R: Setup a grid search for xgboost (!!)

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I find this code super useful because R’s implementation of xgboost (and to my knowledge Python’s) otherwise lacks support for a grid search:

# set up the cross-validated hyper-parameter search
xgb_grid_1 = expand.grid(
nrounds = 1000,
eta = c(0.01, 0.001, 0.0001),
max_depth = c(2, 4, 6, 8, 10),
gamma = 1
)

# pack the training control parameters
xgb_trcontrol_1 = trainControl(
method = "cv",
number = 5,
verboseIter = TRUE,
returnData = FALSE,
returnResamp = "all",                                                        # save losses across all models
classProbs = TRUE,                                                           # set to TRUE for AUC to be computed
summaryFunction = twoClassSummary,
allowParallel = TRUE
)

# train the model for each parameter combination in the grid,
#   using CV to evaluate
xgb_train_1 = train(
x = as.matrix(df_train %>%
select(-SeriousDlqin2yrs)),
y = as.factor(df_train$SeriousDlqin2yrs),
trControl = xgb_trcontrol_1,
tuneGrid = xgb_grid_1,
method = "xgbTree"
)

# scatter plot of the AUC against max_depth and eta
ggplot(xgb_train_1$results, aes(x = as.factor(eta), y = max_depth, size = ROC, color = ROC)) +
geom_point() +
theme_bw() +
scale_size_continuous(guide = "none")</code>

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