H2O ModelSelection is used to build the best model with one predictor, two predictors, ... up to max_predictor_number specified in the algorithm parameters when mode=allsubsets. The best model is the one with the highest R2 value. When mode=maxr, the model returned is no longer guaranteed to have the best R2 value.

Source: R/modelselection.R

H2O ModelSelection is used to build the best model with one predictor, two predictors, ... up to max_predictor_number specified in the algorithm parameters when mode=allsubsets. The best model is the one with the highest R2 value. When mode=maxr, the model returned is no longer guaranteed to have the best R2 value.

h2o.modelSelection(
  x,
  y,
  training_frame,
  model_id = NULL,
  validation_frame = NULL,
  nfolds = 0,
  seed = -1,
  fold_assignment = c("AUTO", "Random", "Modulo", "Stratified"),
  fold_column = NULL,
  ignore_const_cols = TRUE,
  score_each_iteration = FALSE,
  score_iteration_interval = 0,
  offset_column = NULL,
  weights_column = NULL,
  family = c("AUTO", "gaussian", "binomial", "fractionalbinomial", "quasibinomial",
    "poisson", "gamma", "tweedie", "negativebinomial"),
  link = c("family_default", "identity", "logit", "log", "inverse", "tweedie",
    "ologit"),
  tweedie_variance_power = 0,
  tweedie_link_power = 0,
  theta = 0,
  solver = c("AUTO", "IRLSM", "L_BFGS", "COORDINATE_DESCENT_NAIVE",
    "COORDINATE_DESCENT", "GRADIENT_DESCENT_LH", "GRADIENT_DESCENT_SQERR"),
  alpha = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  lambda_search = FALSE,
  early_stopping = FALSE,
  nlambdas = 0,
  standardize = TRUE,
  missing_values_handling = c("MeanImputation", "Skip", "PlugValues"),
  plug_values = NULL,
  compute_p_values = FALSE,
  remove_collinear_columns = FALSE,
  intercept = FALSE,
  non_negative = FALSE,
  max_iterations = 0,
  objective_epsilon = -1,
  beta_epsilon = 1e-04,
  gradient_epsilon = 0,
  startval = NULL,
  prior = 0,
  cold_start = FALSE,
  lambda_min_ratio = 0,
  beta_constraints = NULL,
  max_active_predictors = -1,
  obj_reg = 0,
  stopping_rounds = 0,
  stopping_metric = c("AUTO", "deviance", "logloss", "MSE", "RMSE", "MAE", "RMSLE",
    "AUC", "AUCPR", "lift_top_group", "misclassification", "mean_per_class_error",
    "custom", "custom_increasing"),
  stopping_tolerance = 0.001,
  balance_classes = FALSE,
  class_sampling_factors = NULL,
  max_after_balance_size = 5,
  max_runtime_secs = 0,
  custom_metric_func = NULL,
  nparallelism = 0,
  max_predictor_number = 1,
  min_predictor_number = 1,
  mode = c("allsubsets", "maxr", "backward"),
  p_values_threshold = 0
)

Arguments

x

(Optional) A vector containing the names or indices of the predictor variables to use in building the model. If x is missing, then all columns except y are used.
y

The name or column index of the response variable in the data. The response must be either a numeric or a categorical/factor variable. If the response is numeric, then a regression model will be trained, otherwise it will train a classification model.
training_frame

Id of the training data frame.
model_id

Destination id for this model; auto-generated if not specified.
validation_frame

Id of the validation data frame.
nfolds

Number of folds for K-fold cross-validation (0 to disable or >= 2). Defaults to 0.
seed

Seed for random numbers (affects certain parts of the algo that are stochastic and those might or might not be enabled by default). Defaults to -1 (time-based random number).
fold_assignment

Cross-validation fold assignment scheme, if fold_column is not specified. The 'Stratified' option will stratify the folds based on the response variable, for classification problems. Must be one of: "AUTO", "Random", "Modulo", "Stratified". Defaults to AUTO.
fold_column

Column with cross-validation fold index assignment per observation.
ignore_const_cols

Logical. Ignore constant columns. Defaults to TRUE.
score_each_iteration

Logical. Whether to score during each iteration of model training. Defaults to FALSE.
score_iteration_interval

Perform scoring for every score_iteration_interval iterations Defaults to 0.
offset_column

Offset column. This will be added to the combination of columns before applying the link function.
weights_column

Column with observation weights. Giving some observation a weight of zero is equivalent to excluding it from the dataset; giving an observation a relative weight of 2 is equivalent to repeating that row twice. Negative weights are not allowed. Note: Weights are per-row observation weights and do not increase the size of the data frame. This is typically the number of times a row is repeated, but non-integer values are supported as well. During training, rows with higher weights matter more, due to the larger loss function pre-factor. If you set weight = 0 for a row, the returned prediction frame at that row is zero and this is incorrect. To get an accurate prediction, remove all rows with weight == 0.
family

Family. For MaxR, only gaussian. For backward, ordinal and multinomial families are not supported Must be one of: "AUTO", "gaussian", "binomial", "fractionalbinomial", "quasibinomial", "poisson", "gamma", "tweedie", "negativebinomial". Defaults to AUTO.
link

Link function. Must be one of: "family_default", "identity", "logit", "log", "inverse", "tweedie", "ologit". Defaults to family_default.
tweedie_variance_power

Tweedie variance power Defaults to 0.
tweedie_link_power

Tweedie link power Defaults to 0.
theta

Theta Defaults to 0.
solver

AUTO will set the solver based on given data and the other parameters. IRLSM is fast on on problems with small number of predictors and for lambda-search with L1 penalty, L_BFGS scales better for datasets with many columns. Must be one of: "AUTO", "IRLSM", "L_BFGS", "COORDINATE_DESCENT_NAIVE", "COORDINATE_DESCENT", "GRADIENT_DESCENT_LH", "GRADIENT_DESCENT_SQERR". Defaults to IRLSM.
alpha

Distribution of regularization between the L1 (Lasso) and L2 (Ridge) penalties. A value of 1 for alpha represents Lasso regression, a value of 0 produces Ridge regression, and anything in between specifies the amount of mixing between the two. Default value of alpha is 0 when SOLVER = 'L-BFGS'; 0.5 otherwise.
lambda

Regularization strength
lambda_search

Logical. Use lambda search starting at lambda max, given lambda is then interpreted as lambda min Defaults to FALSE.
early_stopping

Logical. Stop early when there is no more relative improvement on train or validation (if provided) Defaults to FALSE.
nlambdas

Number of lambdas to be used in a search. Default indicates: If alpha is zero, with lambda search set to True, the value of nlamdas is set to 30 (fewer lambdas are needed for ridge regression) otherwise it is set to 100. Defaults to 0.
standardize

Logical. Standardize numeric columns to have zero mean and unit variance Defaults to TRUE.
missing_values_handling

Handling of missing values. Either MeanImputation, Skip or PlugValues. Must be one of: "MeanImputation", "Skip", "PlugValues". Defaults to MeanImputation.
plug_values

Plug Values (a single row frame containing values that will be used to impute missing values of the training/validation frame, use with conjunction missing_values_handling = PlugValues)
compute_p_values

Logical. Request p-values computation, p-values work only with IRLSM solver and no regularization Defaults to FALSE.
remove_collinear_columns

Logical. In case of linearly dependent columns, remove some of the dependent columns Defaults to FALSE.
intercept

Logical. Include constant term in the model Defaults to FALSE.
non_negative

Logical. Restrict coefficients (not intercept) to be non-negative Defaults to FALSE.
max_iterations

Maximum number of iterations Defaults to 0.
objective_epsilon

Converge if objective value changes less than this. Default (of -1.0) indicates: If lambda_search is set to True the value of objective_epsilon is set to .0001. If the lambda_search is set to False and lambda is equal to zero, the value of objective_epsilon is set to .000001, for any other value of lambda the default value of objective_epsilon is set to .0001. Defaults to -1.
beta_epsilon

Converge if beta changes less (using L-infinity norm) than beta esilon, ONLY applies to IRLSM solver Defaults to 0.0001.
gradient_epsilon

Converge if objective changes less (using L-infinity norm) than this, ONLY applies to L-BFGS solver. Default (of -1.0) indicates: If lambda_search is set to False and lambda is equal to zero, the default value of gradient_epsilon is equal to .000001, otherwise the default value is .0001. If lambda_search is set to True, the conditional values above are 1E-8 and 1E-6 respectively. Defaults to 0.
startval

double array to initialize fixed and random coefficients for HGLM, coefficients for GLM.
prior

Prior probability for y==1. To be used only for logistic regression iff the data has been sampled and the mean of response does not reflect reality. Defaults to 0.
cold_start

Logical. Only applicable to multiple alpha/lambda values. If false, build the next model for next set of alpha/lambda values starting from the values provided by current model. If true will start GLM model from scratch. Defaults to FALSE.
lambda_min_ratio

Minimum lambda used in lambda search, specified as a ratio of lambda_max (the smallest lambda that drives all coefficients to zero). Default indicates: if the number of observations is greater than the number of variables, then lambda_min_ratio is set to 0.0001; if the number of observations is less than the number of variables, then lambda_min_ratio is set to 0.01. Defaults to 0.
beta_constraints

Beta constraints
max_active_predictors

Maximum number of active predictors during computation. Use as a stopping criterion to prevent expensive model building with many predictors. Default indicates: If the IRLSM solver is used, the value of max_active_predictors is set to 5000 otherwise it is set to 100000000. Defaults to -1.
obj_reg

Likelihood divider in objective value computation, default (of -1.0) will set it to 1/nobs Defaults to 0.
stopping_rounds

Early stopping based on convergence of stopping_metric. Stop if simple moving average of length k of the stopping_metric does not improve for k:=stopping_rounds scoring events (0 to disable) Defaults to 0.
stopping_metric

Metric to use for early stopping (AUTO: logloss for classification, deviance for regression and anonomaly_score for Isolation Forest). Note that custom and custom_increasing can only be used in GBM and DRF with the Python client. Must be one of: "AUTO", "deviance", "logloss", "MSE", "RMSE", "MAE", "RMSLE", "AUC", "AUCPR", "lift_top_group", "misclassification", "mean_per_class_error", "custom", "custom_increasing". Defaults to AUTO.
stopping_tolerance

Relative tolerance for metric-based stopping criterion (stop if relative improvement is not at least this much) Defaults to 0.001.
balance_classes

Logical. Balance training data class counts via over/under-sampling (for imbalanced data). Defaults to FALSE.
class_sampling_factors

Desired over/under-sampling ratios per class (in lexicographic order). If not specified, sampling factors will be automatically computed to obtain class balance during training. Requires balance_classes.
max_after_balance_size

Maximum relative size of the training data after balancing class counts (can be less than 1.0). Requires balance_classes. Defaults to 5.0.
max_runtime_secs

Maximum allowed runtime in seconds for model training. Use 0 to disable. Defaults to 0.
custom_metric_func

Reference to custom evaluation function, format: `language:keyName=funcName`
nparallelism

number of models to build in parallel. Defaults to 0.0 which is adaptive to the system capability Defaults to 0.
max_predictor_number

Maximum number of predictors to be considered when building GLM models. Defaults to 1. Defaults to 1.
min_predictor_number

For mode = 'backward' only. Minimum number of predictors to be considered when building GLM models starting with all predictors to be included. Defaults to 1. Defaults to 1.
mode

Mode: Used to choose model selection algorithms to use. Options include 'allsubsets' for all subsets, 'maxr' for MaxR, 'backward' for backward selection Must be one of: "allsubsets", "maxr", "backward". Defaults to maxr.
p_values_threshold

For mode='backward' only. If specified, will stop the model building process when all coefficientsp-values drop below this threshold Defaults to 0.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(h2o)
h2o.init()
# Run ModelSelection of VOL ~ all predictors
prostate_path <- system.file("extdata", "prostate.csv", package = "h2o")
prostate <- h2o.uploadFile(path = prostate_path)
prostate$CAPSULE <- as.factor(prostate$CAPSULE)
model <- h2o.modelSelection(y="VOL", x=c("RACE","AGE","RACE","DPROS"), training_frame=prostate)
# }