Product feature optimization with constraints - python-3.x

Question

I have trained a Lightgbm model on learning to rank dataset. The model predicts relevance score of a sample. So higher the prediction the better it is. Now that the model has learned I would like to find the best values of some features that gives me the highest prediction score.
So, lets say I have features u,v,w,x,y,z and the features I would like to optimize over are x,y,z.
maximize f(u,v,w,x,y,z) w.r.t features x,y,z where f is a lightgbm model
subject to constraints :
y = Ax + b
z = 4 if y < thresh_a else 4-0.5 if y >= thresh_b else 4-0.3
thresh_m < x <= thresh_n
The numbers are randomly made up but constraints are linear.
Objective function with respect to x looks like the following :
So the function is very spiky, non-smooth. I also don't have the gradient information as f is a lightgbm model.
Using Nathan's answer I wrote down the following class :
class ProductOptimization:
def __init__(self, estimator, features_to_change, row_fixed_values,
bnds=None):
self.estimator = estimator
self.features_to_change = features_to_change
self.row_fixed_values = row_fixed_values
self.bounds = bnds
def get_sample(self, x):
new_values = {k:v for k,v in zip(self.features_to_change, x)}
return self.row_fixed_values.replace({k:{self.row_fixed_values[k].iloc[0]:v}
for k,v in new_values.items()})
def _call_model(self, x):
pred = self.estimator.predict(self.get_sample(x))
return pred[0]
def constraint1(self, vector):
x = vector[0]
y = vector[2]
return # some float value
def constraint2(self, vector):
x = vector[0]
y = vector[3]
return #some float value
def optimize_slsqp(self, initial_values):
con1 = {'type': 'eq', 'fun': self.constraint1}
con2 = {'type': 'eq', 'fun': self.constraint2}
cons = ([con1,con2])
result = minimize(fun=self._call_model,
x0=np.array(initial_values),
method='SLSQP',
bounds=self.bounds,
constraints=cons)
return result
The results that I get are always around the initial guess. And I think its because of non-smoothness of the function and absence of any gradient information which is important for the SLSQP optimizer. Any advices how should I deal with this kind of problem ?

Answer 1

It's been a good minute since I last wrote some serious code, so I appologize if it's not entirely clear what everything does, please feel free to ask for more explanations
The imports:
from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingRegressor
import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import minimize
from copy import copy
First I define a new class that allows me to easily redefine values. This class has 5 inputs:
value: this is the 'base' value. In your equation y=Ax + b it's the b part
minimum: this is the minimum value this type will evaluate as
maximum: this is the maximum value this type will evaluate as
multipliers: the first tricky one. It's a list of other InputType objects. The first is the input type and the second the multiplier. In your example y=Ax +b you would have [[x, A]], if the equation was y=Ax + Bz + Cd it would be [[x, A], [z, B], [d, C]]
relations: the most tricky one. It's also a list of other InputType objects, it has four items: the first is the input type, the second defines if it's an upper boundary you use min, if it's a lower boundary you use max. The third item in the list is the value of the boundary, and the fourth the output value connected to it
Watch out if you define your input values too strangely I'm sure there's weird behaviour.
class InputType:
def __init__(self, value=0, minimum=-1e99, maximum=1e99, multipliers=[], relations=[]):
"""
:param float value: base value
:param float minimum: value can never be lower than x
:param float maximum: value can never be higher than y
:param multipliers: [[InputType, multiplier], [InputType, multiplier]]
:param relations: [[InputType, min, threshold, output_value], [InputType, max, threshold, output_value]]
"""
self.val = value
self.min = minimum
self.max = maximum
self.multipliers = multipliers
self.relations = relations
def reset_val(self, value):
self.val = value
def evaluate(self):
"""
- relations to other variables are done first if there are none then the rest is evaluated
- at most self.max
- at least self.min
- self.val + i_x * w_x
i_x is input i, w_x is multiplier (weight) of i
"""
for term, min_max, value, output_value in self.relations:
# check for each term if it falls outside of the expected terms
if min_max(term.evaluate(), value) != term.evaluate():
return self.return_value(output_value)
output_value = self.val + sum([i[0].evaluate() * i[1] for i in self.multipliers])
return self.return_value(output_value)
def return_value(self, output_value):
return min(self.max, max(self.min, output_value))
Using this, you can fix the input types sent from the optimizer, as shown in _call_model:
class Example:
def __init__(self, lst_args):
self.lst_args = lst_args
self.X = np.random.random((10000, len(lst_args)))
self.y = self.get_y()
self.clf = GradientBoostingRegressor()
self.fit()
def get_y(self):
# sum of squares, is minimum at x = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ... ]
return np.array([[self._func(i)] for i in self.X])
def _func(self, i):
return sum(i * i)
def fit(self):
self.clf.fit(self.X, self.y)
def optimize(self):
x0 = [0.5 for i in self.lst_args]
initial_simplex = self._get_simplex(x0, 0.1)
result = minimize(fun=self._call_model,
x0=np.array(x0),
method='Nelder-Mead',
options={'xatol': 0.1,
'initial_simplex': np.array(initial_simplex)})
return result
def _get_simplex(self, x0, step):
simplex = []
for i in range(len(x0)):
point = copy(x0)
point[i] -= step
simplex.append(point)
point2 = copy(x0)
point2[-1] += step
simplex.append(point2)
return simplex
def _call_model(self, x):
print(x, type(x))
for i, value in enumerate(x):
self.lst_args[i].reset_val(value)
input_x = np.array([i.evaluate() for i in self.lst_args])
prediction = self.clf.predict([input_x])
return prediction[0]
I can define your problem as shown below (be sure to define the inputs in the same order as the final list, otherwise not all the values will get updated correctly in the optimizer!):
A = 5
b = 2
thresh_a = 5
thresh_b = 10
thresh_c = 10.1
thresh_m = 4
thresh_n = 6
u = InputType()
v = InputType()
w = InputType()
x = InputType(minimum=thresh_m, maximum=thresh_n)
y = InputType(value = b, multipliers=([[x, A]]))
z = InputType(relations=[[y, max, thresh_a, 4], [y, min, thresh_b, 3.5], [y, max, thresh_c, 3.7]])
example = Example([u, v, w, x, y, z])
Calling the results:
result = example.optimize()
for i, value in enumerate(result.x):
example.lst_args[i].reset_val(value)
print(f"final values are at: {[i.evaluate() for i in example.lst_args]}: {result.fun)}")