`sklearn.linear_model`.Lasso¶

class sklearn.linear_model.Lasso(alpha=1.0, fit_intercept=True, normalize=False, precompute='auto', copy_X=True, max_iter=1000, tol=0.0001, warm_start=False, positive=False)¶

Linear Model trained with L1 prior as regularizer (aka the Lasso)

The optimization objective for Lasso is:

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

Technically the Lasso model is optimizing the same objective function as the Elastic Net with l1_ratio=1.0 (no L2 penalty).

Parameters:

alpha : float, optional

Constant that multiplies the L1 term. Defaults to 1.0. alpha = 0 is equivalent to an ordinary least square, solved by the LinearRegression object. For numerical reasons, using alpha = 0 is with the Lasso object is not advised and you should prefer the LinearRegression object.

fit_intercept : boolean

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

normalize : boolean, optional, default False

If True, the regressors X will be normalized before regression.

copy_X : boolean, optional, default True

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

precompute : True | False | ‘auto’ | array-like

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. For sparse input this option is always True to preserve sparsity.

max_iter : int, optional

The maximum number of iterations

tol : float, optional

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.

warm_start : bool, optional

When set to True, reuse the solution of the previous call to fit as initialization, otherwise, just erase the previous solution.

positive : bool, optional

When set to True, forces the coefficients to be positive.

Attributes:

``coef_`` : array, shape = (n_features,) | (n_targets, n_features)

parameter vector (w in the cost function formula)

``sparse_coef_`` : scipy.sparse matrix, shape = (n_features, 1) | (n_targets, n_features)

sparse_coef_ is a readonly property derived from coef_

``intercept_`` : float | array, shape = (n_targets,)

independent term in decision function.

Notes

The algorithm used to fit the model is coordinate descent.

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

Examples

>>> from sklearn import linear_model
>>> clf = linear_model.Lasso(alpha=0.1)
>>> clf.fit([[0,0], [1, 1], [2, 2]], [0, 1, 2])
Lasso(alpha=0.1, copy_X=True, fit_intercept=True, max_iter=1000,
   normalize=False, positive=False, precompute='auto', tol=0.0001,
   warm_start=False)
>>> print(clf.coef_)
[ 0.85  0.  ]
>>> print(clf.intercept_)
0.15

Methods

`decision_function`(X)	Decision function of the linear model
`fit`(X, y)	Fit model with coordinate descent.
`get_params`([deep])	Get parameters for this estimator.
`path`(X, y[, l1_ratio, eps, n_alphas, ...])	Compute elastic net path with coordinate descent
`predict`(X)	Predict using the linear model
`score`(X, y[, sample_weight])	Returns the coefficient of determination R^2 of the prediction.
`set_params`(**params)	Set the parameters of this estimator.

__init__(alpha=1.0, fit_intercept=True, normalize=False, precompute='auto', copy_X=True, max_iter=1000, tol=0.0001, warm_start=False, positive=False)¶

decision_function(X)¶

Decision function of the linear model

Parameters:

X : numpy array or scipy.sparse matrix of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Returns:

T : array, shape = (n_samples,)

The predicted decision function

fit(X, y)¶

Fit model with coordinate descent.

Parameters:

X : ndarray or scipy.sparse matrix, (n_samples, n_features)

Data

y : ndarray, shape = (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_targets)

Target

Notes

Coordinate descent is an algorithm that considers each column of data at a time hence it will automatically convert the X input as a Fortran-contiguous numpy array if necessary.

To avoid memory re-allocation it is advised to allocate the initial data in memory directly using that format.

get_params(deep=True)¶

Get parameters for this estimator.

Parameters:

deep: boolean, optional :

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

Returns:

params : mapping of string to any

Parameter names mapped to their values.

static path(X, y, l1_ratio=0.5, eps=0.001, n_alphas=100, alphas=None, precompute='auto', Xy=None, fit_intercept=True, normalize=False, copy_X=True, coef_init=None, verbose=False, return_models=False, **params)¶

Compute elastic net path with coordinate descent

The elastic net optimization function varies for mono and multi-outputs.

For mono-output tasks it is:

1 / (2 * n_samples) * ||y - Xw||^2_2 +
+ alpha * l1_ratio * ||w||_1
+ 0.5 * alpha * (1 - l1_ratio) * ||w||^2_2

For multi-output tasks it is:

(1 / (2 * n_samples)) * ||Y - XW||^Fro_2
+ alpha * l1_ratio * ||W||_21
+ 0.5 * alpha * (1 - l1_ratio) * ||W||_Fro^2

Where:

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

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

Parameters:

X : {array-like}, 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 : ndarray, shape = (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs)

Target values

l1_ratio : float, optional

float between 0 and 1 passed to elastic net (scaling between l1 and l2 penalties). l1_ratio=1 corresponds to the Lasso

eps : float

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

n_alphas : int, optional

Number of alphas along the regularization path

alphas : ndarray, optional

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

precompute : True | False | ‘auto’ | array-like

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.

Xy : array-like, optional

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

fit_intercept : bool

Fit or not an intercept. WARNING : deprecated, will be removed in 0.16.

normalize : boolean, optional, default False

If True, the regressors X will be normalized before regression. WARNING : deprecated, will be removed in 0.16.

copy_X : boolean, optional, default True

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

coef_init : array, shape (n_features, ) | None

The initial values of the coefficients.

verbose : bool or integer

Amount of verbosity.

return_models : boolean, optional, default False

If True, the function will return list of models. Setting it to False will change the function output returning the values of the alphas and the coefficients along the path. Returning the model list will be removed in version 0.16.

params : kwargs