Source code for optunity.solvers.RandomSearch

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import operator as op
import random

from ..functions import static_key_order
from .solver_registry import register_solver
from .util import Solver, _copydoc, shrink_bounds, uniform_in_bounds
from . import util

@register_solver('random search',
                 'random parameter tuples sampled uniformly within box constraints',
                 ['Tests random parameter tuples sampled uniformly within the box constraints.',
                  ' ',
                  'This function requires the following arguments:',
                  '- num_evals :: number of tuples to test',
                  '- box constraints via keywords: constraints are lists [lb, ub]',
                  ' ',
                  'This solver performs num_evals function evaluations.',
                  ' ',
                  'This solver implements the technique described here:',
                  'Bergstra, James, and Yoshua Bengio. Random search for hyper-parameter optimization. Journal of Machine Learning Research 13 (2012): 281-305.']
                 )
[docs]class RandomSearch(Solver): """ .. include:: /global.rst Please refer to |randomsearch| for more details about this algorithm. """ def __init__(self, num_evals, **kwargs): """Initializes the solver with bounds and a number of allowed evaluations. kwargs must be a dictionary of parameter-bound pairs representing the box constraints. Bounds are a 2-element list: [lower_bound, upper_bound]. >>> s = RandomSearch(x=[0, 1], y=[-1, 2], num_evals=50) >>> s.bounds['x'] [0, 1] >>> s.bounds['y'] [-1, 2] >>> s.num_evals 50 """ assert all([len(v) == 2 and v[0] <= v[1] for v in kwargs.values()]), 'kwargs.values() are not [lb, ub] pairs' self._bounds = kwargs self._num_evals = num_evals @staticmethod
[docs] def suggest_from_box(num_evals, **kwargs): """Creates a RandomSearch solver that uses ``num_evals`` evaluations within given bounds (lb, ub). The bounds are first tightened, resulting in new bounds covering 99% of the area. >>> s = RandomSearch.suggest_from_box(30, x=[0, 1], y=[-1, 0], z=[-1, 1]) >>> s['x'] #doctest:+SKIP [0.005, 0.995] >>> s['y'] #doctest:+SKIP [-0.995, -0.005] >>> s['z'] #doctest:+SKIP [-0.99, 0.99] >>> s['num_evals'] 30 Verify that we can effectively make a solver from box. >>> s = RandomSearch.suggest_from_box(30, x=[0, 1], y=[-1, 0], z=[-1, 1]) >>> solver = RandomSearch(**s) """ d = shrink_bounds(kwargs) d['num_evals'] = num_evals return d
@property def upper(self, par): """Returns the upper bound of par.""" return self._bounds[par][1] @property def lower(self, par): """Returns the lower bound of par.""" return self._bounds[par][0] @property def bounds(self): """Returns a dictionary containing the box constraints.""" return self._bounds @property def num_evals(self): """Returns the number of evaluations this solver may do.""" return self._num_evals @_copydoc(Solver.optimize)
[docs] def optimize(self, f, maximize=True, pmap=map): def generate_rand_args(len=1): # return [uniform_in_bounds(self.bounds)] return [[random.uniform(bounds[0], bounds[1]) for _ in range(len)] for _, bounds in self.bounds.items()] best_pars = None f = static_key_order(self.bounds.keys())(f) if maximize: comp = lambda score, best: score > best else: comp = lambda score, best: score < best tuples = generate_rand_args(self.num_evals) scores = pmap(f, *tuples) scores = map(util.score, scores) if maximize: comp = max else: comp = min best_idx, _ = comp(enumerate(scores), key=op.itemgetter(1)) best_pars = op.itemgetter(best_idx)(list(zip(*tuples))) return dict([(k, v) for k, v in zip(self.bounds.keys(), best_pars)]), None