Feyn Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[2.1.1] - 2021-10-27

Added

• Sympify:
  • feyn.tools.sympify() (also model.sympify()) now has parameter symbolic_cat that allows you to expand categories to their linear components to make it easier to port or evaluate a sympy expression.
  • feyn.tools.get_sympy_substitutions for easily converting a model and a sample to a substitution dictionary for use with <sympy_expr>.evalf(subs=...) with the new category changes.
• Exposed convenience functions used by auto_run to make it more composable by the user:
  • feyn.tools.infer_available_threads tries to guess how many threads you can use. Returns maximum - 1.
  • feyn.tools.get_progress_label gives a label for use with model.show that displays epoch count and an estimated time to finish (if elapsed seconds are given).
• Experimental feature for IPython environments only: ql.expand_auto_run is a function that takes all the same parameters as auto_run and creates a runnable code cell with the same code that makes it easier for you to fold out an auto_run loop to its primitive components. Note that this contains all of the error handling, general checking and safety measures of auto_run that you might not need, but could serve as a starting point.
• Added model.plot_pr_curve() to plot precision-recall curves.
• Added feyn.tools.estimate_priors function for computing prior probabilities of inputs based on mutual information.
• Added ql.update_priors function primitive for updating the QLattice with prior probabilities of inputs.

Changed

• feyn.get_diverse_models is now more likely to return up to n models, and has improved runtime.
• feyn.tools.get_model_parameters returns a slightly different structure for categories now. The category is the index, and the weight columns are now named as {input_name}\[_ix\]}. This makes it easier to relate to the specific places in the model, for example for use in substituting values in the sympy expression.
• model.inputs now returns a unique list of input names.
• The target parameter of models from feyn.reference has been renamed output_name.

Fixed

• Sympify model bugs:
  • Numerical input names now work correctly again.
  • Categorical input names are now identifiable if multiple inputs exist in a model with the same name.
  • Input names with sympy reserved characters should be better supported now (the characters get replaced).
• You can now install optional dependencies using pip install feyn[extras]
• Fix display of inputs in models that would sometimes result in hard to copy input names.
• Models with categorical registers should now be reproducible with seed and same version of feyn/qlattice.

[2.1.0] - 2021-09-27

Added

• Add feyn.get_diverse_models. User facing function to get diverse models given their lineage in the QLattice.
• Add feyn.tools.get_model_parameters (also model.get_parameters). User can extract the parameters of a certain feature in the model as a pandas DataFrame.
• Add option to save various plots:
  • plot_model_summary (also model.plot) plot as an html file.
  • plots in the majority of plotting functions.
• Add option to change the figsize of plots in the majority of plotting functions.
• Add more useful display of inputs in model when they share a common beginning.

Changed

• New QLattice algorithm that vastly improves performance and has better traversal of the search space:
  • QLattice.update now expects you to give all the models you have - sorted by your metric of choice - and it will figure out how best to update on its own.
  • New format for saving and loading models. Breaks backwards compatibility with previously saved models.
  • feyn.prune_models no longer supports dropout and decay parameters.
• plot_model_summary (also model.plot):
  • Is intended to plot the most useful metrics and report for your final model, and has been changed to reflect this.
  • Now displays a table of the inputs used in the model.
• plot_model_signal (also model.plot_signal) no longer plots the summary metrics, and the arguments have changed to reflect this.
• plot_partial_2d now has a deprecation warning, use plot_model_response_2d (model.plot_response_2d) instead.
• auto_run:
  • Now sorts best models based on the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) by default rather than loss.
  • No longer returns multiple models with identical mathematical expressions. This means that any number between one and ten models will be returned.
  • Now estimates a time to completion.
  • Starting models are now copied before being added to the fitting loop, meaning that your original models are left unchanged.

Removed

• Remove feyn.best_diverse_models. Replaced by feyn.get_diverse_models which has similar functionality.
• Remove semantic type "bool" which previously only used functions add, multiply, gaussian2. We now recommend using the numerical semantic type instead.
• Remove deprecated plot_partial. This functionality is covered by plot_model_response_1d.

Fixed

• auto_run has been reprimanded and will now properly honor your selected amount of threads.
• The query language can now be used in all cases - there is no longer a limitation to which queries will be feasible.

[2.0.7] - 2021-08-20

Added

• More informative error messages and type checks for all top-level functions, such as:
  • Primitives:
    • ql.auto_run,
    • ql.sample_models,
    • feyn.sample_models,
    • feyn.fit_models,
    • feyn.prune_models,
    • feyn.best_diverse_models,
    • ql.update,
  • Plotting:
    • feyn.plots.plot_partial2d,
    • feyn.plots.plot_roc_curve,
    • feyn.plots.plot_probability_scores,
    • feyn.plots.plot_activation_flow,
    • feyn.plots.plot_model_summary,
    • feyn.plots.plot_model_response_1d,
    • feyn.plots.plot_residuals,
    • feyn.plots.plot_regression
• Model.predict can now accept pd.Series.
• New function added called Model.plot_signal. This displays signal flow through model. This is the previous behaviour of Model.plot.
• New function make_regression and make_classification functions available in feyn.datasets module. These are wrappers of the sklearn functions in sklearn.datasets.
• Feyn now has a native package for Mac with Apple silicon (M1 chip) for Python 3.8 and 3.9

Changed

• plot_probability_scores parameter h_kwargs has been replaced with **kwargs. Now you can pass histogram kwargs as keyword arguments and not a dictionary
• Model.plot now displays performance figures underneath the model signal. For regressors these are:
  • plot_regression,
  • plot_residuals. For classifiers these are:
  • plot_roc_curve,
  • plot_confusion_matrix.

Removed

• ql.snapshots have been removed and the QLattice no longer has backup and restore functionality.

[2.0.4] - 2021-07-07

Changed

• plot_partial is now called plot_response_1d (feyn.plots.plot_model_response_1d)
  • The named argument fixed is now called input_constraints
  • plot_partial can still be called but now raises a FutureWarning about being deprecated.

[2.0.1] - 2021-06-29

Changed

• model.plot (feyn.plots.plot_model_summary) has been updated:
  • The named argument test is now called compare_data
  • Now supports labels param for custom labels for the summary metrics
  • Now supports a list of compare data, if you want to compare multiple things
  • Any additional metric added will be a more condensed column to make it easier to compare with the primary metrics

Fixed

• Model graphs being cut off by jupyter's viewport in some instances should now be fixed by automatic rescaling to fit in view.

[2.0.0] - 2021-06-18

Changed

• Graph is now called Model

• The QGraph no longer exists. Instead you now work on lists of Models.

• No longer directly instantiate a QLattice. Instead you call feyn.connect_qlattice().

• The common feyn workflow is now contained in one function called auto_run which lives on a connected QLattice.

• In addition to the above automatic workflow, we now have a more expressive set of functions to replace the old:

  • A list of Models can now be sampled from a connected QLattice using sample_models. This replaces part of the behaviour of the previous get_regressor and get_classifier on the QGraph.
  • You now fit a list of Models using feyn.fit_models. This takes a list of Models as an input and returns a list of fitted Models. This replaces part of the previous fit step on the QGraph.
  • You now prune the worst Models from a list using prune_models. This replaces part of the previous fit step on the QGraph. Default behaviour removes duplicate Models, has a decay function on Models and dropout.
  • You get the best diverse Models using feyn.best_diverse_models. This replaces QGraph.best.
  • Now that you operate on a list of Models, you have the freedom of using the native python filter function.
    • You still have a list of useful feyn.filter functions but instead apply to the native python filter. These functions are. Refer to the documentation for more details:
      • Complexity
      • ContainsInputs
      • ExcludeFunctions
      • ContainsFunctions
  • You can display a Model as a graph using the show_model function.
    • show_model detects whether you are in a Jupyter environment and decides what to display.

• Other changes:

  • plot_summary is now known as plot that lives on a Model.
  • The output of sympify has changed:
    • Categorical input features are now referenced as <feature_name>_cat.
    • Numerical input names get suffixed with _in.
    • Underscores and spaces in input names are truncated.
  • sympify now supports include_weights=False which gives an equation without weights and bias.
  • sympify now gives consistent results on up to 15 significant digits.
  • plot_goodness_of_fit is now called plot_regression.
  • plot_regression_metrics has been removed - its uses should be covered by plot_regression.

Added

• plot_roc_curve has a threshold parameter that will plot on the false positive rate and true positive rate at the given threshold.
• plot_confusion_matrix has a threshold parameter.

Removed

• Our experimental feature module __future__ has for now outlived its purpose and has been removed.

[1.6.1] - 2021-05-04

[1.6.0] - 2021-05-04

Added

• (future) Graph Recorder object that incorporates barcode and feature frequency matrix and heatmaps (now called feature occurrence)

Fixed

• Fixed a warning from matplotlib about duplicate cmap registering for newer versions of mpl.

[1.5.6] - 2021-04-23

Fixed

• Fixed bug in ROC plot function.

[1.5.5] - 2021-04-21

Fixed

• Fixed bug in qlattice migration script.

[1.5.4] - 2021-04-21

Added

• New sematic type "bool" which will only use functions that makes sense for boolean data types (add, multiply, gaussian2)
• New statistical plots, plot_goodness_of_fit and plot_residuals to feyn.plots.
• New transient QLattice feature.
• plot summary improvements:
  • Pearson correlation is now default - and now properly displays negative instead of absolute correlation
  • MI correlation now follows a simple linear colormap that better represents it.
  • Spearman correlation is now available as an alternative correlation function
• Introduce plot_flow and a Jupyter-widget-enabled plot_flow_interactive for graphs, allowing you to play around with samples and see the activations through the graph.
• (future) Barcode plot and feature frequency matrix and heatmap plots.
• Query language available through feyn.filters updated
  • New matching starts from the output of the graph.
  • Can write queries using + and * operators.
  • Wildcards matching any subgraph _, complexity can be constrained with edge count in brackets.
• New show_threshold parameter in plot_roc_curve that colours the ROC curve by thresholds.

Changed

• Backwards compatability QLattice-urls has been removed from feyn.QLattice(). Now the only accepted usages are:
  • feyn.QLattice(qlattice="<qlattice-id>", api_token="<token>").
  • feyn.QLattice(config="<name of a section in your config file>").
  • feyn.QLattice() # First section in your config file.

[1.5.3] - 2021-03-26

Changed

• General algorithm improvements.

Added

• Support for up to 2000 registers (Input features). Previously 200.
• Made it easier to trigger the hover information on graphs in notebooks.

[1.5.2] - 2021-03-11

Fixed

• Fixed bug in random seed, which caused QLattice.reset() to always use the same seed.

[1.5.1] - 2021-03-10

Changed

• Improve deprecation warning, so that it is obvious how to migrate the old configuration file.

[1.5.0] - 2021-03-10

Changed

• The parameters for the QLattice initializer has changed. You now only have to specify the qlattice and the token instead of the full url.
• With this, also the configuration-file format has changed accordingly. url has been replaced by server and qlattice. The old format still works, but support for it will be removed in a future release. A compatibility warning will be displayed for now.

Fixed

• plot_partial2d: Fixed to use new contract when getting graph state.

[1.4.8] - 2021-02-26

Changed

• The QGraph.fit supports using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) or Bayesian information criterion (BIC). This may become the default in the future, reducing the need for limiting depth and edges manually
• Default threads used for fitting ans sorting changed from 1 to 4

[1.4.7] - 2021-02-12

Changed

• General performance improvements in finding good graphs.

Added

• Add roc_auc_score to feyn.metrics which will calculate the AUC of a graph. (Also accessible on graph.roc_auc_score).
• Plotting style improvements:
  • 'light' is now usable as alias to 'default' when setting theme.
  • Matplotlib plot styling now matches the theme choice.
  • Added colormaps to use with matplotlib: 'feyn', 'feyn-diverging'. 'feyn-partial', 'feyn-primary', 'feyn-secondary', 'feyn-highlight', 'feyn-accent'.
• Added FeatureImportanceTable to feyn.insights. (The equivalent functionality was previous in pdheatmap from __future__).
• (future) Add various stats functions. graph_f_score and plot_graph_p_value.

[1.4.6] - 2021-01-08

Added

• Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) introduced in feyn.inference. See more in our docs

Changed

• Default graphs sort back to loss_value instead of bic.
• feyn.tools.simpify_graph default option is now to not formulate the logistic function, but instead output “logreg(…)“. Use argument symbolic_lr=True if you want to keep previous behavior.
• Categorical variables rendered in the sympify function from category(<X_featurename>) to category_.

[1.4.5] - 2020-12-18

Added

• Python 3.9 support

Fixed

• Fix memory bug when handling many registers (>165) in QLattice.

[1.4.4] - 2020-12-18

Removed

• metrics.get_mutual_information(), metrics.get_pearson_correlations(), metrics.get_summary_information(). The functionality is now covered by metrics.calculate_mi(), metrics.calculate_pc() in the public API.

Changed

• Even more general performance improvements.

[1.4.3] - 2020-12-04

Changed

• General performance improvements.

Added

• Graph.plot_partial() and Graph.plot_partial2d() to analyze the graph response.
• metrics.calculate_mi(), metrics.calculate_pc() to calculate mutual information and pearson correlations.

[1.4.2] - 2020-10-26

• Graph.sympify() which returns a sympy expression mathcing the graph
• Mutual information and pearson correlations are now calculated on entire data set, giving more accurate results
• Graph.fit() function which can be used to fit or refit a single graph on a dataset
• Adding support to both numerical and categorical partial dependence plots
• Bugfix: 1d plots with categoricals ordered wrt their weights
• Bugfix: Fix support np-dict for graph_summary

[1.4.1] - 2020-10-09

• Added linear and constant reference models (in feyn.reference) to compare with and calculate p-values (lives in feyn.metrics).
• Graph vizualizations rewritten and much improved.
• Dark theme support!

[1.4.0] - 2020-09-03

• ql.update now accepts either a single graph or a list of graphs.
• Added methods: QLattice.get_regressor and QLattice.get_classifier to replace QLattice.get_qgraph.
• New mathematical functions: add, exp and log.
• You can now control functions in graphs with new filters: feyn.filters.Functions(["add", "multiply"]) and feyn.filters.ExcludeFunctions("sine").
• New plot. ROC-curves.

[1.3.3] - 2020-08-14

• Shorthands for plotting and score utility functions on feyn.Graph
• New approach to damping learning rates lead to more accurate fits
• Max-depth filter is less strict on which type of integers it accepts.
• Add automatric retries on failed http-requests
• Configurations can now also be stored in <home_folder>/.config/.feynrc

[1.3.1] - 2020-07-07

• The new automatic scalar is now default on both input and output.
• Alternative input and output semantic types (f#) that does not scaling

[1.3.0] - 2020-07-06

• Added a new scaler: f$. It is more automatic.

[1.2.1] - 2020-06-16

• Changed the configuration environment variable QLATTICE_BASE_URI to FEYN_QLATTICE_URL.
• Changed the configuration environment variable FEYN_TOKEN to FEYN_QLATTICE_API_TOKEN.
• Support for configuration via config file. feyn.ini or .feynrc located in your home folder.
• Breaks compatibility with qlattice <= 1.1.2
  • Removed the neeed to add registers via qlattice.registers.get (and removed qlattice.registers.get)
  • New parameter to get_qgraph function to choose the semantic type of the data colums (this replaces the need cat/fixed register types)
• Fixes bug with numpy 1.15 and multiarray import in windows 64bit

[1.1.2] - 2020-05-11

• Added Windows Support!
• Removed dependency to GraphViz
• Removed dependency to scikit-learn