xgboost是基於GBDT原理進行改進的算法，效率高，並且可以進行並行化運算，而且可以在訓練的過程中給出各個特征的評分，從而表明每個特征對模型訓練的重要性，
調用的源碼就不准備詳述，本文主要側重的是計算的原理，函數get_fscore源碼如下，源碼來自安裝包：xgboost/python-package/xgboost/core.py
通過下面的源碼可以看出，特征評分可以看成是被用來分離決策樹的次數。
def get_fscore(self, fmap=''):
"""Get feature importance of each feature.
Parameters
----------
fmap: str (optional)
The name of feature map file
"""
return self.get_score(fmap, importance_type='weight')
def get_score(self, fmap='', importance_type='weight'):
"""Get feature importance of each feature.
Importance type can be defined as:
'weight' - the number of times a feature is used to split the data across all trees.
'gain' - the average gain of the feature when it is used in trees
'cover' - the average coverage of the feature when it is used in trees
Parameters
----------
fmap: str (optional)
The name of feature map file
"""
if importance_type not in ['weight', 'gain', 'cover']:
msg = "importance_type mismatch, got '{}', expected 'weight', 'gain', or 'cover'"
raise ValueError(msg.format(importance_type))
# if it's weight, then omap stores the number of missing values
if importance_type == 'weight':
# do a simpler tree dump to save time
trees = self.get_dump(fmap, with_stats=False)
fmap = {}
for tree in trees:
for line in tree.split('\n'):
# look for the opening square bracket
arr = line.split('[')
# if no opening bracket (leaf node), ignore this line
if len(arr) == 1:
continue
# extract feature name from string between []
fid = arr[1].split(']')[0].split('<')[0]
if fid not in fmap:
# if the feature hasn't been seen yet
fmap[fid] = 1
else:
fmap[fid] += 1
return fmap
else:
trees = self.get_dump(fmap, with_stats=True)
importance_type += '='
fmap = {}
gmap = {}
for tree in trees:
for line in tree.split('\n'):
# look for the opening square bracket
arr = line.split('[')
# if no opening bracket (leaf node), ignore this line
if len(arr) == 1:
continue
# look for the closing bracket, extract only info within that bracket
fid = arr[1].split(']')
# extract gain or cover from string after closing bracket
g = float(fid[1].split(importance_type)[1].split(',')[0])
# extract feature name from string before closing bracket
fid = fid[0].split('<')[0]
if fid not in fmap:
# if the feature hasn't been seen yet
fmap[fid] = 1
gmap[fid] = g
else:
fmap[fid] += 1
gmap[fid] += g
# calculate average value (gain/cover) for each feature
for fid in gmap:
gmap[fid] = gmap[fid] / fmap[fid]
return gmap