Homework 3 INF 552, Instructor: Mohammad Reza Rajati Due: Oct 8, 2018
1. Time Series Classification
An interesting task in machine learning is classification of time series. In this problem,
we will classify the activities of humans based on time series obtained by a Wireless
Sensor Network.
(a) Download the AReM data from: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/
Activity+Recognition+system+based+on+Multisensor+data+fusion+\%28AReM\
%29 . The dataset contains 7 folders that represent seven types of activities. In
each folder, there are multiple files each of which represents an instant of a human
performing an activity. Each file containis 6 time series collected from activities
of the same person, which are called avg rss12, var rss12, avg rss13, var rss13,
vg rss23, and ar rss23. There are 88 instances in the dataset, each of which con-
tains 6 time series and each time series has 480 consecutive values.
(b) Keep datasets 1 and 2 in folders bending1 and bending 2, as well as datasets 1,
2, and 3 in other folders as test data and other datasets as train data.
(c) Feature Extraction
Classification of time series usually needs extracting features from them. In this
problem, we focus on time-domain features.
i. Research what types of time-domain features are usually used in time series
classification and list them (examples are minimum, maximum, mean, etc).
ii. Extract the time-domain features minimum, maximum, mean, median, stan-
dard deviation, first quartile, and third quartile for all of the 6 time series
in each instance. You are free to normalize/standardize features or use them
directly.1
Your new dataset will look like this:
Instance min1 max1 mean1 median1 · · · 1st quart6 3rd quart6
1
2
3
…
…
…
…
… . . .
…
…
88
where, for example, 1st quart6, means the first quartile of the sixth time series
in each of the 88 instances.
iii. Estimate the standard deviation of each of the time-domain features you
extracted from the data. Then, use Python’s bootstrapped or any other
method to build a 90% bootsrap confidence interval for the standard deviation
of each feature.
iv. Use your judgement to select the three most important time-domain features
(one option may be min, mean, and max).
(d) Binary Classification Using Logistic Regression2
1You are welcome to experiment to see if they make a difference.
2Some logistic regression packages have a built-in L2 regularization. To remove the effect of L2 regular-
ization, set λ = 0 or set the budget C →∞ (i.e. a very large value).
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Homework 3 INF 552, Instructor: Mohammad Reza Rajati Due: Oct 8, 2018
i. Assume that you want to use the training set to classify bending from other
activities, i.e. you have a binary classification problem. Depict scatter plots
of the features you specified in 1(c)iv extracted from time series 1, 2, and 6 of
each instance, and use color to distinguish bending vs. other activities. (See
p. 129 of the textbook).3
ii. Break each time series in your training set into two (approximately) equal
length time series. Now instead of 6 time series for each of the 88 instances,
you have 12 time series for each instance. Repeat the experiment in 1(d)i.
Do you see any considerable difference in the results with those of 1(d)i?
iii. Break each time series in your training set into l ∈ {1, 2, . . . , 20} time series
of approximately equal length and use logistic regression4 to solve the binary
classification problem, using time-domain features. Calculate the p-values for
your logistic regression parameters and refit a logistic regression model using
your pruned set of features.5 Alternatively, you can use backward selection
using sklearn.feature selection or glm in R. Use 5-fold cross-validation to de-
termine the best value of l. Explain what the right way and the wrong way
are to perform cross-validation in this problem.6 Obviously, use the right
way! Also, you may encounter the problem of class imbalance, which may
make some of your folds not having any instances of the rare class. In such a
case, you can use stratified cross validation. Research what it means and use
it if needed.
In the following, you can see an example of applying Python’s Recursive
Feature Elimination, which is a backward selection algorithm, to logistic re-
gression.
# Recurs ive Feature El iminat ion
from sk l e a rn import da ta s e t s
from sk l e a rn . f e a t u r e s e l e c t i o n import RFE
from sk l e a rn . l i n ea r mode l import L o g i s t i c R e g r e s s i o n
# load the i r i s da ta s e t s
datase t = data s e t s . l o a d i r i s ( )
# c r e a t e a base c l a s s i f i e r used to eva luate a subset o f a t t r i b u t e s
model = L o g i s t i c R e g r e s s i o n ( )
# c r e a t e the RFE model and s e l e c t 3 a t t r i b u t e s
r f e = RFE( model , 3)
r f e = r f e . f i t ( datase t . data , datase t . t a r g e t )
3You are welcome to repeat this experiment with other features as well as with time series 3, 4, and 5 in
each instance.
4If you encountered instability of the logistic regression problem because of linearly separable classes,
modify the Max-Iter parameter in logistic regression to stop the algorithm immaturely and prevent from its
instability.
5R calculates the p-values for logistic regression automatically. One way of calculating them in Python
is to call R within Python. There are other ways to obtain the p-values as well.
6This is an interesting problem in which the number of features changes depending on the value of the
parameter l that is selected via cross validation. Another example of such a problem is Principal Component
Regression, where the number of principal components is selected via cross validation.
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# summarize the s e l e c t i o n o f the a t t r i b u t e s
p r i n t ( r f e . support )
p r i n t ( r f e . rank ing )
iv. Report the confusion matrix and show the ROC and AUC for your classifier
on train data. Report the parameters of your logistic regression βi’s as well
as the p-values associated with them.
v. Test the classifier on the test set. Remember to break the time series in
your test set into the same number of time series into which you broke your
training set. Remember that the classifier has to be tested using the features
extracted from the test set. Compare the accuracy on the test set with the
cross-validation accuracy you obtained previously.
vi. Do your classes seem to be well-separated to cause instability in calculating
logistic regression parameters?
vii. From the confusion matrices you obtained, do you see imbalanced classes?
If yes, build a logistic regression model based on case-control sampling and
adjust its parameters. Report the confusion matrix, ROC, and AUC of the
model.
(e) Binary Classification Using L1-penalized logistic regression
i. Repeat 1(d)iii using L1-penalized logistic regression,
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values for variable selection, use L1 regularization. Note that in this problem,
you have to cross-validate for both l, the number of time series into which you
break each of your instances, and λ, the weight of L1 penalty in your logistic
regression objective function (or C, the budget). Packages usually perform
cross-validation for λ automatically.8
ii. Compare the L1-penalized with variable selection using p-values. Which one
performs better? Which one is easier to implement?
(f) Multi-class Classification (The Realistic Case)
i. Find the best l in the same way as you found it in 1(e)i to build an L1-
penalized multinomial regression model to classify all activities in your train-
ing set.9 Report your test error. Research how confusion matrices and ROC
curves are defined for multiclass classification and show them for this problem
if possible.10
ii. Repeat 1(f)i using a Näıve Bayes’ classifier. Use both Gaussian and Multi-
nomial priors and compare the results.
iii. Which method is better for multi-class classification in this problem?
2. ISLR 3.7.4
3. ISLR, 4.7.3
7For L1-penalized logistic regression, you may want to use normalized/standardized features
8Using the package Liblinear is strongly recommended.
9New versions of scikit learn allow using L1-penalty for multinomial regression.
10For example, the pROC package in R does the job.
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4. ISLR 4.7.7
5. Extra Practice (you do not need to submit the answers): ISLR 3.7.3, 3.7.5, 4.7.4, 4.7.9
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