CSE6242-CX4242 Homework 4 Solution

Homework 4 : PageRank algorithm, Random Forest, SciKit Learn
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Grading
The maximum possible score for this homework is 100 points.
Q1 [20 pts] Implementation of Page Rank Algorithm
In this question, you will implement the PageRank algorithm in Python for large dataset.
The PageRank algorithm was first proposed to rank web search results, so that more “important” web pages are ranked higher. It works by considering the number and “importance” of links pointing to a page, to estimate how important that page is. PageRank outputs a probability distribution over all web pages, representing the likelihood that a person randomly surfing the web (randomly clicking on links) would arrive at those pages.
As mentioned in the lectures, the PageRank values are the entries in the dominant eigenvector of the modified adjacency matrix in which each column’s values adds up to 1 (i.e., “column normalized”), and this eigenvector can be calculated by the power iteration method, which iterate through the graph’s edges multiple times to updating the nodes’ probabilities (‘scores’ in pagerank.py) in each iteration :
For each iteration, the Page rank computation for each node would be :

Where:

In pagerank.py,
● You will be asked to implement the simplified PageRank algorithm, where Pd ( vj ) = 1/n in the script provided and need to submit the output for 10, 25 iteration runs.
To verify, we are providing with the sample output of 5 iterations for simplified pagerank.
987654321) and you are asked to submit the output for 10, 25 iteration runs.
Deliverables:
1. pagerank.py [12 pts]: your modified implementation
2. simplified_pagerank_{n}.txt: 2 files (as given below) containing the top 10 node IDs and their simplified pageranks for n iterations simplified_pagerank10.txt [2 pts] simplified_pagerank25.txt [2 pts]
3. personalized_pagerank_{n}.txt: 2 files (as given below) containing the top 10 node IDs and their simplified pageranks for n iterations personalized_pagerank10.txt [2 pts] personalized_pagerank25.txt [2 pts]
Q2 [50 pts] Random Forest Classifier
Q2.1 - Random Forest Setup [45 pts]
Note: You must use Python 3.7.x for this question.
You will implement a random forest classifier in Python. The performance of the classifier will be evaluated via the out-of-bag (OOB) error estimate, using the provided dataset.

The dataset you will use is Predicting a Pulsar Star dataset. Each record consists of the parameters of a pulsar candidate. The dataset has been cleaned to remove missing attributes. The data is stored in a commaseparated file (csv) in your Q2 folder as pulsar_stars.csv. Each line describes an instance using 9 columns: the first 8 columns represent the attributes of the pulsar candidate, and the last column is the class which tells us if the candidate is a pulsar or not (1 means it is a pulsar, 0 means not a pulsar).
Note: The last column should not be treated as an attribute. Note2: Do not modify the dataset.
You will perform binary classification on the dataset to determine if a pulsar candidate is a pulsar or not.
Essential Reading
Decision Trees
To complete this question, you need to develop a good understanding of how decision trees work. We recommend you review the lecture on decision tree. Specifically, you need to know how to construct decision trees using Entropy and Information Gain to select the splitting attribute and split point for the selected attribute. These slides from CMU (also mentioned in lecture) provide an excellent example of how to construct a decision tree using Entropy and Information Gain.
Random Forests
To refresh your memory about random forests, see Chapter 15 in the Elements of Statistical Learning book and the lecture on random forests. Here is a blog post that introduces random forests in a fun way, in layman’s terms.
Out-of-Bag Error Estimate
In random forests, it is not necessary to perform explicit cross-validation or use a separate test set for performance evaluation. Out-of-bag (OOB) error estimate has shown to be reasonably accurate and unbiased. Below, we summarize the key points about OOB described in the original article by Breiman and Cutler.
Starter Code
We have prepared starter code written in Python for you to use. This would help you load the data and evaluate your model. The following files are provided for you:
● util.py: utility functions that will help you build a decision tree
● decision_tree.py: a decision tree class that you will use to build your random forest
● random_forest.py: a random forest class and a main method to test your random forest
What you will implement
Below, we have summarized what you will implement to solve this question. Note that you MUST use information gain to perform the splitting in the decision tree. The starter code has detailed comments on how to implement each function.
1. util.py: implement the functions to compute entropy, information gain, and perform splitting.
2. decision_tree.py: implement the learn() method to build your decision tree using the utility functions above.
3. decision_tree.py: implement the classify() method to predict the label of a test record using your decision tree.
4. random_forest.py: implement the methods _bootstrapping(), fitting(), voting() Note: You must achieve a minimum accuracy of 75% for the random forest.
Note 2: Your code must take no more than 5 minutes to execute.
● Which attributes to use when building a tree?
● How to determine the split point for an attribute?
● When do you stop splitting leaf nodes?
● How many trees should the forest contain?
Note that, as mentioned in lecture, there are other approaches to implement random forests. For example, instead of information gain, other popular choices include Gini index, random attribute selection (e.g., PERT Perfect Random Tree Ensembles). We decided to ask everyone to use an information gain based approach in this question (instead of leaving it open-ended), to help standardize students’ solutions to help accelerate our grading efforts.
Q2.2 - forest.txt [5 pts]
In forest.txt, report the following:
1. What is the main reason to use a random forest versus a decision tree? (<= 50 words)
2. How long did your random forest take to run? (in seconds)
3. What accuracy (to two decimal places, xx.xx%) were you able to obtain?
Deliverables
1. util.py [10 pts]: The source code of your utility functions.
2. decision_tree.py [10 pts]: The source code of your decision tree implementation.
3. random_forest.py [25 pts]: The source code of your random forest implementation with appropriate comments.
4. forest.txt [5 pts]: The text file containing your responses to Q2.2
Q3 [30 points] Using Scikit-Learn
Note: You must use Python 3.7.x for this question.
Scikit-learn is a popular Python library for machine learning. You will use it to train some classifiers on the Predicting a Pulsar Star[1] dataset which is provided in the hw4-skeleton/Q3 as pulsar_star.csv
Note: Your code must take no more than 15 minutes to execute all cells.
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For this problem you will be utilizing and submitting a Jupyter notebook.
For any values we ask you to report in this question, please make sure to print them out in your Jupyter notebook such that they are outputted when we run your code.
NOTE: DO NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL CELLS TO THE JUPYTER NOTEBOOK AS IT WILL CAUSE THE AUTOGRADER TO FAIL.
NOTE: The below instructions will not match the exact flow of the Juypter notebook, you will have to find the section that applies to each of the different classifiers.
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Q3.1 - Classifier Setup [5 pts]
Train each of the following classifiers on the dataset, using the classes provided in the links below. You will do hyperparameter tuning in Q3.2 to get the best accuracy for each classifier on the dataset.
1. Linear Regression
2. Random Forest
3. Support Vector Machine (The link points to SVC, which is a particular implementation of SVM by Scikit.)
4. Principal Component Analysis
Scikit has additional documentation on each of these classes, explaining them in more detail, such as how they work and how to use them.
Use the jupyter notebook skeleton file called hw4q3.ipynb to write and execute your code.
As a reminder, the general flow of your machine learning code will look like: 1. Load dataset
2. Preprocess (you will do this in Q3.2)
3. Split the data into x_train, y_train, x_test, y_test
4. Train the classifier on x_train and y_train
5. Predict on x_test
6. Evaluate testing accuracy by comparing the predictions from step 5 with y_test.
Here is an example. Scikit has many other examples as well that you can learn from.
Q3.2 - Hyperparameter Tuning [15 pts]
Tune your random forest and SVM to obtain their best accuracies on the dataset. For random forest, tune the model on the unmodified test and train datasets. For SVM, either standardize or normalize the dataset before using it to tune the model.
Note:
If you are using StandardScaler:
- Pass x_train into the fit method. Then transform both x_train and x_test to obtain the standardized versions of both.
- The reason we fit only on x_train and not the entire dataset is because we do not want to train on data that was affected by the testing set.
Tune the hyperparameters specified below, using the GridSearchCV function that Scikit provides:
- For random forest, tune the parameters “n_estimators” and “max_depth”.
- For SVM, tune “C” and “kernel” (try only ‘linear’ and ‘rbf’).
Use 10 folds by setting the cv parameter to 10.
You should test at least 3 values for each of the numerical parameters. For C, the values should be different by factors of at least 10, for example, 0.001, 0.01, and 0.1, or 0.0001, 0.1 and 100.
Note: If GridSearchCV is taking a long time to run for SVM, make sure you are standardizing or normalizing your data beforehand.
Q3.3 - Cross-Validation Results [4 pts]
Let’s practice getting the results of cross-validation. For your SVM (only), report the rank test score, mean testing score and mean fit time for the best combination of hyperparameter values that you obtained in Q3.2. The GridSearchCV class holds a ‘cv_results_’ dictionary that should help you report these metrics easily.
Q3.4 - Evaluate the relative importance of features [4 pts]
You have performed a simple classification task using the random forest algorithm. You have also implemented the algorithm in Q2 above. The concept of entropy gain can also be used to evaluate the importance of a feature.
In this section you will determine the feature importance as evaluated by the random forest Classifier. You must then sort them in descending order and print the feature numbers. Hint: There is a direct function available in sklearn to achieve this. Also checkout argsort() function in Python numpy.
(argsort() returns the indices of the elements in ascending order)
You should use the first classifier that you trained initially in Q3.1, without any kind of hyperparametertuning, for reporting these features.
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Q3.5 - Principal Component Analysis [2 pts]
Dimensionality reduction is an important task in many data analysis exercises and it involves projecting the data to a lower dimensional space using Singular Value Decomposition. Refer to the examples given here, set parameters n_component to 8 and svd_solver to 'full' (keep other parameters at their default value), and report the following in the relevant section of hw4q3.ipynb:
1. Percentage of variance explained by each of the selected components. Sample Output:
[6.51153033e-01 5.21914311e-02 2.11562330e-02 5.15967655e-03
6.23717966e-03 4.43578490e-04 9.77570944e-05 7.87968645e-06]
2. The singular values corresponding to each of the selected components.
Sample Output:
[5673.123456 4532.123456 4321.68022725 1500.47665361 1250.123456 750.123456 100.123456 30.123456]
Deliverables
- hw4q3.ipynb - jupyter notebook file filled with your code for part Q3.1-Q3.5.
Submission Guidelines
Submit the deliverables as a single zip file named HW4-GTusername.zip. Write down the name(s) of any students you have collaborated with on this assignment, using the text box on the Canvas submission page.
The zip file’s directory structure must exactly be (when unzipped):
HW4-GTusername/
Q1/ pagerank.py
simplified_pagerank10.txt simplified_pagerank25.txt personalized_pagerank10.txt personalized_pagerank25.txt
Q2/ util.py decision_tree.py random_forest.py forest.txt
Q3/
hw4q3.ipynb
You must follow the naming convention specified above.
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