[SPARK-21088][ML] CrossValidator, TrainValidationSplit support collec…

…t all models when fitting: Python API

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Add python API for collecting sub-models during CrossValidator/TrainValidationSplit fitting.

## How was this patch tested?

UT added.

Author: WeichenXu <[email protected]>

Closes apache#19627 from WeichenXu123/expose-model-list-py.

mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tuning/CrossValidator.scala

@@ -270,6 +270,17 @@ class CrossValidatorModel private[ml] (
     this
   }
 
+  // A Python-friendly auxiliary method
+  private[tuning] def setSubModels(subModels: JList[JList[Model[_]]])
+    : CrossValidatorModel = {
+    _subModels = if (subModels != null) {
+      Some(subModels.asScala.toArray.map(_.asScala.toArray))
+    } else {
+      None
+    }
+    this
+  }
+
   /**
    * @return submodels represented in two dimension array. The index of outer array is the
    *         fold index, and the index of inner array corresponds to the ordering of

mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/tuning/TrainValidationSplit.scala

@@ -262,6 +262,17 @@ class TrainValidationSplitModel private[ml] (
     this
   }
 
+  // A Python-friendly auxiliary method
+  private[tuning] def setSubModels(subModels: JList[Model[_]])
+    : TrainValidationSplitModel = {
+    _subModels = if (subModels != null) {
+      Some(subModels.asScala.toArray)
+    } else {
+      None
+    }
+    this
+  }
+
   /**
    * @return submodels represented in array. The index of array corresponds to the ordering of
    *         estimatorParamMaps

python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py

@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ def get$Name(self):
          "TypeConverters.toInt"),
         ("parallelism", "the number of threads to use when running parallel algorithms (>= 1).",
          "1", "TypeConverters.toInt"),
+        ("collectSubModels", "Param for whether to collect a list of sub-models trained during " +
+         "tuning. If set to false, then only the single best sub-model will be available after " +
+         "fitting. If set to true, then all sub-models will be available. Warning: For large " +
+         "models, collecting all sub-models can cause OOMs on the Spark driver.",
+         "False", "TypeConverters.toBoolean"),
         ("loss", "the loss function to be optimized.", None, "TypeConverters.toString")]
 
     code = []

python/pyspark/ml/param/shared.py

@@ -655,6 +655,30 @@ def getParallelism(self):
         return self.getOrDefault(self.parallelism)
 
 
+class HasCollectSubModels(Params):
+    """
+    Mixin for param collectSubModels: Param for whether to collect a list of sub-models trained during tuning. If set to false, then only the single best sub-model will be available after fitting. If set to true, then all sub-models will be available. Warning: For large models, collecting all sub-models can cause OOMs on the Spark driver.
+    """
+
+    collectSubModels = Param(Params._dummy(), "collectSubModels", "Param for whether to collect a list of sub-models trained during tuning. If set to false, then only the single best sub-model will be available after fitting. If set to true, then all sub-models will be available. Warning: For large models, collecting all sub-models can cause OOMs on the Spark driver.", typeConverter=TypeConverters.toBoolean)
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(HasCollectSubModels, self).__init__()
+        self._setDefault(collectSubModels=False)
+
+    def setCollectSubModels(self, value):
+        """
+        Sets the value of :py:attr:`collectSubModels`.
+        """
+        return self._set(collectSubModels=value)
+
+    def getCollectSubModels(self):
+        """
+        Gets the value of collectSubModels or its default value.
+        """
+        return self.getOrDefault(self.collectSubModels)
+
+
 class HasLoss(Params):
     """
     Mixin for param loss: the loss function to be optimized.

python/pyspark/ml/tests.py

@@ -1018,6 +1018,50 @@ def test_parallel_evaluation(self):
         cvParallelModel = cv.fit(dataset)
         self.assertEqual(cvSerialModel.avgMetrics, cvParallelModel.avgMetrics)
 
+    def test_expose_sub_models(self):
+        temp_path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        dataset = self.spark.createDataFrame(
+            [(Vectors.dense([0.0]), 0.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.4]), 1.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.5]), 0.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.6]), 1.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([1.0]), 1.0)] * 10,
+            ["features", "label"])
+
+        lr = LogisticRegression()
+        grid = ParamGridBuilder().addGrid(lr.maxIter, [0, 1]).build()
+        evaluator = BinaryClassificationEvaluator()
+
+        numFolds = 3
+        cv = CrossValidator(estimator=lr, estimatorParamMaps=grid, evaluator=evaluator,
+                            numFolds=numFolds, collectSubModels=True)
+
+        def checkSubModels(subModels):
+            self.assertEqual(len(subModels), numFolds)
+            for i in range(numFolds):
+                self.assertEqual(len(subModels[i]), len(grid))
+
+        cvModel = cv.fit(dataset)
+        checkSubModels(cvModel.subModels)
+
+        # Test the default value for option "persistSubModel" to be "true"
+        testSubPath = temp_path + "/testCrossValidatorSubModels"
+        savingPathWithSubModels = testSubPath + "cvModel3"
+        cvModel.save(savingPathWithSubModels)
+        cvModel3 = CrossValidatorModel.load(savingPathWithSubModels)
+        checkSubModels(cvModel3.subModels)
+        cvModel4 = cvModel3.copy()
+        checkSubModels(cvModel4.subModels)
+
+        savingPathWithoutSubModels = testSubPath + "cvModel2"
+        cvModel.write().option("persistSubModels", "false").save(savingPathWithoutSubModels)
+        cvModel2 = CrossValidatorModel.load(savingPathWithoutSubModels)
+        self.assertEqual(cvModel2.subModels, None)
+
+        for i in range(numFolds):
+            for j in range(len(grid)):
+                self.assertEqual(cvModel.subModels[i][j].uid, cvModel3.subModels[i][j].uid)
+
     def test_save_load_nested_estimator(self):
         temp_path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         dataset = self.spark.createDataFrame(
@@ -1186,6 +1230,40 @@ def test_parallel_evaluation(self):
         tvsParallelModel = tvs.fit(dataset)
         self.assertEqual(tvsSerialModel.validationMetrics, tvsParallelModel.validationMetrics)
 
+    def test_expose_sub_models(self):
+        temp_path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+        dataset = self.spark.createDataFrame(
+            [(Vectors.dense([0.0]), 0.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.4]), 1.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.5]), 0.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([0.6]), 1.0),
+             (Vectors.dense([1.0]), 1.0)] * 10,
+            ["features", "label"])
+        lr = LogisticRegression()
+        grid = ParamGridBuilder().addGrid(lr.maxIter, [0, 1]).build()
+        evaluator = BinaryClassificationEvaluator()
+        tvs = TrainValidationSplit(estimator=lr, estimatorParamMaps=grid, evaluator=evaluator,
+                                   collectSubModels=True)
+        tvsModel = tvs.fit(dataset)
+        self.assertEqual(len(tvsModel.subModels), len(grid))
+
+        # Test the default value for option "persistSubModel" to be "true"
+        testSubPath = temp_path + "/testTrainValidationSplitSubModels"
+        savingPathWithSubModels = testSubPath + "cvModel3"
+        tvsModel.save(savingPathWithSubModels)
+        tvsModel3 = TrainValidationSplitModel.load(savingPathWithSubModels)
+        self.assertEqual(len(tvsModel3.subModels), len(grid))
+        tvsModel4 = tvsModel3.copy()
+        self.assertEqual(len(tvsModel4.subModels), len(grid))
+
+        savingPathWithoutSubModels = testSubPath + "cvModel2"
+        tvsModel.write().option("persistSubModels", "false").save(savingPathWithoutSubModels)
+        tvsModel2 = TrainValidationSplitModel.load(savingPathWithoutSubModels)
+        self.assertEqual(tvsModel2.subModels, None)
+
+        for i in range(len(grid)):
+            self.assertEqual(tvsModel.subModels[i].uid, tvsModel3.subModels[i].uid)
+
     def test_save_load_nested_estimator(self):
         # This tests saving and loading the trained model only.
         # Save/load for TrainValidationSplit will be added later: SPARK-13786