resemble
Memory-Based Learning in Spectral ChemometricsLast update: r Sys.Date()
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Think Globally, Fit Locally (Saul and Roweis, 2003)
The resemble
package provides high-performing functionality for
data-driven modeling (including local modeling), nearest-neighbor search and
orthogonal projections in spectral data.
A new vignette for resemble
explaining its core functionality is available
at: https://cran.r-project.org/package=resemble/vignettes/resemble.html
The core functionality of the package can be summarized into the following functions:
mbl
: implements memory-based learning (MBL) for modeling and predicting
continuous response variables. For example, it can be used to reproduce the
famous LOCAL algorithm proposed by Shenk et al. (1997). In general, this
function allows you to easily customize your own MBL regression-prediction
method.
dissimilarity
: Computes dissimilarity matrices based on various methods
(e.g. Euclidean, Mahalanobis, cosine, correlation, moving correlation,
Spectral information divergence, principal components dissimilarity and partial
least squares dissimilarity).
ortho_projection
: A function for dimensionality reduction using either
principal component analysis or partial least squares (a.k.a projection to
latent structures).
search_neighbors
: A function to efficiently retrieve from a reference set
the k-nearest neighbors of another given dataset.
During the recent lockdown we invested some of our free time to come up
with a new version of our package. This new resemble
2.0 comes with MAJOR
improvements and new functions! For these improvements major changes were
required. The most evident changes are in the function and argument names.
These have been now adapted to properly follow the
tydiverse style guide. A number of changes have
been implemented for the sake of computational efficiency. These changes are
documented in inst\changes.md
.
New interesing functions and fucntionality are also available, for example,
the mbl()
function now allows sample spiking, where a
set of reference observations can be forced to be included in the neighborhhoods
of each sample to be predicted. The serach_neighbors()
function efficiently
retrieves from a refence set the k-nearest neighbors of another given dataset.
The dissimilarity()
function computes dissimilarity matrices based on various
metrics.
If you want to install the package and try its functionality, it is very simple,
just type the following line in your R
console:
install.packages('resemble')
If you do not have the following packages installed, it might be good to update/install them first
install.packages('Rcpp') install.packages('RcppArmadillo') install.packages('foreach') install.packages('iterators')
Note: Apart from these packages we stronly recommend to download and install
Rtools https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/).
This is important for obtaining the proper C++ toolchain that might be needed
for resemble
.
Then, install resemble
You can also install the development version of resemble
directly from github
using devtools
:
devtools::install_github("l-ramirez-lopez/resemble")
NOTE: in some MAC Os it is still recommended to install gfortran
and clang
from here. Even for R >= 4.0.
For more info, check this issue.
After installing resemble
you should be also able to run the following lines:
library(resemble) library(tidyr) library(prospectr) data(NIRsoil) # Proprocess the data NIRsoil <- NIRsoil[NIRsoil$CEC %>% complete.cases(),] wavs <- as.numeric(colnames(NIRsoil$spc)) NIRsoil$spc_p <- NIRsoil$spc %>% standardNormalVariate() %>% resample(wavs, seq(min(wavs), max(wavs), by = 11)) %>% savitzkyGolay(p = 1, w = 5, m = 1) # split into calibration/training and test train_x <- NIRsoil$spc_p[as.logical(NIRsoil$train), ] train_y <- NIRsoil$CEC[as.logical(NIRsoil$train)] test_x <- NIRsoil$spc_p[!as.logical(NIRsoil$train), ] test_y <- NIRsoil$CEC[!as.logical(NIRsoil$train)] # Use MBL as in Ramirez-Lopez et al. (2013) sbl <- mbl( Xr = train_x, Yr = train_y, Xu = test_x, k = seq(50, 130, by = 20), method = local_fit_gpr(), control = mbl_control(validation_type = "NNv") ) sbl plot(sbl) get_predictions(sbl) ```` <p align="center"> <img src="./man/figures/mbl.png" width="80%"> </p> Figure 1. Standard plot of the results of the __`mbl`__ function. [`resemble`](http://l-ramirez-lopez.github.io/resemble/) implements functions dedicated to non-linear modelling of complex visible and infrared spectral data based on memory-based learning (MBL, _a.k.a_ instance-based learning or local modelling in the chemometrics literature). The package also includes functions for: computing and evaluate spectral dissimilarity matrices, projecting the spectra onto low dimensional orthogonal variables, spectral neighbor search, etc. ## Memory-based learning (MBL) To expand a bit more the explanation on the `mbl` function, let's define first the basic input data: * __Reference (training) set__: Dataset with *n* reference samples (e.g. spectral library) to be used in the calibration of spectral models. Xr represents the matrix of samples (containing the spectral predictor variables) and Yr represents a response variable corresponding to Xr. * __Prediction set__ : Dataset with _m_ samples where the response variable (Yu) is unknown. However it can be predicted by applying a spectral model (calibrated by using Xr and Yr) on the spectra of these samples (Xu). To predict each value in Yu, the `mbl` function takes each sample in Xu and searches in Xr for its _k_-nearest neighbours (most spectrally similar samples). Then a (local) model is calibrated with these (reference) neighbours and it immediately predicts the correspondent value in Yu from Xu. In the function, the _k_-nearest neighbour search is performed by computing spectral dissimilarity matrices between observations. The `mbl` function offers the following regression options for calibrating the (local) models: __`'gpr'`__: Gaussian process with linear kernel. __`'pls'`__: Partial least squares. __`'wapls'`__: Weighted average partial least squares (Shenk et al., 1997). Figure 2 illustrates the basic steps in MBL for a set of five observations. <p align="center"> <img src="./vignettes/MBL.gif" width="50%"> </p> Figure 2. Example of the main steps in memory-based learning for predicting a response variable in five different observations based on set of p-dimesnional variables. ## Citing the package Simply type and you will get the info you need:
citation(package = "resemble") ```
resemble
2023.04: Zhao et al., 2023
used MBL (from resemble
) to quantify soil properties relevant to soil organic carbon biogeochemical cycles using IR spectroscopy.
Sanderman et al., 2022 used resemble
to study the transferability of large IR spectral databases across instruments.
Dangal et al., 2022 used resemble
in an study aiming at improving Soil Carbon Estimates.
2022.03: Ng et al., 2022
uses MBL (implemented in resemble
) to asses the feasibility
of quantifying a number of soil properties from IR spectra. They also show that
MBL achieved better accuracy than Cubist regression.
2022.02: Li et al., 2022
show how useful the combination of MBL and spiking (implemented in resemble
)
can be to accurately predict soil properties from NIR data in China.
2021.12: Yu et al., 2022 uses MBL with External Parameter Orthogonalization to predict soil properties in in the field.
2021.10: In this paper we use MBL to predict soil properties in Africa.
2020.08: Charlotte Rivard shows how to use MBL in IR spectroscopy here.
2020.04: Tsakiridis et al. (2020),
used the optimal principal components dissimilarity method implemented in resemble
in combination with convolutional neural networks for simultaneous prediction of soil properties from vis-NIR spectra.
2019-04: Tziolas et al. (2019), used
resemble
to investigate on improved MBL methods for quantitative predictions
of soil properties using NIR spectroscopy and geographical information.
2019.03,08: Tsakiridis et al. (2019a) and Tsakiridis et al. (2019b),
compared several machine learning methods for predictive soil spectroscopy and
show that MBL resemble
offers highly competive results.
2020.01: Sanderman et al., (2020) used resemble
for the prediction of soil health indicators in the United States.
2019-03: I published a scientific paper were we used memory-based learning (MBL) for digital soil mapping. Here we use MBL to remove local calibration outliers rather than using this approach to overcome the typical complexity of large spectral datasets. (Ramirez‐Lopez, L., Wadoux, A. C., Franceschini, M. H. D., Terra, F. S., Marques, K. P. P., Sayão, V. M., & Demattê, J. A. M. (2019). Robust soil mapping at the farm scale with vis–NIR spectroscopy. European Journal of Soil Science. 70, 378–393).
2019-01: In this scientific paper
we use resemble
to model MIR spectra from a continental soil spectral library
in United States. (Dangal, S.R., Sanderman, J., Wills, S. and Ramirez-Lopez,
L., 2019. Accurate and Precise Prediction of Soil Properties from a Large
Mid-Infrared Spectral Library. Soil Systems, 3(1), p.11).
2019-03: Jaconi et al. (2019) implemented a memory-based learning algorithm (using resemble
) to conduct
accurate NIR predictions of soil texture at National scale in Germany.
(Jaconi, A., Vos, C. and Don, A., 2019. Near infrared spectroscopy as an easy
and precise method to estimate soil texture. Geoderma, 337, pp.906-913).
2018-12: Chen, et al. (2018)
implemented a memory-based learning algorithm (using resemble
) to improve the
accuracy of NIR predictions of soil organic matter in China.
(Hong, Y., Chen, S., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Yu, L., Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Cheng, H.
and Liu, Y. 2019. Combination of fractional order derivative and memory-based learning
algorithm to improve the estimation accuracy of soil organic matter by visible
and near-infrared spectroscopy. Catena, 174, pp.104-116).
2018-11: In this recent scientific paper the authors used resemble
to predict the chemoical composition of Common Beans in
Spain. (Rivera, A., Plans, M., Sabaté, J., Casañas, F., Casals, J., Rull, A., &
Simó, J. (2018). The Spanish core collection of common beans (Phaseolus
vulgaris L.): an important source of variability for breeding chemical
composition. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9).
2018-07: Another use-case of resemble
is presented by
Gholizadeh et al.(2018)
for a soil science application in Czech Republic.
(Gholizadeh, A., Saberioon, M., Carmon, N.,
Boruvka, L. and Ben-Dor, E., 2018. Examining the Performance of PARACUDA-II
Data-Mining Engine versus Selected Techniques to Model Soil Carbon from
Reflectance Spectra. Remote Sensing, 10(8), p.1172).
2018-01: Dotto, et al. (2018) have implemented memory-based learning with resemble
to accurately
predict soil organic Carbon at a region in Brazil. (Dotto, A. C., Dalmolin,
R. S. D., ten Caten, A., & Grunwald, S. (2018). A systematic study on the
application of scatter-corrective and spectral-derivative preprocessing for
multivariate prediction of soil organic carbon by Vis-NIR spectra. Geoderma,
314, 262-274).
2017-11: Here the authors predicted brix values in differet food products using memory-based learning implemented with resemble
.
(Kopf, M., Gruna, R., Längle, T. and Beyerer, J., 2017, March. Evaluation and
comparison of different approaches to multi-product brix calibration in
near-infrared spectroscopy. In OCM 2017-Optical Characterization of Materials-conference proceedings (p. 129). KIT Scientific Publishing).
2016-05: In this scientific paper the authors sucesfully used resemble
to predict soil organic carbon content at
national scale in France. (Clairotte, M., Grinand, C., Kouakoua, E., Thébault, A.,
Saby, N. P., Bernoux, M., & Barthès, B. G. (2016). National calibration of soil
organic carbon concentration using diffuse infrared reflectance spectroscopy.
Geoderma, 276, 41-52).
2016-04: This paper shows some interesting results on applying memory-based learning to predict soil properties.
2016-04: In some recent entries of this blog,
the author shows some exmaples on the use resemble
2016-02: As promised, resemble 1.2 (alma-de-coco)
is now available on CRAN.
2016-01: The version 1.2 (alma-de-coco) has been submitted to CRAN and is available from the github repository!
2015-11: A pre-release of the version 1.2.0 (1.2.0.9000 alma-de-coco) is
now available! resemble
is now faster! Some critical functions (e.g. pls and
gaussian process regressions were re-written in C++ using Rcpp
. This time the
new version will be available at CRAN very soon!.
2015-11 Well, the version 1.1.3 was never released on CRAN since we decided to carry out major improvements in terms of computational performance.
2014-10: A pre-release of the version 1.1.3 of the package is already available at this website. We hope it will be available at CRAN very soon!
2014-06: Check this video where a renowned NIR scientist talks about local calibrations.
2014-03: The package released on CRAN!
prospectr
.You can send an e-mail to the package maintainer (ramirez.lopez.leo@gmail.com) or create an issue on github.
Lobsey, C. R., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Roudier, P., & Hedley, C. B. 2017. rs-local data-mines information from spectral libraries to improve local calibrations. European Journal of Soil Science, 68(6), 840-852.
Ramirez-Lopez, L., Behrens, T., Schmidt, K., Stevens, A., Dematte, J.A.M., Scholten, T. 2013. The spectrum-based learner: A new local approach for modeling soil vis-NIR spectra of complex data sets. Geoderma 195-196, 268-279.
Saul, L. K., & Roweis, S. T. 2003. Think globally, fit locally: unsupervised learning of low dimensional manifolds. Journal of machine learning research, 4(Jun), 119-155.
Shenk, J., Westerhaus, M., and Berzaghi, P. 1997. Investigation of a LOCAL calibration procedure for near infrared instruments. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 5, 223-232.
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