sklearn.linear_model.SGDClassifier¶

class sklearn.linear_model.SGDClassifier(loss='hinge', penalty='l2', alpha=0.0001, l1_ratio=0.15, fit_intercept=True, n_iter=5, shuffle=False, verbose=0, epsilon=0.1, n_jobs=1, random_state=None, learning_rate='optimal', eta0=0.0, power_t=0.5, class_weight=None, warm_start=False, seed=None)¶

Linear classifiers (SVM, logistic regression, a.o.) with SGD training.

This estimator implements regularized linear models with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) learning: the gradient of the loss is estimated each sample at a time and the model is updated along the way with a decreasing strength schedule (aka learning rate). SGD allows minibatch (online/out-of-core) learning, see the partial_fit method.

This implementation works with data represented as dense or sparse arrays of floating point values for the features. The model it fits can be controlled with the loss parameter; by default, it fits a linear support vector machine (SVM).

The regularizer is a penalty added to the loss function that shrinks model parameters towards the zero vector using either the squared euclidean norm L2 or the absolute norm L1 or a combination of both (Elastic Net). If the parameter update crosses the 0.0 value because of the regularizer, the update is truncated to 0.0 to allow for learning sparse models and achieve online feature selection.

Parameters :

loss : str, ‘hinge’, ‘log’, ‘modified_huber’, ‘squared_hinge’, ‘perceptron’, or a regression loss: ‘squared_loss’, ‘huber’, ‘epsilon_insensitive’, or ‘squared_epsilon_insensitive’

The loss function to be used. Defaults to ‘hinge’, which gives a linear SVM. The ‘log’ loss gives logistic regression, a probabilistic classifier. ‘modified_huber’ is another smooth loss that brings tolerance to outliers as well as probability estimates. ‘squared_hinge’ is like hinge but is quadratically penalized. ‘perceptron’ is the linear loss used by the perceptron algorithm. The other losses are designed for regression but can be useful in classification as well; see SGDRegressor for a description.

penalty : str, ‘l2’ or ‘l1’ or ‘elasticnet’

The penalty (aka regularization term) to be used. Defaults to ‘l2’ which is the standard regularizer for linear SVM models. ‘l1’ and ‘elasticnet’ migh bring sparsity to the model (feature selection) not achievable with ‘l2’.

alpha : float

Constant that multiplies the regularization term. Defaults to 0.0001

l1_ratio : float

The Elastic Net mixing parameter, with 0 <= l1_ratio <= 1. l1_ratio=0 corresponds to L2 penalty, l1_ratio=1 to L1. Defaults to 0.15.

fit_intercept: bool :

Whether the intercept should be estimated or not. If False, the data is assumed to be already centered. Defaults to True.

n_iter: int, optional :

The number of passes over the training data (aka epochs). Defaults to 5.

shuffle: bool, optional :

Whether or not the training data should be shuffled after each epoch. Defaults to False.

random_state: int seed, RandomState instance, or None (default) :

The seed of the pseudo random number generator to use when shuffling the data.

verbose: integer, optional :

The verbosity level

epsilon: float :

Epsilon in the epsilon-insensitive loss functions; only if loss is ‘huber’, ‘epsilon_insensitive’, or ‘squared_epsilon_insensitive’. For ‘huber’, determines the threshold at which it becomes less important to get the prediction exactly right. For epsilon-insensitive, any differences between the current prediction and the correct label are ignored if they are less than this threshold.

n_jobs: integer, optional :

The number of CPUs to use to do the OVA (One Versus All, for multi-class problems) computation. -1 means ‘all CPUs’. Defaults to 1.

learning_rate : string, optional

The learning rate: constant: eta = eta0 optimal: eta = 1.0 / (t + t0) [default] invscaling: eta = eta0 / pow(t, power_t)

eta0 : double

The initial learning rate for the ‘constant’ or ‘invscaling’ schedules. The default value is 0.0 as eta0 is not used by the default schedule ‘optimal’.

power_t : double

The exponent for inverse scaling learning rate [default 0.5].

class_weight : dict, {class_label

Preset for the class_weight fit parameter.

Weights associated with classes. If not given, all classes are supposed to have weight one.

The “auto” mode uses the values of y to automatically adjust weights inversely proportional to class frequencies.

warm_start : bool, optional

When set to True, reuse the solution of the previous call to fit as initialization, otherwise, just erase the previous solution.

See also

LinearSVC, LogisticRegression, Perceptron

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn import linear_model
>>> X = np.array([[-1, -1], [-2, -1], [1, 1], [2, 1]])
>>> Y = np.array([1, 1, 2, 2])
>>> clf = linear_model.SGDClassifier()
>>> clf.fit(X, Y)
... 
SGDClassifier(alpha=0.0001, class_weight=None, epsilon=0.1, eta0=0.0,
        fit_intercept=True, l1_ratio=0.15, learning_rate='optimal',
        loss='hinge', n_iter=5, n_jobs=1, penalty='l2', power_t=0.5,
        random_state=None, shuffle=False,
        verbose=0, warm_start=False)
>>> print(clf.predict([[-0.8, -1]]))
[1]

Attributes

coef_	array, shape = [1, n_features] if n_classes == 2 else [n_classes,
n_features]		Weights assigned to the features.
intercept_	array, shape = [1] if n_classes == 2 else [n_classes]	Constants in decision function.

Methods

`decision_function`(X)	Predict confidence scores for samples.
`densify`()	Convert coefficient matrix to dense array format.
`fit`(X, y[, coef_init, intercept_init, ...])	Fit linear model with Stochastic Gradient Descent.
`fit_transform`(X[, y])	Fit to data, then transform it.
`get_params`([deep])	Get parameters for this estimator.
`partial_fit`(X, y[, classes, sample_weight])	Fit linear model with Stochastic Gradient Descent.
`predict`(X)	Predict class labels for samples in X.
`predict_log_proba`(X)	Log of probability estimates.
`predict_proba`(X)	Probability estimates.
`score`(X, y)	Returns the mean accuracy on the given test data and labels.
`set_params`(args, *kwargs)
`sparsify`()	Convert coefficient matrix to sparse format.
`transform`(X[, threshold])	Reduce X to its most important features.

__init__(loss='hinge', penalty='l2', alpha=0.0001, l1_ratio=0.15, fit_intercept=True, n_iter=5, shuffle=False, verbose=0, epsilon=0.1, n_jobs=1, random_state=None, learning_rate='optimal', eta0=0.0, power_t=0.5, class_weight=None, warm_start=False, seed=None)¶

decision_function(X)¶

Predict confidence scores for samples.

The confidence score for a sample is the signed distance of that sample to the hyperplane.

Parameters :

X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = (n_samples, n_features)

Samples.

Returns :

array, shape=(n_samples,) if n_classes == 2 else (n_samples, n_classes) :

Confidence scores per (sample, class) combination. In the binary case, confidence score for self.classes_[1] where >0 means this class would be predicted.

densify()¶

Convert coefficient matrix to dense array format.

Converts the coef_ member (back) to a numpy.ndarray. This is the default format of coef_ and is required for fitting, so calling this method is only required on models that have previously been sparsified; otherwise, it is a no-op.

Returns :	self: estimator :

fit(X, y, coef_init=None, intercept_init=None, class_weight=None, sample_weight=None)¶

Fit linear model with Stochastic Gradient Descent.

Parameters :

X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

Training data

y : numpy array of shape [n_samples]

Target values

coef_init : array, shape = [n_classes,n_features]

The initial coefficients to warm-start the optimization.

intercept_init : array, shape = [n_classes]

The initial intercept to warm-start the optimization.

sample_weight : array-like, shape = [n_samples], optional

Weights applied to individual samples. If not provided, uniform weights are assumed.

Returns :

self : returns an instance of self.

fit_transform(X, y=None, **fit_params)¶

Fit to data, then transform it.

Fits transformer to X and y with optional parameters fit_params and returns a transformed version of X.

Parameters :

X : numpy array of shape [n_samples, n_features]

Training set.

y : numpy array of shape [n_samples]

Target values.

Returns :

X_new : numpy array of shape [n_samples, n_features_new]

Transformed array.

get_params(deep=True)¶

Get parameters for this estimator.

Parameters :

deep: boolean, optional :

If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.

Returns :

params : mapping of string to any

Parameter names mapped to their values.

partial_fit(X, y, classes=None, sample_weight=None)¶

Fit linear model with Stochastic Gradient Descent.

Parameters :

X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

Subset of the training data

y : numpy array of shape [n_samples]

Subset of the target values

classes : array, shape = [n_classes]

Classes across all calls to partial_fit. Can be obtained by via np.unique(y_all), where y_all is the target vector of the entire dataset. This argument is required for the first call to partial_fit and can be omitted in the subsequent calls. Note that y doesn’t need to contain all labels in classes.

sample_weight : array-like, shape = [n_samples], optional

Weights applied to individual samples. If not provided, uniform weights are assumed.

Returns :

self : returns an instance of self.

predict(X)¶

Predict class labels for samples in X.

Parameters :

X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

Samples.

Returns :

C : array, shape = [n_samples]

Predicted class label per sample.

predict_log_proba(X)¶

Log of probability estimates.

When loss=”modified_huber”, probability estimates may be hard zeros and ones, so taking the logarithm is not possible.

Parameters :

X : array-like, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

Returns :

T : array-like, shape = [n_samples, n_classes]

Returns the log-probability of the sample for each class in the model, where classes are ordered as they are in self.classes_.

predict_proba(X)¶

Probability estimates.

Multiclass probability estimates are derived from binary (one-vs.-rest) estimates by simple normalization, as recommended by Zadrozny and Elkan.

Binary probability estimates for loss=”modified_huber” are given by (clip(decision_function(X), -1, 1) + 1) / 2.

Parameters :

X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples, n_features]

Returns :

array, shape = [n_samples, n_classes] :

Returns the probability of the sample for each class in the model, where classes are ordered as they are in self.classes_.

References

Zadrozny and Elkan, “Transforming classifier scores into multiclass probability estimates”, SIGKDD‘02, http://www.research.ibm.com/people/z/zadrozny/kdd2002-Transf.pdf

The justification for the formula in the loss=”modified_huber” case is in the appendix B in: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume2/zhang02c/zhang02c.pdf

score(X, y)¶

Returns the mean accuracy on the given test data and labels.

Parameters :

X : array-like, shape = (n_samples, n_features)

Test samples.

y : array-like, shape = (n_samples,)

True labels for X.

Returns :

score : float

Mean accuracy of self.predict(X) wrt. y.

seed¶: DEPRECATED: Parameter ‘seed’ was renamed to ‘random_state’ for consistency and will be removed in 0.15

sparsify()¶

Convert coefficient matrix to sparse format.

Converts the coef_ member to a scipy.sparse matrix, which for L1-regularized models can be much more memory- and storage-efficient than the usual numpy.ndarray representation.

The intercept_ member is not converted.

Returns :	self: estimator :

Notes

For non-sparse models, i.e. when there are not many zeros in coef_, this may actually increase memory usage, so use this method with care. A rule of thumb is that the number of zero elements, which can be computed with (coef_ == 0).sum(), must be more than 50% for this to provide significant benefits.

After calling this method, further fitting with the partial_fit method (if any) will not work until you call densify.

transform(X, threshold=None)¶

Reduce X to its most important features.

Parameters :

X : array or scipy sparse matrix of shape [n_samples, n_features]

The input samples.

threshold : string, float or None, optional (default=None)

The threshold value to use for feature selection. Features whose importance is greater or equal are kept while the others are discarded. If “median” (resp. “mean”), then the threshold value is the median (resp. the mean) of the feature importances. A scaling factor (e.g., “1.25*mean”) may also be used. If None and if available, the object attribute threshold is used. Otherwise, “mean” is used by default.

Returns :

X_r : array of shape [n_samples, n_selected_features]

The input samples with only the selected features.