Classification¶
import pandas as pd
import sklearn
import sklearn.model_selection
import sklearn.datasets
import vowpalwabbit
iris_dataset = sklearn.datasets.load_iris()
iris_dataframe = pd.DataFrame(
data=iris_dataset.data, columns=iris_dataset.feature_names)
# vw expects labels starting from 1
iris_dataframe["y"] = iris_dataset.target + 1
training_data, testing_data = sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split(
iris_dataframe, test_size=0.2)
def to_vw_format(row):
res = f'{int(row.y)} |'
for idx, value in row.drop(['y']).iteritems():
feature_name = idx.replace(' ', '_').replace('(', '').replace(')', '')
res += f' {feature_name}:{value}'
return res
Vowpal Wabbit input format¶
Vowpal Wabbit has its own input format we can use. Let’s see what it looks like.
for ex in training_data.head(10).apply(to_vw_format, axis=1):
print(ex)
2 | sepal_length_cm:6.3 sepal_width_cm:2.5 petal_length_cm:4.9 petal_width_cm:1.5
3 | sepal_length_cm:7.7 sepal_width_cm:3.0 petal_length_cm:6.1 petal_width_cm:2.3
1 | sepal_length_cm:5.4 sepal_width_cm:3.4 petal_length_cm:1.5 petal_width_cm:0.4
2 | sepal_length_cm:5.5 sepal_width_cm:2.6 petal_length_cm:4.4 petal_width_cm:1.2
3 | sepal_length_cm:6.8 sepal_width_cm:3.0 petal_length_cm:5.5 petal_width_cm:2.1
1 | sepal_length_cm:5.0 sepal_width_cm:3.6 petal_length_cm:1.4 petal_width_cm:0.2
1 | sepal_length_cm:4.3 sepal_width_cm:3.0 petal_length_cm:1.1 petal_width_cm:0.1
3 | sepal_length_cm:5.7 sepal_width_cm:2.5 petal_length_cm:5.0 petal_width_cm:2.0
1 | sepal_length_cm:4.8 sepal_width_cm:3.0 petal_length_cm:1.4 petal_width_cm:0.1
3 | sepal_length_cm:6.5 sepal_width_cm:3.2 petal_length_cm:5.1 petal_width_cm:2.0
vw = vowpalwabbit.Workspace("--oaa 3 --quiet")
# learn from training set with multiple passes
for example in training_data.apply(to_vw_format, axis=1):
vw.learn(example)
# predict from the testing set
predictions = []
for example in testing_data.apply(to_vw_format, axis=1):
predicted_class = vw.predict(example)
predictions.append(predicted_class)
accuracy = len(testing_data[testing_data.y == predictions]) / len(testing_data)
print(f'Model accuracy {accuracy}')
Model accuracy 0.5666666666666667