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Evaluating hyperparameter tuning results

Here, you will evaluate the results of a hyperparameter tuning run for a decision tree trained with the rpart package. The knowledge_train_data dataset has already been loaded for you, as have the packages mlr and tidyverse. And the following code has also been run:

task <- makeClassifTask(data = knowledge_train_data, 
                        target = "UNS")

lrn <- makeLearner(cl = "classif.rpart", fix.factors.prediction = TRUE)

param_set <- makeParamSet(
  makeIntegerParam("minsplit", lower = 1, upper = 30),
  makeIntegerParam("minbucket", lower = 1, upper = 30),
  makeIntegerParam("maxdepth", lower = 3, upper = 10)
)

ctrl_random <- makeTuneControlRandom(maxit = 10)

This exercise is part of the course

Hyperparameter Tuning in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create holdout sampling
holdout <- makeResampleDesc(___)

# Perform tuning
lrn_tune <- tuneParams(learner = lrn, task = task, resampling = holdout, control = ctrl_random, par.set = param_set)
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