sklearn.mixture.VBGMM

class sklearn.mixture.VBGMM(n_components=1, covariance_type='diag', alpha=1.0, random_state=None, thresh=0.01, verbose=False, min_covar=None, n_iter=10, params='wmc', init_params='wmc')

Variational Inference for the Gaussian Mixture Model

Variational inference for a Gaussian mixture model probability distribution. This class allows for easy and efficient inference of an approximate posterior distribution over the parameters of a Gaussian mixture model with a fixed number of components.

Initialization is with normally-distributed means and identity covariance, for proper convergence.

Parameters :

n_components: int, optional :

Number of mixture components. Defaults to 1.

covariance_type: string, optional :

String describing the type of covariance parameters to use. Must be one of ‘spherical’, ‘tied’, ‘diag’, ‘full’. Defaults to ‘diag’.

alpha: float, optional :

Real number representing the concentration parameter of the dirichlet distribution. Intuitively, the higher the value of alpha the more likely the variational mixture of Gaussians model will use all components it can. Defaults to 1.

See also

GMM

Finite Gaussian mixture model fit with EM

DPGMM

Ininite Gaussian mixture model, using the dirichlet process, fit with a variational algorithm

Attributes

covariance_type	string	String describing the type of covariance parameters used by the DP-GMM. Must be one of ‘spherical’, ‘tied’, ‘diag’, ‘full’.
n_features	int	Dimensionality of the Gaussians.
n_components	int (read-only)	Number of mixture components.
weights_	array, shape (n_components,)	Mixing weights for each mixture component.
means_	array, shape (n_components, n_features)	Mean parameters for each mixture component.
precs_	array	Precision (inverse covariance) parameters for each mixture component. The shape depends on covariance_type: (`n_components`, 'n_features') if 'spherical', (`n_features`, `n_features`) if 'tied', (`n_components`, `n_features`) if 'diag', (`n_components`, `n_features`, `n_features`) if 'full'
converged_	bool	True when convergence was reached in fit(), False otherwise.

Methods

aic(X)	Akaike information criterion for the current model fit
bic(X)	Bayesian information criterion for the current model fit
eval(*args, **kwargs)	DEPRECATED: VBGMM.eval was renamed to VBGMM.score_samples in 0.14 and will be removed in 0.16.
fit(X)	Estimate model parameters with the variational algorithm.
get_params([deep])	Get parameters for this estimator.
lower_bound(X, z)	returns a lower bound on model evidence based on X and membership
predict(X)	Predict label for data.
predict_proba(X)	Predict posterior probability of data under each Gaussian
sample([n_samples, random_state])	Generate random samples from the model.
score(X)	Compute the log probability under the model.
score_samples(X)	Return the likelihood of the data under the model.
set_params(**params)	Set the parameters of this estimator.

__init__(n_components=1, covariance_type='diag', alpha=1.0, random_state=None, thresh=0.01, verbose=False, min_covar=None, n_iter=10, params='wmc', init_params='wmc')

aic(X)

Akaike information criterion for the current model fit and the proposed data

Parameters :X : array of shape(n_samples, n_dimensions) Returns :aic: float (the lower the better) :

bic(X)

Bayesian information criterion for the current model fit and the proposed data

Parameters :X : array of shape(n_samples, n_dimensions) Returns :bic: float (the lower the better) :

eval(*args, **kwargs)

DEPRECATED: VBGMM.eval was renamed to VBGMM.score_samples in 0.14 and will be removed in 0.16.

fit(X)

Estimate model parameters with the variational algorithm.

For a full derivation and description of the algorithm see doc/modules/dp-derivation.rst or http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/dp-derivation.html#

A initialization step is performed before entering the em algorithm. If you want to avoid this step, set the keyword argument init_params to the empty string ‘’ when when creating the object. Likewise, if you would like just to do an initialization, set n_iter=0.

Parameters :

X : array_like, shape (n, n_features)

List of n_features-dimensional data points. Each row corresponds to a single data point.

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.

lower_bound(X, z)

returns a lower bound on model evidence based on X and membership

predict(X)

Predict label for data.

Parameters :X : array-like, shape = [n_samples, n_features] Returns :C : array, shape = (n_samples,)

predict_proba(X)

Predict posterior probability of data under each Gaussian in the model.

Parameters :

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

Returns :

responsibilities : array-like, shape = (n_samples, n_components)

Returns the probability of the sample for each Gaussian (state) in the model.

sample(n_samples=1, random_state=None)

Generate random samples from the model.

Parameters :

n_samples : int, optional

Number of samples to generate. Defaults to 1.

Returns :

X : array_like, shape (n_samples, n_features)

List of samples

score(X)

Compute the log probability under the model.

Parameters :

X : array_like, shape (n_samples, n_features)

List of n_features-dimensional data points. Each row corresponds to a single data point.

Returns :

logprob : array_like, shape (n_samples,)

Log probabilities of each data point in X

score_samples(X)

Return the likelihood of the data under the model.

Compute the bound on log probability of X under the model and return the posterior distribution (responsibilities) of each mixture component for each element of X.

This is done by computing the parameters for the mean-field of z for each observation.

Parameters :

X : array_like, shape (n_samples, n_features)

List of n_features-dimensional data points. Each row corresponds to a single data point.

Returns :

logprob : array_like, shape (n_samples,)

Log probabilities of each data point in X

responsibilities: array_like, shape (n_samples, n_components) :

Posterior probabilities of each mixture component for each observation

set_params(**params)

Set the parameters of this estimator.

The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as pipelines). The former have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.

Returns :self :