Changelog
Version 0.3-4 is considered pre-release of {SLmetrics}. We do not expect any breaking changes, unless a major bug/issue is reported and its nature forces breaking changes.
🔖 Version 0.3-4
This update has been focused on two three things:
Optimization of the back-end by using Armadillo instead of Eigen.
Streamlining and extending the documentation
Making functions more flexible
As an example on the increased flexibility is the introduction of theestimator-argument in classification metrics - the new approach
enables new additions of aggregation methods as the field evolves. The
“old” approach were limited to three values NULL, TRUE and FALSE.
Furthermore the function signatures of the generics have been made more
flexible - this will enable possible wrapping packages to freely
implement argument names off the generic.
✨ Improvements
Armadillo backend: All functions have been ported to the C++ Armadillo library, and are heavily templated and Object Oriented. The functions are 5-20x faster than before.
Streamlined documentation: All documentation have been reworked, and are now using generic {roxygen2} templates. The new structure of the documentation is focused on shared documentation and therefore equal metrics like
recallandsensitivityare aliased, and referenced differently - as a result there should be less noise in the documentation. The creating factor has been removed, and all examples are simplified.Efficient multi-metric evaluation: The Precision-Recall and Receiver Operator Characteristics functions now accepts an
indicesargument. The indices takes aninteger-matrix of corresponding to the sorted probabilities column-wise. See below:
## Classes and
## seed
set.seed(1903)
classes <- c("Kebab", "Falafel")
## Generate actual classes
## and response probabilities
actual_classes <- factor(
x = sample(
x = classes,
size = 1e2,
replace = TRUE,
prob = c(0.7, 0.3)
)
)
response_probabilities <- ifelse(
actual_classes == "Kebab",
rbeta(sum(actual_classes == "Kebab"), 2, 5),
rbeta(sum(actual_classes == "Falafel"), 5, 2)
)
## Construct response
## matrix
probability_matrix <- cbind(
response_probabilities,
1 - response_probabilities
)
## Calculate Precision-Recall
stopifnot(
all.equal(
target = SLmetrics::pr.curve(actual_classes, probability_matrix),
current = SLmetrics::pr.curve(actual_classes, probability_matrix, indices = SLmetrics::preorder(probability_matrix, TRUE))
)
)Depending on the system and data, there is a 3x gain in speed. This approach is highly efficient for cases where multiple AUC or curves are to be computed as it avoids sorting the same probability matrix more than once.
🐛-fixes
Relative Root Mean Squared Error: Normalizing the
RMSEusing therange, therangeis always calculated by the distance betweenmax(actual) - min(actual)instead of the weighted distance.
🚀 New features
Hamming Loss: The fraction of the wrong labels to the total number of labels, i.e. , where is the target, is the prediction, and is the “Exclusive, or” operator that returns zero when the target and prediction are identical and one otherwise. The interface to
hammingloss()is given below:
Tweedie Deviance: The interface to
tweedie.deviance()is given below:
Gamma Deviance: The interface to
gamma.deviance()is given below:
Poisson Deviance: The interface to
poisson.deviance()is given below:
Mean Arctangent Absolute Error: The metric can be calculated as follows:
Geometric Mean Squared Error: The function have been implemented with logs and antilogs and is robust to zero-valued vectors. The metric can be calculated as follows:
🐛 Bug-fixes
💥 Breaking changes
Area under the curve: The new interface is given below:
Receiver Operating Characteristics: The new interface is given below:
Precision-Recall Curve: The new interface is given below:
Entropy:
entropy()has been renamed toshannon.entropy(). The new interface toshannon.entropy()is given below:
The entropy functions have had the base-argument removed, and a new
argument has been introduced: normalize. The normalize-parameter
averages the calculated entropy across the desired dimensions.
Aggregation in classification metrics: The aggregation flag in the classification functions
microhave been replaced with theinteger-argumentestimatorwhich falls back to class-wise evaluation if misspecified. The new interface is given below and is applicable to all functions that has this argument:
Poisson Logloss: The
logloss()for count datalogloss.integer()were taking amatrixof probabilities. This has been changed to avectorof probabilities.
🔖 Version 0.3-3
✨ Improvements
Initial CRAN release: The R-package has (finally) been submitted to CRAN and was released on 2025-03-18 with the classic “Thanks, on its way to CRAN” message.
S3 signatures: All S3-methods now have a generic signature, making it easier to navigate the functions argument-wise.
Exported Data: Three new datasets have been introduced to the package; the Wine Quality-, Obesity- and Banknote Authentication datasets. Each dataset is comes in named
listwhere features and targets are stored separately. Below is an example from the Obesity dataset:
🚀 New features
New metrics
Poisson LogLoss: The logloss for count data has been implemented. This metric shares the method of logloss and can be used as follows:
Area under the Curve: A new set of functions have been introduced which calculates the weighted and unweighted area under the Precision-Recall and Receiver Operator Characteristics curve. See below:
Metric tools
A new family of Tools-functions are introduced with this update. This
addition introduces unexported functions for constructing fast and
memory efficient proprietary metrics. These functions are rewritten
built-in functions from {stats} and family.
Covariance Matrix: A re-written
stats::cov.wt(), usingRcpp. Example usage:
Area under the curve (AUC): The function calculates the area under the plot for bivariate curves for ordered and unordered
xandypairs. The function assumes that values are ordered and calculates the AUC directly - to control this behaviour use theordered-argument in the function. Below is an example:
Sorting algorithms: A set of sorting and ordering algorithms applicable to matrices have been implemented. The use-case is currently limited to
auc.foo,ROCandprROCfunctions. The algorithms can be used as follows:
💥 Breaking changes
Logloss: The argument
pkhas been replaced byresponse.
🔖 Version 0.3-2
✨ Improvements
Regression metrics (See PR https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/pull/64): All regression metrics have had their back-end optimized and are now 2-10 times faster than prior versions.
LAPACK/BLAS Support (https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/pull/65): Added LAPACK/BLAS support for efficient matrix-operations.
OpenMP: Enabling/disabling OpenMP is now handled on the
R-side and obeyssuppressMessages(). See below:
🚀 New features
Available threads: The available number of threads can be retrieved using the
openmp.threads(). See below:
🐛 Bug-fixes
Diagnostic Odds Ratio: The
dor()is now returning a single<[numeric]>-value instead ofknumber of identical<[numeric]>-values.
💥 Breaking Changes
OpenMP Interface: The interface to enabling/disabling OpenMP support has been reworked and has a more natural flow. The new interface is described below:
To set the number of threads use the openmp.threads() as follows:
🔖 Version 0.3-1
✨ Improvements
OpenMP Support (PR https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/pull/40): {SLmetrics} now supports parallelization through OpenMP. The OpenMP can be utilized as follows:
Entropy with soft labels (https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/37):
entropy(),cross.entropy()andrelative.entropy()have been introduced. These functions are heavily inspired by {scipy}. The functions can be used as follows:
🐛 Bug-fixes
Plot-method in ROC and prROC (https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/36): Fixed a bug in
plot.ROC()andplot.prROC()where ifpanels = FALSEadditional lines would be added to the plot.
💥 Breaking changes
logloss: The argument
responsehave ben renamed toqkas in theentropy()-family to maintain some degree of consistency.entropy.factor(): The function have been deleted and is no more. This was mainly due to avoid the documentation from being too large. The
logloss()-function replaces it.
🔖 Version 0.3-0
✨ Improvements
New features
Relative Root Mean Squared Error: The function normalizes the Root Mean Squared Error by a factor. There is no official way of normalizing it - and in {SLmetrics} the RMSE can be normalized using three options; mean-, range- and IQR-normalization. It can be used as follows,
Log Loss: Weighted and unweighted Log Loss, with and without normalization. The function can be used as follows,
Weighted Receiver Operator Characteristics:
weighted.ROC(), the function calculates the weighted True Positive and False Positive Rates for each threshold.Weighted Precision-Recall Curve:
weighted.prROC(), the function calculates the weighted Recall and Precision for each threshold.
🐛 Bug-fixes
Return named vectors: The classification metrics when
micro == NULLwere not returning named vectors. This has been fixed.
💥 Breaking Changes
Weighted Confusion Matrix: The
w-argument incmatrix()has been removed in favor of the more verbose weighted confusion matrix callweighted.cmatrix()-function. See below,
Prior to version 0.3-0 the weighted confusion matrix were a part of
the cmatrix()-function and were called as follows,
This solution, although simple, were inconsistent with the remaining implementation of weighted metrics in {SLmetrics}. To regain consistency and simplicity the weighted confusion matrix are now retrieved as follows,
🔖 Version 0.2-0
:hammer_and_wrench: General
documentation: The documentation has gotten some extra love, and now all functions have their formulas embedded, the details section have been freed from a general description of [factor] creation. This will make room for future expansions on the various functions where more details are required.
Unit-testing: All functions are now being tested for edge-cases in balanced and imbalanced classification problems, and regression problems, individually. This will enable a more robust development process and prevent avoidable bugs.
✨ Improvements
weighted classification metrics: The
cmatrix()-function now accepts the argumentwwhich is the sample weights; if passed the respective method will return the weighted metric. Below is an example using sample weights for the confusion matrix,
Calculating weighted metrics using the <factor>- or<cmatrix>-method,
Please note, however, that it is not possible to pass cmatrix()-intoweighted.accuracy(). See below:
🐛 Bug-fixes
Floating precision: Metrics would give different results based on the method used. This means that
foo.cmatrix()andfoo.factor()would produce different results (See Issue https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/16). This has been fixed by using higher precisionRcpp::NumericMatrixinstead ofRcpp::IntegerMatrix.Miscalculation of Confusion Matrix elements: An error in how
FN,TN,FPandTPwere calculated have been fixed. No issue has been raised for this bug. This was not something that was caught by the unit-tests, as the total samples were too high to spot this error. It has, however, been fixed now. This means that all metrics that uses these explicitly are now stable, and produces the desired output.Calculation Error in Fowlks Mallows Index: A bug in the calculation of the
fmi()-function has been fixed. Thefmi()-function now correctly calculates the measure.Calculation Error in Pinball Deviance and Concordance Correlation Coefficient: See issue https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/19. Switched to unbiased variance calculation in
ccc()-function. Thepinball()-function were missing a weighted quantile function. The issue is now fixed.Calculation Error in Balanced Accuracy: See issue https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/24. The function now correctly adjusts for random chance, and the result matches that of {scikit-learn}
Calculation Error in F-beta Score: See issue https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/23. The function werent respecting
na.rmandmicro, this has been fixed accordingly.Calculation Error in Relative Absolute Error: The function was incorrectly calculating means, instead of sums. This has been fixed.
💥 Breaking changes
All regression metrics have had
na.rm- andw-arguments removed. All weighted regression metrics have a separate function on theweighted.foo()to increase consistency across all metrics. The new function call is given below:
The
rrmse()-function have been removed in favor of therrse()-function. This function was incorrectly specified and described in the package.
🔖 Version 0.1-1
:hammer_and_wrench: General
Backend changes: All pair-wise metrics are moved from{Rcpp} to
C++, this have reduced execution time by half. All pair-wise metrics are now faster.
✨ Improvements
NA-controls: All pair-wise metrics that don’t have a
micro-argument were handling missing values as according to C++ and {Rcpp} internals. SeeIssue. Thank you @EmilHvitfeldt for pointing this out. This has now been fixed so functions use anna.rm-argument to explicitly control for this. See below,
🐛 Bug-fixes
The
plot.prROC()- andplot.ROC()-functions now adds a line to the plot whenpanels = FALSE. See Issue https://github.com/serkor1/SLmetrics/issues/9.


📦 {SLmetrics} Version 0.1-0
{SLmetrics} is a collection of
Machine Learning performance evaluation functions for supervised
learning written in C++ with{Rcpp}. Visit the online
documentation on Github pages.
ℹ️ Basic usage
Classification metrics
Regression metrics
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