custom_metric_func

• Available in: GBM, GLM, DRF, Deeplearning, Stacked Ensembles, XGBoost

• Hyperparameter: no

Description

Use this option to specify a custom evaluation function. A custom metric function can be used to produce adhoc scoring metrics if actuals are presented.

Note: This option is only supported in the Python client.

Note: In Deeplearning, custom metric is not supported for Auto-encoder option.

Related Parameters

• upload_custom_metric

• stopping_metric

Example

Python

import h2o
from h2o.estimators.gbm import H2OGradientBoostingEstimator
h2o.init()
h2o.cluster().show_status()

# import the airlines dataset:
# This dataset is used to classify whether a flight will be delayed 'YES' or not "NO"
# original data can be found at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/
airlines= h2o.import_file("https://s3.amazonaws.com/h2o-public-test-data/smalldata/airlines/allyears2k_headers.zip")

# convert columns to factors
airlines["Year"] = airlines["Year"].asfactor()
airlines["Month"] = airlines["Month"].asfactor()
airlines["DayOfWeek"] = airlines["DayOfWeek"].asfactor()
airlines["Cancelled"] = airlines["Cancelled"].asfactor()
airlines['FlightNum'] = airlines['FlightNum'].asfactor()

# set the predictor names and the response column name
predictors = ["Origin", "Dest", "Year", "UniqueCarrier", "DayOfWeek", "Month", "Distance", "FlightNum"]
response = "IsDepDelayed"

# split into train and validation sets
train, valid = airlines.split_frame(ratios=[.8], seed=1234)

# try using the `stopping_metric` parameter:
# since this is a classification problem we will look at the AUC
# you could also choose logloss, or misclassification, among other options
# train your model, where you specify the stopping_metric, stopping_rounds,
# and stopping_tolerance
# initialize the estimator then train the model
airlines_gbm = H2OGradientBoostingEstimator(stopping_metric="auc",
                                            stopping_rounds=3,
                                            stopping_tolerance=1e-2,
                                            seed=1234)
airlines_gbm.train(x=predictors, y=response, training_frame=train, validation_frame=valid)

# print the auc for the validation data
airlines_gbm.auc(valid=True)

# Use a custom metric
# Create a custom RMSE Model metric and save as mm_rmse.py
# Note that this references a java class java.lang.Math
class CustomRmseFunc:
def map(self, pred, act, w, o, model):
    idx = int(act[0])
    err = 1 - pred[idx + 1] if idx + 1 < len(pred) else 1
    return [err * err, 1]

def reduce(self, l, r):
    return [l[0] + r[0], l[1] + r[1]]

def metric(self, l):
    # Use Java API directly
    import java.lang.Math as math
    return math.sqrt(l[0] / l[1])

# Upload the custom metric
custom_mm_func = h2o.upload_custom_metric(CustomRmseFunc,
                                          func_name="rmse",
                                          func_file="mm_rmse.py")

# Train the model
model = H2OGradientBoostingEstimator(ntrees=3,
                                     max_depth=5,
                                     score_each_iteration=True,
                                     custom_metric_func=custom_mm_func,
                                     stopping_metric="custom",
                                     stopping_tolerance=0.1,
                                     stopping_rounds=3)
model.train(x=predictors, y=response, training_frame=train, validation_frame=valid)