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Exporting RandomForest Models to Java Source Code

This post shares a tiny toolkit to export WEKA-generated Random Forest models into light-weight, self-contained Java source code for, e.g., Android.

It came out of my need to include Random Forest models into Android apps.

Previously, I used to use Weka for Android. However, I did not find a way to export a Random Forest model in a way that my apps can load it reliably across devices, so the apps had to compute the model on each start — which can take minutes.

androidrf solves the problem in a simple way: a python script parses the console output of WEKA when training a RandomForest model with the -printTree option enabled. Then, it creates a single Java source file implementing those trees with simple if-then statements.

The library ships with three additional Java classes that allow to run and test the generated classifiers.

The code is available on Github under the MIT Licence: androidrf

How to use it

(for people who are familiar with WEKA):

Load your data set into WEKA, choose RandomForest as classifier, and enabled the ‘printTrees’ option for your RandomForest classifier. Hint: limit the depth of the trees with the ‘maxDepth’ option, because otherwise the resulting source files may become huge.

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Save the output of the results buffer into a .txt file. Best, save it into the ‘data’ folder of the androidrf project.

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Open a terminal, enter the ‘data’ folder of the androidrf project, and execute
python to_java_source.py -M filename (without .txt).

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A class with the name FilenameRandomForest should appear in androidrf/src/org/pielot/rf

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All you need to do is to copy the Java class together with the three pre-existing Java classes (Prediction, Evaluation, RandomForest) into your project. It should compile without error.

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The features have been added as fields to your classifier. Hence, in order to specify the features, simply populate those fields. Then, run runClassifiers(List predictions) to obtain a Prediction with the details of the prediction (predicted class, certainty, ..).

Voila! You have a light-weight, portable, working Random Forest model.

 

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