Train Isolation Forest Model in Sparkling Water¶

Sparkling Water provides API for H2O Isolation Forest in Scala and Python. The following sections describe how to train the Isolation Forest model in Sparkling Water in both languages. See also Parameters of H2OIsolationForest and Details of H2OIsolationForestMOJOModel.

Scala

First, let’s start Sparkling Shell as

./bin/sparkling-shell

Start H2O cluster inside the Spark environment

import ai.h2o.sparkling._
import java.net.URI
val hc = H2OContext.getOrCreate()

Parse the data using H2O and convert them to Spark Frame

import org.apache.spark.SparkFiles
spark.sparkContext.addFile("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/anomaly/ecg_discord_train.csv")
spark.sparkContext.addFile("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/anomaly/ecg_discord_test.csv")
val trainingDF = spark.read.option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").csv(SparkFiles.get("ecg_discord_train.csv"))
val testingDF = spark.read.option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").csv(SparkFiles.get("ecg_discord_test.csv"))

Train the model. You can configure all the available Isolation Forest arguments using provided setters.

import ai.h2o.sparkling.ml.algos.H2OIsolationForest
val estimator = new H2OIsolationForest()
val model = estimator.fit(trainingDF)

Run Predictions

model.transform(testingDF).show(false)

You can also get model details via calling methods listed in Details of H2OIsolationForestMOJOModel.

Python

First, let’s start PySparkling Shell as

./bin/pysparkling

Start H2O cluster inside the Spark environment

from pysparkling import *
hc = H2OContext.getOrCreate()

Parse the data using H2O and convert them to Spark Frame

import h2o
trainingFrame = h2o.import_file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/anomaly/ecg_discord_train.csv")
trainingDF = hc.asSparkFrame(trainingFrame)
testingFrame = h2o.import_file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/anomaly/ecg_discord_test.csv")
testingDF = hc.asSparkFrame(testingFrame)

Train the model. You can configure all the available Isolation Forest arguments using provided setters or constructor parameters.

from pysparkling.ml import H2OIsolationForest
estimator = H2OIsolationForest()
model = estimator.fit(trainingDF)

Run Predictions

model.transform(testingDF).show(truncate = False)

You can also get model details via calling methods listed in Details of H2OIsolationForestMOJOModel.

Train Isolation Forest with H2OGridSearch¶

If you’re not sure about exact values for hyper-parameters of Isolation Forest, you can plug H2OIsolationForest to H2OGridSearch and define a hyper-parameter space to be walked through. Unlike other Sparkling Water algorithms used in H2OGridSearch, you must pass validationDataFrame to H2OIsolationForest as a parameter in order to H2OGridSearch be able to evaluate produced models. The validation data frame has to have an extra column identifying whether the row represents an anomaly or not. The column can contain only two string values, where a value for the negative case, must be alphabetically smaller then the value for the positive case. E.g.: "0"/"1", "no"/"yes", "false"/"true", etc.

Scala

Let’s load a training and validation dataset at first:

import org.apache.spark.SparkFiles
spark.sparkContext.addFile("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/prostate/prostate.csv")
spark.sparkContext.addFile("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/sparkling-water/master/examples/smalldata/prostate/prostate_anomaly_validation.csv")
val trainingDF = spark.read.option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").csv(SparkFiles.get("prostate.csv"))
val validationDF = spark.read.option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").csv(SparkFiles.get("prostate_anomaly_validation.csv"))

Create an algorithm instance, pass validation data frame, and specify a column identifying an anomaly:

import ai.h2o.sparkling.ml.algos.H2OIsolationForest
val algorithm = new H2OIsolationForest()
algorithm.setValidationDataFrame(validationDF)
algorithm.setValidationLabelCol("isAnomaly")

Define a hyper-parameter space:

import scala.collection.mutable
val hyperParams: mutable.HashMap[String, Array[AnyRef]] = mutable.HashMap()
hyperParams += "ntrees" -> Array(10, 20, 30).map(_.asInstanceOf[AnyRef])
hyperParams += "maxDepth" -> Array(5, 10, 20).map(_.asInstanceOf[AnyRef])

Pass the prepared hyper-parameter space and algorithm to H2OGridSearch and run it:

import ai.h2o.sparkling.ml.algos.H2OGridSearch
val grid = new H2OGridSearch()
grid.setAlgo(algorithm)
grid.setHyperParameters(hyperParams)
val model = grid.fit(trainingDF)

Logloss is a default metric for the model comparision produced by grids and can be changed via the method setSelectBestModelBy on H2OGridSearch.