QuantileRegressor

classsklearn.linear_model.QuantileRegressor(*, quantile=0.5, alpha=1.0, fit_intercept=True, solver='highs', solver_options=None)[source]

Linear regression model that predicts conditional quantiles.

The linear QuantileRegressor optimizes the pinball loss for a desired quantile and is robust to outliers.

This model uses an L1 regularization like Lasso.

Read more in the User Guide.

Added in version 1.0.

Parameters:

quantilefloat, default=0.5

The quantile that the model tries to predict. It must be strictly between 0 and 1. If 0.5 (default), the model predicts the 50% quantile, i.e. the median.

alphafloat, default=1.0

Regularization constant that multiplies the L1 penalty term.

fit_interceptbool, default=True

Whether or not to fit the intercept.

solver{‘highs-ds’, ‘highs-ipm’, ‘highs’, ‘interior-point’, ‘revised simplex’}, default=’highs’

Method used by scipy.optimize.linprog to solve the linear programming formulation.

It is recommended to use the highs methods because they are the fastest ones. Solvers “highs-ds”, “highs-ipm” and “highs” support sparse input data and, in fact, always convert to sparse csc.

From scipy>=1.11.0, “interior-point” is not available anymore.

Changed in version 1.4: The default of solver changed to "highs" in version 1.4.

solver_optionsdict, default=None

Additional parameters passed to scipy.optimize.linprog as options. If None and if solver='interior-point', then {"lstsq": True} is passed to scipy.optimize.linprog for the sake of stability.

Attributes:

coef_array of shape (n_features,)

Estimated coefficients for the features.

intercept_float

The intercept of the model, aka bias term.

n_features_in_int

Number of features seen during fit.

Added in version 0.24.

feature_names_in_ndarray of shape (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.

n_iter_int

The actual number of iterations performed by the solver.

See also

Lasso

The Lasso is a linear model that estimates sparse coefficients with l1 regularization.

HuberRegressor

Linear regression model that is robust to outliers.

Examples

>>> from sklearn.linear_model import QuantileRegressor
>>> import numpy as np
>>> n_samples, n_features = 10, 2
>>> rng = np.random.RandomState(0)
>>> y = rng.randn(n_samples)
>>> X = rng.randn(n_samples, n_features)
>>> # the two following lines are optional in practice
>>> from sklearn.utils.fixes import sp_version, parse_version
>>> reg = QuantileRegressor(quantile=0.8).fit(X, y)
>>> np.mean(y <= reg.predict(X))
np.float64(0.8)

fit(X, y, sample_weight=None)[source]

Fit the model according to the given training data.

Parameters:

X{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Training data.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,)

Target values.

sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None

Sample weights.

Returns:

selfobject

Returns self.

get_metadata_routing()[source]

Get metadata routing of this object.

Please check User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.

Returns:

routingMetadataRequest

A MetadataRequest encapsulating routing information.

get_params(deep=True)[source]

Get parameters for this estimator.

Parameters:

deepbool, default=True

If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.

Returns:

paramsdict

Parameter names mapped to their values.

predict(X)[source]

Predict using the linear model.

Parameters:

Xarray-like or sparse matrix, shape (n_samples, n_features)

Samples.

Returns:

Carray, shape (n_samples,)

Returns predicted values.

score(X, y, sample_weight=None)[source]

Return the coefficient of determination of the prediction.

The coefficient of determination \(R^2\) is defined as \((1 - \frac{u}{v})\), where \(u\) is the residual sum of squares ((y_true - y_pred)** 2).sum() and \(v\) is the total sum of squares ((y_true - y_true.mean()) ** 2).sum(). The best possible score is 1.0 and it can be negative (because the model can be arbitrarily worse). A constant model that always predicts the expected value of y, disregarding the input features, would get a \(R^2\) score of 0.0.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Test samples. For some estimators this may be a precomputed kernel matrix or a list of generic objects instead with shape (n_samples, n_samples_fitted), where n_samples_fitted is the number of samples used in the fitting for the estimator.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs)

True values for X.

sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None

Sample weights.

Returns:

scorefloat

\(R^2\) of self.predict(X) w.r.t. y.

Notes

The \(R^2\) score used when calling score on a regressor uses multioutput='uniform_average' from version 0.23 to keep consistent with default value of r2_score. This influences the score method of all the multioutput regressors (except for MultiOutputRegressor).

set_fit_request(*, sample_weight:bool|None|str='$UNCHANGED$') → QuantileRegressor[source]

Request metadata passed to the fit method.

Note that this method is only relevant if enable_metadata_routing=True (see sklearn.set_config). Please see User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.

The options for each parameter are:

• True: metadata is requested, and passed to fit if provided. The request is ignored if metadata is not provided.
• False: metadata is not requested and the meta-estimator will not pass it to fit.
• None: metadata is not requested, and the meta-estimator will raise an error if the user provides it.
• str: metadata should be passed to the meta-estimator with this given alias instead of the original name.

The default (sklearn.utils.metadata_routing.UNCHANGED) retains the existing request. This allows you to change the request for some parameters and not others.

Added in version 1.3.

Note

This method is only relevant if this estimator is used as a sub-estimator of a meta-estimator, e.g. used inside a Pipeline. Otherwise it has no effect.

Parameters:

sample_weightstr, True, False, or None, default=sklearn.utils.metadata_routing.UNCHANGED

Metadata routing for sample_weight parameter in fit.

Returns:

selfobject

The updated object.

set_params(**params)[source]

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.

Parameters:

**paramsdict

Estimator parameters.

Returns:

selfestimator instance

Estimator instance.

set_score_request(*, sample_weight:bool|None|str='$UNCHANGED$') → QuantileRegressor[source]

Request metadata passed to the score method.

Note that this method is only relevant if enable_metadata_routing=True (see sklearn.set_config). Please see User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.

The options for each parameter are:

• True: metadata is requested, and passed to score if provided. The request is ignored if metadata is not provided.
• False: metadata is not requested and the meta-estimator will not pass it to score.
• None: metadata is not requested, and the meta-estimator will raise an error if the user provides it.
• str: metadata should be passed to the meta-estimator with this given alias instead of the original name.

The default (sklearn.utils.metadata_routing.UNCHANGED) retains the existing request. This allows you to change the request for some parameters and not others.

Added in version 1.3.

Note

This method is only relevant if this estimator is used as a sub-estimator of a meta-estimator, e.g. used inside a Pipeline. Otherwise it has no effect.

Parameters:

sample_weightstr, True, False, or None, default=sklearn.utils.metadata_routing.UNCHANGED

Metadata routing for sample_weight parameter in score.

Returns:

selfobject

The updated object.

Gallery examples

Quantile regression