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Kemal Yaylali 197975cc42 feat(ml): train a real model, and report the number that matters rather than the flattering one
"Variants are unscored" was accurate: nothing was ever trained, so a quarter of every rank was
dead weight and the UI leaked a connection error at the reader.

- scripts/make-training-set.sh derives a training table from ClinVar directly. ClinVar already
  carries the molecular consequence, the gene and an allele frequency, which is the feature set
  serving sends, so this avoids running VEP over hundreds of thousands of variants. 2-star
  records only.
- train.py now holds out whole genes (GroupShuffleSplit). docs/data.md had said to do this since
  the data pass; the code was still doing a random split, which is the leak Grimm 2015 describes.
- evaluate() reports missense on its own. On the last run: AUROC 0.986 over 74,239 held-out
  variants, but 0.872 over the 13,553 missense ones, and the docs say plainly why even that is
  flattered — within missense the only live feature is allele frequency, and ClinVar's benign
  calls often use allele frequency as evidence (ACMG BA1/BS1), so the feature partly caused the
  label.
- the 503 now names what is missing (model@alias via tracking URI) and leaves the exception in
  the server log instead of the UI.
- make training-set / make train; the 58 MB table is gitignored.

Verified end to end: model registered as v2, the simulated NF2 case scores 0.999 on the planted
variant, and it now ranks 1.00 with all four components live.

Tests: api 77, ml 22, loader 16, web 32; ruff, mypy, svelte-check clean.
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"""Train a pathogenicity classifier on ClinVar labels ((likely) pathogenic vs (likely) benign).
Label leakage warning: CLIN_SIG must never be a feature. This is a learning exercise, not a clinical model.
Usage: python -m rarelens_ml.train --tsv results/clinvar.vep.tsv --register
"""
import argparse
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import lightgbm as lgb
import mlflow
import pandas as pd
import sklearn
from mlflow import MlflowClient
from sklearn.metrics import average_precision_score, roc_auc_score
from sklearn.model_selection import GroupShuffleSplit
from rarelens_ml.features import RAW_COLUMNS, build
from rarelens_ml.model import PathogenicityModel
PACKAGE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
MODEL_NAME = "rarelens-pathogenicity"
PARAMS = {
"n_estimators": 400, "learning_rate": 0.05, "num_leaves": 31, "class_weight": "balanced",
"verbose": -1,
}
POS = {"pathogenic", "likely_pathogenic"}
NEG = {"benign", "likely_benign"}
# VEP --tab column -> raw feature column (am_pathogenicity already matches).
VEP_TO_RAW = {
"IMPACT": "impact", "Consequence": "consequence", "gnomADe_AF": "gnomad_af",
"CADD_PHRED": "cadd_phred",
}
def label(clin_sig: object) -> int | None:
"""1 / 0 when every ClinVar term agrees, None for VUS, conflicts and missing values.
Accepts VEP's lowercase comma-separated form ("pathogenic,likely_pathogenic") and ClinVar's
CLNSIG form ("Pathogenic/Likely_pathogenic").
"""
if not isinstance(clin_sig, str):
return None
terms = {t for t in re.split(r"[,&/|]", clin_sig.strip().lower()) if t and t != "-"}
if terms and terms <= POS:
return 1
if terms and terms <= NEG:
return 0
return None
def read_vep_tab(path: str | Path) -> pd.DataFrame:
"""Read VEP --tab output as strings, keeping "-" (VEP's missing marker) verbatim.
Skips the "##" preamble by position instead of comment="#", which would also cut any value
containing "#".
"""
with open(path) as fh:
for n, line in enumerate(fh):
if line.startswith("#Uploaded_variation"):
break
else:
raise ValueError(f"{path}: no #Uploaded_variation header; is this VEP --tab output?")
df = pd.read_csv(path, sep="\t", skiprows=n, dtype=str, keep_default_na=False)
return df.rename(columns={"#Uploaded_variation": "Uploaded_variation"})
def load(tsv: str) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.Series, pd.Series]:
"""Returns the raw feature columns, the labels, and each row's gene for grouping."""
df = read_vep_tab(tsv).rename(columns=VEP_TO_RAW)
for col in RAW_COLUMNS: # plugin columns are absent when VEP ran without CADD/AlphaMissense
if col not in df:
df[col] = pd.NA
if "SYMBOL" not in df:
df["SYMBOL"] = "-"
y = df["CLIN_SIG"].map(label)
keep = y.notna()
return (
df.loc[keep, RAW_COLUMNS].reset_index(drop=True),
y[keep].astype(int).reset_index(drop=True),
df.loc[keep, "SYMBOL"].reset_index(drop=True),
)
def split_by_gene(
X: pd.DataFrame, y: pd.Series, genes: pd.Series, test_size: float = 0.2, seed: int = 42
) -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame, pd.Series, pd.Series, pd.Series, pd.Series]:
"""Hold out whole genes, never single variants.
A random split puts variants of the same gene on both sides, and the model can then score the
gene rather than the variant. Grimm et al. (Hum Mutat 2015) showed this inflates reported
accuracy for exactly this class of tool; see docs/data.md.
"""
splitter = GroupShuffleSplit(n_splits=1, test_size=test_size, random_state=seed)
train_idx, test_idx = next(splitter.split(X, y, groups=genes))
return (
X.iloc[train_idx], X.iloc[test_idx],
y.iloc[train_idx], y.iloc[test_idx],
genes.iloc[train_idx], genes.iloc[test_idx],
)
MIN_SUBSET = 50
def evaluate(X: pd.DataFrame, y: pd.Series, proba) -> dict[str, float]:
"""Headline metrics, plus missense on its own.
Most of ClinVar's pathogenic set is loss of function and most of its benign set is not, so a
model given the consequence class separates them easily and the overall AUROC flatters it.
Missense is where variant interpretation is actually hard, so it gets its own number.
"""
metrics = {
"auroc": float(roc_auc_score(y, proba)),
"auprc": float(average_precision_score(y, proba)),
"test_variants": float(len(y)),
}
missense = X["consequence"].eq("missense_variant").to_numpy()
if missense.sum() >= MIN_SUBSET and len(set(y[missense])) == 2:
metrics["auroc_missense"] = float(roc_auc_score(y[missense], proba[missense]))
metrics["auprc_missense"] = float(average_precision_score(y[missense], proba[missense]))
metrics["missense_variants"] = float(missense.sum())
return metrics
def fit(X: pd.DataFrame, y: pd.Series) -> lgb.LGBMClassifier:
return lgb.LGBMClassifier(**PARAMS).fit(build(X), y)
def log_and_register(clf: lgb.LGBMClassifier, model_name: str, alias: str) -> str:
"""Log the pyfunc, register it and point `alias` at the new version. Returns the version."""
info = mlflow.pyfunc.log_model(
name="model",
python_model=PathogenicityModel(clf),
code_paths=[str(PACKAGE_DIR)],
registered_model_name=model_name,
pip_requirements=[
f"lightgbm=={lgb.__version__}",
f"pandas=={pd.__version__}",
f"scikit-learn=={sklearn.__version__}",
],
)
version = str(info.registered_model_version)
MlflowClient().set_registered_model_alias(model_name, alias, version)
return version
def main() -> None:
p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument("--tsv", required=True)
p.add_argument("--register", action="store_true",
help="register the model and move the alias to the new version")
p.add_argument("--alias", default="production")
a = p.parse_args()
X, y, genes = load(a.tsv)
Xtr, Xte, ytr, yte, train_genes, test_genes = split_by_gene(X, y, genes)
print(
f"{len(Xtr)} train / {len(Xte)} test variants; "
f"{train_genes.nunique()} / {test_genes.nunique()} genes, no gene in both",
file=sys.stderr,
)
mlflow.set_experiment(MODEL_NAME)
with mlflow.start_run():
mlflow.log_params(PARAMS)
clf = fit(Xtr, ytr)
proba = clf.predict_proba(build(Xte))[:, 1]
metrics = evaluate(Xte, yte, proba) | {"test_genes": float(test_genes.nunique())}
mlflow.log_metrics(metrics)
summary = f"held-out AUROC {metrics['auroc']:.3f}, AUPRC {metrics['auprc']:.3f}"
if "auroc_missense" in metrics:
summary += (
f" | missense only: AUROC {metrics['auroc_missense']:.3f}, "
f"AUPRC {metrics['auprc_missense']:.3f} over {int(metrics['missense_variants'])}"
)
print(summary, file=sys.stderr)
if a.register:
version = log_and_register(clf, MODEL_NAME, a.alias)
print(f"registered {MODEL_NAME} v{version} as @{a.alias}")
else:
mlflow.pyfunc.log_model(name="model", python_model=PathogenicityModel(clf),
code_paths=[str(PACKAGE_DIR)])
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()