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package ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.example;

import java.util.HashMap;

import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.Booster;
import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.DMatrix;
import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.XGBoost;
import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.XGBoostError;
import ml.dmlc.xgboost4j.java.example.util.CustomEval;

/**
 * this is an example of fit generalized linear model in xgboost
 * basically, we are using linear model, instead of tree for our boosters
 *
 * @author hzx
 */
public class GeneralizedLinearModel {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws XGBoostError {
    // load file from text file, also binary buffer generated by xgboost4j
    DMatrix trainMat = new DMatrix("../../demo/data/agaricus.txt.train?format=libsvm");
    DMatrix testMat = new DMatrix("../../demo/data/agaricus.txt.test?format=libsvm");

    //specify parameters
    //change booster to gblinear, so that we are fitting a linear model
    // alpha is the L1 regularizer
    //lambda is the L2 regularizer
    //you can also set lambda_bias which is L2 regularizer on the bias term
    HashMap params = new HashMap();
    params.put("alpha", 0.0001);
    params.put("silent", 1);
    params.put("objective", "binary:logistic");
    params.put("booster", "gblinear");

    //normally, you do not need to set eta (step_size)
    //XGBoost uses a parallel coordinate descent algorithm (shotgun),
    //there could be affection on convergence with parallelization on certain cases
    //setting eta to be smaller value, e.g 0.5 can make the optimization more stable
    //param.put("eta", "0.5");


    //specify watchList
    HashMap watches = new HashMap();
    watches.put("train", trainMat);
    watches.put("test", testMat);

    //train a booster
    int round = 4;
    Booster booster = XGBoost.train(trainMat, params, round, watches, null, null);

    float[][] predicts = booster.predict(testMat);

    CustomEval eval = new CustomEval();
    System.out.println("error=" + eval.eval(predicts, testMat));
  }
}