xgboost-predictor-java
Pure Java implementation of XGBoost predictor for online prediction tasks.
Getting started
Adding to dependencies
If you use Maven:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ai.h2o</groupId>
<artifactId>xgboost-predictor</artifactId>
<version>0.3.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Or Gradle:
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile group: 'ai.h2o', name: 'xgboost-predictor', version: '0.3.1'
}
Or sbt:
resolvers += DefaultMavenRepository
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"ai.h2o" % "xgboost-predictor" % "0.3.1"
)
Using Predictor in Java
package biz.k11i.xgboost.demo;
import biz.k11i.xgboost.Predictor;
import biz.k11i.xgboost.util.FVec;
public class HowToUseXgboostPredictor {
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException {
// If you want to use faster exp() calculation, uncomment the line below
// ObjFunction.useFastMathExp(true);
// Load model and create Predictor
Predictor predictor = new Predictor(
new java.io.FileInputStream("/path/to/xgboost-model-file"));
// Create feature vector from dense representation by array
double[] denseArray = {0, 0, 32, 0, 0, 16, -8, 0, 0, 0};
FVec fVecDense = FVec.Transformer.fromArray(
denseArray,
true /* treat zero element as N/A */);
// Create feature vector from sparse representation by map
FVec fVecSparse = FVec.Transformer.fromMap(
new java.util.HashMap<Integer, Double>() {{
put(2, 32.);
put(5, 16.);
put(6, -8.);
}});
// Predict probability or classification
double[] prediction = predictor.predict(fVecDense);
// prediction[0] has
// - probability ("binary:logistic")
// - class label ("multi:softmax")
// Predict leaf index of each tree
int[] leafIndexes = predictor.predictLeaf(fVecDense);
// leafIndexes[i] has a leaf index of i-th tree
}
}
Benchmark
Throughput comparison to xgboost4j 1.1 by xgboost-predictor-benchmark.
Feature | xgboost-predictor | xgboost4j |
---|---|---|
Model loading | 49017.60 ops/s | 39669.36 ops/s |
Single prediction | 6016955.46 ops/s | 1018.01 ops/s |
Batch prediction | 44985.71 ops/s | 5.04 ops/s |
Leaf prediction | 11115853.34 ops/s | 1076.54 ops/s |
Xgboost-predictor-java is about 6,000 to 10,000 times faster than xgboost4j on prediction tasks.
Supported models, objective functions and API
- Models
- "gblinear"
- "gbtree"
- "dart"
- Objective functions
- "binary:logistic"
- "binary:logitraw"
- "multi:softmax"
- "multi:softprob"
- "reg:linear"
- "reg:logistic"
- "rank:pairwise"
- "rank:ndcg"
- API
- Predicts probability or classification
Predictor#predict(FVec)
- Outputs margin
Predictor#predict(FVec, true /* output margin */)
- Predicts leaf index
Predictor#predictLeaf(FVec)
- Predicts probability or classification