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I want to emphasise (increase the weight) of only a subset of data. Lets say I have old and fresh data, I would like to say that old data has to have more weight and therefore has more influence in the decision than the new data.



In scikit-learn I found only class-weight parameter, but it does not change the weight of the samples, only of all samples within the class.



Is there a way to incorporate this emphasis into the gradient boosted trees in spark or xgboost in python?






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    Are you sure it does that? The documentation suggests otherwise; see sample_weight_last_ten.
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I want to emphasise (increase the weight) of only a subset of data. Lets say I have old and fresh data, I would like to say that old data has to have more weight and therefore has more influence in the decision than the new data.



In scikit-learn I found only class-weight parameter, but it does not change the weight of the samples, only of all samples within the class.



Is there a way to incorporate this emphasis into the gradient boosted trees in spark or xgboost in python?






weighted-data







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    Are you sure it does that? The documentation suggests otherwise; see sample_weight_last_ten.
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I want to emphasise (increase the weight) of only a subset of data. Lets say I have old and fresh data, I would like to say that old data has to have more weight and therefore has more influence in the decision than the new data.



In scikit-learn I found only class-weight parameter, but it does not change the weight of the samples, only of all samples within the class.



Is there a way to incorporate this emphasis into the gradient boosted trees in spark or xgboost in python?






weighted-data







share|improve this question









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I want to emphasise (increase the weight) of only a subset of data. Lets say I have old and fresh data, I would like to say that old data has to have more weight and therefore has more influence in the decision than the new data.



In scikit-learn I found only class-weight parameter, but it does not change the weight of the samples, only of all samples within the class.



Is there a way to incorporate this emphasis into the gradient boosted trees in spark or xgboost in python?






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    Are you sure it does that? The documentation suggests otherwise; see sample_weight_last_ten.
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    $begingroup$
    Are you sure it does that? The documentation suggests otherwise; see sample_weight_last_ten.
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    – Emre
    Apr 16 '18 at 20:34










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$begingroup$
Are you sure it does that? The documentation suggests otherwise; see sample_weight_last_ten.
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If you have a date variable (or something similar), you can create a weight using this.



If you're using XGBoost, there is an option to specify a weight for each instance when creating the DMatrix - feed your observation weighting in here.






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    There might be a fancier way to create dynamic weights but I would probably start with oversampling the subset and see how that goes. So if you've got classes A, B, and C and want to emphasize C, make a duplicate copy of C and insert that into your training data. In other words, assume you have six records to train on:




    1. A1

    2. A2

    3. B1

    4. B2

    5. C1

    6. C2


    add:




    1. C1

    2. C2






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    If you have a date variable (or something similar), you can create a weight using this.



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      If you have a date variable (or something similar), you can create a weight using this.



      If you're using XGBoost, there is an option to specify a weight for each instance when creating the DMatrix - feed your observation weighting in here.






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        If you have a date variable (or something similar), you can create a weight using this.



        If you're using XGBoost, there is an option to specify a weight for each instance when creating the DMatrix - feed your observation weighting in here.






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        If you have a date variable (or something similar), you can create a weight using this.



        If you're using XGBoost, there is an option to specify a weight for each instance when creating the DMatrix - feed your observation weighting in here.







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            There might be a fancier way to create dynamic weights but I would probably start with oversampling the subset and see how that goes. So if you've got classes A, B, and C and want to emphasize C, make a duplicate copy of C and insert that into your training data. In other words, assume you have six records to train on:




            1. A1

            2. A2

            3. B1

            4. B2

            5. C1

            6. C2


            add:




            1. C1

            2. C2






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              You should be very wary of this method as it may introduce biases and skewness into your data - e.g. the distribution of certain variables may change.
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            There might be a fancier way to create dynamic weights but I would probably start with oversampling the subset and see how that goes. So if you've got classes A, B, and C and want to emphasize C, make a duplicate copy of C and insert that into your training data. In other words, assume you have six records to train on:




            1. A1

            2. A2

            3. B1

            4. B2

            5. C1

            6. C2


            add:




            1. C1

            2. C2






            share|improve this answer









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              $begingroup$
              You should be very wary of this method as it may introduce biases and skewness into your data - e.g. the distribution of certain variables may change.
              $endgroup$
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            There might be a fancier way to create dynamic weights but I would probably start with oversampling the subset and see how that goes. So if you've got classes A, B, and C and want to emphasize C, make a duplicate copy of C and insert that into your training data. In other words, assume you have six records to train on:




            1. A1

            2. A2

            3. B1

            4. B2

            5. C1

            6. C2


            add:




            1. C1

            2. C2






            share|improve this answer









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            There might be a fancier way to create dynamic weights but I would probably start with oversampling the subset and see how that goes. So if you've got classes A, B, and C and want to emphasize C, make a duplicate copy of C and insert that into your training data. In other words, assume you have six records to train on:




            1. A1

            2. A2

            3. B1

            4. B2

            5. C1

            6. C2


            add:




            1. C1

            2. C2







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              You should be very wary of this method as it may introduce biases and skewness into your data - e.g. the distribution of certain variables may change.
              $endgroup$
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            You should be very wary of this method as it may introduce biases and skewness into your data - e.g. the distribution of certain variables may change.
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            $begingroup$
            You should be very wary of this method as it may introduce biases and skewness into your data - e.g. the distribution of certain variables may change.
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