Evalica [ɛˈʋalit͡sa] (eh-vah-lee-tsah) is a Python library that transforms pairwise comparisons into ranked lists of items. It offers convenient high-performant Rust implementations of the corresponding methods via PyO3, and additionally provides naïve Python code for most of them. Evalica is fully compatible with NumPy arrays and pandas data frames.
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Imagine that we would like to rank the different meals and have the following dataset of three comparisons produced by food experts.
Item X | Item Y | Winner |
---|---|---|
pizza |
burger |
x |
burger |
sushi |
y |
pizza |
sushi |
tie |
Given this hypothetical example, Evalica takes these three columns and computes the outcome of the given pairwise comparison according to the chosen model. Note that the first argument is the column Item X
, the second argument is the column Item Y
, and the third argument corresponds to the column Winner
.
>>> from evalica import elo, Winner
>>> result = elo(
... ['pizza', 'burger', 'pizza'],
... ['burger', 'sushi', 'sushi'],
... [Winner.X, Winner.Y, Winner.Draw],
... )
>>> result.scores
pizza 1014.972058
burger 970.647200
sushi 1014.380742
Name: elo, dtype: float64
As a result, we obtain Elo scores of our items. In this example, pizza
was the most favoured item, sushi
was the runner-up, and burger
was the least preferred item.
Item | Score |
---|---|
pizza |
1014.97 |
burger |
970.65 |
sushi |
1014.38 |
Evalica also provides a simple command-line interface, allowing the use of these methods in shell scripts and for prototyping.
$ evalica -i food.csv bradley-terry
item,score,rank
Tacos,2.509025136024378,1
Sushi,1.1011561298265815,2
Burger,0.8549063627182466,3
Pasta,0.7403814336665869,4
Pizza,0.5718366915548537,5
Refer to the food.csv file as an input example.
Evalica has a built-in Gradio application that can be launched as python3 -m evalica.gradio
. Please ensure that the library was installed as pip install evalica[gradio]
.
Method | In Python | In Rust |
---|---|---|
Counting | ✅ | ✅ |
Average Win Rate | ✅ | ✅ |
Bradley–Terry | ✅ | ✅ |
Elo | ✅ | ✅ |
Eigenvalue | ✅ | ✅ |
PageRank | ✅ | ✅ |
Newman | ✅ | ✅ |
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