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ConceptDriftStream

Generates a stream with concept drift.

A stream generator that adds concept drift or change by joining two streams. This is done by building a weighted combination of two pure distributions that characterizes the target concepts before and after the change.

The sigmoid function is an elegant and practical solution to define the probability that each new instance of the stream belongs to the new concept after the drift. The sigmoid function introduces a gradual, smooth transition whose duration is controlled with two parameters:

  • \(p\), the position of the change.

  • \(w\), the width of the transition.

The sigmoid function at sample \(t\) is

\[f(t) = 1/(1+e^{-4(t-p)/w})\]

Parameters

  • stream

    Type → datasets.base.SyntheticDataset | None

    Default → None

    Original stream

  • drift_stream

    Type → datasets.base.SyntheticDataset | None

    Default → None

    Drift stream

  • position

    Type → int

    Default → 5000

    Central position of the concept drift change.

  • width

    Type → int

    Default → 1000

    Width of concept drift change.

  • seed

    Type → int | None

    Default → None

    Random seed for reproducibility.

  • alpha

    Type → float | None

    Default → None

    Angle of change used to estimate the width of concept drift change. If set, it will override the width parameter. Valid values are in the range (0.0, 90.0].

Attributes

  • desc

    Return the description from the docstring.

Examples

from river.datasets import synth

dataset = synth.ConceptDriftStream(
    stream=synth.SEA(seed=42, variant=0),
    drift_stream=synth.SEA(seed=42, variant=1),
    seed=1, position=5, width=2
)

for x, y in dataset.take(10):
    print(x, y)

{0: 6.3942, 1: 0.2501, 2: 2.7502} False
{0: 2.2321, 1: 7.3647, 2: 6.7669} True
{0: 8.9217, 1: 0.8693, 2: 4.2192} True
{0: 0.2979, 1: 2.1863, 2: 5.0535} False
{0: 6.3942, 1: 0.2501, 2: 2.7502} False
{0: 2.2321, 1: 7.3647, 2: 6.7669} True
{0: 8.9217, 1: 0.8693, 2: 4.2192} True
{0: 0.2979, 1: 2.1863, 2: 5.0535} False
{0: 0.2653, 1: 1.9883, 2: 6.4988} False
{0: 5.4494, 1: 2.2044, 2: 5.8926} False

Methods

take

Iterate over the k samples.

Parameters

  • k — 'int'

Notes

An optional way to estimate the width of the transition \(w\) is based on the angle \(\alpha\), \(w = 1/ tan(\alpha)\). Since width corresponds to the number of samples for the transition, the width is rounded to the nearest smaller integer. Notice that larger values of \(\alpha\) result in smaller widths. For \(\alpha > 45.0\), the width is smaller than 1 so values are rounded to 1 to avoid division by zero errors.