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""" # This code is an adaptation of # https://github.com/ServiceNow/context-is-key-forecasting/blob/main/cik_benchmark/metrics/roi_metric.py # to make it convenient to use with the Hugging Face version of the Context-is-Key benchmark. # Please see the __main__ section for an example of how to use it. import numpy as np import pandas as pd from io import StringIO from datasets import Dataset from fractions import Fraction def crps( target: np.array, samples: np.array, ) -> np.array: """ Compute the CRPS using the probability weighted moment form. See Eq ePWM from "Estimation of the Continuous Ranked Probability Score with Limited Information and Applications to Ensemble Weather Forecasts" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11004-017-9709-7 This is a O(n log n) per variable exact implementation, without estimation bias. Parameters: ----------- target: np.ndarray The target values. (variable dimensions) samples: np.ndarray The forecast values. (n_samples, variable dimensions) Returns: -------- crps: np.ndarray The CRPS for each of the (variable dimensions) """ assert ( target.shape == samples.shape[1:] ), f"shapes mismatch between: {target.shape} and {samples.shape}" num_samples = samples.shape[0] num_dims = samples.ndim sorted_samples = np.sort(samples, axis=0) abs_diff = ( np.abs(np.expand_dims(target, axis=0) - sorted_samples).sum(axis=0) / num_samples ) beta0 = sorted_samples.sum(axis=0) / num_samples # An array from 0 to num_samples - 1, but expanded to allow broadcasting over the variable dimensions i_array = np.expand_dims(np.arange(num_samples), axis=tuple(range(1, num_dims))) beta1 = (i_array * sorted_samples).sum(axis=0) / (num_samples * (num_samples - 1)) return abs_diff + beta0 - 2 * beta1 def _crps_ea_Xy_eb_Xy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E|Xa - ya| * E|Xb' - yb| """ N = len(Xa) result = 0.0 product = np.abs(Xa[:, None] - ya) * np.abs(Xb[None, :] - yb) # i, j i, j = np.diag_indices(N) product[i, j] = 0 result = product.sum() return result / (N * (N - 1)) def _crps_ea_XX_eb_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E|Xa - Xa'| * E|Xb'' - Xb'''| """ N = len(Xa) # We want to compute: # sum_i≠j≠k≠l |Xa_i - Xa_j| |Xb_k - Xb_l| # Instead of doing a sum over i, j, k, l all differents, # we take the sum over all i, j, k, l (which is the product between a sum over i, j and a sum over k, l), # then substract the collisions, ignoring those between i and j and those between k and l, since those # automatically gives zero. sum_ea_XX = np.abs(Xa[:, None] - Xa[None, :]).sum() sum_eb_XX = np.abs(Xb[:, None] - Xb[None, :]).sum() # Single conflicts: either i=k, i=l, j=k, or j=l # By symmetry, we are left with: 4 sum_i≠j≠k |Xa_i - Xa_j| |Xb_i - Xb_k| left = np.abs(Xa[:, None, None] - Xa[None, :, None]) # i, j, k right = np.abs(Xb[:, None, None] - Xb[None, None, :]) # i, j, k product = left * right j, k = np.diag_indices(N) product[:, j, k] = 0 sum_single_conflict = product.sum() # Double conflicts: either i=k and j=l, or i=l and j=k # By symmetry, we are left with: 2 sum_i≠j |Xa_i - Xa_j| |Xb_i - Xb_j| left = np.abs(Xa[:, None] - Xa[None, :]) # i, j right = np.abs(Xb[:, None] - Xb[None, :]) # i, j product = left * right sum_double_conflict = product.sum() result = sum_ea_XX * sum_eb_XX - 4 * sum_single_conflict - 2 * sum_double_conflict return result / (N * (N - 1) * (N - 2) * (N - 3)) def _crps_ea_Xy_eb_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E|Xa - ya| * E|Xb' - Xb''| """ N = len(Xa) left = np.abs(Xa[:, None, None] - ya) # i, j, k right = np.abs(Xb[None, :, None] - Xb[None, None, :]) # i, j, k product = left * right i, j = np.diag_indices(N) product[i, j, :] = 0 i, k = np.diag_indices(N) product[i, :, k] = 0 result = product.sum() return result / (N * (N - 1) * (N - 2)) def _crps_f_Xy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E(|Xa - ya| * |Xb - yb|) """ N = len(Xa) product = np.abs(Xa - ya) * np.abs(Xb - yb) # i result = product.sum() return result / N def _crps_f_XXXy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E(|Xa - Xa'| * |Xb - yb|) """ N = len(Xa) left = np.abs(Xa[:, None] - Xa[None, :]) # i, j right = np.abs(Xb[:, None] - yb) # i, j product = left * right result = product.sum() return result / (N * (N - 1)) def _crps_f_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E(|Xa - Xa'| * |Xb - Xb'|) """ N = len(Xa) left = np.abs(Xa[:, None] - Xa[None, :]) # i, j right = np.abs(Xb[:, None] - Xb[None, :]) # i, j product = left * right result = product.sum() return result / (N * (N - 1)) def _crps_f_XXXX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb): """ Unbiased estimate of: E(|Xa - Xa'| * |Xb - Xb''|) """ N = len(Xa) left = np.abs(Xa[:, None, None] - Xa[None, :, None]) # i, j, k right = np.abs(Xb[:, None, None] - Xb[None, None, :]) # i, j, k product = left * right j, k = np.diag_indices(N) product[:, j, k] = 0 result = product.sum() return result / (N * (N - 1) * (N - 2)) def crps_covariance( Xa: np.array, ya: float, Xb: np.array, yb: float, ) -> float: """ Unbiased estimate of the covariance between the CRPS of two correlated random variables. If Xa == Xb and ya == yb, returns the variance of the CRPS instead. Parameters: ----------- Xa: np.ndarray Samples from a forecast for the first variable. (n_samples) ya: float The ground-truth value for the first variable. Xb: np.ndarray Samples from a forecast for the second variable. (n_samples) yb: float The ground-truth value for the second variable. Returns: -------- covariance: float The covariance between the CRPS estimators. """ N = len(Xa) ea_Xy_eb_Xy = _crps_ea_Xy_eb_Xy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) ea_Xy_eb_XX = _crps_ea_Xy_eb_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) ea_XX_eb_Xy = _crps_ea_Xy_eb_XX(Xb, yb, Xa, ya) ea_XX_eb_XX = _crps_ea_XX_eb_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) f_Xy = _crps_f_Xy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) f_XXXy = _crps_f_XXXy(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) f_XyXX = _crps_f_XXXy(Xb, yb, Xa, ya) f_XX = _crps_f_XX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) f_XXXX = _crps_f_XXXX(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) return ( -(1 / N) * ea_Xy_eb_Xy + (1 / N) * ea_Xy_eb_XX + (1 / N) * ea_XX_eb_Xy - ((2 * N - 3) / (2 * N * (N - 1))) * ea_XX_eb_XX + (1 / N) * f_Xy - (1 / N) * f_XXXy - (1 / N) * f_XyXX + (1 / (2 * N * (N - 1))) * f_XX + ((N - 2) / (N * (N - 1))) * f_XXXX ) def weighted_sum_crps_variance( target: np.array, samples: np.array, weights: np.array, ) -> float: """ Unbiased estimator of the variance of the numerical estimate of the given weighted sum of CRPS values. This implementation assumes that the univariate is estimated using: CRPS(X, y) ~ (1 / n) * sum_i |x_i - y| - 1 / (2 * n * (n-1)) * sum_i,i' |x_i - x_i'|. This formula gives the same result as the one used in the crps() implementation above. Note that this is a heavy computation, being O(k^2 n^3) with k variables and n samples. Also, while it is unbiased, it is not guaranteed to be >= 0. Parameters: ----------- target: np.ndarray The target values: y in the above formula. (k variables) samples: np.ndarray The forecast values: X in the above formula. (n samples, k variables) weights: np.array The weight given to the CRPS of each variable. (k variables) Returns: -------- variance: float The variance of the weighted sum of the CRPS estimators. """ assert len(target.shape) == 1 assert len(samples.shape) == 2 assert len(weights.shape) == 1 assert target.shape[0] == samples.shape[1] == weights.shape[0] s = 0.0 for i in range(target.shape[0]): for j in range(i, target.shape[0]): Xa = samples[:, i] Xb = samples[:, j] ya = target[i] yb = target[j] if i == j: s += weights[i] * weights[j] * crps_covariance(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) else: # Multiply by 2 since we would get the same results by switching i and j s += 2 * weights[i] * weights[j] * crps_covariance(Xa, ya, Xb, yb) return s def mean_crps(target, samples): """ The mean of the CRPS over all variables """ if target.size > 0: return crps(target, samples).mean() else: raise RuntimeError( f"CRPS received an empty target. Shapes = {target.shape} and {samples.shape}" ) def compute_constraint_violation( entry: dict, samples: np.array, scaling: float, ) -> float: violation = 0.0 scaled_samples = scaling * samples # Min constraint scaled_threshold = scaling * entry["constraint_min"] violation += (scaled_threshold - scaled_samples).clip(min=0).mean(axis=1) # Max constraint scaled_threshold = scaling * entry["constraint_max"] violation += (scaled_samples - scaled_threshold).clip(min=0).mean(axis=1) # Variable max constraint if len(entry["constraint_variable_max_index"]) > 0: indexed_samples = scaled_samples[:, entry["constraint_variable_max_index"]] scaled_thresholds = scaling * np.array(entry["constraint_variable_max_values"]) violation += ( (indexed_samples - scaled_thresholds[None, :]).clip(min=0).mean(axis=1) ) return violation def roi_crps( entry: dict, forecast: np.array, ) -> dict[str, float]: """ Compute the Region-of-Interest CRPS for a single entry of the context-is-key Hugging Face dataset, for the given forecast. Parameters: ---------- entry: dict A dictionary containing a single entry of the context-is-key Hugging Face dataset. forecast: np.array The forecast values. (n_samples, n_timesteps) Returns: -------- result: dict[str, float] A dictionary containing the following entries: "metric": the final metric. "raw_metric": the metric before the log transformation. "scaling": the scaling factor applied to the CRPS and the violations. "crps": the weighted CRPS. "roi_crps": the CRPS only for the region of interest. "non_roi_crps": the CRPS only for the forecast not in the region of interest. "violation_mean": the average constraint violation over the samples. "violation_crps": the CRPS of the constraint violation. "metric_variance": an unbiased estimate of the variance of the metric. """ future_time = pd.read_json(StringIO(entry["future_time"])) target = future_time[future_time.columns[-1]].to_numpy() assert ( future_time.shape[0] == forecast.shape[1] ), "Incorrect number of timesteps in forecast" variance_target = target.to_numpy() if isinstance(target, pd.Series) else target variance_forecast = forecast if entry["region_of_interest"]: roi_mask = np.zeros(forecast.shape[1], dtype=bool) for i in entry["region_of_interest"]: roi_mask[i] = True roi_crps = mean_crps(target=target[roi_mask], samples=forecast[:, roi_mask]) non_roi_crps = mean_crps( target=target[~roi_mask], samples=forecast[:, ~roi_mask] ) crps_value = 0.5 * roi_crps + 0.5 * non_roi_crps standard_crps = mean_crps(target=target, samples=forecast) num_roi_timesteps = roi_mask.sum() num_non_roi_timesteps = (~roi_mask).sum() variance_weights = entry["metric_scaling"] * ( 0.5 * roi_mask / num_roi_timesteps + (1 - 0.5) * ~roi_mask / num_non_roi_timesteps ) else: crps_value = mean_crps(target=target, samples=forecast) # Those will only be used in the reporting roi_crps = crps_value non_roi_crps = crps_value standard_crps = crps_value num_roi_timesteps = len(target) num_non_roi_timesteps = 0 variance_weights = np.full( target.shape, fill_value=entry["metric_scaling"] / len(target) ) violation_amount = compute_constraint_violation( entry, samples=forecast, scaling=entry["metric_scaling"] ) violation_func = 10.0 * violation_amount # The target is set to zero, since we make sure that the ground truth always satisfy the constraints # The crps code assume multivariate input, so add a dummy dimension violation_crps = crps(target=np.zeros(1), samples=violation_func[:, None])[0] variance_target = np.concatenate((variance_target, np.zeros(1)), axis=0) variance_forecast = np.concatenate( (variance_forecast, violation_func[:, None]), axis=1 ) variance_weights = np.concatenate((variance_weights, 1.0 * np.ones(1)), axis=0) raw_metric = entry["metric_scaling"] * crps_value + violation_crps metric = raw_metric # Computing the variance of the RCPRS is much more expensive, # especially when the number of samples is large. # So it can be commented out if not desired. variance = weighted_sum_crps_variance( target=variance_target, samples=variance_forecast, weights=variance_weights, ) return { "metric": metric, "raw_metric": raw_metric, "scaling": entry["metric_scaling"], "crps": entry["metric_scaling"] * crps_value, "roi_crps": entry["metric_scaling"] * roi_crps, "non_roi_crps": entry["metric_scaling"] * non_roi_crps, "standard_crps": entry["metric_scaling"] * standard_crps, "num_roi_timesteps": num_roi_timesteps, "num_non_roi_timesteps": num_non_roi_timesteps, "violation_mean": violation_amount.mean(), "violation_crps": violation_crps, "variance": variance, } def compute_all_rcprs( dataset: Dataset, forecasts: list[dict], ) -> tuple[float, float]: """ Compute the Region-of-Interest CRPS for all instances in the Context-is-Key dataset. Parameters: ---------- dataset: Dataset The Context-is-Key dataset. forecasts: list[dict] A list of dictionaries, each containing the following keys: - "name": the name of the task for which the forecast is made. - "seed": the seed of the instance for which the forecast is made. - "forecast": the forecast values. (n_samples, n_timesteps) Returns: -------- mean_crps: float The aggregated RCRPS over all instances. std_crps: float An estimate of the standard error of the aggregated RCRPS. """ weighted_sum_rcprs = 0.0 weighted_sum_variance = 0.0 total_weight = 0.0 for entry, forecast in zip(dataset, forecasts): if entry["name"] != forecast["name"]: raise ValueError( f"Forecast name {forecast['name']} does not match dataset entry name {entry['name']}" ) if entry["seed"] != forecast["seed"]: raise ValueError( f"Forecast seed {forecast['seed']} does not match dataset entry seed {entry['seed']}" ) metric_output = roi_crps( entry=entry, forecast=forecast["forecast"], ) weight = Fraction(entry["weight"]) # Apply the cap of RCPRS = 5 to the metric if metric_output["metric"] >= 5.0: metric_output["metric"] = 5.0 metric_output["variance"] = 0.0 weighted_sum_rcprs += weight * metric_output["metric"] weighted_sum_variance += weight * weight * metric_output["variance"] total_weight += weight mean_crps = weighted_sum_rcprs / total_weight std_crps = np.sqrt(weighted_sum_variance) / total_weight return mean_crps, std_crps if __name__ == "__main__": # An example of how to use this function, # by using a naive forecaster which use random values from the past as its forecast. from datasets import load_dataset dataset = load_dataset("ServiceNow/context-is-key", split="test") # Create a random forecast for each instance in the dataset forecasts = [] for entry in dataset: past_time = pd.read_json(StringIO(entry["past_time"])) future_time = pd.read_json(StringIO(entry["future_time"])) forecast = { "name": entry["name"], "seed": entry["seed"], "forecast": np.random.choice( past_time.to_numpy()[:, -1], size=(25, len(future_time)), replace=True, ), } forecasts.append(forecast) mean_crps, std_crps = compute_all_rcprs(dataset, forecasts) print(f"Mean RCRPS: {mean_crps}") print(f"Standard error of RCRPS: {std_crps}")