LightGBM, an open-source gradient boosting framework developed by Microsoft, has garnered significant attention in the machine learning community due to its remarkable speed and efficiency. Its superiority over other boosting methods stems from several distinctive features and advantages. To understand LightGBM's effectiveness, it's essential to delve into its working process and explore how it utilizes innovative techniques to achieve unparalleled performance.
At its core, LightGBM employs an ensemble of weak learners, typically decision trees, to iteratively improve predictive accuracy. This iterative process involves continually refining the ensemble by adding new trees that rectify the errors made by previous ones. Unlike traditional gradient boosting methods, LightGBM employs a histogram-based algorithm, which efficiently bins data points, reducing memory consumption and computational overhead. This approach allows LightGBM to process large datasets with millions of instances and features swiftly.
A key factor contributing to LightGBM's speed is its leaf-wise tree growth strategy, also known as the best-first strategy. Unlike depth-wise tree growth, which splits nodes level by level, the leaf-wise strategy prioritizes nodes with the largest loss reduction, resulting in fewer overall splits and a shallower tree structure. This approach accelerates training by focusing on the most informative features and nodes, effectively reducing the computational burden.
Furthermore, LightGBM implements feature parallelism and data parallelism techniques to expedite training on multi-core CPUs and distributed computing environments. Feature parallelism involves splitting data columns among multiple threads or machines, allowing independent computation of feature histograms. On the other hand, data parallelism divides the dataset into subsets processed by different workers simultaneously. By leveraging both types of parallelism, LightGBM harnesses the full computational power of modern hardware architectures, significantly reducing training times.
Despite its impressive speed and efficiency, LightGBM is not without limitations. One notable drawback is its susceptibility to overfitting, particularly when dealing with small datasets or noisy data. The leaf-wise tree growth strategy, while effective in reducing training time, may lead to overly complex models that memorize noise in the training data. To mitigate this risk, practitioners often employ regularization techniques such as limiting the maximum depth of trees, adding dropout layers, or incorporating early stopping criteria during training.
In contrast to LightGBM's boosting approach, the multilayer perceptron (MLP) represents a different paradigm in machine learning, focusing on deep learning architectures and intricate feature representations. An MLP consists of multiple layers of interconnected neurons, including an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer.
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3) The process of training neural networks, including forward propagation to make predictions, backpropagation to calculate gradients, and updating weights to reduce loss.
4) Key aspects of multilayer perceptrons like their architecture with multiple fully-connected layers, use of activation functions, and training algorithm involving forward/backward passes and parameter updates.
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2) How neural networks extend this by using multiple layers of neurons and nonlinear activation functions to learn complex patterns in data.
3) The process of training neural networks, including forward propagation to make predictions, backpropagation to calculate gradients, and updating weights to reduce loss.
4) Key aspects of multilayer perceptrons like their architecture with multiple fully-connected layers, use of activation functions, and training algorithm involving forward/backward passes and parameter updates.
The document discusses multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) and the backpropagation algorithm. [1] MLPs can learn nonlinear decision boundaries using multiple layers of nodes and nonlinear activation functions. [2] The backpropagation algorithm is used to train MLPs by calculating error terms that are propagated backward to adjust weights throughout the network. [3] Backpropagation finds a local minimum of the error function through gradient descent and may get stuck but works well in practice.
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The document describes the backpropagation algorithm for training multilayer neural networks. It discusses how backpropagation uses gradient descent to minimize error between network outputs and targets by calculating error gradients with respect to weights. The algorithm iterates over examples, calculates error, computes gradients to update weights. Momentum can be added to help escape local minima. Backpropagation can learn representations in hidden layers and is prone to overfitting without validation data to select the best model.
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- The stages of feedforward activation and backpropagation of errors to update weights.
- Options like initial random weights, number of training cycles and hidden nodes.
- An example of using backpropagation to train a network to learn the XOR function over multiple training passes of forward passing and backward error propagation and weight updating.
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- The stages of feedforward activation and backpropagation of errors to update weights.
- Options like initial random weights, number of training cycles and hidden nodes.
- An example of using backpropagation to train a network to learn the XOR function over multiple training passes of forward passing and backward error propagation and weight updating.
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Machine Intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make๐ณ.
With this belief,
:-D GDG Cloud Nagpur is thrilled about its first offline event-
ML on Cloud Series:
Episode 1๐โโ๏ธ- Transfer Learning!
๐ฅin colab with TFUG Nagpur.
Know our speaker: Vedant Khairnar,โก
Organiser @ GDG Cloud Nagpur | Developer Advocate, โณCatalogicSW.
Venue - Government College of Engineering๐, Nagpur.
:-P When?
Saturday, 6th August 2022 at 12:01 PM๐โโ๏ธ, IST.
๐ฑDeliverables-
โข Hands-on experience in trending tech.
โข Amazing swags๐ for all the participants.
๐ฒRSVP- https://gdg.community.dev/e/mjy2tf/
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2. Introduction
โ Boosting is an ensemble learning method that combines a set of weak learners into a
strong learner to minimize training errors.
โ Gradient Boosting is a powerful boosting algorithm that combines several weak
learners into strong learners, in which each new model is trained to minimize the loss
function such as mean squared error or cross-entropy of the previous model using
gradient descent.
โ LightGBM is a gradient boosting framework that uses tree based learning algorithms.
3. Advantages
โ Faster training speed and higher efficiency.
โ Lower memory usage.
โ Better accuracy.
โ Support of parallel, distributed, and GPU learning.
โ Capable of handling large-scale data efficiently.
โ Can handle categorical variable directly without the need for one-hot encoding.
4. What Makes LightGBM faster?
1. Histogram or bin way of splitting
For e.g. BU dataset has a column CSE-Students, in which weโve students from 6th,7th,
8th, 9th and 10th batch. Now, in other boosting methods all the batch will be tested that
wonโt be minimal. So, now we can split the students into two bins, 6th-8th batch, and 9th-
10th batch. This will reduces the memory usage and speeds up the training process,.
5. What Makes LightGBM faster?(Cont.)
2. Exclusive Feature Building (EFB)
For e.g. weโre considering gender of the respondents. If the respondents is a male, it will
enter 1 in the male column, 0 in female column, or if the respondents is a female, it will
enter 1 in the female column, 0 in male column. There is no chances to enter 1 in both
column at the same time. This type of features are called exclusive feature. LightGBM
will bundle this feature, by reducing two dimension into one dimension, through creating
a new feature, such as BF, that will contain 11 for male and 10 for female.
6. What Makes LightGBM faster?(Cont.)
3. GOSS (Gradient based One Side Sampling)
โ It sees a error and decide how to create this sample
โ For e.g. your baseline model is M0 on 500 records, i.e. you willโve 500 gradients or error. Let this is G1,G2,G3,โฆ, G500.
Now LightGBM will sort it in descending order. Suppose, first gradient number 48 have have highest gradient record than 14,
and so on. So it will be now: G48, G14,..., G4.
Now certain percentage( usually 20%) from this record will be taken as one part (as top 20%) and from the remaining 80%
randomly selected certain percentage( usually 10%) will come out (as bottom subset 10%). Now these two are combined to
create new subsample.
Now If gradient is low, that means in this 80% the model performs good we donโt need to train it again and again, but if in the
20% if the model is not performing well( gradients are high , errors are high), then it should train more. As a result top will take
high priority and sampling is done only from one side(right side ,80%).
7. LightGBM tree โ growth strategies
โ Light GBM grows tree vertically
while other algorithm grows trees
horizontally meaning that Light
GBM grows tree leaf- wise while
other algorithm grows level- wise.
โ It will choose the leaf with max
delta loss to grow. When growing
the same leaf, Leaf-wise algorithm
can reduce more loss than a level-
wise algorithm
8. Where should we use LightGBM?
โ In our local machine, or anywhere where there is no gpu or no clustering
โ For performing faster machine learning tasks such as classification, regression and
ranking
9. LightGBM disadvantages
โ Too many parameters
โ Slow to tune parameters
โ GPU configuration can be tough
โ No GPU support on scikit โlearn API
11. Introduction
โ A multi-layer perceptron is a type of
Feed Forward Neural Network with
multiple neurons arranged in layers.
โ The network has at least three layers
with an input layer, one or more
hidden layers. and an output layer.
โ All the neurons in a layer are fully
connected to the neurons in the next
layer.
12. Working Process
โ The input layer is the visible layer.
โ It just passes the input to the next
layer.
โ The layers following the input layer
are the hidden layers.
โ The hidden layers neither directly
receive inputs nor send outputs to
the external environment.
โ The final layer is the output layer
which outputs a single value or a
vector of values.
13. Working Process(Cont.)
โ The activation functions used in the
layers can be linear or non-linear
depending on the type of the
problem modelled.
โ Typically, a sigmoid activation
function is used if the problem is a
binary classification problem and a
softmax activation function is used
in a multi-class classification
problem.
14. MLP Algorithms
Input: Input vector (x1, x2 ......, xn)
Output: Yn
Learning rate: ฮฑ
Assign random weights and biases for every connection in the network in the range [-0.5, +0.5].
Step 1: Forward Propagation
1. Calculate Input and Output in the Input Layer:
Input at Node j 'Ij' in the Input Layer is:
Where,
ฯฐj, is the input received at Node j
Output at Node j 'Oj' in the Input Layer is:
15. MLP Algorithms
Net Input at node j in the output layer is
๐ผ๐ = ๐ด๐=1
๐
๐๐๐ค๐๐ + ๐ฅ0 * ๐๐
where,
๐๐ is the output from Node i
๐ค๐๐ is the weight in the link from Node i to Node j
๐ฅ0 is the input to the bias node โ0โ which is always assumed as 1
๐๐ is the weight in the link from the bias node โ0โ to Node j
Output at Node j:
๐๐ =
1
1 + โ โ๐ผ๐
Where, ๐ผ๐ is the input received at Node j.
16. MLP Algorithms
โ Estimated error at the node in the Output Layer:
Error = ๐๐ท๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐ธ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐๐
where,
๐๐ท๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ is the desired output value of the Node in the Output Layer
๐๐ธ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ is the estimated output value of the Node in the Output Layer
17. MLP Algorithms
โ Step 2: Backward Propagation
1. Calculated Error at each node:
For each Unit k in the Output Layer
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ = ๐๐(1-๐๐) (๐๐ท๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ -๐๐)
where,
๐๐ is the output value at Node k in the Output Layer
๐๐ท๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ is the desired output value at Node in the Output Layer
For each unit j in the Hidden Layer
๐ธ๐๐๐๐
๐ = ๐๐(1-๐๐)๐ด๐๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐
where,
๐๐ is the output value at Node j in the Hidden Layer
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ is the error at Node k in the Output Layer
๐ค๐๐ is the weight in the link from Node j to Node k
18. MLP Algorithms
2. Update all weights and biases:
Update weights
where,
๐๐ is the output value at Node i
๐ธ๐๐๐๐
๐ is the error at Node j
๐ผ is the learning rate
๐ค๐๐ is the weight in the link from Node i to Node j
ฮ๐ค๐๐ is the difference in weight that has to be added to ๐ค๐๐
ฮ๐ค๐๐ = ๐ผ * ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ * ๐๐
๐ค๐๐ = ๐ค๐๐ + ฮ๐ค๐๐
19. MLPs Algorithms
Update Biases
where,
๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ is the error at Node j
๐ผ is the learning rate
๐๐ is the bias value from Bias Node 0 to Node j.
ฮ๐๐ is the difference in bias that has to be added to ๐๐.
ฮ๐๐ = ๐ผ * ๐ธ๐๐๐๐
๐
๐๐ =๐๐ + ฮ๐๐
Editor's Notes
Gradient descent is an optimization algorithm used to train machine learning models by minimizing errors between predicted and actual results.
If in this 20% the model performs good we donโt need to train it again and again, but if the results is bad i.e. error is high
In your local machine, or anywhere where there is gpu or clustering, use XGBM
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