preprocess.py

"""
Preprocess Criteo dataset. This dataset was used for the Display Advertising
Challenge (https://www.kaggle.com/c/criteo-display-ad-challenge).
"""
import os
import sys
import click
import collections

# There are 13 integer features and 26 categorical features
continous_features = range(1, 14)
categorial_features = range(14, 40)


class CategoryDictGenerator:
    """
    Generate dictionary for each of the categorical features
    """

    def __init__(self, num_feature):
        self.dicts = []
        self.num_feature = num_feature
        for i in range(0, num_feature):
            self.dicts.append(collections.defaultdict(int))

    def build(self, datafile, categorial_features, cutoff=0):
        with open(datafile, 'r') as f:
            for line in f:
                features = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
                for i in range(0, self.num_feature):
                    if features[categorial_features[i]] != '':
                        self.dicts[i][features[categorial_features[i]]] += 1
        for i in range(0, self.num_feature):
            self.dicts[i] = filter(lambda x: x[1] >= cutoff,
                                   self.dicts[i].items())
            self.dicts[i] = sorted(self.dicts[i], key=lambda x: (-x[1], x[0]))
            vocabs, _ = list(zip(*self.dicts[i]))
            self.dicts[i] = dict(zip(vocabs, range(1, len(vocabs) + 1)))
            self.dicts[i]['<unk>'] = 0

    def gen(self, idx, key):
        if key not in self.dicts[idx]:
            res = self.dicts[idx]['<unk>']
        else:
            res = self.dicts[idx][key]
        return res

    def dicts_sizes(self):
        return map(len, self.dicts)


class ContinuousFeatureGenerator:
    """
    Normalize the integer features to [0, 1] by min-max normalization
    """

    def __init__(self, num_feature):
        self.num_feature = num_feature
        self.min = [sys.maxint] * num_feature
        self.max = [-sys.maxint] * num_feature

    def build(self, datafile, continous_features):
        with open(datafile, 'r') as f:
            for line in f:
                features = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
                for i in range(0, self.num_feature):
                    val = features[continous_features[i]]
                    if val != '':
                        val = int(val)
                        self.min[i] = min(self.min[i], val)
                        self.max[i] = max(self.max[i], val)

    def gen(self, idx, val):
        if val == '':
            return 0
        val = float(val)
        return (val - self.min[idx]) / (self.max[idx] - self.min[idx])


@click.command("preprocess")
@click.option("--datadir", type=str, help="Path to raw criteo dataset")
@click.option("--outdir", type=str, help="Path to save the processed data")
def preprocess(datadir, outdir):
    """
    All the 13 integer features are normalzied to continous values and these
    continous features are combined into one vecotr with dimension 13.

    Each of the 26 categorical features are one-hot encoded and all the one-hot
    vectors are combined into one sparse binary vector.
    """
    dists = ContinuousFeatureGenerator(len(continous_features))
    dists.build(os.path.join(datadir, 'train.txt'), continous_features)

    dicts = CategoryDictGenerator(len(categorial_features))
    dicts.build(
        os.path.join(datadir, 'train.txt'), categorial_features, cutoff=200)

    dict_sizes = dicts.dicts_sizes()
    categorial_feature_offset = [0]
    for i in range(1, len(categorial_features)):
        offset = categorial_feature_offset[i - 1] + dict_sizes[i - 1]
        categorial_feature_offset.append(offset)

    with open(os.path.join(outdir, 'train.txt'), 'w') as out:
        with open(os.path.join(datadir, 'train.txt'), 'r') as f:
            for line in f:
                features = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')

                continous_vals = []
                for i in range(0, len(continous_features)):
                    val = dists.gen(i, features[continous_features[i]])
                    continous_vals.append(str(val))
                categorial_vals = []
                for i in range(0, len(categorial_features)):
                    val = dicts.gen(i, features[categorial_features[
                        i]]) + categorial_feature_offset[i]
                    categorial_vals.append(str(val))

                continous_vals = ','.join(continous_vals)
                categorial_vals = ','.join(categorial_vals)
                label = features[0]
                out.write('\t'.join([continous_vals, categorial_vals, label]) +
                          '\n')

    with open(os.path.join(outdir, 'test.txt'), 'w') as out:
        with open(os.path.join(datadir, 'test.txt'), 'r') as f:
            for line in f:
                features = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')

                continous_vals = []
                for i in range(0, len(continous_features)):
                    val = dists.gen(i, features[continous_features[i] - 1])
                    continous_vals.append(str(val))
                categorial_vals = []
                for i in range(0, len(categorial_features)):
                    val = dicts.gen(i,
                                    features[categorial_features[i] -
                                             1]) + categorial_feature_offset[i]
                    categorial_vals.append(str(val))

                continous_vals = ','.join(continous_vals)
                categorial_vals = ','.join(categorial_vals)
                out.write('\t'.join([continous_vals, categorial_vals]) + '\n')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    preprocess()