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sklearn.base: Base classes and utility functions

Base classes for all estimators.

Base classes

base.BaseEstimator Base class for all estimators in scikit-learn

base.BiclusterMixin Mixin class for all bicluster estimators in scikit-learn
base.ClassifierMixin Mixin class for all classifiers in scikit-learn.
base.ClusterMixin Mixin class for all cluster estimators in scikit-learn.
base.DensityMixin Mixin class for all density estimators in scikit-learn.
base.RegressorMixin Mixin class for all regression estimators in scikit-learn.
base.TransformerMixin Mixin class for all transformers in scikit-learn.

Functions

base.clone(estimator[, safe]) Constructs a new estimator with the same parameters.

config_context(**new_config) Context manager for global scikit-learn configuration
get_config() Retrieve current values for configuration set by set_config
set_config([assume_finite]) Set global scikit-learn configuration

sklearn.calibration: Probability Calibration

Calibration of predicted probabilities.

User guide: See the Probability calibration section for further details.
calibration.CalibratedClassifierCV([…]) Probability calibration with isotonic regression or sigmoid.
calibration.calibration_curve(y_true, y_prob) Compute true and predicted probabilities for a calibration
curve.

sklearn.cluster: Clustering

The sklearn.cluster module gathers popular unsupervised clustering algorithms.

User guide: See the Clustering section for further details.

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Classes

cluster.AffinityPropagation([damping, …]) Perform Affinity Propagation Clustering of data.

cluster.AgglomerativeClustering([…]) Agglomerative Clustering
cluster.Birch([threshold, branching_factor, …]) Implements the Birch clustering algorithm.
cluster.DBSCAN([eps, min_samples, metric, …]) Perform DBSCAN clustering from vector array or distance
matrix.
cluster.FeatureAgglomeration([n_clusters, …]) Agglomerate features.
cluster.KMeans([n_clusters, init, n_init, …]) K-Means clustering
» cluster.MiniBatchKMeans([n_clusters, init, …]) Mini-Batch K-Means clustering
cluster.MeanShift([bandwidth, seeds, …]) Mean shift clustering using a flat kernel.
cluster.SpectralClustering([n_clusters, …]) Apply clustering to a projection to the normalized
laplacian.

Functions

cluster.affinity_propagation(S[, …]) Perform Affinity Propagation Clustering of data

cluster.dbscan(X[, eps, min_samples, …]) Perform DBSCAN clustering from vector array or distance
matrix.
cluster.estimate_bandwidth(X[, quantile, …]) Estimate the bandwidth to use with the mean-shift
algorithm.
cluster.k_means(X, n_clusters[, init, …]) K-means clustering algorithm.
cluster.mean_shift(X[, bandwidth, seeds, …]) Perform mean shift clustering of data using a flat kernel.
cluster.spectral_clustering(affinity[, …]) Apply clustering to a projection to the normalized laplacian.
cluster.ward_tree(X[, connectivity, …]) Ward clustering based on a Feature matrix.

sklearn.cluster.bicluster: Biclustering

Spectral biclustering algorithms.

Authors : Kemal Eren License: BSD 3 clause

User guide: See the Biclustering section for further details.

Classes

SpectralBiclustering([n_clusters, method, …]) Spectral biclustering (Kluger, 2003).

SpectralCoclustering([n_clusters, …]) Spectral Co-Clustering algorithm (Dhillon, 2001).

sklearn.covariance: Covariance Estimators ¶

The sklearn.covariance module includes methods and algorithms to robustly estimate the covariance of
features given a set of points. The precision matrix defined as the inverse of the covariance is also estimated.
Covariance estimation is closely related to the theory of Gaussian Graphical Models.

User guide: See the Covariance estimation section for further details.
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covariance.EllipticEnvelope([…]) An object for detecting outliers in a Gaussian distributed

dataset.
covariance.GraphLasso([alpha, mode, tol, …]) Sparse inverse covariance estimation with an l1-penalized
estimator.
covariance.GraphLassoCV([alphas, …]) Sparse inverse covariance w/ cross-validated choice of the
l1 penalty
covariance.LedoitWolf([store_precision, …]) LedoitWolf Estimator
covariance.MinCovDet([store_precision, …]) Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD): robust estimator
of covariance.
covariance.OAS([store_precision, …]) Oracle Approximating Shrinkage Estimator
» covariance.ShrunkCovariance([…]) Covariance estimator with shrinkage
covariance.empirical_covariance(X[, …]) Computes the Maximum likelihood covariance
estimator
covariance.graph_lasso(emp_cov, alpha[, …]) l1-penalized covariance estimator
covariance.ledoit_wolf(X[, assume_centered, …]) Estimates the shrunk Ledoit-Wolf covariance matrix.
covariance.oas(X[, assume_centered]) Estimate covariance with the Oracle Approximating
Shrinkage algorithm.
covariance.shrunk_covariance(emp_cov[, …]) Calculates a covariance matrix shrunk on the diagonal

sklearn.cross_decomposition: Cross decomposition

User guide: See the Cross decomposition section for further details.
cross_decomposition.CCA([n_components, …]) CCA Canonical Correlation Analysis.
cross_decomposition.PLSCanonical([…]) PLSCanonical implements the 2 blocks canonical PLS
of the original Wold algorithm [Tenenhaus 1998] p.204,
referred as PLS-C2A in [Wegelin 2000].
cross_decomposition.PLSRegression([…]) PLS regression
cross_decomposition.PLSSVD([n_components, …]) Partial Least Square SVD

sklearn.datasets: Datasets

The sklearn.datasets module includes utilities to load datasets, including methods to load and fetch popular
reference datasets. It also features some artificial data generators.

User guide: See the Dataset loading utilities section for further details.

Loaders

datasets.clear_data_home([data_home]) Delete all the content of the data home cache.

datasets.dump_svmlight_file(X, y, f[, …]) Dump the dataset in svmlight / libsvm file format.
datasets.fetch_20newsgroups([data_home, …]) Load the filenames and data from the 20 newsgroups
dataset.
datasets.fetch_20newsgroups_vectorized([…]) Load the 20 newsgroups dataset and transform it into
tf-idf vectors.
datasets.fetch_california_housing([…]) Loader for the California housing dataset from StatLib.
datasets.fetch_covtype([data_home, …]) Load the covertype dataset, downloading it if
necessary.
datasets.fetch_kddcup99([subset, data_home, …]) Load and return the kddcup 99 dataset (classification).
datasets.fetch_lfw_pairs([subset, …]) Loader for the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) pairs
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dataset
datasets.fetch_lfw_people([data_home, …]) Loader for the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) people
dataset
datasets.fetch_mldata(dataname[, …]) Fetch an mldata.org data set
datasets.fetch_olivetti_faces([data_home, …]) Loader for the Olivetti faces data-set from AT&T.
datasets.fetch_rcv1([data_home, subset, …]) Load the RCV1 multilabel dataset, downloading it if
necessary.
datasets.fetch_species_distributions([…]) Loader for species distribution dataset from Phillips et.
datasets.get_data_home([data_home]) Return the path of the scikit-learn data dir.
datasets.load_boston([return_X_y]) Load and return the boston house-prices dataset
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datasets.load_breast_cancer([return_X_y]) Load and return the breast cancer wisconsin dataset
(classification).
datasets.load_diabetes([return_X_y]) Load and return the diabetes dataset (regression).
datasets.load_digits([n_class, return_X_y]) Load and return the digits dataset (classification).
datasets.load_files(container_path[, …]) Load text files with categories as subfolder names.
datasets.load_iris([return_X_y]) Load and return the iris dataset (classification).
datasets.load_linnerud([return_X_y]) Load and return the linnerud dataset (multivariate
regression).
datasets.load_mlcomp(name_or_id[, set_, …]) DEPRECATED: since the http://mlcomp.org/ website
will shut down in March 2017, the load_mlcomp
function was deprecated in version 0.19 and will be
removed in 0.21.
datasets.load_sample_image(image_name) Load the numpy array of a single sample image
datasets.load_sample_images() Load sample images for image manipulation.
datasets.load_svmlight_file(f[, n_features, …]) Load datasets in the svmlight / libsvm format into
sparse CSR matrix
datasets.load_svmlight_files(files[, …]) Load dataset from multiple files in SVMlight format
datasets.load_wine([return_X_y]) Load and return the wine dataset (classification).
datasets.mldata_filename(dataname) Convert a raw name for a data set in a mldata.org
filename.

Samples generator

datasets.make_biclusters(shape, n_clusters) Generate an array with constant block diagonal

structure for biclustering.
datasets.make_blobs([n_samples, n_features, …]) Generate isotropic Gaussian blobs for clustering.
datasets.make_checkerboard(shape, n_clusters) Generate an array with block checkerboard structure
for biclustering.
datasets.make_circles([n_samples, shuffle, …]) Make a large circle containing a smaller circle in 2d.
datasets.make_classification([n_samples, …]) Generate a random n-class classification problem.
datasets.make_friedman1([n_samples, …]) Generate the “Friedman #1” regression problem
datasets.make_friedman2([n_samples, noise, …]) Generate the “Friedman #2” regression problem
datasets.make_friedman3([n_samples, noise, …]) Generate the “Friedman #3” regression problem
datasets.make_gaussian_quantiles([mean, …]) Generate isotropic Gaussian and label samples by
quantile
datasets.make_hastie_10_2([n_samples, …]) Generates data for binary classification used in
Hastie et al.
datasets.make_low_rank_matrix([n_samples, …]) Generate a mostly low rank matrix with bell-shaped
singular values
datasets.make_moons([n_samples, shuffle, …]) Make two interleaving half circles
datasets.make_multilabel_classification([…]) Generate a random multilabel classification problem.
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datasets.make_s_curve([n_samples, noise, …]) Generate an S curve dataset.

datasets.make_sparse_coded_signal(n_samples, …) Generate a signal as a sparse combination of
dictionary elements.
datasets.make_sparse_spd_matrix([dim, …]) Generate a sparse symmetric definite positive matrix.
datasets.make_sparse_uncorrelated([…]) Generate a random regression problem with sparse
uncorrelated design
datasets.make_spd_matrix(n_dim[, random_state]) Generate a random symmetric, positive-definite
matrix.
datasets.make_swiss_roll([n_samples, noise, …]) Generate a swiss roll dataset.

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sklearn.decomposition: Matrix Decomposition

The sklearn.decomposition module includes matrix decomposition algorithms, including among others PCA,
NMF or ICA. Most of the algorithms of this module can be regarded as dimensionality reduction techniques.

User guide: See the Decomposing signals in components (matrix factorization problems) section for further
details.
decomposition.DictionaryLearning([…]) Dictionary learning
decomposition.FactorAnalysis([n_components, …]) Factor Analysis (FA)
decomposition.FastICA([n_components, …]) FastICA: a fast algorithm for Independent Component
Analysis.
decomposition.IncrementalPCA([n_components, …]) Incremental principal components analysis (IPCA).
decomposition.KernelPCA([n_components, …]) Kernel Principal component analysis (KPCA)
decomposition.LatentDirichletAllocation([…]) Latent Dirichlet Allocation with online variational
Bayes algorithm
decomposition.MiniBatchDictionaryLearning([…]) Mini-batch dictionary learning
decomposition.MiniBatchSparsePCA([…]) Mini-batch Sparse Principal Components Analysis
decomposition.NMF([n_components, init, …]) Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)
decomposition.PCA([n_components, copy, …]) Principal component analysis (PCA)
decomposition.SparsePCA([n_components, …]) Sparse Principal Components Analysis (SparsePCA)
decomposition.SparseCoder(dictionary[, …]) Sparse coding
decomposition.TruncatedSVD([n_components, …]) Dimensionality reduction using truncated SVD (aka
LSA).
decomposition.dict_learning(X, n_components, …) Solves a dictionary learning matrix factorization
problem.
decomposition.dict_learning_online(X[, …]) Solves a dictionary learning matrix factorization
problem online.
decomposition.fastica(X[, n_components, …]) Perform Fast Independent Component Analysis.
decomposition.sparse_encode(X, dictionary[, …]) Sparse coding

sklearn.discriminant_analysis: Discriminant Analysis

Linear Discriminant Analysis and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

User guide: See the Linear and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis section for further details.
discriminant_analysis.LinearDiscriminantAnalysis([…]) Linear Discriminant Analysis
discriminant_analysis.QuadraticDiscriminantAnalysis([…]) Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

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sklearn.dummy: Dummy estimators

User guide: See the Model evaluation: quantifying the quality of predictions section for further details.
dummy.DummyClassifier([strategy, …]) DummyClassifier is a classifier that makes predictions using
simple rules.
dummy.DummyRegressor([strategy, constant, …]) DummyRegressor is a regressor that makes predictions
using simple rules.

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sklearn.ensemble: Ensemble Methods

The sklearn.ensemble module includes ensemble-based methods for classification, regression and anomaly
detection.

User guide: See the Ensemble methods section for further details.
ensemble.AdaBoostClassifier([…]) An AdaBoost classifier.
ensemble.AdaBoostRegressor([base_estimator, …]) An AdaBoost regressor.
ensemble.BaggingClassifier([base_estimator, …]) A Bagging classifier.
ensemble.BaggingRegressor([base_estimator, …]) A Bagging regressor.
ensemble.ExtraTreesClassifier([…]) An extra-trees classifier.
ensemble.ExtraTreesRegressor([n_estimators, …]) An extra-trees regressor.
ensemble.GradientBoostingClassifier([loss, …]) Gradient Boosting for classification.
ensemble.GradientBoostingRegressor([loss, …]) Gradient Boosting for regression.
ensemble.IsolationForest([n_estimators, …]) Isolation Forest Algorithm
ensemble.RandomForestClassifier([…]) A random forest classifier.
ensemble.RandomForestRegressor([…]) A random forest regressor.
ensemble.RandomTreesEmbedding([…]) An ensemble of totally random trees.
ensemble.VotingClassifier(estimators[, …]) Soft Voting/Majority Rule classifier for unfitted
estimators.

partial dependence

Partial dependence plots for tree ensembles.

ensemble.partial_dependence.partial_dependence(…) Partial dependence of target_variables.
ensemble.partial_dependence.plot_partial_dependence(…) Partial dependence plots for features.

sklearn.exceptions: Exceptions and warnings

The sklearn.exceptions module includes all custom warnings and error classes used across scikit-learn.
exceptions.ChangedBehaviorWarning Warning class used to notify the user of any change in the
behavior.
exceptions.ConvergenceWarning Custom warning to capture convergence problems
exceptions.DataConversionWarning Warning used to notify implicit data conversions happening in the
code.
exceptions.DataDimensionalityWarning Custom warning to notify potential issues with data dimensionality.
exceptions.EfficiencyWarning Warning used to notify the user of inefficient computation.
exceptions.FitFailedWarning Warning class used if there is an error while fitting the estimator.
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Exception class to raise if estimator is used before fitting.

exceptions.NonBLASDotWarning Warning used when the dot operation does not use BLAS.
exceptions.UndefinedMetricWarning Warning used when the metric is invalid

sklearn.feature_extraction: Feature Extraction

The sklearn.feature_extraction module deals with feature extraction from raw data. It currently includes
methods to extract features from text and images.
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User guide: See the Feature extraction section for further details.
feature_extraction.DictVectorizer([dtype, …]) Transforms lists of feature-value mappings to vectors.
feature_extraction.FeatureHasher([…]) Implements feature hashing, aka the hashing trick.

From images

The sklearn.feature_extraction.image submodule gathers utilities to extract features from images.

feature_extraction.image.extract_patches_2d(…) Reshape a 2D image into a collection of
patches
feature_extraction.image.grid_to_graph(n_x, n_y) Graph of the pixel-to-pixel connections
feature_extraction.image.img_to_graph(img[, …]) Graph of the pixel-to-pixel gradient
connections
feature_extraction.image.reconstruct_from_patches_2d(…) Reconstruct the image from all of its
patches.
feature_extraction.image.PatchExtractor([…]) Extracts patches from a collection of images

From text

The sklearn.feature_extraction.text submodule gathers utilities to build feature vectors from text
documents.
feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer([…]) Convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of
token counts
feature_extraction.text.HashingVectorizer([…]) Convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of
token occurrences
feature_extraction.text.TfidfTransformer([…]) Transform a count matrix to a normalized tf or tf-idf
representation
feature_extraction.text.TfidfVectorizer([…]) Convert a collection of raw documents to a matrix of
TF-IDF features.

sklearn.feature_selection: Feature Selection

The sklearn.feature_selection module implements feature selection algorithms. It currently includes

univariate filter selection methods and the recursive feature elimination algorithm.

User guide: See the Feature selection section for further details.
feature_selection.GenericUnivariateSelect([…]) Univariate feature selector with configurable strategy.
feature_selection.SelectPercentile([…]) Select features according to a percentile of the highest
scores.
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feature_selection.SelectFpr([score_func, alpha]) Filter: Select the pvalues below alpha based on a FPR
test.
feature_selection.SelectFdr([score_func, alpha]) Filter: Select the p-values for an estimated false
discovery rate
feature_selection.SelectFromModel(estimator) Meta-transformer for selecting features based on
importance weights.
feature_selection.SelectFwe([score_func, alpha]) Filter: Select the p-values corresponding to Family-wise
error rate
feature_selection.RFE(estimator[, …]) Feature ranking with recursive feature elimination.
feature_selection.RFECV(estimator[, step, …]) Feature ranking with recursive feature elimination and
» cross-validated selection of the best number of
features.
feature_selection.VarianceThreshold([threshold]) Feature selector that removes all low-variance
features.
feature_selection.chi2(X, y) Compute chi-squared stats between each non-negative
feature and class.
feature_selection.f_classif(X, y) Compute the ANOVA F-value for the provided sample.
feature_selection.f_regression(X, y[, center]) Univariate linear regression tests.
feature_selection.mutual_info_classif(X, y) Estimate mutual information for a discrete target
variable.
feature_selection.mutual_info_regression(X, y) Estimate mutual information for a continuous target
variable.

sklearn.gaussian_process: Gaussian Processes

The sklearn.gaussian_process module implements Gaussian Process based regression and classification.

User guide: See the Gaussian Processes section for further details.
gaussian_process.GaussianProcessClassifier([…]) Gaussian process classification (GPC) based on
Laplace approximation.
gaussian_process.GaussianProcessRegressor([…]) Gaussian process regression (GPR).

Kernels:
gaussian_process.kernels.CompoundKernel(kernels) Kernel which is composed of a set of other kernels.
gaussian_process.kernels.ConstantKernel([…]) Constant kernel.
gaussian_process.kernels.DotProduct([…]) Dot-Product kernel.
gaussian_process.kernels.ExpSineSquared([…]) Exp-Sine-Squared kernel.
gaussian_process.kernels.Exponentiation(…) Exponentiate kernel by given exponent.
gaussian_process.kernels.Hyperparameter A kernel hyperparameter’s specification in form of a
namedtuple.
gaussian_process.kernels.Kernel Base class for all kernels.
gaussian_process.kernels.Matern([…]) Matern kernel.
gaussian_process.kernels.PairwiseKernel([…]) Wrapper for kernels in sklearn.metrics.pairwise.
gaussian_process.kernels.Product(k1, k2) Product-kernel k1 * k2 of two kernels k1 and k2.
gaussian_process.kernels.RBF([length_scale, …]) Radial-basis function kernel (aka squared-exponential
kernel).
gaussian_process.kernels.RationalQuadratic([…]) Rational Quadratic kernel.
gaussian_process.kernels.Sum(k1, k2) Sum-kernel k1 + k2 of two kernels k1 and k2.
gaussian_process.kernels.WhiteKernel([…]) White kernel.

sklearn.isotonic: Isotonic regression

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User guide: See the Isotonic regression section for further details.
isotonic.IsotonicRegression([y_min, y_max, …]) Isotonic regression model.
isotonic.check_increasing(x, y) Determine whether y is monotonically correlated with x.
isotonic.isotonic_regression(y[, …]) Solve the isotonic regression model:

sklearn.kernel_approximation Kernel Approximation

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The sklearn.kernel_approximation module implements several approximate kernel feature maps base on
Fourier transforms.

User guide: See the Kernel Approximation section for further details.
kernel_approximation.AdditiveChi2Sampler([…]) Approximate feature map for additive chi2 kernel.
kernel_approximation.Nystroem([kernel, …]) Approximate a kernel map using a subset of the training
data.
kernel_approximation.RBFSampler([gamma, …]) Approximates feature map of an RBF kernel by Monte
Carlo approximation of its Fourier transform.
kernel_approximation.SkewedChi2Sampler([…]) Approximates feature map of the “skewed chi-squared”
kernel by Monte Carlo approximation of its Fourier
transform.

sklearn.kernel_ridge Kernel Ridge Regression

Module sklearn.kernel_ridge implements kernel ridge regression.

User guide: See the Kernel ridge regression section for further details.
kernel_ridge.KernelRidge([alpha, kernel, …]) Kernel ridge regression.

sklearn.linear_model: Generalized Linear Models

The sklearn.linear_model module implements generalized linear models. It includes Ridge regression,
Bayesian Regression, Lasso and Elastic Net estimators computed with Least Angle Regression and
coordinate descent. It also implements Stochastic Gradient Descent related algorithms.

User guide: See the Generalized Linear Models section for further details.
linear_model.ARDRegression([n_iter, tol, …]) Bayesian ARD regression.
linear_model.BayesianRidge([n_iter, tol, …]) Bayesian ridge regression
linear_model.ElasticNet([alpha, l1_ratio, …]) Linear regression with combined L1 and L2 priors as
regularizer.
linear_model.ElasticNetCV([l1_ratio, eps, …]) Elastic Net model with iterative fitting along a
regularization path
linear_model.HuberRegressor([epsilon, …]) Linear regression model that is robust to outliers.
linear_model.Lars([fit_intercept, verbose, …]) Least Angle Regression model a.k.a.
linear_model.LarsCV([fit_intercept, …]) Cross-validated Least Angle Regression model
linear_model.Lasso([alpha, fit_intercept, …]) Linear Model trained with L1 prior as regularizer (aka
the Lasso)
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linear_model.LassoLars([alpha, …]) Lasso model fit with Least Angle Regression a.k.a.
linear_model.LassoLarsCV([fit_intercept, …]) Cross-validated Lasso, using the LARS algorithm
linear_model.LassoLarsIC([criterion, …]) Lasso model fit with Lars using BIC or AIC for model
selection
linear_model.LinearRegression([…]) Ordinary least squares Linear Regression.
linear_model.LogisticRegression([penalty, …]) Logistic Regression (aka logit, MaxEnt) classifier.
linear_model.LogisticRegressionCV([Cs, …]) Logistic Regression CV (aka logit, MaxEnt) classifier.
linear_model.MultiTaskLasso([alpha, …]) Multi-task Lasso model trained with L1/L2 mixed-norm
as regularizer
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norm as regularizer
linear_model.MultiTaskLassoCV([eps, …]) Multi-task L1/L2 Lasso with built-in cross-validation.
linear_model.MultiTaskElasticNetCV([…]) Multi-task L1/L2 ElasticNet with built-in cross-
validation.
linear_model.OrthogonalMatchingPursuit([…]) Orthogonal Matching Pursuit model (OMP)
linear_model.OrthogonalMatchingPursuitCV([…]) Cross-validated Orthogonal Matching Pursuit model
(OMP)
linear_model.PassiveAggressiveClassifier([…]) Passive Aggressive Classifier
linear_model.PassiveAggressiveRegressor([C, …]) Passive Aggressive Regressor
linear_model.Perceptron([penalty, alpha, …]) Read more in the User Guide.
linear_model.RANSACRegressor([…]) RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm.
linear_model.Ridge([alpha, fit_intercept, …]) Linear least squares with l2 regularization.
linear_model.RidgeClassifier([alpha, …]) Classifier using Ridge regression.
linear_model.RidgeClassifierCV([alphas, …]) Ridge classifier with built-in cross-validation.
linear_model.RidgeCV([alphas, …]) Ridge regression with built-in cross-validation.
linear_model.SGDClassifier([loss, penalty, …]) Linear classifiers (SVM, logistic regression, a.o.) with
SGD training.
linear_model.SGDRegressor([loss, penalty, …]) Linear model fitted by minimizing a regularized
empirical loss with SGD
linear_model.TheilSenRegressor([…]) Theil-Sen Estimator: robust multivariate regression
model.
linear_model.enet_path(X, y[, l1_ratio, …]) Compute elastic net path with coordinate descent
linear_model.lars_path(X, y[, Xy, Gram, …]) Compute Least Angle Regression or Lasso path using
LARS algorithm [1]
linear_model.lasso_path(X, y[, eps, …]) Compute Lasso path with coordinate descent
linear_model.lasso_stability_path(X, y[, …]) DEPRECATED: The function lasso_stability_path is
deprecated in 0.19 and will be removed in 0.21.
linear_model.logistic_regression_path(X, y) Compute a Logistic Regression model for a list of
regularization parameters.
linear_model.orthogonal_mp(X, y[, …]) Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP)
linear_model.orthogonal_mp_gram(Gram, Xy[, …]) Gram Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP)

sklearn.manifold: Manifold Learning

The sklearn.manifold module implements data embedding techniques.

User guide: See the Manifold learning section for further details.
manifold.Isomap([n_neighbors, n_components, …]) Isomap Embedding
manifold.LocallyLinearEmbedding([…]) Locally Linear Embedding
manifold.MDS([n_components, metric, n_init, …]) Multidimensional scaling
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manifold.SpectralEmbedding([n_components, …]) Spectral embedding for non-linear dimensionality

reduction.
manifold.TSNE([n_components, perplexity, …]) t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding.
manifold.locally_linear_embedding(X, … Perform a Locally Linear Embedding analysis on the data.
[, …])
manifold.smacof(dissimilarities[, metric, …]) Computes multidimensional scaling using the SMACOF
algorithm.
manifold.spectral_embedding(adjacency[, …]) Project the sample on the first eigenvectors of the graph
Laplacian.

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sklearn.metrics: Metrics

See the Model evaluation: quantifying the quality of predictions section and the Pairwise metrics, Affinities and
Kernels section of the user guide for further details.

The sklearn.metrics module includes score functions, performance metrics and pairwise metrics and distance
computations.

Model Selection Interface

See the The scoring parameter: defining model evaluation rules section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.get_scorer(scoring) Get a scorer from string
metrics.make_scorer(score_func[, …]) Make a scorer from a performance metric or loss function.

Classification metrics

See the Classification metrics section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.accuracy_score(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Accuracy classification score.
metrics.auc(x, y[, reorder]) Compute Area Under the Curve (AUC) using the
trapezoidal rule
metrics.average_precision_score(y_true, y_score) Compute average precision (AP) from prediction
scores
metrics.brier_score_loss(y_true, y_prob[, …]) Compute the Brier score.
metrics.classification_report(y_true, y_pred) Build a text report showing the main classification
metrics
metrics.cohen_kappa_score(y1, y2[, labels, …]) Cohen’s kappa: a statistic that measures inter-
annotator agreement.
metrics.confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Compute confusion matrix to evaluate the accuracy of
a classification
metrics.f1_score(y_true, y_pred[, labels, …]) Compute the F1 score, also known as balanced F-
score or F-measure
metrics.fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta[, …]) Compute the F-beta score
metrics.hamming_loss(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Compute the average Hamming loss.
metrics.hinge_loss(y_true, pred_decision[, …]) Average hinge loss (non-regularized)
metrics.jaccard_similarity_score(y_true, y_pred) Jaccard similarity coefficient score
metrics.log_loss(y_true, y_pred[, eps, …]) Log loss, aka logistic loss or cross-entropy loss.
metrics.matthews_corrcoef(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Compute the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC)
metrics.precision_recall_curve(y_true, …) Compute precision-recall pairs for different probability
thresholds
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metrics.precision_score(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Compute the precision
metrics.recall_score(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Compute the recall
metrics.roc_auc_score(y_true, y_score[, …]) Compute Area Under the Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curve (ROC AUC) from prediction
scores.
metrics.roc_curve(y_true, y_score[, …]) Compute Receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
metrics.zero_one_loss(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Zero-one classification loss.

» Regression metrics

See the Regression metrics section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred) Explained variance regression score function
metrics.mean_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred) Mean absolute error regression loss
metrics.mean_squared_error(y_true, y_pred[, …]) Mean squared error regression loss
metrics.mean_squared_log_error(y_true, y_pred) Mean squared logarithmic error regression loss
metrics.median_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred) Median absolute error regression loss
metrics.r2_score(y_true, y_pred[, …]) R^2 (coefficient of determination) regression score
function.

Multilabel ranking metrics

See the Multilabel ranking metrics section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.coverage_error(y_true, y_score[, …]) Coverage error measure
metrics.label_ranking_average_precision_score(…) Compute ranking-based average precision
metrics.label_ranking_loss(y_true, y_score) Compute Ranking loss measure

Clustering metrics

See the Clustering performance evaluation section of the user guide for further details.

The sklearn.metrics.cluster submodule contains evaluation metrics for cluster analysis results. There are
two forms of evaluation:

supervised, which uses a ground truth class values for each sample.
unsupervised, which does not and measures the ‘quality’ of the model itself.

metrics.adjusted_mutual_info_score(…) Adjusted Mutual Information between two clusterings.

metrics.adjusted_rand_score(labels_true, …) Rand index adjusted for chance.
metrics.calinski_harabaz_score(X, labels) Compute the Calinski and Harabaz score.
metrics.completeness_score(labels_true, …) Completeness metric of a cluster labeling given a
ground truth.
metrics.fowlkes_mallows_score(labels_true, …) Measure the similarity of two clusterings of a set of
points.
metrics.homogeneity_completeness_v_measure(…) Compute the homogeneity and completeness and V-
Measure scores at once.
metrics.homogeneity_score(labels_true, …) Homogeneity metric of a cluster labeling given a
ground truth.
metrics.mutual_info_score(labels_true, …) Mutual Information between two clusterings.
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metrics.silhouette_score(X, labels[, …]) Compute the mean Silhouette Coefficient of all

samples.
metrics.silhouette_samples(X, labels[, metric]) Compute the Silhouette Coefficient for each sample.
metrics.v_measure_score(labels_true, labels_pred) V-measure cluster labeling given a ground truth.

Biclustering metrics

See the Biclustering evaluation section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.consensus_score(a, b[, similarity]) The similarity of two sets of biclusters.
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Pairwise metrics

See the Pairwise metrics, Affinities and Kernels section of the user guide for further details.
metrics.pairwise.additive_chi2_kernel(X[, Y]) Computes the additive chi-squared kernel between
observations in X and Y
metrics.pairwise.chi2_kernel(X[, Y, gamma]) Computes the exponential chi-squared kernel X and
Y.
metrics.pairwise.cosine_similarity(X[, Y, …]) Compute cosine similarity between samples in X and
Y.
metrics.pairwise.cosine_distances(X[, Y]) Compute cosine distance between samples in X and
Y.
metrics.pairwise.distance_metrics() Valid metrics for pairwise_distances.
metrics.pairwise.euclidean_distances(X[, Y, …]) Considering the rows of X (and Y=X) as vectors,
compute the distance matrix between each pair of
vectors.
metrics.pairwise.kernel_metrics() Valid metrics for pairwise_kernels
metrics.pairwise.laplacian_kernel(X[, Y, gamma]) Compute the laplacian kernel between X and Y.
metrics.pairwise.linear_kernel(X[, Y]) Compute the linear kernel between X and Y.
metrics.pairwise.manhattan_distances(X[, Y, …]) Compute the L1 distances between the vectors in X
and Y.
metrics.pairwise.pairwise_distances(X[, Y, …]) Compute the distance matrix from a vector array X
and optional Y.
metrics.pairwise.pairwise_kernels(X[, Y, …]) Compute the kernel between arrays X and optional
array Y.
metrics.pairwise.polynomial_kernel(X[, Y, …]) Compute the polynomial kernel between X and Y:
metrics.pairwise.rbf_kernel(X[, Y, gamma]) Compute the rbf (gaussian) kernel between X and Y:
metrics.pairwise.sigmoid_kernel(X[, Y, …]) Compute the sigmoid kernel between X and Y:
metrics.pairwise.paired_euclidean_distances(X, Y) Computes the paired euclidean distances between X
and Y
metrics.pairwise.paired_manhattan_distances(X, Y) Compute the L1 distances between the vectors in X
and Y.
metrics.pairwise.paired_cosine_distances(X, Y) Computes the paired cosine distances between X
and Y
metrics.pairwise.paired_distances(X, Y[, metric]) Computes the paired distances between X and Y.
metrics.pairwise_distances(X[, Y, metric, …]) Compute the distance matrix from a vector array X
and optional Y.
metrics.pairwise_distances_argmin(X, Y[, …]) Compute minimum distances between one point and
a set of points.
metrics.pairwise_distances_argmin_min(X, Y) Compute minimum distances between one point and
a set of points.

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sklearn.mixture: Gaussian Mixture Models

The sklearn.mixture module implements mixture modeling algorithms.

User guide: See the Gaussian mixture models section for further details.
mixture.BayesianGaussianMixture([…]) Variational Bayesian estimation of a Gaussian mixture.
mixture.GaussianMixture([n_components, …]) Gaussian Mixture.

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sklearn.model_selection: Model Selection

User guide: See the Cross-validation: evaluating estimator performance, Tuning the hyper-parameters of an
estimator and Learning curve sections for further details.

Splitter Classes

model_selection.GroupKFold([n_splits]) K-fold iterator variant with non-overlapping groups.

model_selection.GroupShuffleSplit([…]) Shuffle-Group(s)-Out cross-validation iterator
model_selection.KFold([n_splits, shuffle, …]) K-Folds cross-validator
model_selection.LeaveOneGroupOut() Leave One Group Out cross-validator
model_selection.LeavePGroupsOut(n_groups) Leave P Group(s) Out cross-validator
model_selection.LeaveOneOut() Leave-One-Out cross-validator
model_selection.LeavePOut(p) Leave-P-Out cross-validator
model_selection.PredefinedSplit(test_fold) Predefined split cross-validator
model_selection.RepeatedKFold([n_splits, …]) Repeated K-Fold cross validator.
model_selection.RepeatedStratifiedKFold([…]) Repeated Stratified K-Fold cross validator.
model_selection.ShuffleSplit([n_splits, …]) Random permutation cross-validator
model_selection.StratifiedKFold([n_splits, …]) Stratified K-Folds cross-validator
model_selection.StratifiedShuffleSplit([…]) Stratified ShuffleSplit cross-validator
model_selection.TimeSeriesSplit([n_splits, …]) Time Series cross-validator

Splitter Functions

model_selection.check_cv([cv, y, classifier]) Input checker utility for building a cross-validator

model_selection.train_test_split(*arrays, …) Split arrays or matrices into random train and test subsets

Hyper-parameter optimizers

model_selection.GridSearchCV(estimator, …) Exhaustive search over specified parameter values for an

estimator.
model_selection.ParameterGrid(param_grid) Grid of parameters with a discrete number of values for
each.
model_selection.ParameterSampler(…[, …]) Generator on parameters sampled from given distributions.
model_selection.RandomizedSearchCV(… Randomized search on hyper parameters.
[, …])
model_selection.fit_grid_point(X, y, … Run fit on one set of parameters.
[, …])
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Model validation

model_selection.cross_validate(estimator, X) Evaluate metric(s) by cross-validation and also record

fit/score times.
model_selection.cross_val_predict(estimator, X) Generate cross-validated estimates for each input data
point
model_selection.cross_val_score(estimator, X) Evaluate a score by cross-validation
model_selection.learning_curve(estimator, X, y) Learning curve.
model_selection.permutation_test_score(…) Evaluate the significance of a cross-validated score with
» permutations
model_selection.validation_curve(estimator, …) Validation curve.

sklearn.multiclass: Multiclass and multilabel classification

Multiclass and multilabel classification strategies

This module implements multiclass learning algorithms:

one-vs-the-rest / one-vs-all
one-vs-one
error correcting output codes

The estimators provided in this module are meta-estimators: they require a base estimator to be provided in
their constructor. For example, it is possible to use these estimators to turn a binary classifier or a regressor
into a multiclass classifier. It is also possible to use these estimators with multiclass estimators in the hope that
their accuracy or runtime performance improves.

All classifiers in scikit-learn implement multiclass classification; you only need to use this module if you want to
experiment with custom multiclass strategies.

The one-vs-the-rest meta-classifier also implements a predict_proba method, so long as such a method is
implemented by the base classifier. This method returns probabilities of class membership in both the single
label and multilabel case. Note that in the multilabel case, probabilities are the marginal probability that a given
sample falls in the given class. As such, in the multilabel case the sum of these probabilities over all possible
labels for a given sample will not sum to unity, as they do in the single label case.

User guide: See the Multiclass and multilabel algorithms section for further details.
multiclass.OneVsRestClassifier(estimator[, …]) One-vs-the-rest (OvR) multiclass/multilabel strategy
multiclass.OneVsOneClassifier(estimator[, …]) One-vs-one multiclass strategy
multiclass.OutputCodeClassifier(estimator[, …]) (Error-Correcting) Output-Code multiclass strategy

sklearn.multioutput: Multioutput regression and classification

This module implements multioutput regression and classification.

The estimators provided in this module are meta-estimators: they require a base estimator to be provided in
their constructor. The meta-estimator extends single output estimators to multioutput estimators.
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User guide: See the Multiclass and multilabel algorithms section for further details.
multioutput.ClassifierChain(base_estimator) A multi-label model that arranges binary classifiers into a
chain.
multioutput.MultiOutputRegressor(estimator) Multi target regression
multioutput.MultiOutputClassifier(estimator) Multi target classification

sklearn.naive_bayes: Naive Bayes

» The sklearn.naive_bayes module implements Naive Bayes algorithms. These are supervised learning
methods based on applying Bayes’ theorem with strong (naive) feature independence assumptions.

User guide: See the Naive Bayes section for further details.
naive_bayes.BernoulliNB([alpha, binarize, …]) Naive Bayes classifier for multivariate Bernoulli models.
naive_bayes.GaussianNB([priors]) Gaussian Naive Bayes (GaussianNB)
naive_bayes.MultinomialNB([alpha, …]) Naive Bayes classifier for multinomial models

sklearn.neighbors: Nearest Neighbors

The sklearn.neighbors module implements the k-nearest neighbors algorithm.

User guide: See the Nearest Neighbors section for further details.
neighbors.BallTree BallTree for fast generalized N-point problems
neighbors.DistanceMetric DistanceMetric class
neighbors.KDTree KDTree for fast generalized N-point problems
neighbors.KernelDensity([bandwidth, …]) Kernel Density Estimation
neighbors.KNeighborsClassifier([…]) Classifier implementing the k-nearest neighbors vote.
neighbors.KNeighborsRegressor([n_neighbors, …]) Regression based on k-nearest neighbors.
neighbors.LocalOutlierFactor([n_neighbors, …]) Unsupervised Outlier Detection using Local Outlier
Factor (LOF)
neighbors.RadiusNeighborsClassifier([…]) Classifier implementing a vote among neighbors within
a given radius
neighbors.RadiusNeighborsRegressor([radius, …]) Regression based on neighbors within a fixed radius.
neighbors.NearestCentroid([metric, …]) Nearest centroid classifier.
neighbors.NearestNeighbors([n_neighbors, …]) Unsupervised learner for implementing neighbor
searches.
neighbors.kneighbors_graph(X, n_neighbors[, …]) Computes the (weighted) graph of k-Neighbors for
points in X
neighbors.radius_neighbors_graph(X, radius) Computes the (weighted) graph of Neighbors for points
in X

sklearn.neural_network: Neural network models

The sklearn.neural_network module includes models based on neural networks.

User guide: See the Neural network models (supervised) and Neural network models (unsupervised) sections
for further details.
neural_network.BernoulliRBM([n_components, …])
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neural_network.MLPClassifier([…]) Multi-layer Perceptron classifier.

neural_network.MLPRegressor([…]) Multi-layer Perceptron regressor.

sklearn.pipeline: Pipeline

The sklearn.pipeline module implements utilities to build a composite estimator, as a chain of transforms and
estimators.
pipeline.FeatureUnion(transformer_list[, …])Concatenates results of multiple transformer objects.
» pipeline.Pipeline(steps[, memory]) Pipeline of transforms with a final estimator.
pipeline.make_pipeline(*steps, **kwargs) Construct a Pipeline from the given estimators.
pipeline.make_union(*transformers, **kwargs) Construct a FeatureUnion from the given transformers.

sklearn.preprocessing: Preprocessing and Normalization

The sklearn.preprocessing module includes scaling, centering, normalization, binarization and imputation
methods.

User guide: See the Preprocessing data section for further details.
preprocessing.Binarizer([threshold, copy]) Binarize data (set feature values to 0 or 1) according
to a threshold
preprocessing.FunctionTransformer([func, …]) Constructs a transformer from an arbitrary callable.
preprocessing.Imputer([missing_values, …]) Imputation transformer for completing missing values.
preprocessing.KernelCenterer Center a kernel matrix
preprocessing.LabelBinarizer([neg_label, …]) Binarize labels in a one-vs-all fashion
preprocessing.LabelEncoder Encode labels with value between 0 and n_classes-1.
preprocessing.MultiLabelBinarizer([classes, …]) Transform between iterable of iterables and a
multilabel format
preprocessing.MaxAbsScaler([copy]) Scale each feature by its maximum absolute value.
preprocessing.MinMaxScaler([feature_range, copy]) Transforms features by scaling each feature to a given
range.
preprocessing.Normalizer([norm, copy]) Normalize samples individually to unit norm.
preprocessing.OneHotEncoder([n_values, …]) Encode categorical integer features using a one-hot
aka one-of-K scheme.
preprocessing.PolynomialFeatures([degree, …]) Generate polynomial and interaction features.
preprocessing.QuantileTransformer([…]) Transform features using quantiles information.
preprocessing.RobustScaler([with_centering, …]) Scale features using statistics that are robust to
outliers.
preprocessing.StandardScaler([copy, …]) Standardize features by removing the mean and
scaling to unit variance
preprocessing.add_dummy_feature(X[, value]) Augment dataset with an additional dummy feature.
preprocessing.binarize(X[, threshold, copy]) Boolean thresholding of array-like or scipy.sparse matrix
preprocessing.label_binarize(y, classes[, …]) Binarize labels in a one-vs-all fashion
preprocessing.maxabs_scale(X[, axis, copy]) Scale each feature to the [-1, 1] range without breaking
the sparsity.
preprocessing.minmax_scale(X[, …]) Transforms features by scaling each feature to a given
range.
preprocessing.normalize(X[, norm, axis, …]) Scale input vectors individually to unit norm (vector
length).
preprocessing.quantile_transform(X[, axis, …]) Transform features using quantiles information.
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preprocessing.robust_scale(X[, axis, …]) Standardize a dataset along any axis

preprocessing.scale(X[, axis, with_mean, …]) Standardize a dataset along any axis

sklearn.random_projection: Random projection

Random Projection transformers

Random Projections are a simple and computationally efficient way to reduce the dimensionality of the data by
» trading a controlled amount of accuracy (as additional variance) for faster processing times and smaller model
sizes.

The dimensions and distribution of Random Projections matrices are controlled so as to preserve the pairwise
distances between any two samples of the dataset.

The main theoretical result behind the efficiency of random projection is the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma
(quoting Wikipedia):

In mathematics, the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is a result concerning low-distortion

embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. The lemma
states that a small set of points in a high-dimensional space can be embedded into a space of
much lower dimension in such a way that distances between the points are nearly preserved. The
map used for the embedding is at least Lipschitz, and can even be taken to be an orthogonal
projection.

User guide: See the Random Projection section for further details.
random_projection.GaussianRandomProjection([…]) Reduce dimensionality through Gaussian random
projection
random_projection.SparseRandomProjection([…]) Reduce dimensionality through sparse random
projection
random_projection.johnson_lindenstrauss_min_dim(…) Find a ‘safe’ number of components to randomly
project to

sklearn.semi_supervised Semi-Supervised Learning

The sklearn.semi_supervised module implements semi-supervised learning algorithms. These algorithms

utilized small amounts of labeled data and large amounts of unlabeled data for classification tasks. This
module includes Label Propagation.

User guide: See the Semi-Supervised section for further details.

semi_supervised.LabelPropagation([kernel, …]) Label Propagation classifier
semi_supervised.LabelSpreading([kernel, …]) LabelSpreading model for semi-supervised learning

sklearn.svm: Support Vector Machines

The sklearn.svm module includes Support Vector Machine algorithms.

User guide: See the Support Vector Machines section for further details.
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Estimators

svm.LinearSVC([penalty, loss, dual, tol, C, …]) Linear Support Vector Classification.

svm.LinearSVR([epsilon, tol, C, loss, …]) Linear Support Vector Regression.
svm.NuSVC([nu, kernel, degree, gamma, …]) Nu-Support Vector Classification.
svm.NuSVR([nu, C, kernel, degree, gamma, …]) Nu Support Vector Regression.
svm.OneClassSVM([kernel, degree, gamma, …]) Unsupervised Outlier Detection.
svm.SVC([C, kernel, degree, gamma, coef0, …]) C-Support Vector Classification.
svm.SVR([kernel, degree, gamma, coef0, tol, …]) Epsilon-Support Vector Regression.
» svm.l1_min_c(X, y[, loss, fit_intercept, …]) Return the lowest bound for C such that for C in (l1_min_C,
infinity) the model is guaranteed not to be empty.

Low-level methods

svm.libsvm.cross_validation Binding of the cross-validation routine (low-level routine)

svm.libsvm.decision_function Predict margin (libsvm name for this is predict_values)
svm.libsvm.fit Train the model using libsvm (low-level method)
svm.libsvm.predict Predict target values of X given a model (low-level method)
svm.libsvm.predict_proba Predict probabilities

sklearn.tree: Decision Trees

The sklearn.tree module includes decision tree-based models for classification and regression.

User guide: See the Decision Trees section for further details.
tree.DecisionTreeClassifier([criterion, …])A decision tree classifier.
tree.DecisionTreeRegressor([criterion, …]) A decision tree regressor.
tree.ExtraTreeClassifier([criterion, …]) An extremely randomized tree classifier.
tree.ExtraTreeRegressor([criterion, …]) An extremely randomized tree regressor.
tree.export_graphviz(decision_tree[, …]) Export a decision tree in DOT format.

sklearn.utils: Utilities

The sklearn.utils module includes various utilities.

Developer guide: See the Utilities for Developers page for further details.
utils.as_float_array(X[, copy, force_all_finite]) Converts an array-like to an array of floats.
utils.assert_all_finite(X) Throw a ValueError if X contains NaN or infinity.
utils.check_X_y(X, y[, accept_sparse, …]) Input validation for standard estimators.
utils.check_array(array[, accept_sparse, …]) Input validation on an array, list, sparse matrix or
similar.
utils.check_consistent_length(*arrays) Check that all arrays have consistent first
dimensions.
utils.check_random_state(seed) Turn seed into a np.random.RandomState instance
utils.class_weight.compute_class_weight(…) Estimate class weights for unbalanced datasets.
utils.class_weight.compute_sample_weight(…) Estimate sample weights by class for unbalanced
datasets.
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conventions.
utils.extmath.safe_sparse_dot(a, b[, …]) Dot product that handle the sparse matrix case
correctly
utils.indexable(*iterables) Make arrays indexable for cross-validation.
utils.resample(*arrays, **options) Resample arrays or sparse matrices in a consistent
way
utils.safe_indexing(X, indices) Return items or rows from X using indices.
utils.shuffle(*arrays, **options) Shuffle arrays or sparse matrices in a consistent way
utils.sparsefuncs.incr_mean_variance_axis(X, …) Compute incremental mean and variance along an
axix on a CSR or CSC matrix.
» utils.sparsefuncs.inplace_column_scale(X, scale) Inplace column scaling of a CSC/CSR matrix.
utils.sparsefuncs.inplace_row_scale(X, scale) Inplace row scaling of a CSR or CSC matrix.
utils.sparsefuncs.inplace_swap_row(X, m, n) Swaps two rows of a CSC/CSR matrix in-place.
utils.sparsefuncs.inplace_swap_column(X, m, n) Swaps two columns of a CSC/CSR matrix in-place.
utils.sparsefuncs.mean_variance_axis(X, axis) Compute mean and variance along an axix on a
CSR or CSC matrix
utils.validation.check_is_fitted(estimator, …) Perform is_fitted validation for estimator.
utils.validation.check_memory(memory) Check that memory is joblib.Memory-like.
utils.validation.check_symmetric(array[, …]) Make sure that array is 2D, square and symmetric.
utils.validation.column_or_1d(y[, warn]) Ravel column or 1d numpy array, else raises an error
utils.validation.has_fit_parameter(…) Checks whether the estimator’s fit method supports
the given parameter.

Recently deprecated

To be removed in 0.21

linear_model.RandomizedLasso(*args, **kwargs) Randomized Lasso.

linear_model.RandomizedLogisticRegression(…) Randomized Logistic Regression
neighbors.LSHForest([n_estimators, radius, …]) Performs approximate nearest neighbor search using
LSH forest.

To be removed in 0.20

cross_validation.KFold(n[, n_folds, …]) K-Folds cross validation iterator.

cross_validation.LabelKFold(labels[, n_folds]) K-fold iterator variant with non-overlapping labels.
cross_validation.LeaveOneLabelOut(labels) Leave-One-Label_Out cross-validation iterator
cross_validation.LeaveOneOut(n) Leave-One-Out cross validation iterator.
cross_validation.LeavePOut(n, p) Leave-P-Out cross validation iterator
cross_validation.LeavePLabelOut(labels, p) Leave-P-Label_Out cross-validation iterator
cross_validation.LabelShuffleSplit(labels[, …]) Shuffle-Labels-Out cross-validation iterator
cross_validation.ShuffleSplit(n[, n_iter, …]) Random permutation cross-validation iterator.
cross_validation.StratifiedKFold(y[, …]) Stratified K-Folds cross validation iterator
cross_validation.StratifiedShuffleSplit(y[, …]) Stratified ShuffleSplit cross validation iterator
cross_validation.PredefinedSplit(test_fold) Predefined split cross validation iterator
decomposition.RandomizedPCA(*args, **kwargs) Principal component analysis (PCA) using
randomized SVD
gaussian_process.GaussianProcess(*args, **kwargs) The legacy Gaussian Process model class.
grid_search.ParameterGrid(param_grid) Grid of parameters with a discrete number of values
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grid_search.ParameterSampler(…[, random_state]) Generator on parameters sampled from given

distributions.
grid_search.GridSearchCV(estimator, param_grid) Exhaustive search over specified parameter values
for an estimator.
grid_search.RandomizedSearchCV(estimator, …) Randomized search on hyper parameters.
mixture.DPGMM(*args, **kwargs) Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Models
mixture.GMM(*args, **kwargs) Legacy Gaussian Mixture Model
mixture.VBGMM(*args, **kwargs) Variational Inference for the Gaussian Mixture Model
cross_validation.check_cv(cv[, X, y, classifier]) Input checker utility for building a CV in a user friendly
way.
» cross_validation.cross_val_predict(estimator, X) Generate cross-validated estimates for each input data
point
cross_validation.cross_val_score(estimator, X) Evaluate a score by cross-validation
cross_validation.permutation_test_score(…) Evaluate the significance of a cross-validated score
with permutations
cross_validation.train_test_split(*arrays, …) Split arrays or matrices into random train and test
subsets
grid_search.fit_grid_point(X, y, estimator, …) Run fit on one set of parameters.
learning_curve.learning_curve(estimator, X, y) Learning curve.
learning_curve.validation_curve(estimator, …) Validation curve.

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