numpy as np
import numpy.random as rnd
import os

# to make this notebook's output stable across runs
rnd.seed(42)

# To plot pretty figures
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams['axes.labelsize'] = 14
plt.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = 12
plt.rcParams['ytick.labelsize'] = 12

# Where to save the figures
PROJECT_ROOT_DIR = "."
CHAPTER_ID = "decision_trees"

def image_path(fig_id):
    return os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR, "images", CHAPTER_ID, fig_id)

def save_fig(fig_id, tight_layout=True):
    print("Saving figure", fig_id)
    if tight_layout:
        plt.tight_layout()
    plt.savefig(image_path(fig_id) + ".png", format='png', dpi=300)

Training and visualizing



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from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier, export_graphviz

iris = load_iris()
X = iris.data[:, 2:] # petal length and width
y = iris.target

tree_clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=2, random_state=42)
tree_clf.fit(X, y)









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DecisionTreeClassifier(class_weight=None, criterion='gini', max_depth=2,
            max_features=None, max_leaf_nodes=None, min_samples_leaf=1,
            min_samples_split=2, min_weight_fraction_leaf=0.0,
            presort=False, random_state=42, splitter='best')



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export_graphviz(
        tree_clf,
        out_file=image_path("iris_tree.dot"),
        feature_names=iris.feature_names[2:],
        class_names=iris.target_names,
        rounded=True,
        filled=True
    )



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from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap

def plot_decision_boundary(clf, X, y, axes=[0, 7.5, 0, 3], iris=True, legend=False, plot_training=True):
    x1s = np.linspace(axes[0], axes[1], 100)
    x2s = np.linspace(axes[2], axes[3], 100)
    x1, x2 = np.meshgrid(x1s, x2s)
    X_new = np.c_[x1.ravel(), x2.ravel()]
    y_pred = clf.predict(X_new).reshape(x1.shape)
    custom_cmap = ListedColormap(['#fafab0','#9898ff','#a0faa0'])
    plt.contourf(x1, x2, y_pred, alpha=0.3, cmap=custom_cmap, linewidth=10)
    if not iris:
        custom_cmap2 = ListedColormap(['#7d7d58','#4c4c7f','#507d50'])
        plt.contour(x1, x2, y_pred, cmap=custom_cmap2, alpha=0.8)
    if plot_training:
        plt.plot(X[:, 0][y==0], X[:, 1][y==0], "yo", label="Iris-Setosa")
        plt.plot(X[:, 0][y==1], X[:, 1][y==1], "bs", label="Iris-Versicolor")
        plt.plot(X[:, 0][y==2], X[:, 1][y==2], "g^", label="Iris-Virginica")
        plt.axis(axes)
    if iris:
        plt.xlabel("Petal length", fontsize=14)
        plt.ylabel("Petal width", fontsize=14)
    else:
        plt.xlabel(r"$x_1$", fontsize=18)
        plt.ylabel(r"$x_2$", fontsize=18, rotation=0)
    if legend:
        plt.legend(loc="lower right", fontsize=14)

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4))
plot_decision_boundary(tree_clf, X, y)
plt.plot([2.45, 2.45], [0, 3], "k-", linewidth=2)
plt.plot([2.45, 7.5], [1.75, 1.75], "k--", linewidth=2)
plt.plot([4.95, 4.95], [0, 1.75], "k:", linewidth=2)
plt.plot([4.85, 4.85], [1.75, 3], "k:", linewidth=2)
plt.text(1.40, 1.0, "Depth=0", fontsize=15)
plt.text(3.2, 1.80, "Depth=1", fontsize=13)
plt.text(4.05, 0.5, "(Depth=2)", fontsize=11)

save_fig("decision_tree_decision_boundaries_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure decision_tree_decision_boundaries_plot

Predicting classes and class probabilities



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tree_clf.predict_proba([[5, 1.5]])









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array([[ 0.        ,  0.90740741,  0.09259259]])



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tree_clf.predict([[5, 1.5]])









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array([1])

Sensitivity to training set details



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X[(X[:, 1]==X[:, 1][y==1].max()) & (y==1)] # widest Iris-Versicolor flower









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array([[ 4.8,  1.8]])



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not_widest_versicolor = (X[:, 1]!=1.8) | (y==2)
X_tweaked = X[not_widest_versicolor]
y_tweaked = y[not_widest_versicolor]

tree_clf_tweaked = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=2, random_state=40)
tree_clf_tweaked.fit(X_tweaked, y_tweaked)









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DecisionTreeClassifier(class_weight=None, criterion='gini', max_depth=2,
            max_features=None, max_leaf_nodes=None, min_samples_leaf=1,
            min_samples_split=2, min_weight_fraction_leaf=0.0,
            presort=False, random_state=40, splitter='best')



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plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4))
plot_decision_boundary(tree_clf_tweaked, X_tweaked, y_tweaked, legend=False)
plt.plot([0, 7.5], [0.8, 0.8], "k-", linewidth=2)
plt.plot([0, 7.5], [1.75, 1.75], "k--", linewidth=2)
plt.text(1.0, 0.9, "Depth=0", fontsize=15)
plt.text(1.0, 1.80, "Depth=1", fontsize=13)

save_fig("decision_tree_instability_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure decision_tree_instability_plot



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from sklearn.datasets import make_moons
Xm, ym = make_moons(n_samples=100, noise=0.25, random_state=53)

deep_tree_clf1 = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=42)
deep_tree_clf2 = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_leaf=4, random_state=42)
deep_tree_clf1.fit(Xm, ym)
deep_tree_clf2.fit(Xm, ym)

plt.figure(figsize=(11, 4))
plt.subplot(121)
plot_decision_boundary(deep_tree_clf1, Xm, ym, axes=[-1.5, 2.5, -1, 1.5], iris=False)
plt.title("No restrictions", fontsize=16)
plt.subplot(122)
plot_decision_boundary(deep_tree_clf2, Xm, ym, axes=[-1.5, 2.5, -1, 1.5], iris=False)
plt.title("min_samples_leaf = {}".format(deep_tree_clf2.min_samples_leaf), fontsize=14)

save_fig("min_samples_leaf_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure min_samples_leaf_plot



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angle = np.pi / 180 * 20
rotation_matrix = np.array([[np.cos(angle), -np.sin(angle)], [np.sin(angle), np.cos(angle)]])
Xr = X.dot(rotation_matrix)

tree_clf_r = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=42)
tree_clf_r.fit(Xr, y)

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 3))
plot_decision_boundary(tree_clf_r, Xr, y, axes=[0.5, 7.5, -1.0, 1], iris=False)

plt.show()



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rnd.seed(6)
Xs = rnd.rand(100, 2) - 0.5
ys = (Xs[:, 0] > 0).astype(np.float32) * 2

angle = np.pi / 4
rotation_matrix = np.array([[np.cos(angle), -np.sin(angle)], [np.sin(angle), np.cos(angle)]])
Xsr = Xs.dot(rotation_matrix)

tree_clf_s = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=42)
tree_clf_s.fit(Xs, ys)
tree_clf_sr = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=42)
tree_clf_sr.fit(Xsr, ys)

plt.figure(figsize=(11, 4))
plt.subplot(121)
plot_decision_boundary(tree_clf_s, Xs, ys, axes=[-0.7, 0.7, -0.7, 0.7], iris=False)
plt.subplot(122)
plot_decision_boundary(tree_clf_sr, Xsr, ys, axes=[-0.7, 0.7, -0.7, 0.7], iris=False)

save_fig("sensitivity_to_rotation_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure sensitivity_to_rotation_plot

Regression trees



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from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeRegressor

# Quadratic training set + noise
rnd.seed(42)
m = 200
X = rnd.rand(m, 1)
y = 4 * (X - 0.5) ** 2
y = y + rnd.randn(m, 1) / 10

tree_reg1 = DecisionTreeRegressor(random_state=42, max_depth=2)
tree_reg2 = DecisionTreeRegressor(random_state=42, max_depth=3)
tree_reg1.fit(X, y)
tree_reg2.fit(X, y)

def plot_regression_predictions(tree_reg, X, y, axes=[0, 1, -0.2, 1], ylabel="$y$"):
    x1 = np.linspace(axes[0], axes[1], 500).reshape(-1, 1)
    y_pred = tree_reg.predict(x1)
    plt.axis(axes)
    plt.xlabel("$x_1$", fontsize=18)
    if ylabel:
        plt.ylabel(ylabel, fontsize=18, rotation=0)
    plt.plot(X, y, "b.")
    plt.plot(x1, y_pred, "r.-", linewidth=2, label=r"$\hat{y}$")

plt.figure(figsize=(11, 4))
plt.subplot(121)
plot_regression_predictions(tree_reg1, X, y)
for split, style in ((0.1973, "k-"), (0.0917, "k--"), (0.7718, "k--")):
    plt.plot([split, split], [-0.2, 1], style, linewidth=2)
plt.text(0.21, 0.65, "Depth=0", fontsize=15)
plt.text(0.01, 0.2, "Depth=1", fontsize=13)
plt.text(0.65, 0.8, "Depth=1", fontsize=13)
plt.legend(loc="upper center", fontsize=18)
plt.title("max_depth=2", fontsize=14)

plt.subplot(122)
plot_regression_predictions(tree_reg2, X, y, ylabel=None)
for split, style in ((0.1973, "k-"), (0.0917, "k--"), (0.7718, "k--")):
    plt.plot([split, split], [-0.2, 1], style, linewidth=2)
for split in (0.0458, 0.1298, 0.2873, 0.9040):
    plt.plot([split, split], [-0.2, 1], "k:", linewidth=1)
plt.text(0.3, 0.5, "Depth=2", fontsize=13)
plt.title("max_depth=3", fontsize=14)

save_fig("tree_regression_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure tree_regression_plot



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export_graphviz(
        tree_reg1,
        out_file=image_path("regression_tree.dot"),
        feature_names=["x1"],
        rounded=True,
        filled=True
    )



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tree_reg1 = DecisionTreeRegressor(random_state=42)
tree_reg2 = DecisionTreeRegressor(random_state=42, min_samples_leaf=10)
tree_reg1.fit(X, y)
tree_reg2.fit(X, y)

x1 = np.linspace(0, 1, 500).reshape(-1, 1)
y_pred1 = tree_reg1.predict(x1)
y_pred2 = tree_reg2.predict(x1)

plt.figure(figsize=(11, 4))

plt.subplot(121)
plt.plot(X, y, "b.")
plt.plot(x1, y_pred1, "r.-", linewidth=2, label=r"$\hat{y}$")
plt.axis([0, 1, -0.2, 1.1])
plt.xlabel("$x_1$", fontsize=18)
plt.ylabel("$y$", fontsize=18, rotation=0)
plt.legend(loc="upper center", fontsize=18)
plt.title("No restrictions", fontsize=14)

plt.subplot(122)
plt.plot(X, y, "b.")
plt.plot(x1, y_pred2, "r.-", linewidth=2, label=r"$\hat{y}$")
plt.axis([0, 1, -0.2, 1.1])
plt.xlabel("$x_1$", fontsize=18)
plt.title("min_samples_leaf={}".format(tree_reg2.min_samples_leaf), fontsize=14)

save_fig("tree_regression_regularization_plot")
plt.show()









    



Saving figure tree_regression_regularization_plot

Exercise solutions

Coming soon



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