Hi Joel,
Just to make sure I understood.

-          C is computed with cross validation, by finding the highest average 
score over the k folds

-          Once C is found, weights are computed over the whole training set.

If that’s the case, why is the best_score_ averaged over the k folds? Shouldn’t 
it be computed over the whole training set, since that’s the way the weights 
were determined?

Thank you again for the clarification,




From: Joel Nothman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:32 AM
To: scikit-learn-general
Subject: Re: [Scikit-learn-general] gridSearchCV best_estimator_ best_score_

I do think you're right to attempt to improve it! Please submit a PR!

On 29 July 2014 00:05, Pagliari, Roberto 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You are right.

I guess only C (in the case of linear SVM) is the best averaged over the fold. 
And once C is found, the weights over the whole training set are computed.

If that’s the case, my proposal may be misleading.

Thank you,
Roberto


From: Andy [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 4:42 AM

To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Scikit-learn-general] gridSearchCV best_estimator_ best_score_

On 07/25/2014 10:30 PM, Pagliari, Roberto wrote:
Hi Andy,
Maybe it’s just me, but the ”left out data” threw me off. Perhaps, I would 
integrate with your previous comments:

best_estimator_

estimator

Estimator that was chosen by the search, i.e. estimator which gave highest 
average score (or smallest loss if specified) over the cross-validation folds. 
on the left out data.

best_score_

float

Highest average score of the best_estimator computed above on the left out data.


This is not entirely correct. The "best_estimator_" is retrained on the whole 
training set, while best_score_ is the average over folds.
I like your string for best_estimator_, but for best_score_ I would probably 
also say "Highest average score of the best parameter setting over 
cross-validation folds".

Pull request welcome. The current docstring warrants improvement I think ;)

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