Sparse coding.
Finds a sparse representation of data against a fixed, precomputed dictionary.
Each row of the result is the solution to a sparse coding problem. The goal is to find a sparse array code such that:
X ~= code * dictionary
Read more in the User Guide.
The dictionary atoms used for sparse coding. Lines are assumed to be normalized to unit norm.
Algorithm used to transform the data:
'lars': uses the least angle regression method (linear_model.lars_path);'lasso_lars': uses Lars to compute the Lasso solution;'lasso_cd': uses the coordinate descent method to compute the Lasso solution (linear_model.Lasso). 'lasso_lars' will be faster if the estimated components are sparse;'omp': uses orthogonal matching pursuit to estimate the sparse solution;'threshold': squashes to zero all coefficients less than alpha from the projection dictionary * X'.Number of nonzero coefficients to target in each column of the solution. This is only used by algorithm='lars' and algorithm='omp' and is overridden by alpha in the omp case. If None, then transform_n_nonzero_coefs=int(n_features / 10).
If algorithm='lasso_lars' or algorithm='lasso_cd', alpha is the penalty applied to the L1 norm. If algorithm='threshold', alpha is the absolute value of the threshold below which coefficients will be squashed to zero. If algorithm='omp', alpha is the tolerance parameter: the value of the reconstruction error targeted. In this case, it overrides n_nonzero_coefs. If None, default to 1.
Whether to split the sparse feature vector into the concatenation of its negative part and its positive part. This can improve the performance of downstream classifiers.
Number of parallel jobs to run. None means 1 unless in a joblib.parallel_backend context. -1 means using all processors. See Glossary for more details.
Whether to enforce positivity when finding the code.
Added in version 0.20.
Maximum number of iterations to perform if algorithm='lasso_cd' or lasso_lars.
Added in version 0.22.
n_components_int
Number of atoms.
n_features_in_int
Number of features seen during fit.
n_features_in_,)
Names of features seen during fit. Defined only when X has feature names that are all strings.
Added in version 1.0.
See also
DictionaryLearningFind a dictionary that sparsely encodes data.
MiniBatchDictionaryLearningA faster, less accurate, version of the dictionary learning algorithm.
MiniBatchSparsePCAMini-batch Sparse Principal Components Analysis.
SparsePCASparse Principal Components Analysis.
sparse_encodeSparse coding where each row of the result is the solution to a sparse coding problem.
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.decomposition import SparseCoder
>>> X = np.array([[-1, -1, -1], [0, 0, 3]])
>>> dictionary = np.array(
... [[0, 1, 0],
... [-1, -1, 2],
... [1, 1, 1],
... [0, 1, 1],
... [0, 2, 1]],
... dtype=np.float64
... )
>>> coder = SparseCoder(
... dictionary=dictionary, transform_algorithm='lasso_lars',
... transform_alpha=1e-10,
... )
>>> coder.transform(X)
array([[ 0., 0., -1., 0., 0.],
[ 0., 1., 1., 0., 0.]])
Do nothing and return the estimator unchanged.
This method is just there to implement the usual API and hence work in pipelines.
Not used, present for API consistency by convention.
Not used, present for API consistency by convention.
Returns the instance itself.
Fit to data, then transform it.
Fits transformer to X and y with optional parameters fit_params and returns a transformed version of X.
Input samples.
Target values (None for unsupervised transformations).
Additional fit parameters.
Transformed array.
Get output feature names for transformation.
The feature names out will prefixed by the lowercased class name. For example, if the transformer outputs 3 features, then the feature names out are: ["class_name0", "class_name1", "class_name2"].
Only used to validate feature names with the names seen in fit.
Transformed feature names.
Get metadata routing of this object.
Please check User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.
A MetadataRequest encapsulating routing information.
Get parameters for this estimator.
If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.
Parameter names mapped to their values.
Number of atoms.
Number of features seen during fit.
Set output container.
See Introducing the set_output API for an example on how to use the API.
Configure output of transform and fit_transform.
"default": Default output format of a transformer"pandas": DataFrame output"polars": Polars outputNone: Transform configuration is unchangedAdded in version 1.4: "polars" option was added.
Estimator instance.
Set the parameters of this estimator.
The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as Pipeline). The latter have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.
Estimator parameters.
Estimator instance.
Encode the data as a sparse combination of the dictionary atoms.
Coding method is determined by the object parameter transform_algorithm.
Training vector, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.
Not used, present for API consistency by convention.
Transformed data.
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