Many applications require being able to decide whether a new observation belongs to the same distribution as existing observations (it is an inlier), or should be considered as different (it is an outlier). Often, this ability is used to clean real data sets. Two important distinction must be made: novelty detection: The training data is not polluted by outliers, and we are interested in detecting anomalies in new observations. outlier detection: The training data contains outliers, and we n

Many statistical problems require at some point the estimation of a population?s covariance matrix, which can be seen as an estimation of data set scatter plot shape. Most of the time, such an estimation has to be done on a sample whose properties (size, structure, homogeneity) has a large influence on the estimation?s quality. The sklearn.covariance package aims at providing tools affording an accurate estimation of a population?s covariance matrix under various settings. We assume that the o

2.5.1. Principal component analysis (PCA) 2.5.1.1. Exact PCA and probabilistic interpretation PCA is used to decompose a multivariate dataset in a set of successive orthogonal components that explain a maximum amount of the variance. In scikit-learn, PCA is implemented as a transformer object that learns components in its fit method, and can be used on new data to project it on these components. The optional parameter whiten=True makes it possible to project the data onto the singular space

Biclustering can be performed with the module sklearn.cluster.bicluster. Biclustering algorithms simultaneously cluster rows and columns of a data matrix. These clusters of rows and columns are known as biclusters. Each determines a submatrix of the original data matrix with some desired properties. For instance, given a matrix of shape (10, 10), one possible bicluster with three rows and two columns induces a submatrix of shape (3, 2): >>> import numpy as np >>> data = np.ar

Clustering of unlabeled data can be performed with the module sklearn.cluster. Each clustering algorithm comes in two variants: a class, that implements the fit method to learn the clusters on train data, and a function, that, given train data, returns an array of integer labels corresponding to the different clusters. For the class, the labels over the training data can be found in the labels_ attribute. Input data One important thing to note is that the algorithms implemented in this module

Manifold learning is an approach to non-linear dimensionality reduction. Algorithms for this task are based on the idea that the dimensionality of many data sets is only artificially high. 2.2.1. Introduction High-dimensional datasets can be very difficult to visualize. While data in two or three dimensions can be plotted to show the inherent structure of the data, equivalent high-dimensional plots are much less intuitive. To aid visualization of the structure of a dataset, the dimension

sklearn.mixture is a package which enables one to learn Gaussian Mixture Models (diagonal, spherical, tied and full covariance matrices supported), sample them, and estimate them from data. Facilities to help determine the appropriate number of components are also provided. Two-component Gaussian mixture model: data points, and equi-probability surfaces of the model. A Gaussian mixture model is a probabilistic model that assumes all the data points are generated from a mixture of a finite

Warning This implementation is not intended for large-scale applications. In particular, scikit-learn offers no GPU support. For much faster, GPU-based implementations, as well as frameworks offering much more flexibility to build deep learning architectures, see Related Projects. 1.17.1. Multi-layer Perceptron Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) is a supervised learning algorithm that learns a function by training on a dataset, where is the number of dimensions for input and is the number of d

When performing classification you often want not only to predict the class label, but also obtain a probability of the respective label. This probability gives you some kind of confidence on the prediction. Some models can give you poor estimates of the class probabilities and some even do not support probability prediction. The calibration module allows you to better calibrate the probabilities of a given model, or to add support for probability prediction. Well calibrated classifiers are pr

Semi-supervised learning is a situation in which in your training data some of the samples are not labeled. The semi-supervised estimators in sklearn.semi_supervised are able to make use of this additional unlabeled data to better capture the shape of the underlying data distribution and generalize better to new samples. These algorithms can perform well when we have a very small amount of labeled points and a large amount of unlabeled points. Unlabeled entries in y It is important to assign