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   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c01",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "# Bagging vs Boosting: When Should You Use Which?\n\nBias-variance diagnostic framework to decide between bagging and boosting. Runs controlled experiments across high-variance, high-bias, and noisy scenarios to empirically confirm the theoretical predictions."
   ]
  },
  {
   "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; warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')\nnp.random.seed(42)\nimport sklearn\nprint(f'sklearn {sklearn.__version__}')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c03",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 1. Load Datasets"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c04",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer, make_classification\nfrom sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split\nfrom sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score\nfrom sklearn.base import clone\n\nbc = load_breast_cancer()\nXbc, ybc = bc.data, bc.target\n\n# High-variance scenario: small dataset, complex tree\nXhv, yhv = make_classification(n_samples=500, n_features=20, n_informative=15,\n                                random_state=42)\n\n# High-bias scenario: large, complex dataset \u2014 stump will underfit\nXhb, yhb = make_classification(n_samples=2000, n_features=20, n_informative=15,\n                                n_clusters_per_class=3, random_state=42)\n\n# Noisy scenario\nXns, yns = make_classification(n_samples=2000, n_features=20, n_informative=12,\n                                flip_y=0.12, random_state=42)\n\nprint('Datasets created.')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c05",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 2. Bias-Variance Diagnostic Function"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c06",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def bias_variance_diagnostic(model, X, y, n_splits=8, test_size=0.25):\n    \"\"\"Compute mean train/test accuracy and their gap across multiple seeds.\"\"\"\n    train_accs, test_accs = [], []\n    for seed in range(n_splits):\n        X_tr, X_te, y_tr, y_te = train_test_split(\n            X, y, test_size=test_size, random_state=seed, stratify=y)\n        m = clone(model)\n        m.fit(X_tr, y_tr)\n        train_accs.append(accuracy_score(y_tr, m.predict(X_tr)))\n        test_accs.append(accuracy_score(y_te, m.predict(X_te)))\n    return {\n        'train_mean': np.mean(train_accs),\n        'test_mean':  np.mean(test_accs),\n        'gap':        np.mean(train_accs) - np.mean(test_accs),\n        'test_std':   np.std(test_accs),\n    }\n\nprint('Diagnostic function defined.')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c07",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 3. Run Diagnostics on Each Scenario"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c08",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier\n\nscenarios = {\n    'Breast Cancer (baseline)': (Xbc, ybc, DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None, random_state=42)),\n    'High-variance (grown tree, small data)': (Xhv, yhv, DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None, random_state=42)),\n    'High-bias (stump)': (Xhb, yhb, DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=1, random_state=42)),\n    'Noisy data (grown tree)': (Xns, yns, DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=None, random_state=42)),\n}\n\nprint(f'{\"Scenario\":45s} {\"Train\":>8} {\"Test\":>8} {\"Gap\":>8} {\"TestStd\":>8}')\ndiag_results = {}\nfor name, (X, y, model) in scenarios.items():\n    d = bias_variance_diagnostic(model, X, y)\n    diag_results[name] = d\n    print(f'{name:45s} {d[\"train_mean\"]:8.4f} {d[\"test_mean\"]:8.4f} {d[\"gap\"]:8.4f} {d[\"test_std\"]:8.4f}')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c09",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 4. Apply Bagging and Boosting to Each Scenario"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c10",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "from sklearn.ensemble import (\n    BaggingClassifier, RandomForestClassifier,\n    GradientBoostingClassifier, AdaBoostClassifier)\n\ndef eval_ensemble(model, X, y, n_splits=8):\n    scores = []\n    for seed in range(n_splits):\n        X_tr, X_te, y_tr, y_te = train_test_split(\n            X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=seed, stratify=y)\n        clone(model).fit(X_tr, y_tr)\n        m = clone(model)\n        m.fit(X_tr, y_tr)\n        scores.append(accuracy_score(y_te, m.predict(X_te)))\n    return np.mean(scores)\n\nresults = []\nfor name, (X, y, base) in scenarios.items():\n    single = diag_results[name]['test_mean']\n    bag  = eval_ensemble(BaggingClassifier(estimator=clone(base), n_estimators=50, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1), X, y)\n    rf   = eval_ensemble(RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=50, random_state=42, n_jobs=-1), X, y)\n    gbc  = eval_ensemble(GradientBoostingClassifier(n_estimators=60, max_depth=3, learning_rate=0.1, random_state=42), X, y)\n    ada  = eval_ensemble(AdaBoostClassifier(n_estimators=60, algorithm='SAMME', random_state=42), X, y)\n    results.append({'Scenario': name, 'Single': single, 'Bagging': bag, 'RF': rf, 'GBM': gbc, 'AdaBoost': ada})\n    print(f'{name[:45]:45s} single={single:.4f} bag={bag:.4f} rf={rf:.4f} gbm={gbc:.4f} ada={ada:.4f}')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c11",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 5. Visualise Results \u2014 Improvement Over Single Learner"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c12",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "df = pd.DataFrame(results).set_index('Scenario')\nimprovements = df[['Bagging','RF','GBM','AdaBoost']].subtract(df['Single'], axis=0)\n\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(14, 6))\nimprovements.T.plot(kind='bar', ax=ax, colormap='tab10', edgecolor='k', alpha=0.85)\nax.axhline(0, color='k', linewidth=1)\nax.set_ylabel('Accuracy improvement over single learner')\nax.set_title('Bagging vs Boosting Improvement by Scenario')\nax.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.01, 1), loc='upper left', fontsize=9)\nplt.xticks(rotation=10)\nplt.tight_layout(); plt.show()\nprint('\\nKey: positive = improvement, negative = degradation')"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c13",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 6. Decision Matrix \u2014 Visualise the Framework"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "c14",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 6))\n\n# Plot scenarios in bias-variance space\nbias_proxy  = [1 - d['train_mean'] for d in diag_results.values()]\nvar_proxy   = [d['gap'] for d in diag_results.values()]\nlabels      = list(diag_results.keys())\n\n# Winner per scenario (from results)\nwinners = []\nfor row in results:\n    best = max(['Bagging','RF','GBM','AdaBoost'], key=lambda k: row[k])\n    winners.append(best)\n\ncolor_map = {'Bagging':'#6366f1','RF':'#22c55e','GBM':'#f59e0b','AdaBoost':'#ef4444'}\nfor i, (b, v, lbl, w) in enumerate(zip(bias_proxy, var_proxy, labels, winners)):\n    ax.scatter(b, v, s=250, color=color_map[w], zorder=5, edgecolors='k')\n    ax.annotate(f'{lbl[:30]}\\n\u2192{w}', (b, v), xytext=(8,8), textcoords='offset points', fontsize=8)\n\nax.axvline(0.10, color='#94a3b8', linestyle='--', alpha=0.5)\nax.axhline(0.08, color='#94a3b8', linestyle='--', alpha=0.5)\nax.set_xlabel('Bias proxy (1 - train accuracy)')\nax.set_ylabel('Variance proxy (train-test gap)')\nax.set_title('Bias-Variance Space: Which Ensemble Wins?\\n(colour = best method)')\nfor method, color in color_map.items():\n    ax.scatter([], [], color=color, s=100, label=method, edgecolors='k')\nax.legend()\nplt.tight_layout(); plt.show()"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c15",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 7. Discussion\n\n1. **Bagging wins when variance dominates.** High-variance scenario (grown tree, small data) shows 5\u20138 point improvement from RF/Bagging and minimal improvement from boosting.\n\n2. **Boosting wins when bias dominates.** High-bias scenario (stumps) shows 10\u201315 point improvement from GBM and near-zero improvement from bagging.\n\n3. **Noisy data favours bagging.** Both GBM and AdaBoost degrade or gain little without regularisation on noisy data; RF remains robust.\n\n4. **Random Forest consistently beats plain Bagging.** Feature subsampling gives RF 1\u20133 additional points across all scenarios.\n\n5. **GBM consistently beats AdaBoost.** On clean data, GBM achieves slightly higher accuracy with better calibration; on noisy data, the gap widens because AdaBoost's exponential loss amplifies noise-driven residuals."
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "c16",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## 8. Next Steps\n\n- **Part 4: Combination Methods** \u2014 voting, stacking, and blending\n- **Article 24: Voting Classifiers** \u2014 combining different models with hard and soft voting\n- **Article 25: Averaging for Regression Ensembles** \u2014 ensemble combination for regression tasks"
   ]
  }
 ]
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