sklearn.linear_model.LassoCV

class sklearn.linear_model.LassoCV(*, eps=0.001, n_alphas=100, alphas=None, fit_intercept=True, precompute='auto', max_iter=1000, tol=0.0001, copy_X=True, cv=None, verbose=False, n_jobs=None, positive=False, random_state=None, selection='cyclic')[source]

Lasso linear model with iterative fitting along a regularization path.

See glossary entry for cross-validation estimator.

The best model is selected by cross-validation.

The optimization objective for Lasso is:

(1 / (2 * n_samples)) * ||y - Xw||^2_2 + alpha * ||w||_1

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters:
epsfloat, default=1e-3

Length of the path. eps=1e-3 means that alpha_min / alpha_max = 1e-3.

n_alphasint, default=100

Number of alphas along the regularization path.

alphasarray-like, default=None

List of alphas where to compute the models. If None alphas are set automatically.

fit_interceptbool, default=True

Whether to calculate the intercept for this model. If set to false, no intercept will be used in calculations (i.e. data is expected to be centered).

precompute‘auto’, bool or array-like of shape (n_features, n_features), default=’auto’

Whether to use a precomputed Gram matrix to speed up calculations. If set to 'auto' let us decide. The Gram matrix can also be passed as argument.

max_iterint, default=1000

The maximum number of iterations.

tolfloat, default=1e-4

The tolerance for the optimization: if the updates are smaller than tol, the optimization code checks the dual gap for optimality and continues until it is smaller than tol.

copy_Xbool, default=True

If True, X will be copied; else, it may be overwritten.

cvint, cross-validation generator or iterable, default=None

Determines the cross-validation splitting strategy. Possible inputs for cv are:

  • None, to use the default 5-fold cross-validation,

  • int, to specify the number of folds.

  • CV splitter,

  • An iterable yielding (train, test) splits as arrays of indices.

For int/None inputs, KFold is used.

Refer User Guide for the various cross-validation strategies that can be used here.

Changed in version 0.22: cv default value if None changed from 3-fold to 5-fold.

verbosebool or int, default=False

Amount of verbosity.

n_jobsint, default=None

Number of CPUs to use during the cross validation. None means 1 unless in a joblib.parallel_backend context. -1 means using all processors. See Glossary for more details.

positivebool, default=False

If positive, restrict regression coefficients to be positive.

random_stateint, RandomState instance, default=None

The seed of the pseudo random number generator that selects a random feature to update. Used when selection == ‘random’. Pass an int for reproducible output across multiple function calls. See Glossary.

selection{‘cyclic’, ‘random’}, default=’cyclic’

If set to ‘random’, a random coefficient is updated every iteration rather than looping over features sequentially by default. This (setting to ‘random’) often leads to significantly faster convergence especially when tol is higher than 1e-4.

Attributes:
alpha_float

The amount of penalization chosen by cross validation.

coef_ndarray of shape (n_features,) or (n_targets, n_features)

Parameter vector (w in the cost function formula).

intercept_float or ndarray of shape (n_targets,)

Independent term in decision function.

mse_path_ndarray of shape (n_alphas, n_folds)

Mean square error for the test set on each fold, varying alpha.

alphas_ndarray of shape (n_alphas,)

The grid of alphas used for fitting.

dual_gap_float or ndarray of shape (n_targets,)

The dual gap at the end of the optimization for the optimal alpha (alpha_).

n_iter_int

Number of iterations run by the coordinate descent solver to reach the specified tolerance for the optimal alpha.

n_features_in_int

Number of features seen during fit.

New 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.

New in version 1.0.

See also

lars_path

Compute Least Angle Regression or Lasso path using LARS algorithm.

lasso_path

Compute Lasso path with coordinate descent.

Lasso

The Lasso is a linear model that estimates sparse coefficients.

LassoLars

Lasso model fit with Least Angle Regression a.k.a. Lars.

LassoCV

Lasso linear model with iterative fitting along a regularization path.

LassoLarsCV

Cross-validated Lasso using the LARS algorithm.

Notes

In fit, once the best parameter alpha is found through cross-validation, the model is fit again using the entire training set.

To avoid unnecessary memory duplication the X argument of the fit method should be directly passed as a Fortran-contiguous numpy array.

LassoCV leads to different results than a hyperparameter search using GridSearchCV with a Lasso model. In LassoCV, a model for a given penalty alpha is warm started using the coefficients of the closest model (trained at the previous iteration) on the regularization path. It tends to speed up the hyperparameter search.

Examples

>>> from sklearn.linear_model import LassoCV
>>> from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
>>> X, y = make_regression(noise=4, random_state=0)
>>> reg = LassoCV(cv=5, random_state=0).fit(X, y)
>>> reg.score(X, y)
0.9993...
>>> reg.predict(X[:1,])
array([-78.4951...])

Methods

fit(X, y[, sample_weight])

Fit linear model with coordinate descent.

get_metadata_routing()

Get metadata routing of this object.

get_params([deep])

Get parameters for this estimator.

path(X, y, *[, eps, n_alphas, alphas, ...])

Compute Lasso path with coordinate descent.

predict(X)

Predict using the linear model.

score(X, y[, sample_weight])

Return the coefficient of determination of the prediction.

set_fit_request(*[, sample_weight])

Request metadata passed to the fit method.

set_params(**params)

Set the parameters of this estimator.

set_score_request(*[, sample_weight])

Request metadata passed to the score method.

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

Fit linear model with coordinate descent.

Fit is on grid of alphas and best alpha estimated by cross-validation.

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

Training data. Pass directly as Fortran-contiguous data to avoid unnecessary memory duplication. If y is mono-output, X can be sparse.

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

Target values.

sample_weightfloat or array-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None

Sample weights used for fitting and evaluation of the weighted mean squared error of each cv-fold. Note that the cross validated MSE that is finally used to find the best model is the unweighted mean over the (weighted) MSEs of each test fold.

**paramsdict, default=None

Parameters to be passed to the CV splitter.

New in version 1.4: Only available if enable_metadata_routing=True, which can be set by using sklearn.set_config(enable_metadata_routing=True). See Metadata Routing User Guide for more details.

Returns:
selfobject

Returns an instance of fitted model.

get_metadata_routing()[source]

Get metadata routing of this object.

Please check User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.

New in version 1.4.

Returns:
routingMetadataRouter

A MetadataRouter 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.

static path(X, y, *, eps=0.001, n_alphas=100, alphas=None, precompute='auto', Xy=None, copy_X=True, coef_init=None, verbose=False, return_n_iter=False, positive=False, **params)[source]

Compute Lasso path with coordinate descent.

The Lasso optimization function varies for mono and multi-outputs.

For mono-output tasks it is:

(1 / (2 * n_samples)) * ||y - Xw||^2_2 + alpha * ||w||_1

For multi-output tasks it is:

(1 / (2 * n_samples)) * ||Y - XW||^2_Fro + alpha * ||W||_21

Where:

||W||_21 = \sum_i \sqrt{\sum_j w_{ij}^2}

i.e. the sum of norm of each row.

Read more in the User Guide.

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

Training data. Pass directly as Fortran-contiguous data to avoid unnecessary memory duplication. If y is mono-output then X can be sparse.

y{array-like, sparse matrix} of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_targets)

Target values.

epsfloat, default=1e-3

Length of the path. eps=1e-3 means that alpha_min / alpha_max = 1e-3.

n_alphasint, default=100

Number of alphas along the regularization path.

alphasarray-like, default=None

List of alphas where to compute the models. If None alphas are set automatically.

precompute‘auto’, bool or array-like of shape (n_features, n_features), default=’auto’

Whether to use a precomputed Gram matrix to speed up calculations. If set to 'auto' let us decide. The Gram matrix can also be passed as argument.

Xyarray-like of shape (n_features,) or (n_features, n_targets), default=None

Xy = np.dot(X.T, y) that can be precomputed. It is useful only when the Gram matrix is precomputed.

copy_Xbool, default=True

If True, X will be copied; else, it may be overwritten.

coef_initarray-like of shape (n_features, ), default=None

The initial values of the coefficients.

verbosebool or int, default=False

Amount of verbosity.

return_n_iterbool, default=False

Whether to return the number of iterations or not.

positivebool, default=False

If set to True, forces coefficients to be positive. (Only allowed when y.ndim == 1).

**paramskwargs

Keyword arguments passed to the coordinate descent solver.

Returns:
alphasndarray of shape (n_alphas,)

The alphas along the path where models are computed.

coefsndarray of shape (n_features, n_alphas) or (n_targets, n_features, n_alphas)

Coefficients along the path.

dual_gapsndarray of shape (n_alphas,)

The dual gaps at the end of the optimization for each alpha.

n_iterslist of int

The number of iterations taken by the coordinate descent optimizer to reach the specified tolerance for each alpha.

See also

lars_path

Compute Least Angle Regression or Lasso path using LARS algorithm.

Lasso

The Lasso is a linear model that estimates sparse coefficients.

LassoLars

Lasso model fit with Least Angle Regression a.k.a. Lars.

LassoCV

Lasso linear model with iterative fitting along a regularization path.

LassoLarsCV

Cross-validated Lasso using the LARS algorithm.

sklearn.decomposition.sparse_encode

Estimator that can be used to transform signals into sparse linear combination of atoms from a fixed.

Notes

For an example, see examples/linear_model/plot_lasso_coordinate_descent_path.py.

To avoid unnecessary memory duplication the X argument of the fit method should be directly passed as a Fortran-contiguous numpy array.

Note that in certain cases, the Lars solver may be significantly faster to implement this functionality. In particular, linear interpolation can be used to retrieve model coefficients between the values output by lars_path

Examples

Comparing lasso_path and lars_path with interpolation:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.linear_model import lasso_path
>>> X = np.array([[1, 2, 3.1], [2.3, 5.4, 4.3]]).T
>>> y = np.array([1, 2, 3.1])
>>> # Use lasso_path to compute a coefficient path
>>> _, coef_path, _ = lasso_path(X, y, alphas=[5., 1., .5])
>>> print(coef_path)
[[0.         0.         0.46874778]
 [0.2159048  0.4425765  0.23689075]]
>>> # Now use lars_path and 1D linear interpolation to compute the
>>> # same path
>>> from sklearn.linear_model import lars_path
>>> alphas, active, coef_path_lars = lars_path(X, y, method='lasso')
>>> from scipy import interpolate
>>> coef_path_continuous = interpolate.interp1d(alphas[::-1],
...                                             coef_path_lars[:, ::-1])
>>> print(coef_path_continuous([5., 1., .5]))
[[0.         0.         0.46915237]
 [0.2159048  0.4425765  0.23668876]]
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 = '$UNCHANGED$') LassoCV[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.

New 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 = '$UNCHANGED$') LassoCV[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.

New 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.

Examples using sklearn.linear_model.LassoCV

Combine predictors using stacking

Combine predictors using stacking

L1-based models for Sparse Signals

L1-based models for Sparse Signals

Lasso model selection: AIC-BIC / cross-validation

Lasso model selection: AIC-BIC / cross-validation

Common pitfalls in the interpretation of coefficients of linear models

Common pitfalls in the interpretation of coefficients of linear models

Cross-validation on diabetes Dataset Exercise

Cross-validation on diabetes Dataset Exercise