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Chi-Squared

Overview

The drift detector applies feature-wise Chi-Squared tests for the categorical features. For multivariate data, the obtained p-values for each feature are aggregated either via the Bonferroni or the False Discovery Rate (FDR) correction. The Bonferroni correction is more conservative and controls for the probability of at least one false positive. The FDR correction on the other hand allows for an expected fraction of false positives to occur. Similarly to the other drift detectors, a preprocessing steps could be applied, but the output features need to be categorical.

Usage

Initialize

Arguments:

• x_ref: Data used as reference distribution.

Keyword arguments:

• p_val: p-value used for significance of the Chi-Squared test for. If the FDR correction method is used, this corresponds to the acceptable q-value.

• categories_per_feature: Optional dictionary with as keys the feature column index and as values the number of possible categorical values for that feature or a list with the possible values. If you know how many categories are present for a given feature you could pass this in the categories_per_feature dict in the Dict[int, int] format, e.g. {0: 3, 3: 2}. If you pass N categories this will assume the possible values for the feature are [0, …, N-1]. You can also explicitly pass the possible categories in the Dict[int, List[int]] format, e.g. {0: [0, 1, 2], 3: [0, 55]}. Note that the categories can be arbitrary int values. If it is not specified, categories_per_feature is inferred from x_ref.

• preprocess_at_init: Whether to already apply the (optional) preprocessing step to the reference data at initialization and store the preprocessed data. Dependent on the preprocessing step, this can reduce the computation time for the predict step significantly, especially when the reference dataset is large. Defaults to True. It is possible that it needs to be set to False if the preprocessing step requires statistics from both the reference and test data, such as the mean or standard deviation.

• x_ref_preprocessed: Whether or not the reference data x_ref has already been preprocessed. If True, the reference data will be skipped and preprocessing will only be applied to the test data passed to predict.

• update_x_ref: Reference data can optionally be updated to the last N instances seen by the detector or via reservoir sampling with size N. For the former, the parameter equals {‘last’: N} while for reservoir sampling {‘reservoir_sampling’: N} is passed.

• preprocess_fn: Function to preprocess the data before computing the data drift metrics. Typically a dimensionality reduction technique. Needs to return categorical features for the Chi-Squared detector.

• correction: Correction type for multivariate data. Either ‘bonferroni’ or ‘fdr’ (False Discovery Rate).

• n_features: Number of features used in the Chi-Squared test. No need to pass it if no preprocessing takes place. In case of a preprocessing step, this can also be inferred automatically but could be more expensive to compute.

• data_type: can specify data type added to metadata. E.g. ‘tabular’.

Initialized drift detector example:

from alibi_detect.cd import ChiSquareDrift

cd = ChiSquareDrift(x_ref, p_val=0.05)


Detect Drift

We detect data drift by simply calling predict on a batch of instances x. We can return the feature-wise p-values before the multivariate correction by setting return_p_val to True. The drift can also be detected at the feature level by setting drift_type to ‘feature’. No multivariate correction will take place since we return the output of n_features univariate tests. For drift detection on all the features combined with the correction, use ‘batch’. return_p_val equal to True will also return the threshold used by the detector (either for the univariate case or after the multivariate correction).

The prediction takes the form of a dictionary with meta and data keys. meta contains the detector’s metadata while data is also a dictionary which contains the actual predictions stored in the following keys:

• is_drift: 1 if the sample tested has drifted from the reference data and 0 otherwise.

• p_val: contains feature-level p-values if return_p_val equals True.

• threshold: for feature-level drift detection the threshold equals the p-value used for the significance of the Chi-Square test. Otherwise the threshold after the multivariate correction (either bonferroni or fdr) is returned.

• distance: feature-wise Chi-Square test statistics between the reference data and the new batch if return_distance equals True.

preds = cd.predict(x, drift_type='batch', return_p_val=True, return_distance=True)


Examples

Drift detection on income prediction