mltool: regression tool¶
mltool is a simple Learning to Rank tool to build a regression tree based ranking model. Currently mltool supports simple CART and Random Forest. The implementation is strongly inspired by rt-rank, but it lacks the support of Gradient Boosting Regression Trees.
Overview¶
Features¶
Despite rt-rank, mltool provides:
- A parameter to set the seed for the random number generator to make the training deterministic
- Serializable model
- Show feature information gain statistics at the end of the training
- Can be used as an API
Some highlights compared to other Random Forest implemented for Python:
- The implementation of the Random Forest makes use of numpy and it is quite optimized
- Parallel Random Forest training
Documentation¶
The documentation is hosted by Read the Docs at the following url: http://readthedocs.org/docs/mltool/en/latest/
Future¶
- add support for Stochastic Gradient Boosting Regression Trees
- add support for simple regression and/or classification (i.e. not just focus on ranking)
User Guide¶
mltool can be used as a command line tools. This part of the documentation covers each command supported by mltool.
API Documentation¶
mltool can be used as a library for prediction or for building your own custom models.