Plot a boosted tree model
Read a tree model text dump and plot the model.
xgb.plot.tree( feature_names = NULL, model = NULL, trees = NULL, plot_width = NULL, plot_height = NULL, render = TRUE, show_node_id = FALSE, ... )
feature_names |
names of each feature as a |
model |
produced by the |
trees |
an integer vector of tree indices that should be visualized.
If set to |
plot_width |
the width of the diagram in pixels. |
plot_height |
the height of the diagram in pixels. |
render |
a logical flag for whether the graph should be rendered (see Value). |
show_node_id |
a logical flag for whether to show node id's in the graph. |
... |
currently not used. |
The content of each node is organised that way:
Feature name.
Cover
: The sum of second order gradient of training data classified to the leaf.
If it is square loss, this simply corresponds to the number of instances seen by a split
or collected by a leaf during training.
The deeper in the tree a node is, the lower this metric will be.
Gain
(for split nodes): the information gain metric of a split
(corresponds to the importance of the node in the model).
Value
(for leafs): the margin value that the leaf may contribute to prediction.
The tree root nodes also indicate the Tree index (0-based).
The "Yes" branches are marked by the "< split_value" label. The branches that also used for missing values are marked as bold (as in "carrying extra capacity").
This function uses GraphViz as a backend of DiagrammeR.
When render = TRUE
:
returns a rendered graph object which is an htmlwidget
of class grViz
.
Similar to ggplot objects, it needs to be printed to see it when not running from command line.
When render = FALSE
:
silently returns a graph object which is of DiagrammeR's class dgr_graph
.
This could be useful if one wants to modify some of the graph attributes
before rendering the graph with render_graph
.
data(agaricus.train, package='xgboost') bst <- xgboost(data = agaricus.train$data, label = agaricus.train$label, max_depth = 3, eta = 1, nthread = 2, nrounds = 2,objective = "binary:logistic") # plot all the trees xgb.plot.tree(model = bst) # plot only the first tree and display the node ID: xgb.plot.tree(model = bst, trees = 0, show_node_id = TRUE) ## Not run: # Below is an example of how to save this plot to a file. # Note that for `export_graph` to work, the DiagrammeRsvg and rsvg packages must also be installed. library(DiagrammeR) gr <- xgb.plot.tree(model=bst, trees=0:1, render=FALSE) export_graph(gr, 'tree.pdf', width=1500, height=1900) export_graph(gr, 'tree.png', width=1500, height=1900) ## End(Not run)
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