rishi
rishi

Reputation: 2554

Pickled model with vectorizer

I am pickling a model for later use. Then loading the model and running predict_proba on it. I get ValueError: X has 1 features per sample; expecting 319. Not sure if I am transforming it correctly

import csv, pickle
from sklearn import svm

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.calibration import CalibratedClassifierCV
import numpy as np
import operator

train_data = []
train_labels = []
test_lables = []
test_lables.append("nah")

with open('training_file', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, dialect='excel', delimiter='\t')
    for row in reader:
        train_data.append(row[0])
        train_labels.append(row[1])

lables = []

for item in train_labels:
    if item in lables:
        continue
    else:
        lables.append(item)


def linear_svc(train_data, train_labels):

    vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
    train_vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(train_data)
    classifier_linear = svm.LinearSVC()
    clf = CalibratedClassifierCV(classifier_linear)   
    clf.fit(train_vectors, train_labels)

    with open('test', 'wb') as fi:
        pickle.dump(clf, fi)


def run_classifier():    
    vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
    test_vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(test_lables)
    with open('test', 'rb') as fi:
        clf = pickle.load(fi)
    prediction_linear = clf.predict_proba(test_vectors) 
    return prediction_linear


#linear_svc(train_data, train_labels)
sorted_intent_probability = run_classifier()
print(sorted_intent_probability)

I first call the linear_svc() method. The model gets pickled. Then I call run_classifier(). What am I doing wrong here? Also, when I combine both the methods, it works fine:

def linear_svc(train_data, train_labels, test_lables):

    vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
    train_vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(train_data)
    test_vectors = vectorizer.transform(test_lables)
    classifier_linear = svm.LinearSVC()
    clf = CalibratedClassifierCV(classifier_linear) 

    clf.fit(train_vectors, train_labels)
    prediction_linear = clf.predict_proba(test_vectors)
    return prediction_linear

Do I need to pickle the vectorizer as well and reuse it later?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 525

Answers (1)

rishi
rishi

Reputation: 2554

I got the problem. When I create new instance of TfidfVectorizer() I am not using the same features that were used for the training. I made following change

linear_svc_model = clf.fit(train_vectors, train_labels)
model_object = []
model_object.append(linear_svc_model)
model_object.append(vectorizer)

and pickled this model_object. Then while using unpickled both classifier and vectorizer and used the same on training string. It worked.

Upvotes: 1

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