Leveraging weak learners via adaptive boosting（AdaBoost）

In this section about ensemble methods, we discuss boosting with a special focus on its most common implementation, AdaBoost 。

1. Via the base_estimator attribute, we  train the AdaBoostClassifier on 500 decision tree stumps

from sklearn.ensemble import AdaBoostClassifier
tree = DecisionTreeClassifier(criterion='entropy',
                              max_depth=1,
                              random_state=0)

ada = AdaBoostClassifier(base_estimator=tree,
                         n_estimators=500,
                         learning_rate=0.1,
                         random_state=0)

tree = tree.fit(X_train, y_train)
y_train_pred = tree.predict(X_train)
y_test_pred = tree.predict(X_test)

tree_train = accuracy_score(y_train, y_train_pred)
tree_test = accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred)
print('Decision tree train/test accuracies %.3f/%.3f'
      % (tree_train, tree_test))

Decision tree train/test accuracies 0.845/0.854

2. As we can see, the decision tree stump seems to overft the training data in contrast with the unpruned decision tree that we saw in the previous section ：

ada = ada.fit(X_train, y_train)
y_train_pred = ada.predict(X_train)
y_test_pred = ada.predict(X_test)

ada_train = accuracy_score(y_train, y_train_pred)
ada_test = accuracy_score(y_test, y_test_pred)
print('AdaBoost train/test accuracies %.3f/%.3f'
      % (ada_train, ada_test))

AdaBoost train/test accuracies 1.000/0.875

3. check what the decision regions look like

x_min, x_max = X_train[:, 0].min() - 1, X_train[:, 0].max() + 1
y_min, y_max = X_train[:, 1].min() - 1, X_train[:, 1].max() + 1
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(np.arange(x_min, x_max, 0.1),
                     np.arange(y_min, y_max, 0.1))

f, axarr = plt.subplots(1, 2, sharex='col', sharey='row', figsize=(8, 3))


for idx, clf, tt in zip([0, 1],
                        [tree, ada],
                        ['Decision Tree', 'AdaBoost']):
    clf.fit(X_train, y_train)

    Z = clf.predict(np.c_[xx.ravel(), yy.ravel()])
    Z = Z.reshape(xx.shape)

    axarr[idx].contourf(xx, yy, Z, alpha=0.3)
    axarr[idx].scatter(X_train[y_train == 0, 0],
                       X_train[y_train == 0, 1],
                       c='blue', marker='^')
    axarr[idx].scatter(X_train[y_train == 1, 0],
                       X_train[y_train == 1, 1],
                       c='red', marker='o')
    axarr[idx].set_title(tt)

axarr[0].set_ylabel('Alcohol', fontsize=12)
plt.text(10.2, -1.2,
         s='Hue',
         ha='center', va='center', fontsize=12)
plt.show()

Reference:《Python Machine Learning》