legate-boost#

GBM implementation on Legate. The primary goals of legate-boost is to provide a state-of-the-art distributed GBM implementation on Legate, capable of running on CPUs or GPUs at supercomputer scale.

API Documentation

For developers - see contributing

Installation#

Install using conda.

# stable release
conda install -c legate -c conda-forge -c nvidia legate-boost

# nightly release
conda install -c legate/label/experimental -c legate -c conda-forge -c nvidia legate-boost

On systems without a GPU, the CPU-only package should automatically be installed. On systems with a GPU and compatible CUDA version, the GPU package should automatically be installed.

To force conda to prefer one, pass the build strings *_cpu* or *_gpu*, for example:

# nightly release (CPU-only)
conda install --dry-run -c legate/label/experimental -c legate -c conda-forge -c nvidia \
    'legate-boost=*=*_cpu*'

For more details on building from source and setting up a development environment, see contributing.md.

Simple example#

Run with the legate launcher

legate example_script.py

import cupynumeric as cn
import legateboost as lb

X = cn.random.random((1000, 10))
y = cn.random.random(X.shape[0])
model = lb.LBRegressor(verbose=1, n_estimators=100, random_state=0, max_depth=2).fit(
    X, y
)

Features#

Model ensembling#

legate-boost can create models from linear combinations of other models. Ensembling is as easy as:

model_a = lb.LBClassifier().fit(X_train_a, y_train_a)
model_b = lb.LBClassifier().fit(X_train_b, y_train_b)
model_c = (model_a + model_b) * 0.5

Probabilistic regression#

legate-boost can learn distributions for continuous data. This is useful in cases where simply predicting the mean does not carry enough information about the training data:

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The above example can be found here: examples/probabilistic_regression.

Batch training#

legate-boost can train on datasets that do not fit into memory by splitting the dataset into batches and training the model with partial_fit.

total_estimators = 100
model = lb.LBRegressor(n_estimators=estimators_per_batch)
for i in range(total_estimators // estimators_per_batch):
    X_batch, y_batch = train_batches[i % n_batches]
    model.partial_fit(
        X_batch,
        y_batch,
    )
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The above example can be found here: examples/batch_training.

Different model types#

legate-boost supports tree models, linear models, kernel ridge regression models, custom user models and any combinations of these models.

The following example shows a model combining linear and decision tree base learners on a synthetic dataset.

model = lb.LBRegressor(base_models=(lb.models.Linear(), lb.models.Tree(max_depth=1),), **params).fit(X, y)
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The second example shows a model combining kernel ridge regression and decision tree base learners on the wine quality dataset.

model = lb.LBRegressor(base_models=(lb.models.KRR(sigma=0.5), lb.models.Tree(max_depth=5),), **params).fit(X, y)
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