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lefts-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: lefts
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Composable transformations for model experimentation
+Author-email: Niklas Mather <niksmather@gmail.com>
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/nsmat/lefts
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/nsmat/lefts
+Keywords: machine-learning,ensemble,cross-validation,polars,dsl
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: polars
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# Lefts: composable machine-learning model transformations
+
+Lefts is a very simple domain specific language for building complex machine learning workflows from simple ones. Starting with your favourite machine learning models, you can use Lefts operations to:
+- Build complex ensembles.
+- Build complex cross validation and hyper-parametrisation procedures.
+- Allow a model to create features or targets for another model.
+- And any creative combination of the above.
+
+Without making subsequent model fitting or evaluation or experimentation any more complex than it was with the original model. This implementation is built on top of the excellent Polars DataFrame library.
+
+
+# Commands
+Lefts has five commands, which give it its name:
+- **L**ift: trains multiple copies of a model across different subsets of data.
+- **E**nsemble: Takes a set of models and makes them evaluate as one.
+- **T**une: Allows a model to learn its hyperparameters from another.
+- **F**eeds: Allows the output of one model to be used as a feature or target by another.
+- **S**plit: Trains a model on a given train/test/validation split.
+
+# Models
+
+Lefts can operate on any model that is defined by:
+- a fit method, which maps from training data into the model parameters
+- a predict method, which maps from model parameters and test data into predictions.
+
+A Lefts command creates a new model by transforming these functions into a new .fit and .predict. Because this new model also has a .fit and .predict, it can be transformed with further Lefts commands.
+
+
+### Conventions
+
+Lefts imposes some constraints on model interfaces.
+- All hyperparameters are passed as arguments to the fit method.
+- We expect that data is passed to fit and predict as Polars dataframes.
+- The predict method returns an iterable, with the order of predictions matching the order on the input training data frame.
+
+See the example notebooks to understand how to adapt your models to the required format.
+
+# An example
+
+The following code shows lefts can be used to create complex models out of more basic ones. We start with an LGBM Regression model, and train an ensemble of models to predict each quantile. The ensemble is trained in a monthly rolling retrain.
+
+See notebooks/quantile_ensemble.py for the full code.
+
+```python
+features = ["temp", "atemp", "hum", "windspeed", "hr", "weekday", "mnth"]
+target = "cnt"
+quantiles = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9]
+test_period_start_dates = pl.datetime_range(
+    start = dt.datetime(2011, 3, 1),
+    end = dt.datetime(2012, 12, 1),
+    interval='1mo',
+    eager=True
+).to_list()
+
+quantile_models = []
+for q in quantiles:
+    # Convert LGBMRegressor into the format required by lefts
+    base_model = leaf(tabular_model(
+                LGBMRegressor(objective="quantile", alpha=q),
+                features=features,
+                target=target,
+            ),
+            label=f"q{q}",
+                     )
+
+    # 'Lift' each per-quantile model into a family of models, each with a different train and test period
+    rolling_retrain = lift(
+        base_model,
+        name=f"q{q}_rolling_retrain",
+        values=test_period_start_dates,
+
+        # A row is in a given train period if it is before the start of the test period
+        train_filter=lambda test_period_start_date: pl.col("datetime") < test_period_start_date,
+        # Each test period is one month long
+        test_filter=lambda test_period_start_date: pl.col("datetime").dt.month() == test_period_start_date.month,
+        aggregate_with=pl.coalesce,
+    )
+
+    quantile_models.append(rolling_retrain)
+
+model = ensemble("quantiles", *quantile_models)
+
+# Fits |quantiles| x |test_period_start_dates| models
+model.fit(df)
+
+# Adds |quantiles| columns, each with the unique prediction associated with that test row. 
+predictions = model.predict(df)
+```
+
+Behind the scenes, the full workflow is constructed as a tree of lefts expression. You can see this tree by calling `model.print_tree()`
+
+```
+Ensemble 'quantiles' (198 models)  → outputs: [q0.1_rolling_retrain, ..., q0.9_rolling_retrain]
+    ├── Lift 'q0.1_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.1_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.1' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.2_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.2_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.2' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.3_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.3_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.3' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.4_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.4_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.4' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.5_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.5_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.5' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.6_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.6_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.6' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.7_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.7_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.7' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.8_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.8_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.8' (1 model)
+    └── Lift 'q0.9_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.9_rolling_retrain"
+        └── Leaf 'q0.9' (1 model)
+```

lefts-0.1.0/README.md

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+# Lefts: composable machine-learning model transformations
+
+Lefts is a very simple domain specific language for building complex machine learning workflows from simple ones. Starting with your favourite machine learning models, you can use Lefts operations to:
+- Build complex ensembles.
+- Build complex cross validation and hyper-parametrisation procedures.
+- Allow a model to create features or targets for another model.
+- And any creative combination of the above.
+
+Without making subsequent model fitting or evaluation or experimentation any more complex than it was with the original model. This implementation is built on top of the excellent Polars DataFrame library.
+
+
+# Commands
+Lefts has five commands, which give it its name:
+- **L**ift: trains multiple copies of a model across different subsets of data.
+- **E**nsemble: Takes a set of models and makes them evaluate as one.
+- **T**une: Allows a model to learn its hyperparameters from another.
+- **F**eeds: Allows the output of one model to be used as a feature or target by another.
+- **S**plit: Trains a model on a given train/test/validation split.
+
+# Models
+
+Lefts can operate on any model that is defined by:
+- a fit method, which maps from training data into the model parameters
+- a predict method, which maps from model parameters and test data into predictions.
+
+A Lefts command creates a new model by transforming these functions into a new .fit and .predict. Because this new model also has a .fit and .predict, it can be transformed with further Lefts commands.
+
+
+### Conventions
+
+Lefts imposes some constraints on model interfaces.
+- All hyperparameters are passed as arguments to the fit method.
+- We expect that data is passed to fit and predict as Polars dataframes.
+- The predict method returns an iterable, with the order of predictions matching the order on the input training data frame.
+
+See the example notebooks to understand how to adapt your models to the required format.
+
+# An example
+
+The following code shows lefts can be used to create complex models out of more basic ones. We start with an LGBM Regression model, and train an ensemble of models to predict each quantile. The ensemble is trained in a monthly rolling retrain.
+
+See notebooks/quantile_ensemble.py for the full code.
+
+```python
+features = ["temp", "atemp", "hum", "windspeed", "hr", "weekday", "mnth"]
+target = "cnt"
+quantiles = [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9]
+test_period_start_dates = pl.datetime_range(
+    start = dt.datetime(2011, 3, 1),
+    end = dt.datetime(2012, 12, 1),
+    interval='1mo',
+    eager=True
+).to_list()
+
+quantile_models = []
+for q in quantiles:
+    # Convert LGBMRegressor into the format required by lefts
+    base_model = leaf(tabular_model(
+                LGBMRegressor(objective="quantile", alpha=q),
+                features=features,
+                target=target,
+            ),
+            label=f"q{q}",
+                     )
+
+    # 'Lift' each per-quantile model into a family of models, each with a different train and test period
+    rolling_retrain = lift(
+        base_model,
+        name=f"q{q}_rolling_retrain",
+        values=test_period_start_dates,
+
+        # A row is in a given train period if it is before the start of the test period
+        train_filter=lambda test_period_start_date: pl.col("datetime") < test_period_start_date,
+        # Each test period is one month long
+        test_filter=lambda test_period_start_date: pl.col("datetime").dt.month() == test_period_start_date.month,
+        aggregate_with=pl.coalesce,
+    )
+
+    quantile_models.append(rolling_retrain)
+
+model = ensemble("quantiles", *quantile_models)
+
+# Fits |quantiles| x |test_period_start_dates| models
+model.fit(df)
+
+# Adds |quantiles| columns, each with the unique prediction associated with that test row. 
+predictions = model.predict(df)
+```
+
+Behind the scenes, the full workflow is constructed as a tree of lefts expression. You can see this tree by calling `model.print_tree()`
+
+```
+Ensemble 'quantiles' (198 models)  → outputs: [q0.1_rolling_retrain, ..., q0.9_rolling_retrain]
+    ├── Lift 'q0.1_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.1_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.1' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.2_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.2_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.2' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.3_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.3_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.3' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.4_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.4_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.4' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.5_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.5_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.5' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.6_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.6_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.6' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.7_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.7_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.7' (1 model)
+    ├── Lift 'q0.8_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.8_rolling_retrain"
+    │   └── Leaf 'q0.8' (1 model)
+    └── Lift 'q0.9_rolling_retrain' (22 models): [2011-03-01 00:00:00, ..., 2012-12-01 00:00:00]  ⇒ coalesce → "q0.9_rolling_retrain"
+        └── Leaf 'q0.9' (1 model)
+```

lefts-0.1.0/pyproject.toml

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+[project]
+name = "lefts"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Composable transformations for model experimentation"
+readme = "README.md"
+authors = [
+    { name = "Niklas Mather", email = "niksmather@gmail.com" }
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+dependencies = [
+    "polars",
+]
+keywords = ["machine-learning", "ensemble", "cross-validation", "polars", "dsl"]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+    "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/nsmat/lefts"
+Repository = "https://github.com/nsmat/lefts"
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+ignore = ["E731"] # Allows the use of lambdas as variables
+
+[dependency-groups]
+dev  = [
+    "pytest",
+    "ruff",
+    "ipykernel",
+    "jupyter",
+    "jupyterlab",
+    "nbstripout",
+]
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

lefts-0.1.0/setup.cfg

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+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+

lefts-0.1.0/src/lefts/__init__.py

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+from .interface import Model, leaf, lift, split, ensemble, tune, feed
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Model",
+    "leaf",
+    "lift",
+    "split",
+    "ensemble",
+    "tune",
+    "feed",
+]

lefts-0.1.0/src/lefts/helpers.py

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+import copy
+import polars as pl
+from typing import Any, Callable
+
+
+def tabular_model(
+    estimator,
+    features: list[str],
+    target: str,
+) -> Callable[..., Any]:
+    """
+    Wraps a sklearn-compatible estimator into a Lefts model factory.
+
+    The returned factory can be passed directly to `leaf(model_constructor=...)`.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    estimator:
+        Any sklearn-compatible estimator (must implement .fit(X, y) and .predict(X)).
+    features:
+        Column names to use as model inputs.
+    target:
+        Column name of the target variable.
+    """
+
+    def factory(**hyperparameters):
+        est = copy.deepcopy(estimator)
+        if hyperparameters:
+            est.set_params(**hyperparameters)
+
+        class _Model:
+            def fit(self, training_set: pl.DataFrame):
+                X = training_set.select(features).to_numpy()
+                y = training_set[target].to_numpy()
+                est.fit(X, y)
+
+            def predict(self, df: pl.DataFrame):
+                return est.predict(df.select(features).to_numpy())
+
+        return _Model()
+
+    return factory