Using GridSearchCV with IsolationForest for finding outliers

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I want to use IsolationForest for finding outliers. I want to find the best parameters for model with GridSearchCV. The problem is that I always get the same error:

TypeError: If no scoring is specified, the estimator passed should have a 'score' method. The estimator IsolationForest(behaviour='old', bootstrap=False, contamination='legacy',
                max_features=1.0, max_samples='auto', n_estimators=100,
                n_jobs=None, random_state=None, verbose=0, warm_start=False) does not.

It seems like its a problem because IsolationForest does not have score method.
Is there a way to fix this?
Also is there a way to find a score for isolation forest?
This is my code:

import pandas as pd
from sklearn.ensemble import IsolationForest
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV

df = pd.DataFrame({'first': [-112,0,1,28,5,6,3,5,4,2,7,5,1,3,2,2,5,2,42,84,13,43,13],
                   'second': [42,1,2,85,2,4,6,8,3,5,7,3,64,1,4,1,2,4,13,1,0,40,9],
                   'third': [3,4,7,74,3,8,2,4,7,1,53,6,5,5,59,0,5,12,65,4,3,4,11],
                   'result': [5,2,3,0.04,3,4,3,125,6,6,0.8,9,1,4,59,12,1,4,0,8,5,4,1]})

x = df.iloc[:,:-1]

tuned = {'n_estimators':[70,80,100,120,150,200], 'max_samples':['auto', 1,3,5,7,10],
         'contamination':['legacy', 'outo'], 'max_features':[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13,15],
         'bootstrap':[True,False], 'n_jobs':[None,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,15,20,25,30], 'behaviour':['old', 'new'],
         'random_state':[None,1,5,10,42], 'verbose':[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], 'warm_start':[True,False]}

isolation_forest = GridSearchCV(IsolationForest(), tuned)

model = isolation_forest.fit(x)

list_of_val = [[1,35,3], [3,4,5], [1,4,66], [4,6,1], [135,5,0]]
df['outliers'] = model.predict(x)
df['outliers'] = df['outliers'].map({-1: 'outlier', 1: 'good'})

print(model.best_params_)
print(df)

Asked By: taga

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Answer 1

I believe the scoring is referring to the GridSearchCV object, and not the IsolationForest.

If it is “None” (default) it will try to use the estimators scoring, which as you state does not exist. Try using one of the available scoring metrics suitable to your problem within the GridSearchCV object

Answered By: ConorL

Answer 2

You need to create your own scoring function since IsolationForest does not have score method inbuilt. Instead you can make use of the score_samples function that is available in IsolationForest (can be considered as a proxy for score) and create your own scorer as described here and pass it to the GridSearchCV. I have modified your code to do this:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.ensemble import IsolationForest
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV

df = pd.DataFrame({'first': [-112,0,1,28,5,6,3,5,4,2,7,5,1,3,2,2,5,2,42,84,13,43,13],
                   'second': [42,1,2,85,2,4,6,8,3,5,7,3,64,1,4,1,2,4,13,1,0,40,9],
                   'third': [3,4,7,74,3,8,2,4,7,1,53,6,5,5,59,0,5,12,65,4,3,4,11],
                   'result': [5,2,3,0.04,3,4,3,125,6,6,0.8,9,1,4,59,12,1,4,0,8,5,4,1]})

x = df.iloc[:,:-1]

tuned = {'n_estimators':[70,80], 'max_samples':['auto'],
     'contamination':['legacy'], 'max_features':[1],
     'bootstrap':[True], 'n_jobs':[None,1,2], 'behaviour':['old'],
     'random_state':[None,1,], 'verbose':[0,1,2], 'warm_start':[True]}  

def scorer_f(estimator, X):   #your own scorer
      return np.mean(estimator.score_samples(X))

#or you could use a lambda aexpression as shown below
#scorer = lambda est, data: np.mean(est.score_samples(data)) 

isolation_forest = GridSearchCV(IsolationForest(), tuned, scoring=scorer_f)
model = isolation_forest.fit(x)

SAMPLE OUTPUT

print(model.best_params_)

{'behaviour': 'old',
 'bootstrap': True,
 'contamination': 'legacy',
 'max_features': 1,
 'max_samples': 'auto',
 'n_estimators': 70,
 'n_jobs': None,
 'random_state': None,
 'verbose': 1,
 'warm_start': True}

Answered By: Parthasarathy Subburaj

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