README.md

Compact Prediction Tree - Sequence Prediction

An example of sequence prediction based on the CPT algorithm

Docs available here and here

Main part of the algorithm is based on CPT implementation from here https://github.com/NeerajSarwan/CPT

Tweaked for my own needs.

DataSet:

• Consisting of over 44k sequences of different lengths (from 2 items to 10) reprensenting over129k items
• there exists 370 differents CODES
• train.csv file desciption
  • ID: gouping id for sequence
  • CODE: sequence item
  • LINE_NB: position of item in sequence

Target:

Predict the last item in sequence.

Training:

Training the model consist of building the Tree, Inverted index and Lookup Table

• Tree: hierachical tree modeling the sequences

  

• Inverted Index: dictionnary giving in which sequence each code is used

  here CODE: 'PX9' is used in sequences 8,1,4,5

  

• Lookup Table: dictionnary giving node adress of last element of a sequence:

  

Predictions:

Concept, For a given sequence:

• find all sequences containing any its item using Inverted Index

• Rebuild the original sequences using the Lookup Table (avoiding to save the original data)

• then for each original similar sequence:

  • find position corresponding to the last item in the sequence to predict
  • calculate a score for each possible following item (check docs for global description)

• return the n elements with biggest score

API:

Simple API using FastAPI and can be run Docker

Next steps:

Due to nature of data, we can see that only the 2 or 3 preceding items are important. Thus, I decided to switch to a more classical approach using Decision tree / Random Forest calssifiers. it also permits more flexible approach allowing additional input feature to improve model performance.