sklearn.metrics.pairwise.euclidean_distances¶
- sklearn.metrics.pairwise.euclidean_distances(X, Y=None, Y_norm_squared=None, squared=False)¶
Considering the rows of X (and Y=X) as vectors, compute the distance matrix between each pair of vectors.
For efficiency reasons, the euclidean distance between a pair of row vector x and y is computed as:
dist(x, y) = sqrt(dot(x, x) - 2 * dot(x, y) + dot(y, y))
This formulation has two main advantages. First, it is computationally efficient when dealing with sparse data. Second, if x varies but y remains unchanged, then the right-most dot-product dot(y, y) can be pre-computed.
Parameters : X : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples_1, n_features]
Y : {array-like, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples_2, n_features]
Y_norm_squared : array-like, shape = [n_samples_2], optional
Pre-computed dot-products of vectors in Y (e.g., (Y**2).sum(axis=1))
squared : boolean, optional
Return squared Euclidean distances.
Returns : distances : {array, sparse matrix}, shape = [n_samples_1, n_samples_2]
Examples
>>> from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import euclidean_distances >>> X = [[0, 1], [1, 1]] >>> # distance between rows of X >>> euclidean_distances(X, X) array([[ 0., 1.], [ 1., 0.]]) >>> # get distance to origin >>> euclidean_distances(X, [[0, 0]]) array([[ 1. ], [ 1.41421356]])