Methods for statistical inference on the generalization error.
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# Install release from CRAN install.packages("mlr3inferr") # Install development version from GitHub pak::pkg_install("mlr-org/mlr3inferr")
The main purpose of the package is to allow to obtain confidence intervals for the generalization error for a number of resampling methods. Below, we evaluate a decision tree on the sonar task using a holdout resampling and obtain a confidence interval for the generalization error. This is achieved using the msr("ci.holdout")
measure, to which we pass another mlr3::Measure
that determines the loss function.
library(mlr3inferr) rr = resample(tsk("sonar"), lrn("classif.rpart"), rsmp("holdout")) # 0.05 is also the default ci = msr("ci.holdout", "classif.acc", alpha = 0.05) rr$aggregate(ci) #> classif.acc classif.acc.lower classif.acc.upper #> 0.7391304 0.6347628 0.8434981
It is also possible to select the default inference method for a certain Resampling
method using msr("ci")
ci_default = msr("ci", "classif.acc") rr$aggregate(ci_default) #> classif.acc classif.acc.lower classif.acc.upper #> 0.7391304 0.6347628 0.8434981
With mlr3viz
, it is also possible to visualize multiple confidence intervals. Below, we compare a random forest with a decision tree and a featureless learner:
library(mlr3learners) library(mlr3viz) bmr = benchmark(benchmark_grid( tsks(c("sonar", "german_credit")), lrns(c("classif.rpart", "classif.ranger", "classif.featureless")), rsmp("subsampling") )) autoplot(bmr, "ci", msr("ci", "classif.ce"))
Note that:
$obs_loss
field.If you use mlr3inferr, please cite our paper:
@misc{kuempelfischer2024ciforge,
title={Constructing Confidence Intervals for 'the' Generalization Error -- a Comprehensive Benchmark Study},
author={Hannah Schulz-Kümpel and Sebastian Fischer and Thomas Nagler and Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Bernd Bischl and Roman Hornung},
year={2024},
eprint={2409.18836},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={stat.ML},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18836},
}
This R package is developed as part of the Mathematical Research Data Initiative.
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