""" =================================================================== Analysis of the convergence of penalized logistic regression models =================================================================== .. currentmodule:: sklearn.callback The purpose of this example is three-fold: 1. Demonstrate registering a :class:`~ScoringMonitor` on the logistic regression step of a pipeline nested inside :class:`~sklearn.model_selection.GridSearchCV`. 2. Show how to plot the metric values collected at each iteration of each fit of the logistic regression model during the grid search and analyze the convergence of the model for each hyperparameter combination. 3. Show how the monitoring of diverse scoring metrics can inform us about the quality of the model and the trade-off between refinement and calibration. """ # Authors: The scikit-learn developers # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause # %% # Setup # ----- # # Let's first define the pipeline and the grid search. Here we register a # :class:`~ScoringMonitor` callback on the logistic regression model to monitor # the scores at each iteration of the L-BFGS solver. # # We reuse the same scoring metrics for the grid search itself and use the D² # log-loss as the primary metric to select the best hyperparameter combination. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import pandas as pd from sklearn.callback import ProgressBar, ScoringMonitor from sklearn.datasets import make_classification from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV from sklearn.pipeline import make_pipeline from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler X, y = make_classification( n_samples=1000, n_features=100, n_classes=10, n_informative=30, random_state=42 ) scoring_metrics = ["d2_log_loss_score", "accuracy", "average_precision"] scoring_monitor = ScoringMonitor(scoring=scoring_metrics) model = make_pipeline( StandardScaler(), LogisticRegression(solver="lbfgs", max_iter=1000).set_callbacks(scoring_monitor), ) param_grid = { "standardscaler__with_std": [True, False], "logisticregression__C": np.geomspace(0.01, 100, 3), } grid_search = GridSearchCV( model, param_grid, cv=5, scoring=scoring_metrics, n_jobs=2, error_score="raise", refit=scoring_metrics[0], ) # %% # Let's fit the grid search with the auto-propagating progress bar callback. # Feel free to set max_propagation_depth=3 in the ProgressBar constructor to # get a more detailed output by displaying the progress bars for the pipeline, # the standard scaler and the logistic regression. grid_search.set_callbacks(ProgressBar()).fit(X, y) # %% # We use a grid search with 3 values for the regularization parameter ``C`` and # 2 values for the standardization of the features resulting in 6 parameter # combinations. # # Since we use 5-fold cross-validation (``cv=5``), we will have 5 fits of the # logistic regression model for each parameter combination resulting in 30 fits # as subtasks of the "search" :term:`fit task`. # # In addition, the grid search performs a final refit on the full dataset with # the best hyperparameter combination found during the grid search. This is # visible as the "refit-with-best-params" task in the output above. # %% # Consolidation of the grid search results # ---------------------------------------- # # Let's look at the results of the grid search. cv_results = pd.DataFrame(grid_search.cv_results_) cv_results.sort_values(by="rank_test_d2_log_loss_score", ascending=True) # %% # We observe that the best models use regularization (small ``C``). Feature # standardization does not seem to matter much but helps reduce the fit times. # We notice that many models have similar accuracy scores but different D² # log-loss scores and average precision scores. D² log-loss and average # precision are more sensitive to the quality of the model than accuracy # because they evaluate the entire probability distribution of the predictions # rather than just the match of the top predicted class with the true class. # # Let's now refine this analysis by looking at the same metrics computed on the # training set at each iteration of the L-BFGS solver and for each parameter # combination. Note that these are training-set scores recorded during L-BFGS # iterations, not the held-out CV scores from ``cv_results_``. # # These values are stored in the `scoring_monitor` callback object: # %% all_tasks_log = scoring_monitor.get_logs().data_as_pandas all_tasks_log # %% # Let's enrich this log with the candidate parameters and the split index so we # can plot the scores for each parameter combination for a particular CV split # of interest. candidate_params = pd.DataFrame(grid_search.cv_results_["params"]).add_prefix("param_") n_splits = grid_search.n_splits_ lbfgs_log = all_tasks_log.query( "estimator_name == 'LogisticRegression' and task_name == 'lbfgs-iter'" ).copy() # Index 2 in ``task_id_path`` is the ``candidate-split-evaluation`` task id. # Future versions of scikit-learn will provide a more convenient way to # retrieve this task id. lbfgs_log["eval_task_id"] = lbfgs_log["task_id_path"].map(lambda path: path[2]) lbfgs_log["candidate_idx"] = lbfgs_log["eval_task_id"] // n_splits lbfgs_log["split_idx"] = lbfgs_log["eval_task_id"] % n_splits lbfgs_log = lbfgs_log.query("split_idx == 0").join(candidate_params, on="candidate_idx") # %% # Exclude the final refit on the full dataset (``parent_task_id_path`` # starts with ``(0, 1)`` instead of ``(0, 0)`` for cross-validation fits). Note # that it is possible to call `scoring_monitor.get_logs(include_lineage=True)` # to retrieve the task name of the ancestor tasks if needed. cv_lbfgs_log = lbfgs_log[ lbfgs_log["parent_task_id_path"].map(lambda path: path[1]) == 0 ] # %% # We define labels for plotting purposes and plot each metric separately. cv_lbfgs_log["param_label"] = cv_lbfgs_log.apply( lambda row: ( f"with_std={row['param_standardscaler__with_std']}, " f"C={row['param_logisticregression__C']:.2g}" ), axis=1, ) metrics = { "d2_log_loss_score": "D² log-loss (train)", "accuracy": "Accuracy (train)", "average_precision": "Average precision (train)", } _, axes = plt.subplots( len(metrics), 1, figsize=(8, 2.5 * len(metrics)), sharex=True, constrained_layout=True, ) for idx, (metric, ylabel) in enumerate(metrics.items()): ax = axes[idx] for param_label, group in cv_lbfgs_log.groupby("param_label", sort=False): ax.plot(group["task_id"], group[metric], label=param_label) ax.set_ylabel(ylabel) if idx == 0: ax.set_title("CV split 0") ax.legend(title="Hyperparameters", fontsize="small") _ = axes[-1].set_xlabel("L-BFGS iteration") # %% # Analysis of the convergence of the logistic regression models # ------------------------------------------------------------- # # D² log-loss convergence # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # The D² log-loss scores generally improve monotonically for all models. This # is expected because the logistic regression model is fitted by minimizing the # (regularized) log-loss computed on the training set. # # Accuracy fluctuations # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # The accuracy score improves with the number of iterations, albeit with some # local fluctuations. This is expected because accuracy is discontinuous and # not directly optimized by the model. Instead the model minimizes the log-loss # which is a smooth surrogate for the zero-one loss (and thus related to, but # not directly optimized by, accuracy). # # Regularization and scaling # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # We also observe that the least regularized models (larger ``C`` values) tend # to reach higher D² log-loss scores, and models trained on scaled features # converge in much fewer iterations. # # Furthermore, models trained with high regularization (lower ``C`` values) # converge to a final D² log-loss value that depends on the regularization # strength while this is not the case for models trained with low # regularization: there is a strong coupling between the optimal regularization # strength and the feature scaling. # # Average precision vs log-loss, refinement vs calibration # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # Finally, we observe that the average precision value measured on the training # set can improve quickly in the first iterations and then worsen even though # the D² log-loss value continues to improve on the same training data. This is # especially noticeable for models trained with low regularization and feature # standardization. This counter-intuitive behavior can be explained as follows. # First recall that average precision is a pure ranking metric that measures # the ability of the model to output predicted probabilities that rank the # samples of a given class higher than the samples of the other classes, but # does not take into account the calibration of the predicted probabilities. In # other words, average precision only evaluates if the predicted probabilities # are well ordered relatively to one another but is insensitive to a rank # preserving transformation of their absolute values. The log-loss, on the # other hand, is a strictly proper scoring rule that accounts for both the # refinement (ranking power) of the model and the calibration of the predicted # probabilities. # # Therefore, the average precision curves of the low-regularized models trained # on scaled features suggest that the first iterations mostly improve # refinement of the models temporarily leaving calibration behind. In later # iterations, the log-loss score continues to improve but average precision # values worsen, which suggests that the logistic regression model # progressively trades off refinement for calibration over the course of the # final iterations. This phenomenon has been studied in [1]_. # # It would be interesting to see if this also happens when evaluating the model # on a validation set so we could implement early stopping on average precision # to explicitly select a model with high refinement on a validation set. This # is not yet possible at the time of writing. Giving callbacks access to the # validation set is planned for a future version of scikit-learn. Note that the # callbacks API is still experimental and may change without the usual # deprecation cycle. # # References # ---------- # .. [1] :doi:`Berta, E., Holzmüller, D., Jordan, M. I., and Bach, F. # "Rethinking Early Stopping: Refine, Then Calibrate" (2025). # <10.48550/arXiv.2501.19195>`