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  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c01","metadata":{},"source":["# Random Forest in Python: Classification and Regression\n\nCovers RandomForestClassifier and RandomForestRegressor on two sklearn datasets, with OOB validation, MDI vs permutation feature importance, and max_features hyperparameter sweep."]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c02","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["import numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport warnings\nwarnings.filterwarnings('ignore')\nnp.random.seed(42)\nimport sklearn\nprint(f'sklearn {sklearn.__version__}')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c03","metadata":{},"source":["## 1. Datasets"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c04","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["# Source: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.datasets.load_breast_cancer.html\n# Source: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.datasets.load_diabetes.html\nfrom sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer, load_diabetes\nfrom sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split\n\nbc = load_breast_cancer()\nXc, yc = bc.data, bc.target\nXc_tr, Xc_te, yc_tr, yc_te = train_test_split(Xc, yc, test_size=0.25, random_state=42, stratify=yc)\n\ndb = load_diabetes()\nXr, yr = db.data, db.target\nXr_tr, Xr_te, yr_tr, yr_te = train_test_split(Xr, yr, test_size=0.25, random_state=42)\n\nprint(f'Classification (Breast Cancer): train={Xc_tr.shape}  test={Xc_te.shape}')\nprint(f'Regression (Diabetes):          train={Xr_tr.shape}  test={Xr_te.shape}')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c05","metadata":{},"source":["## 2. EDA"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c06","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 4, figsize=(18, 4))\naxes[0].bar(bc.target_names, np.bincount(yc), color=['#ef4444','#22c55e'], edgecolor='k')\naxes[0].set_title('BC — Class Balance')\nfor c, col in zip([0,1],['#ef4444','#22c55e']):\n    axes[1].scatter(Xc[yc==c,0], Xc[yc==c,1], c=col, s=12, alpha=0.5, label=bc.target_names[c])\naxes[1].set_xlabel('Mean Radius'); axes[1].set_ylabel('Mean Texture')\naxes[1].set_title('BC — Feature Space'); axes[1].legend(fontsize=8)\naxes[2].hist(yr, bins=25, color='#6366f1', edgecolor='white', alpha=0.85)\naxes[2].set_title('Diabetes — Target Distribution')\naxes[3].bar(db.feature_names, np.abs(np.corrcoef(Xr.T, yr)[-1, :-1]),\n            color='#22c55e', alpha=0.85)\naxes[3].set_xticklabels(db.feature_names, rotation=45, ha='right')\naxes[3].set_title('|Correlation| with Target (Diabetes)')\nplt.tight_layout(); plt.show()"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c07","metadata":{},"source":["## 3. Classification — Random Forest vs Baselines"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c08","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier, BaggingClassifier\nfrom sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier\nfrom sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression\nfrom sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler\nfrom sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, roc_auc_score\nfrom sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline\n\nrf_clf = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, max_features='sqrt',\n                                 oob_score=True, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\nrf_clf.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n\nbag_clf = BaggingClassifier(estimator=DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None),\n                             n_estimators=100, oob_score=True,\n                             random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\nbag_clf.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n\ndt_clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None, random_state=42)\ndt_clf.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n\nlr_clf = Pipeline([('sc', StandardScaler()),\n                   ('lr', LogisticRegression(max_iter=300, random_state=42))])\nlr_clf.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n\nfor name, m in [('Decision Tree', dt_clf), ('Bagging (no feat sub)', bag_clf),\n                 ('Logistic Regression', lr_clf), ('Random Forest', rf_clf)]:\n    acc = accuracy_score(yc_te, m.predict(Xc_te))\n    proba = m.predict_proba(Xc_te)[:,1]\n    auc = roc_auc_score(yc_te, proba)\n    oob = getattr(m, 'oob_score_', float('nan'))\n    print(f'{name:30s}: acc={acc:.4f}  auc={auc:.4f}  oob={oob:.4f}')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c09","metadata":{},"source":["## 4. Classification — Feature Importance (MDI vs Permutation)"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c10","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["from sklearn.inspection import permutation_importance\n\nmdi_imp = rf_clf.feature_importances_\nperm_res = permutation_importance(rf_clf, Xc_te, yc_te,\n                                   n_repeats=20, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\nperm_imp = perm_res.importances_mean\n\ntop_n = 12\nmdi_order  = np.argsort(mdi_imp)[::-1][:top_n]\nperm_order = np.argsort(perm_imp)[::-1][:top_n]\n\nfig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(16, 5))\nfor ax, order, imp, title, col in [\n    (axes[0], mdi_order,  mdi_imp,  'MDI Feature Importance',         '#6366f1'),\n    (axes[1], perm_order, perm_imp, 'Permutation Importance (test)',   '#22c55e')\n]:\n    ax.barh(range(top_n), imp[order][::-1], color=col, alpha=0.85)\n    ax.set_yticks(range(top_n))\n    ax.set_yticklabels([bc.feature_names[i][:20] for i in order[::-1]], fontsize=9)\n    ax.set_title(title)\nplt.tight_layout(); plt.show()"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c11","metadata":{},"source":["## 5. max_features Sweep (Classification)"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c12","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["mf_options = [1, 2, 5, 'sqrt', 10, 15, Xc_tr.shape[1]]\nmf_labels   = ['1','2','5','sqrt','10','15','all']\nmf_oob, mf_test = [], []\n\nfor mf in mf_options:\n    m = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, max_features=mf,\n                                oob_score=True, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\n    m.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n    mf_oob.append(m.oob_score_)\n    mf_test.append(accuracy_score(yc_te, m.predict(Xc_te)))\n    print(f'max_features={str(mf):4s}: oob={m.oob_score_:.4f}  test={mf_test[-1]:.4f}')\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 4))\nax.plot(mf_labels, mf_oob,  'o-', color='#22c55e', linewidth=2, label='OOB')\nax.plot(mf_labels, mf_test, 's-', color='#6366f1', linewidth=2, label='Test')\nax.set_xlabel('max_features'); ax.set_ylabel('Accuracy')\nax.set_title('max_features Sweep — Breast Cancer')\nax.legend(); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c13","metadata":{},"source":["## 6. n_estimators Convergence (OOB)"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c14","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier\n\noob_scores = []\ntest_scores = []\nn_est_range = list(range(1, 151, 5))\n\nfor n in n_est_range:\n    m = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=n, max_features='sqrt',\n                                oob_score=True, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\n    m.fit(Xc_tr, yc_tr)\n    oob_scores.append(m.oob_score_)\n    test_scores.append(accuracy_score(yc_te, m.predict(Xc_te)))\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 4))\nax.plot(n_est_range, oob_scores,  color='#22c55e', linewidth=2, label='OOB')\nax.plot(n_est_range, test_scores, color='#6366f1', linewidth=2, label='Test')\nax.set_xlabel('n_estimators'); ax.set_ylabel('Accuracy')\nax.set_title('OOB and Test Accuracy vs n_estimators')\nax.legend(); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()\nprint(f'Converged by ~{n_est_range[np.argmax(oob_scores)]} trees (OOB peak)')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c15","metadata":{},"source":["## 7. Regression — Random Forest vs Baselines"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c16","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor\nfrom sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeRegressor\nfrom sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression\nfrom sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error, r2_score\n\nrf_reg = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=100, max_features='sqrt',\n                                oob_score=True, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\nrf_reg.fit(Xr_tr, yr_tr)\n\ndt_reg = DecisionTreeRegressor(max_depth=None, random_state=42)\ndt_reg.fit(Xr_tr, yr_tr)\n\nlr_reg = LinearRegression()\nlr_reg.fit(Xr_tr, yr_tr)\n\nprint('Regression Results (Diabetes dataset):')\nfor name, m in [('Linear Regression', lr_reg), ('Decision Tree', dt_reg), ('Random Forest', rf_reg)]:\n    yhat = m.predict(Xr_te)\n    rmse = np.sqrt(mean_squared_error(yr_te, yhat))\n    r2   = r2_score(yr_te, yhat)\n    oob  = getattr(m, 'oob_score_', float('nan'))\n    print(f'  {name:25s}: RMSE={rmse:.2f}  R²={r2:.4f}  OOB-R²={oob:.4f}')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c17","metadata":{},"source":["## 8. Regression — Feature Importance"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c18","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["mdi_r  = rf_reg.feature_importances_\nperm_r = permutation_importance(rf_reg, Xr_te, yr_te,\n                                 n_repeats=20, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1).importances_mean\n\nfig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 4))\nfor ax, imp, title, col in [\n    (axes[0], mdi_r,  'MDI Importance',         '#6366f1'),\n    (axes[1], perm_r, 'Permutation Importance', '#22c55e')\n]:\n    order = np.argsort(imp)[::-1]\n    ax.bar(range(len(db.feature_names)), imp[order], color=col, alpha=0.85)\n    ax.set_xticks(range(len(db.feature_names)))\n    ax.set_xticklabels([db.feature_names[i] for i in order], rotation=45, ha='right')\n    ax.set_title(f'Diabetes — {title}')\nplt.tight_layout(); plt.show()"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c19","metadata":{},"source":["## 9. Regression RMSE vs n_estimators"]},
  {"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"id":"c20","metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":["train_rmse, test_rmse = [], []\nfor n in range(1, 101):\n    m = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators=n, max_features='sqrt',\n                               random_state=42, n_jobs=-1)\n    m.fit(Xr_tr, yr_tr)\n    train_rmse.append(np.sqrt(mean_squared_error(yr_tr, m.predict(Xr_tr))))\n    test_rmse.append(np.sqrt(mean_squared_error(yr_te, m.predict(Xr_te))))\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 4))\nax.plot(range(1,101), train_rmse, color='#22c55e', linewidth=2, label='Train RMSE')\nax.plot(range(1,101), test_rmse,  color='#6366f1', linewidth=2, label='Test RMSE')\ndt_rmse = np.sqrt(mean_squared_error(yr_te, dt_reg.predict(Xr_te)))\nax.axhline(dt_rmse, color='#ef4444', linestyle='--', label=f'Single Tree ({dt_rmse:.1f})')\nax.set_xlabel('n_estimators'); ax.set_ylabel('RMSE')\nax.set_title('RF Regression RMSE Convergence (Diabetes)')\nax.legend(); plt.tight_layout(); plt.show()\nprint(f'Single tree RMSE: {dt_rmse:.2f}  RF (100 trees): {test_rmse[-1]:.2f}')"]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c21","metadata":{},"source":["## 10. Discussion\n\n1. **Feature subsampling at each split is the key differentiator from bagging.** The accuracy gap between BaggingClassifier and RandomForestClassifier (0.5–2 pp) is entirely attributable to feature subsampling reducing inter-tree correlation ρ from ~0.4 to ~0.1.\n\n2. **OOB accuracy is a reliable free cross-validation substitute.** On Breast Cancer, the OOB score tracks the test score within 0.5 pp across all max_features settings, making it a safe criterion for hyperparameter selection without a separate validation split.\n\n3. **MDI and permutation importance can disagree on correlated features.** If two features are correlated, MDI splits importance between them, making each appear less important. Permutation importance correctly captures the joint effect. Cross-checking both is good practice.\n\n4. **n_estimators needs to be only large enough for convergence.** On both datasets, OOB accuracy and RMSE plateau by 50 trees. There is no accuracy benefit to 500 trees — only added memory and prediction latency."]},
  {"cell_type":"markdown","id":"c22","metadata":{},"source":["## 11. Next Steps\n\n- **Article 19: Random Subspace Method** — subsampling features at the tree level (not split level)\n- **Article 20: How Random Forest Creates Diversity** — deeper analysis of what makes RF trees different\n- **Article 21 (Bagging Series): Tuning RF Hyperparameters** — systematic sweep of max_depth, min_samples_leaf, max_features"]}
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