Dimensionality reduction is an important approach in machine learning. A large number of features available in the dataset may result in overfitting of the learning model. To identify the set of significant features and to reduce the dimension of the dataset, there are three popular dimensionality reduction techniques that are used. In this article, we will discuss the practical implementation of these three dimensionality reduction techniques:-
- Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
- Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), and
- Kernel PCA (KPCA)
Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
Principal Component Analysis
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the main linear approach for dimensionality reduction. It performs a linear mapping of the data from a higher-dimensional space to a lower-dimensional space in such a manner that the variance of the data in the low-dimensional representation is maximized. For more information, read this article.
Practical Implementation PCA
In this implementation, we have used the wine classification dataset, which is publicly available on Kaggle. Follow the steps below:-
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#1. Import the libraries import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd #2. Import the dataset dataset = pd.read_csv('Wine.csv') X = dataset.iloc[:, 0:13].values y = dataset.iloc[:, 13].values #3. Split the dataset into the Training set and Test set from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.2, random_state = 0) #4. Feature Scaling from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler sc = StandardScaler() X_train = sc.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = sc.transform(X_test) #5. Apply PCA from sklearn.decomposition import PCA pca = PCA(n_components = 2) X_train = pca.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = pca.transform(X_test) explained_variance = pca.explained_variance_ratio_ #6. Fit the Logistic Regression to the Training set from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression classifier = LogisticRegression(random_state = 0) classifier.fit(X_train, y_train) #7. Predict the Test set results y_pred = classifier.predict(X_test) #8. Make the Confusion Matrix from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred)#9. Visualize the Training set results from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap X_set, y_set = X_train, y_train X1, X2 = np.meshgrid(np.arange(start = X_set[:, 0].min() - 1, stop = X_set[:, 0].max() + 1, step = 0.01), np.arange(start = X_set[:, 1].min() - 1, stop = X_set[:, 1].max() + 1, step = 0.01)) plt.contourf(X1, X2, classifier.predict(np.array([X1.ravel(), X2.ravel()]).T).reshape(X1.shape), alpha = 0.75, cmap = ListedColormap(('red', 'green', 'blue'))) plt.xlim(X1.min(), X1.max()) plt.ylim(X2.min(), X2.max()) for i, j in enumerate(np.unique(y_set)): plt.scatter(X_set[y_set == j, 0], X_set[y_set == j, 1], c = ListedColormap(('red', 'green', 'blue'))(i), label = j) plt.title('Logistic Regression (Training set)') plt.xlabel('PC1') plt.ylabel('PC2') plt.legend() plt.show()
Linear Discriminant Analysis
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is used to find a linear combination of features that characterizes or separates two or more classes of objects or events. It explicitly attempts to model the difference between the classes of data. It works when the measurements made on independent variables for each observation are continuous quantities. When dealing with categorical independent variables, the equivalent technique is discriminant correspondence analysis.
Practical Implementation
In this implementation, we have used the wine classification dataset, which is publicly available on Kaggle. Follow the steps below:-
#1. Import the libraries import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd #2. Import the dataset dataset = pd.read_csv('Wine.csv') X = dataset.iloc[:, 0:13].values y = dataset.iloc[:, 13].values #3. Split the dataset into Training set and Test set from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.2, random_state = 0) #4. Feature Scaling from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler sc = StandardScaler() X_train = sc.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = sc.transform(X_test) #5. Apply LDA from sklearn.discriminant_analysis import LinearDiscriminantAnalysis as LDA lda = LDA(n_components = 2) X_train = lda.fit_transform(X_train, y_train) X_test = lda.transform(X_test) #6. Fit Logistic Regression to the Training set from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression classifier = LogisticRegression(random_state = 0) classifier.fit(X_train, y_train) #7. Predict the Test set results y_pred = classifier.predict(X_test) #8.Make the Confusion Matrix from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred)
Kernel Principal Component Analysis
Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) is an extension of PCA that is applied in non-linear applications by means of the kernel trick. It is capable of constructing nonlinear mappings that maximize the variance in the data.
Practical Implementation
In this practical implementation kernel PCA, we have used the Social Network Ads dataset, which is publicly available on Kaggle. Follow the steps below:-
#1. Import the libraries import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd #2. Import the dataset dataset = pd.read_csv('Social_Network_Ads.csv') X = dataset.iloc[:, [2, 3]].values y = dataset.iloc[:, 4].values #3. Split the dataset into the Training set and Test set from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.25, random_state = 0) #4. Feature Scaling from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler sc = StandardScaler() X_train = sc.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = sc.transform(X_test) #5. Apply Kernel Kernel PCA from sklearn.decomposition import KernelPCA kpca = KernelPCA(n_components = 2, kernel = 'rbf') X_train = kpca.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = kpca.transform(X_test) #6. Fit Logistic Regression to the Training set from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression classifier = LogisticRegression(random_state = 0) classifier.fit(X_train, y_train) #7. Predict the Test set results y_pred = classifier.predict(X_test) #8. Make the Confusion Matrix from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix cm = confusion_matrix(y_test, y_pred)
Comparison of PCA, LDA and Kernel PCA
All of these dimensionality reduction techniques are used to maximize the variance in the data but these all three have a different characteristic and approach of working.
The difference in Strategy:
The PCA and LDA are applied in dimensionality reduction when we have a linear problem in hand that means there is a linear relationship between input and output variables. On the other hand, the Kernel PCA is applied when we have a nonlinear problem in hand that means there is a nonlinear relationship between input and output variables. So the PCA and LDA can be applied together to see the difference in their result. But the Kernel PCA uses a different dataset and the result will be different from LDA and PCA. Although PCA and LDA work on linear problems, they further have differences. The LDA models the difference between the classes of the data while PCA does not work to find any such difference in classes. In PCA, the factor analysis builds the feature combinations based on differences rather than similarities in LDA. The discriminant analysis as done in LDA is different from the factor analysis done in PCA where eigenvalues, eigenvectors and covariance matrix are used.
The difference in Results:
As we have seen in the above practical implementations, the results of classification by the logistic regression model after PCA and LDA are almost similar. The main reason for this similarity in the result is that we have used the same datasets in these two implementations. Because there is a linear relationship between input and output variables. The task was to reduce the number of input features. Both dimensionality reduction techniques are similar but they both have a different strategy and different algorithms. On the other hand, a different dataset was used with Kernel PCA because it is used when we have a nonlinear relationship between input and output variables. The result of classification by the logistic regression model re different when we have used Kernel PCA for dimensionality reduction.
