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Linear Regression Implementation From Scratch using Python

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Linear Regression is a supervised learning algorithm which is both a statistical and a machine learning algorithm. It is used to predict the real-valued output y based on the given input value x. It depicts the relationship between the dependent variable y and the independent variables xi  ( or features ).  The hypothetical function used for prediction is represented by h( x ).

  h( x ) = w * x + b  
    
  here, b is the bias.
  x represents the feature vector
  w represents the weight vector.

Linear regression with one variable is also called univariant linear regression.  After initializing the weight vector, we can find the weight vector to best fit the model by ordinary least squares method or gradient descent learning.

Mathematical Intuition: The cost function (or loss function) is used to measure the performance of a machine learning model or quantifies the error between the expected values and the values predicted by our hypothetical function. The cost function for Linear Regression is represented by J.

 

\frac{1}{m} \sum_{i=1}^{m}\left(y^{(i)}-h\left(x^{(i)}\right)\right)^{2}
Here, m is the total number of training examples in the dataset.
y(i) represents the value of target variable for ith training example.

So, our objective is to minimize the cost function J (or improve the performance of our machine learning model). To do this, we have to find the weights at which J is minimum.  One such algorithm which can be used to minimize any differentiable function is Gradient Descent. It is a first-order iterative optimizing algorithm that takes us to a minimum of a function.

Gradient descent: 

Pseudo Code:

  1. Start with some w
  2. Keep changing w to reduce J( w ) until we hopefully end up at a minimum.

Algorithm: 

repeat until convergence  {
       tmpi = wi - alpha * dwi          
       wi = tmpi              
}
where alpha is the learning rate.

Implementation: 

Dataset used in this implementation can be downloaded from link.

It has 2 columns — “YearsExperience” and “Salary” for 30 employees in a company. So in this, we will train a Linear Regression model to learn the correlation between the number of years of experience of each employee and their respective salary. Once the model is trained, we will be able to predict the salary of an employee on the basis of his years of experience.

Python3

# Importing libraries
  
import numpy as np
  
import pandas as pd
  
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
  
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
# Linear Regression
  
class LinearRegression() :
      
    def __init__( self, learning_rate, iterations ) :
          
        self.learning_rate = learning_rate
          
        self.iterations = iterations
          
    # Function for model training
              
    def fit( self, X, Y ) :
          
        # no_of_training_examples, no_of_features
          
        self.m, self.n = X.shape
          
        # weight initialization
          
        self.W = np.zeros( self.n )
          
        self.b = 0
          
        self.X = X
          
        self.Y = Y
          
          
        # gradient descent learning
                  
        for i in range( self.iterations ) :
              
            self.update_weights()
              
        return self
      
    # Helper function to update weights in gradient descent
      
    def update_weights( self ) :
             
        Y_pred = self.predict( self.X )
          
        # calculate gradients  
      
        dW = - ( 2 * ( self.X.T ).dot( self.Y - Y_pred )  ) / self.m
       
        db = - 2 * np.sum( self.Y - Y_pred ) / self.m 
          
        # update weights
      
        self.W = self.W - self.learning_rate * dW
      
        self.b = self.b - self.learning_rate * db
          
        return self
      
    # Hypothetical function  h( x ) 
      
    def predict( self, X ) :
      
        return X.dot( self.W ) + self.b
     
  
# driver code
  
def main() :
      
    # Importing dataset
      
    df = pd.read_csv( "salary_data.csv" )
  
    X = df.iloc[:,:-1].values
  
    Y = df.iloc[:,1].values
      
    # Splitting dataset into train and test set
  
    X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = train_test_split( 
      X, Y, test_size = 1/3, random_state = 0 )
      
    # Model training
      
    model = LinearRegression( iterations = 1000, learning_rate = 0.01 )
  
    model.fit( X_train, Y_train )
      
    # Prediction on test set
  
    Y_pred = model.predict( X_test )
      
    print( "Predicted values ", np.round( Y_pred[:3], 2 ) ) 
      
    print( "Real values      ", Y_test[:3] )
      
    print( "Trained W        ", round( model.W[0], 2 ) )
      
    print( "Trained b        ", round( model.b, 2 ) )
      
    # Visualization on test set 
      
    plt.scatter( X_test, Y_test, color = 'blue' )
      
    plt.plot( X_test, Y_pred, color = 'orange' )
      
    plt.title( 'Salary vs Experience' )
      
    plt.xlabel( 'Years of Experience' )
      
    plt.ylabel( 'Salary' )
      
    plt.show()
     
if __name__ == "__main__"
      
    main()

                    

Output:

Predicted values  [ 40594.69 123305.18  65031.88]
Real values       [ 37731 122391  57081]
Trained W         9398.92
Trained b         26496.31

Linear Regression Visualization



Last Updated : 01 Oct, 2020
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