The Higgs Boson dataset is a high-energy physics dataset used for binary classification tasks. The goal is to predict whether an event is a signal (a Higgs boson process) or background noise.
Note, this is a different dataset to the Kaggle Higgs Boson Challenge.
In this example, we’ll load the Higgs Boson dataset using fetch_openml from scikit-learn, perform hyperparameter tuning using GridSearchCV with common XGBoost parameters, save the best model, load it, and use it to make predictions.
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV, train_test_split
from xgboost import XGBClassifier
# Load the Higgs Boson dataset
higgs = fetch_openml('Higgs', as_frame=True)
X, y = higgs.data, higgs.target
# Print key information about the dataset
print(f"Dataset shape: {X.shape}")
print(f"Features: {higgs.feature_names}")
print(f"Target variable: {higgs.target_names}")
print(f"Class distributions: {y.value_counts()}")
# Split data into train and test sets
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=42, stratify=y)
# Define parameter grid
param_grid = {
'max_depth': [3, 4, 5],
'learning_rate': [0.1, 0.01, 0.05],
'n_estimators': [50, 100, 200],
'subsample': [0.8, 1.0],
'colsample_bytree': [0.8, 1.0]
}
# Create XGBClassifier
model = XGBClassifier(objective='binary:logistic', random_state=42, n_jobs=1)
# Perform grid search
grid_search = GridSearchCV(estimator=model, param_grid=param_grid, cv=3, n_jobs=-1)
grid_search.fit(X_train, y_train)
# Print best score and parameters
print(f"Best score: {grid_search.best_score_:.3f}")
print(f"Best parameters: {grid_search.best_params_}")
# Access best model
best_model = grid_search.best_estimator_
# Save best model
best_model.save_model('best_model_higgs.ubj')
# Load saved model
loaded_model = XGBClassifier()
loaded_model.load_model('best_model_higgs.ubj')
# Use loaded model for predictions
predictions = loaded_model.predict(X_test)
# Print accuracy score
accuracy = loaded_model.score(X_test, y_test)
print(f"Accuracy: {accuracy:.3f}")
Running the example, you will see results similar to the following:
Dataset shape: (98050, 28)
Features: ['lepton_pT', 'lepton_eta', 'lepton_phi', 'missing_energy_magnitude', 'missing_energy_phi', 'jet1pt', 'jet1eta', 'jet1phi', 'jet1b-tag', 'jet2pt', 'jet2eta', 'jet2phi', 'jet2b-tag', 'jet3pt', 'jet3eta', 'jet3phi', 'jet3b-tag', 'jet4pt', 'jet4eta', 'jet4phi', 'jet4b-tag', 'm_jj', 'm_jjj', 'm_lv', 'm_jlv', 'm_bb', 'm_wbb', 'm_wwbb']
Target variable: ['class']
Class distributions: class
1 51827
0 46223
Name: count, dtype: int64
Best score: 0.724
Best parameters: {'colsample_bytree': 0.8, 'learning_rate': 0.1, 'max_depth': 5, 'n_estimators': 200, 'subsample': 1.0}
Accuracy: 0.724
In this example, we load the Higgs Boson dataset using fetch_openml from scikit-learn. We print key information about the dataset, including its shape, feature names, and class distributions.
Next, we split the data into train and test sets, define a parameter grid for hyperparameter tuning, create an instance of XGBClassifier, and perform a grid search using GridSearchCV with 3-fold cross-validation. We fit the grid search object and print the best score and corresponding best parameters.
We access the best model using best_estimator_, save it to a file named ‘best_model_higgs.ubj’, and demonstrate loading the saved model using load_model().
Finally, we use the loaded model to make predictions on the test set and print the accuracy score.
By following this approach, you can easily perform hyperparameter tuning on the Higgs Boson dataset using XGBoost, save the best model, and use it for making predictions.