{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-001", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Module 5 — Lab 3: Building a Decision Tree Baseline\n", "\n", "\n", "**Topics:** stratified split, dummy baseline, bounded tree, leakage-safe pipeline\n", "\n", "> **Lab version:** Complete every `TODO`, run the cells in order, and use the self-check before opening the Solution." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-002", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Learning objectives\n", "\n", "After completing this lab, you will be able to:\n", "\n", "- create a reproducible stratified train-test split;\n", "- fit missing-value imputation on training data only;\n", "- compare a bounded Decision Tree with a dummy baseline;\n", "- evaluate malware precision, recall, F1, false positives, and false negatives;\n", "- explain why trees do not require feature scaling." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "cell-003", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from pathlib import Path\n", "import numpy as np\n", "import pandas as pd\n", "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n", "\n", "DATA_PATH = Path(\"data/malware_features.csv\")\n", "\n", "if not DATA_PATH.exists():\n", " raise FileNotFoundError(\n", " \"Missing data/malware_features.csv. Follow data/README.md, place the three \"\n", " \"official UCI CSV files under data/raw/, and run: python data/prepare_dataset.py\"\n", " )\n", "\n", "\n", "from sklearn.dummy import DummyClassifier\n", "from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer\n", "from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score, accuracy_score\n", "from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split\n", "from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline\n", "from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier\n", "\n", "\n", "def security_metrics(y_true, y_pred):\n", " tn, fp, fn, tp = confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred, labels=[0, 1]).ravel()\n", " return {\n", " \"accuracy\": accuracy_score(y_true, y_pred),\n", " \"malware_precision\": precision_score(y_true, y_pred, zero_division=0),\n", " \"malware_recall\": recall_score(y_true, y_pred, zero_division=0),\n", " \"malware_f1\": f1_score(y_true, y_pred, zero_division=0),\n", " \"false_positives\": int(fp),\n", " \"false_negatives\": int(fn),\n", " \"false_positive_rate\": fp / (fp + tn) if fp + tn else 0.0,\n", " }" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "cell-004", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# TODO 1: load the data, exclude source and label from X, and create integer y.\n", "df = None\n", "feature_cols = None\n", "X = None\n", "y = None\n", "\n", "# TODO 2: make an 80/20 stratified split with random_state=42.\n", "X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = None, None, None, None\n", "print(\"Train shape:\", None, \"Test shape:\", None)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-005", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 1. Establish a non-learning baseline\n", "\n", "Because malware is the majority class, a most-frequent classifier can achieve high accuracy while providing little operational value." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "cell-006", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# TODO 3: fit a most-frequent DummyClassifier and calculate security metrics.\n", "dummy = None\n", "dummy_predictions = None\n", "dummy_metrics = None\n", "pd.Series(dummy_metrics, name=\"dummy\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-007", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## 2. Train a bounded Decision Tree\n", "\n", "The imputer is inside the pipeline, so its medians are learned from training rows only. A shallow tree is intentionally chosen for readability and to reduce overfitting." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "cell-008", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# TODO 4: create a pipeline with median imputation and a Decision Tree.\n", "# Use max_depth=4, min_samples_leaf=10, and random_state=42.\n", "tree_pipeline = None\n", "\n", "# TODO 5: fit the pipeline, predict the test set, and calculate security metrics.\n", "tree_predictions = None\n", "tree_metrics = None\n", "\n", "comparison = None\n", "display(comparison)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-009", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Self-check" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "id": "cell-010", "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "assert X_train.shape[0] + X_test.shape[0] == len(df)\n", "assert abs(y_train.mean() - y_test.mean()) < 0.01\n", "assert set(tree_predictions).issubset({0, 1})\n", "assert tree_pipeline.named_steps[\"tree\"].get_depth() <= 4\n", "assert set(comparison.index) == {\"Dummy\", \"Decision Tree\"}\n", "assert comparison.loc[\"Decision Tree\", \"malware_f1\"] >= comparison.loc[\"Dummy\", \"malware_f1\"]\n", "print(\"✓ Lab 3 completed\")" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "cell-011", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Reflection questions\n", "\n", "1. Why can the dummy model have deceptively high accuracy?\n", "2. Why does a Decision Tree usually not require feature scaling?\n", "3. What is the security and interpretability benefit of limiting tree depth?" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.11.6" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5 }