The goal of a machine learning linear regression model is to predict a single numeric value. The general form of the prediction equation is y’ = (w0 * x0) + (w1 * x1) + . . . + b, where x = (x0, x1, . . xn) is the input predictor values, the wi are the model weights (aka coefficients) and b is the model bias (aka intercept).
For example, suppose you want to predict a person’s income from their age (x0), height (x1), and bank account balance (x2). The prediction equation might be something like y’ = income = (0.57 * age) + (0.33 * height) + (0.72 * balance) + 4.96.
Training a linear regression model is the process of finding values of the weights and the bias. You do this by using a set of training data that has known x input values and y target values, and using an optimization algorithm that finds values of the weights and the bias so that predicted y’ values (using the weights and bias) closely match the known correct target y values.
There are four main techniques (each has many variations) to train a linear regression model (or the closely related quadratic regression model). There are two iterative techniques, where the values of the weights and the bias are slowly estimated: stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and limited-memory Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (L-BFGS). There are two closed forms techniques, where the values of the weights and the bias are computed directly: left pseudo-inverse via normal equations, and relaxed Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse.
Each of the four common techniques (there are lots of less common techniques) has pros and cons related to 1.) ability to deal with large training datasets, 2.) implementation complexity, 3.) ability to deal with unusual (“ill-conditioned”) training datasets, and 4.) difficulty to find training hyperparameter like a learning rate. If one training technque was superior in all situations, there would only be one technique used.
Here is a summary, but with the caution that there are many exceptions.
I. Iterative Training Techniques 1.) L-BFGS handle large datasets = no implementation complexity = very high handle unusual data = no find parameter difficulty = low (max iterations, tolerance) 2.) SGD handle large datasets = yes implementation complexity = very low handle unusual data = usually find parameter difficulty = medium (learn rate, max epochs) II. Closed Form Training Techniques 3.) left pseudo-inverse handle large datasets = no implementation complexity = medium handle unusual data = sometimes find parameter difficulty = very low (condition) 4.) Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse handle large datasets = no implementation complexity = extremely high handle unusual data = usually find parameter difficulty = very low (condition, SVD)
For implementing linear regression from scratch, using C# or other C-family language, I almost never use L-BFGS or Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse because the implementation complexity is extremely high. For small and medium datasets, left pseudo-inverse training is my technique of choice. If the training dataset is too big (causing left pseudo-inverse training to fail) then SGD is my fallback.
It’s relatively easy to compare different techniques for machine learning training. It’s not so easy (for me anyway) to compare different art techniques.
Left: A beautiful illustration by artist Nikolai Nedbaylo (1940-2015).
Right: An AI-generated illustration. To me, this illustration technically beautiful, but it lacks the soul of the human-generated illustration.
Demo program. Replace “lt” (less than), “gt”, “lte”, “gte” with Boolean opeator symbols.
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace LinearRegressionLeftPinvAndSGD
{
internal class LinearRegressionProgram
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("\nBegin C# linear regression" +
" demo with SGD and left pinv training ");
// 1. load data
Console.WriteLine("\nLoading synthetic train" +
" (200) and test (40) data");
string trainFile =
"..\\..\\..\\Data\\synthetic_train_200.txt";
int[] colsX = new int[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 };
double[][] trainX =
MatLoad(trainFile, colsX, ',', "#");
double[] trainY =
MatToVec(MatLoad(trainFile,
new int[] { 5 }, ',', "#"));
string testFile =
"..\\..\\..\\Data\\synthetic_test_40.txt";
double[][] testX =
MatLoad(testFile, colsX, ',', "#");
double[] testY =
MatToVec(MatLoad(testFile,
new int[] { 5 }, ',', "#"));
Console.WriteLine("Done ");
Console.WriteLine("\nFirst three train X: ");
for (int i = 0; i "lt" 3; ++i)
VecShow(trainX[i], 4, 8);
Console.WriteLine("\nFirst three train y: ");
for (int i = 0; i "lt" 3; ++i)
Console.WriteLine(trainY[i].ToString("F4").
PadLeft(8));
// 2. create and train model
Console.WriteLine("\nCreating and training" +
" model using SGD ");
double lrnRate = 0.001;
int maxEpochs = 1000;
//int seed = 0;
Console.WriteLine("\nSetting lrnRate = " +
lrnRate.ToString("F4"));
Console.WriteLine("Setting maxEpohcs = " +
maxEpochs);
LinearRegressor model =
new LinearRegressor();
model.TrainSGD(trainX, trainY, lrnRate, maxEpochs);
Console.WriteLine("Done ");
// 2b.show model parameters
Console.WriteLine("\nSGD trained weights: ");
for (int i = 0; i "lt" model.weights.Length; ++i)
Console.Write(model.weights[i].ToString("F4") + " ");
Console.WriteLine("\nBias/constant: " +
model.bias.ToString("F4"));
// 3. evaluate model
Console.WriteLine("\nEvaluating SGD model ");
double accTrain = model.Accuracy(trainX, trainY, 0.10);
Console.WriteLine("\nAccuracy train (within 0.10) = " +
accTrain.ToString("F4"));
double accTest = model.Accuracy(testX, testY, 0.10);
Console.WriteLine("Accuracy test (within 0.10) = " +
accTest.ToString("F4"));
double mseTrain = model.MSE(trainX, trainY);
Console.WriteLine("MSE train = " +
mseTrain.ToString("F4"));
double mseTest = model.MSE(testX, testY);
Console.WriteLine("MSE test = " +
mseTest.ToString("F4"));
//// 4. use SGD model
//double[] x = trainX[0];
//Console.WriteLine("\nPredicting for x = ");
//VecShow(x, 4, 9);
//double predY = model.Predict(x);
//Console.WriteLine("\nPredicted y = " +
// predY.ToString("F4"));
Console.WriteLine("\nCreating and training" +
" model using left pseudo-inverse ");
model = new LinearRegressor();
model.TrainLeftPinv(trainX, trainY);
Console.WriteLine("Done ");
// 2b.show model parameters
Console.WriteLine("\nLeft pinv trained weights: ");
for (int i = 0; i "lt" model.weights.Length; ++i)
Console.Write(model.weights[i].ToString("F4") + " ");
Console.WriteLine("\nBias/constant: " +
model.bias.ToString("F4"));
// 3. evaluate model
Console.WriteLine("\nEvaluating left pseudo-inverse" +
" trained model ");
accTrain = model.Accuracy(trainX, trainY, 0.10);
Console.WriteLine("\nAccuracy train (within 0.10) = " +
accTrain.ToString("F4"));
accTest = model.Accuracy(testX, testY, 0.10);
Console.WriteLine("Accuracy test (within 0.10) = " +
accTest.ToString("F4"));
mseTrain = model.MSE(trainX, trainY);
Console.WriteLine("MSE train = " +
mseTrain.ToString("F4"));
mseTest = model.MSE(testX, testY);
Console.WriteLine("MSE test = " +
mseTest.ToString("F4"));
Console.WriteLine("\nEnd demo ");
Console.ReadLine();
} // Main
// ------------------------------------------------------
// helpers for Main()
// ------------------------------------------------------
static double[][] MatLoad(string fn, int[] usecols,
char sep, string comment)
{
List"lt"double[]"gt" result =
new List"lt"double[]"gt"();
string line = "";
FileStream ifs = new FileStream(fn, FileMode.Open);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ifs);
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (line.StartsWith(comment) == true)
continue;
string[] tokens = line.Split(sep);
List"lt"double"gt" lst = new List"lt"double"gt"();
for (int j = 0; j "lt" usecols.Length; ++j)
lst.Add(double.Parse(tokens[usecols[j]]));
double[] row = lst.ToArray();
result.Add(row);
}
sr.Close(); ifs.Close();
return result.ToArray();
}
static double[] MatToVec(double[][] M)
{
int nRows = M.Length;
int nCols = M[0].Length;
double[] result = new double[nRows * nCols];
int k = 0;
for (int i = 0; i "lt" nRows; ++i)
for (int j = 0; j "lt" nCols; ++j)
result[k++] = M[i][j];
return result;
}
static void VecShow(double[] vec, int dec, int wid)
{
for (int i = 0; i "lt" vec.Length; ++i)
Console.Write(vec[i].ToString("F" + dec).
PadLeft(wid));
Console.WriteLine("");
}
} // class Program
public class LinearRegressor
{
public double[] weights;
public double bias;
private Random rnd;
public LinearRegressor(int seed = 0)
{
this.weights = new double[0]; // keep compiler happy
this.bias = 0;
this.rnd = new Random(seed);
}
public void TrainSGD(double[][] trainX,
double[] trainY, double lrnRate, int maxEpochs)
{
int n = trainX.Length; int dim = trainX[0].Length;
this.weights = new double[dim];
// initialize weights and bias
double low = -0.01; double hi = 0.01;
for (int i = 0; i "lt" dim; ++i)
this.weights[i] = (hi - low) *
this.rnd.NextDouble() + low;
this.bias = (hi - low) *
this.rnd.NextDouble() + low;
int[] indices = new int[n]; // of train data
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
indices[i] = i;
for (int epoch = 0; epoch "lt" maxEpochs; ++epoch)
{
// shuffle order pf training data indices
for (int i = 0; i "lt" indices.Length; ++i)
{
int ri = this.rnd.Next(i, indices.Length);
int tmp = indices[i];
indices[i] = indices[ri];
indices[ri] = tmp;
}
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i) // each train item
{
int ii = indices[i];
double[] x = trainX[ii];
double predY = this.Predict(x);
double actualY = trainY[ii];
for (int j = 0; j "lt" dim; ++j) // each weight
this.weights[j] -= lrnRate *
(predY - actualY) * x[j];
this.bias -= lrnRate * (predY - actualY);
}
if (epoch % (int)(maxEpochs / 5) == 0) // progress
{
double mse = this.MSE(trainX, trainY);
string s = "";
s += "epoch = " + epoch.ToString().PadLeft(5);
s += " MSE = " + mse.ToString("F4").PadLeft(8);
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
}
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
public void TrainLeftPinv(double[][] trainX,
double[] trainY)
{
// pseudo-inverse via normal equations
// wts_bias = (inv(Xt * X) * Xt) * trainY
int dim = trainX[0].Length;
this.weights = new double[dim];
double[][] X = MatDesign(trainX);
double[][] Xinv = Cholesky.MatPseudoInv(X);
double[] biasAndWts =
MatVecProduct(Xinv, trainY);
// extract bias and weights
this.bias = biasAndWts[0];
for (int i = 1; i "lt" biasAndWts.Length; ++i)
this.weights[i - 1] = biasAndWts[i];
return; // all done
} // TrainClosed()
private static double[] MatVecProduct(double[][] A,
double[] v)
{
// helper for TrainLeftPinv()
double[] result = new double[A.Length];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" A.Length; ++i)
for (int k = 0; k "lt" A[0].Length; ++k)
result[i] += A[i][k] * v[k];
return result;
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
private static double[][] MatDesign(double[][] M)
{
// helper for TrainLeftPinv()
int nRows = M.Length; int nCols = M[0].Length;
double[][] result = new double[nRows][];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" nRows; ++i)
result[i] = new double[nCols + 1];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" nRows; ++i)
{
result[i][0] = 1.0;
for (int j = 1; j "lt" nCols + 1; ++j)
result[i][j] = M[i][j - 1];
}
return result;
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
public double Predict(double[] x)
{
double result = 0.0;
for (int j = 0; j "lt" x.Length; ++j)
result += x[j] * this.weights[j];
result += this.bias;
return result;
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
public double Accuracy(double[][] dataX, double[] dataY,
double pctClose)
{
int numCorrect = 0; int numWrong = 0;
for (int i = 0; i "lt" dataX.Length; ++i)
{
double actualY = dataY[i];
double predY = this.Predict(dataX[i]);
if (Math.Abs(predY - actualY) "lt"
Math.Abs(pctClose * actualY))
++numCorrect;
else
++numWrong;
}
return (numCorrect * 1.0) / (numWrong + numCorrect);
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
public double MSE(double[][] dataX, double[] dataY)
{
int n = dataX.Length;
double sum = 0.0;
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
{
double actualY = dataY[i];
double predY = this.Predict(dataX[i]);
sum += (actualY - predY) * (actualY - predY);
}
return sum / n;
}
} // class LinearRegressor
// ========================================================
public class Cholesky
{
// container class for MatPseudoInv() for TrainLeftPinv()
public static double[][] MatPseudoInv(double[][] A)
{
// left pseudo-inverse via normal equations
// nRows must be gte nCols
// inv(At * A) * A
double[][] At = MatTranspose(A);
double[][] AtA = MatProduct(At, A);
for (int i = 0; i "lt" AtA.Length; ++i)
AtA[i][i] += 1.0e-8; /// condition before inv
double[][] AtAinv = MatInvCholesky(AtA);
double[][] pinv = MatProduct(AtAinv, At);
return pinv;
} // MatPseudoInv()
// ------------------------------------------------------
private static double[][] MatInvCholesky(double[][] A)
{
// A must be square, symmetric, positive definite
int m = A.Length; int n = A[0].Length; // m == n
// 1. decompose A to L
double[][] L = new double[n][];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
L[i] = new double[n];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
{
for (int j = 0; j "lte" i; ++j)
{
double sum = 0.0;
for (int k = 0; k "lt" j; ++k)
sum += L[i][k] * L[j][k];
if (i == j)
{
double tmp = A[i][i] - sum;
if (tmp "lt" 0.0)
throw new
Exception("decomp Cholesky fatal");
L[i][j] = Math.Sqrt(tmp);
}
else
{
if (L[j][j] == 0.0)
throw new
Exception("decomp Cholesky fatal ");
L[i][j] = (A[i][j] - sum) / L[j][j];
}
} // j
} // i
// 2. compute inverse from L
double[][] result = new double[n][]; // make Identity
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
result[i] = new double[n];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" n; ++i)
result[i][i] = 1.0;
for (int k = 0; k "lt" n; ++k)
{
for (int j = 0; j "lt" n; j++)
{
for (int i = 0; i "lt" k; i++)
{
result[k][j] -= result[i][j] * L[k][i];
}
result[k][j] /= L[k][k];
}
}
for (int k = n - 1; k "gte" 0; --k)
{
for (int j = 0; j "lt" n; j++)
{
for (int i = k + 1; i "lt" n; i++)
{
result[k][j] -= result[i][j] * L[i][k];
}
result[k][j] /= L[k][k];
}
}
return result;
} // MatInvCholesky()
// ------------------------------------------------------
private static double[][] MatTranspose(double[][] M)
{
int nr = M.Length; int nc = M[0].Length;
double[][] result = new double[nc][]; // note
for (int i = 0; i "lt" nc; ++i)
result[i] = new double[nr];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" nr; ++i)
for (int j = 0; j "lt" nc; ++j)
result[j][i] = M[i][j]; // note
return result;
}
// ````````````````````````````````````````````````````
private static double[][] MatProduct(double[][] A,
double[][] B)
{
int aRows = A.Length; int aCols = A[0].Length;
int bRows = B.Length; int bCols = B[0].Length;
if (aCols != bRows)
throw new Exception("Non-conformable matrices");
double[][] result = new double[aRows][];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" aRows; ++i)
result[i] = new double[bCols];
for (int i = 0; i "lt" aRows; ++i) // each row of A
for (int j = 0; j "lt" bCols; ++j) // each col of B
for (int k = 0; k "lt" aCols; ++k)
result[i][j] += A[i][k] * B[k][j];
return result;
}
// ------------------------------------------------------
} // class Cholesky
} // ns
Training data:
# synthetic_train_200.txt # -0.1660, 0.4406, -0.9998, -0.3953, -0.7065, 0.4840 0.0776, -0.1616, 0.3704, -0.5911, 0.7562, 0.1568 -0.9452, 0.3409, -0.1654, 0.1174, -0.7192, 0.8054 0.9365, -0.3732, 0.3846, 0.7528, 0.7892, 0.1345 -0.8299, -0.9219, -0.6603, 0.7563, -0.8033, 0.7955 0.0663, 0.3838, -0.3690, 0.3730, 0.6693, 0.3206 -0.9634, 0.5003, 0.9777, 0.4963, -0.4391, 0.7377 -0.1042, 0.8172, -0.4128, -0.4244, -0.7399, 0.4801 -0.9613, 0.3577, -0.5767, -0.4689, -0.0169, 0.6861 -0.7065, 0.1786, 0.3995, -0.7953, -0.1719, 0.5569 0.3888, -0.1716, -0.9001, 0.0718, 0.3276, 0.2500 0.1731, 0.8068, -0.7251, -0.7214, 0.6148, 0.3297 -0.2046, -0.6693, 0.8550, -0.3045, 0.5016, 0.2129 0.2473, 0.5019, -0.3022, -0.4601, 0.7918, 0.2613 -0.1438, 0.9297, 0.3269, 0.2434, -0.7705, 0.5171 0.1568, -0.1837, -0.5259, 0.8068, 0.1474, 0.3307 -0.9943, 0.2343, -0.3467, 0.0541, 0.7719, 0.5581 0.2467, -0.9684, 0.8589, 0.3818, 0.9946, 0.1092 -0.6553, -0.7257, 0.8652, 0.3936, -0.8680, 0.7018 0.8460, 0.4230, -0.7515, 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Test data:
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I like the place in between, where human and AI create something new, which I call Symbiotic Intelligence.
The problem with ML 1.0 is the lack of noise where it is needed. That makes us odd.
Think about 100 years ago: Belgium, Solvay 1927. And the smartest minds on the planet. The story was the big reset in their minds, because they thought physics was the end. But then quantum mechanics showed otherwise. We have noise in our reality. Not much, but if we remove this noise, we remove life.
Anyway, thanks for this great blog post today, James. I know exactly what I have to do with your code, without knowing everything.