optuna.importance.MeanDecreaseImpurityImportanceEvaluator

class optuna.importance.MeanDecreaseImpurityImportanceEvaluator(*, n_trees=64, max_depth=64, seed=None)[source]

Mean Decrease Impurity (MDI) parameter importance evaluator.

This evaluator fits fits a random forest regression model that predicts the objective values of COMPLETE trials given their parameter configurations. Feature importances are then computed using MDI.

Note

This evaluator requires the sklearn Python package and is based on sklearn.ensemble.RandomForestClassifier.feature_importances_.

Parameters:

  • n_trees (int) – Number of trees in the random forest.

  • max_depth (int) – The maximum depth of each tree in the random forest.

  • seed (int | None) – Seed for the random forest.

Methods

evaluate(study[, params, target])

Evaluate parameter importances based on completed trials in the given study.
evaluate(study, params=None, *, target=None)[source]

Evaluate parameter importances based on completed trials in the given study.

Note

This method is not meant to be called by library users.

See also

Please refer to get_param_importances() for how a concrete evaluator should implement this method.

Parameters:

  • study (Study) – An optimized study.

  • params (list[str] | None) – A list of names of parameters to assess. If None, all parameters that are present in all of the completed trials are assessed.

  • target (Callable[[FrozenTrial], float] | None) –

    A function to specify the value to evaluate importances. If it is None and study is being used for single-objective optimization, the objective values are used. Can also be used for other trial attributes, such as the duration, like target=lambda t: t.duration.total_seconds().

    Note

    Specify this argument if study is being used for multi-objective optimization. For example, to get the hyperparameter importance of the first objective, use target=lambda t: t.values[0] for the target parameter.

Returns:

A dict where the keys are parameter names and the values are assessed importances.

Return type:

dict[str, float]