I addition to checking _n_iter and fixing the random seed as I suggested maybe 
also try normalizing the features (eg z scores via the standard scale we) to 
see if that stabilizes the training 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 24, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Benoît Presles <benoit.pres...@u-bourgogne.fr> 
> wrote:
> 
> I did the same tests as before adding fit_intercept=False and:
> 
> 1. I have got the same problem as before, i.e. when I execute the RFE 
> multiple times I don't get the same ranking each time.
> 
> 2. When I change the solver to 'sag' 
> (classifier_RFE=LogisticRegression(C=1e9, verbose=1, max_iter=10000, 
> fit_intercept=False, solver='sag')), it seems that I get the same ranking at 
> each run. This is not the case with the 'saga' solver.
> The ranking is not the same between the solvers.
> 
> 3. With C=1, it seems that I have the same results at each run for all 
> solvers (liblinear, sag and saga), however the ranking is not the same 
> between the solvers.
> 
> 
> How can I get reproducible and consistent results?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Best regards,
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 24/07/2018 à 18:16, Stuart Reynolds a écrit :
>> liblinear regularizes the intercept (which is a questionable thing to
>> do and a poor choice of default in sklearn).
>> The other solvers do not.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:07 AM, Benoît Presles
>> <benoit.pres...@u-bourgogne.fr> wrote:
>>> Dear scikit-learn users,
>>> 
>>> I am using the recursive feature elimination (RFE) tool from sklearn to rank
>>> my features:
>>> 
>>> from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
>>> classifier_RFE = LogisticRegression(C=1e9, verbose=1, max_iter=10000)
>>> from sklearn.feature_selection import RFE
>>> rfe = RFE(estimator=classifier_RFE, n_features_to_select=1, step=1)
>>> rfe.fit(X, y)
>>> ranking = rfe.ranking_
>>> print(ranking)
>>> 
>>> 1. The first problem I have is when I execute the above code multiple times,
>>> I don't get the same results.
>>> 
>>> 2. When I change the solver to 'sag' or 'saga' (classifier_RFE =
>>> LogisticRegression(C=1e9, verbose=1, max_iter=10000), solver='sag'), it
>>> seems that I get the same results at each run but the ranking is not the
>>> same between these two solvers.
>>> 
>>> 3. With C=1, it seems I have the same results at each run for the
>>> solver='liblinear', but not for the solvers 'sag' and 'saga'. I still don't
>>> get the same results between the different solvers.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> scikit-learn mailing list
>>> scikit-learn@python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
>> _______________________________________________
>> scikit-learn mailing list
>> scikit-learn@python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
> 
> _______________________________________________
> scikit-learn mailing list
> scikit-learn@python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn

_______________________________________________
scikit-learn mailing list
scikit-learn@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn

Reply via email to