FeatureSelection: "Stop Dialog" doesn't work

nicugeorgian

Hi,

I have a FeatureSelection operator which embedds a cross-validation with W-M5P.

The process runs since a few days. Unfortunately, I cannot stop it. Nothing happens when pressing the "OK" button of the "Stop Dialog". Any ideas?

Of course, I can close the RapidMiner application, but I would like to get an intermediate result as a result of running FeatureSelection. More exactly, I would like to get the best subset of features found so far.

Thanks,
Geo

IngoRM

Hello Geo,

The process runs since a few days. Unfortunately, I cannot stop it. Nothing happens when pressing the "OK" button of the "Stop Dialog". Any ideas?

As far as I remember, the current generation is finished before the optimization is actually stopped. For large numbers of individuals or if each inner evaluation takes large amounts of time, this might need a lot of time before the intermediate results are shown. I have tried this on the following process and everything works fine, you have just to wait some time until the current generation was finished:

<operator name="Root" class="Process" expanded="yes">
    <operator name="ExampleSetGenerator" class="ExampleSetGenerator">
        <parameter key="target_function"	value="sum"/>
    </operator>
    <operator name="NoiseGenerator" class="NoiseGenerator">
        <list key="noise">
        </list>
        <parameter key="random_attributes"	value="5"/>
    </operator>
    <operator name="GeneticAlgorithm" class="GeneticAlgorithm" expanded="yes">
        <parameter key="maximum_number_of_generations"	value="300"/>
        <parameter key="show_stop_dialog"	value="true"/>
        <operator name="XValidation" class="XValidation" expanded="yes">
            <parameter key="sampling_type"	value="shuffled sampling"/>
            <operator name="W-M5P" class="W-M5P">
            </operator>
            <operator name="OperatorChain" class="OperatorChain" expanded="yes">
                <operator name="ModelApplier" class="ModelApplier">
                    <list key="application_parameters">
                    </list>
                </operator>
                <operator name="Performance" class="Performance">
                </operator>
            </operator>
        </operator>
    </operator>
</operator>

Cheers,
Ingo

Rasputin

I stumbled upon the same problem when using Operators like YAGGA. Probably it would be a good idea to show a message like "please wait while finishing the current generation", or to offer an option to stop immediately.

-Rasputin

land

Hi,
the message would be a good idea. Unfortunately there's no possibility in java to simply kill a thread immideately....

Greetings,
  Sebastian