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I created a GridSearchCV for a Random Forest Regressor. Now I want to check the feature importance. I searched around and I found this:

rf_gridsearch.best_estimator_.named_steps.feature_importances_

This already works, but my training data is huge, 669 attributes. Therefore, I need the attribute names. So I found this code:

rf_gridsearch.best_estimator_.named_steps["step_name"].feature_importances_

But I don't know what the "named_steps["step_name"]" are.

I tried something like this:

named_steps = X_train.columns

But this doesn't work. Could somebody explain me what named_steps["step_name"] is?

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I think that you just need:

feature_importances = rf_gridsearch.best_estimator_.feature_importances_

This provides the feature importance for all the attributes in your dataset. For more information on this as well as other options, you may also refer to the Scikit-learn official documentation.

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  • $\begingroup$ I already tried that and i get this $\endgroup$ – ml_learner Jan 27 '20 at 12:23
  • $\begingroup$ array([1.15007706e-02, 1.52749118e-02, 4.92813973e-03, 5.79714037e-03, .... for 669 Attributes. I want also the column name for the results $\endgroup$ – ml_learner Jan 27 '20 at 12:24
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    $\begingroup$ The order of this values are the same as the order in the dataset. So the column names are just the X.columns $\endgroup$ – Giannis Krilis Jan 27 '20 at 13:09
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    $\begingroup$ Yes, that's right! $\endgroup$ – Giannis Krilis Jan 28 '20 at 9:40
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    $\begingroup$ @ml_learner I believe this answers your query. If so, please mark it as an Accepted Answer. That shall help others in future. :) $\endgroup$ – Random Nerd Jan 30 '20 at 14:28

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