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Generates a learning curve.

Source: R/generateLearningCurve.R
generateLearningCurveData.Rd

Observe how the performance changes with an increasing number of observations.

Usage

generateLearningCurveData(
  learners,
  task,
  resampling = NULL,
  percs = seq(0.1, 1, by = 0.1),
  measures,
  stratify = FALSE,
  show.info = getMlrOption("show.info")
)

Arguments

learners

[(list of) Learner)
Learning algorithms which should be compared.

task

(Task)
The task.

resampling

(ResampleDesc | ResampleInstance)
Resampling strategy to evaluate the performance measure. If no strategy is given a default "Holdout" will be performed.

percs

(numeric)
Vector of percentages to be drawn from the training split. These values represent the x-axis. Internally makeDownsampleWrapper is used in combination with benchmark. Thus for each percentage a different set of observations is drawn resulting in noisy performance measures as the quality of the sample can differ.

measures

[(list of) Measure)
Performance measures to generate learning curves for, representing the y-axis.

stratify

(logical(1))
Only for classification: Should the downsampled data be stratified according to the target classes?

show.info

(logical(1))
Print verbose output on console? Default is set via configureMlr.

Value

(LearningCurveData). A list containing:

  • The Task

  • List of Measure)
    Performance measures

  • data (data.frame) with columns:

    • learner Names of learners.

    • percentage Percentages drawn from the training split.

    • One column for each Measure passed to generateLearningCurveData.

See also

Other generate_plot_data: generateCalibrationData(), generateCritDifferencesData(), generateFeatureImportanceData(), generateFilterValuesData(), generatePartialDependenceData(), generateThreshVsPerfData(), plotFilterValues()

Other learning_curve: plotLearningCurve()

Examples

r = generateLearningCurveData(list("classif.rpart", "classif.knn"),
  task = sonar.task, percs = seq(0.2, 1, by = 0.2),
  measures = list(tp, fp, tn, fn),
  resampling = makeResampleDesc(method = "Subsample", iters = 5),
  show.info = FALSE)
plotLearningCurve(r)