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TPOT stands for Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool. Consider TPOT your Data Science Assistant. TPOT is a Python Automated Machine Learning tool that optimizes machine learning pipelines using genetic programming.
TPOT will automate the most tedious part of machine learning by intelligently exploring thousands of possible pipelines to find the best one for your data.
An example Machine Learning pipeline
Once TPOT is finished searching (or you get tired of waiting), it provides you with the Python code for the best pipeline it found so you can tinker with the pipeline from there.
TPOT is built on top of scikit-learn, so all of the code it generates should look familiar... if you're familiar with scikit-learn, anyway.
TPOT is still under active development and we encourage you to check back on this repository regularly for updates.
For further information about TPOT, please see the project documentation.
Please see the repository license for the licensing and usage information for TPOT.
Generally, we have licensed TPOT to make it as widely usable as possible.
We maintain the TPOT installation instructions in the documentation. TPOT requires a working installation of Python.
TPOT can be used on the command line or with Python code.
Click on the corresponding links to find more information on TPOT usage in the documentation.
Below is a minimal working example with the practice MNIST data set.
from tpot import TPOTClassifier
from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
digits = load_digits()
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(digits.data, digits.target,
train_size=0.75, test_size=0.25)
tpot = TPOTClassifier(generations=5, population_size=20, verbosity=2)
tpot.fit(X_train, y_train)
print(tpot.score(X_test, y_test))
tpot.export('tpot_mnist_pipeline.py')Running this code should discover a pipeline that achieves about 98% testing accuracy, and the corresponding Python code should be exported to the tpot_mnist_pipeline.py file and look similar to the following:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
# NOTE: Make sure that the class is labeled 'target' in the data file
tpot_data = pd.read_csv('PATH/TO/DATA/FILE', sep='COLUMN_SEPARATOR', dtype=np.float64)
features = tpot_data.drop('target', axis=1).values
training_features, testing_features, training_target, testing_target = \
train_test_split(features, tpot_data['target'].values, random_state=None)
exported_pipeline = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=6, weights="distance")
exported_pipeline.fit(training_features, training_classes)
results = exported_pipeline.predict(testing_features)Similarly, TPOT can optimize pipelines for regression problems. Below is a minimal working example with the practice Boston housing prices data set.
from tpot import TPOTRegressor
from sklearn.datasets import load_boston
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
housing = load_boston()
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(housing.data, housing.target,
train_size=0.75, test_size=0.25)
tpot = TPOTRegressor(generations=5, population_size=20, verbosity=2)
tpot.fit(X_train, y_train)
print(tpot.score(X_test, y_test))
tpot.export('tpot_boston_pipeline.py')which should result in a pipeline that achieves about 12.77 mean squared error (MSE), and the Python code in tpot_boston_pipeline.py should look similar to:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingRegressor
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
# NOTE: Make sure that the class is labeled 'target' in the data file
tpot_data = pd.read_csv('PATH/TO/DATA/FILE', sep='COLUMN_SEPARATOR', dtype=np.float64)
features = tpot_data.drop('target', axis=1).values
training_features, testing_features, training_target, testing_target = \
train_test_split(features, tpot_data['target'].values, random_state=None)
exported_pipeline = GradientBoostingRegressor(alpha=0.85, learning_rate=0.1, loss="ls",
max_features=0.9, min_samples_leaf=5,
min_samples_split=6)
exported_pipeline.fit(training_features, training_classes)
results = exported_pipeline.predict(testing_features)Check the documentation for more examples and tutorials.
We welcome you to check the existing issues for bugs or enhancements to work on. If you have an idea for an extension to TPOT, please file a new issue so we can discuss it.
Before submitting any contributions, please review our contribution guidelines.
Please check the existing open and closed issues to see if your issue has already been attended to. If it hasn't, file a new issue on this repository so we can review your issue.
If you use TPOT in a scientific publication, please consider citing at least one of the following papers:
Randal S. Olson, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Peter C. Andrews, Nicole A. Lavender, La Creis Kidd, and Jason H. Moore (2016). Automating biomedical data science through tree-based pipeline optimization. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, pages 123-137.
BibTeX entry:
@inbook{Olson2016EvoBio,
author={Olson, Randal S. and Urbanowicz, Ryan J. and Andrews, Peter C. and Lavender, Nicole A. and Kidd, La Creis and Moore, Jason H.},
editor={Squillero, Giovanni and Burelli, Paolo},
chapter={Automating Biomedical Data Science Through Tree-Based Pipeline Optimization},
title={Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part I},
year={2016},
publisher={Springer International Publishing},
pages={123--137},
isbn={978-3-319-31204-0},
doi={10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0_9},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31204-0_9}
}Randal S. Olson, Nathan Bartley, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, and Jason H. Moore (2016). Evaluation of a Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool for Automating Data Science. Proceedings of GECCO 2016, pages 485-492.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{OlsonGECCO2016,
author = {Olson, Randal S. and Bartley, Nathan and Urbanowicz, Ryan J. and Moore, Jason H.},
title = {Evaluation of a Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool for Automating Data Science},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016},
series = {GECCO '16},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4206-3},
location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
pages = {485--492},
numpages = {8},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2908812.2908918},
doi = {10.1145/2908812.2908918},
acmid = {2908918},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}Alternatively, you can cite the repository directly with the following DOI:
TPOT was developed in the Computational Genetics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania with funding from the NIH under grant R01 AI117694. We are incredibly grateful for the support of the NIH and the University of Pennsylvania during the development of this project.
The TPOT logo was designed by Todd Newmuis, who generously donated his time to the project.