sklearn.feature_extraction.text.HashingVectorizer

class sklearn.feature_extraction.text.HashingVectorizer(*, input='content', encoding='utf-8', decode_error='strict', strip_accents=None, lowercase=True, preprocessor=None, tokenizer=None, stop_words=None, token_pattern='(?u)\b\w\w+\b', ngram_range=(1, 1), analyzer='word', n_features=1048576, binary=False, norm='l2', alternate_sign=True, dtype=<class 'numpy.float64'>)[source]

Convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of token occurrences

It turns a collection of text documents into a scipy.sparse matrix holding token occurrence counts (or binary occurrence information), possibly normalized as token frequencies if norm=’l1’ or projected on the euclidean unit sphere if norm=’l2’.

This text vectorizer implementation uses the hashing trick to find the token string name to feature integer index mapping.

This strategy has several advantages:

  • it is very low memory scalable to large datasets as there is no need to store a vocabulary dictionary in memory

  • it is fast to pickle and un-pickle as it holds no state besides the constructor parameters

  • it can be used in a streaming (partial fit) or parallel pipeline as there is no state computed during fit.

There are also a couple of cons (vs using a CountVectorizer with an in-memory vocabulary):

  • there is no way to compute the inverse transform (from feature indices to string feature names) which can be a problem when trying to introspect which features are most important to a model.

  • there can be collisions: distinct tokens can be mapped to the same feature index. However in practice this is rarely an issue if n_features is large enough (e.g. 2 ** 18 for text classification problems).

  • no IDF weighting as this would render the transformer stateful.

The hash function employed is the signed 32-bit version of Murmurhash3.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters
inputstring {‘filename’, ‘file’, ‘content’}, default=’content’

If ‘filename’, the sequence passed as an argument to fit is expected to be a list of filenames that need reading to fetch the raw content to analyze.

If ‘file’, the sequence items must have a ‘read’ method (file-like object) that is called to fetch the bytes in memory.

Otherwise the input is expected to be a sequence of items that can be of type string or byte.

encodingstring, default=’utf-8’

If bytes or files are given to analyze, this encoding is used to decode.

decode_error{‘strict’, ‘ignore’, ‘replace’}, default=’strict’

Instruction on what to do if a byte sequence is given to analyze that contains characters not of the given encoding. By default, it is ‘strict’, meaning that a UnicodeDecodeError will be raised. Other values are ‘ignore’ and ‘replace’.

strip_accents{‘ascii’, ‘unicode’}, default=None

Remove accents and perform other character normalization during the preprocessing step. ‘ascii’ is a fast method that only works on characters that have an direct ASCII mapping. ‘unicode’ is a slightly slower method that works on any characters. None (default) does nothing.

Both ‘ascii’ and ‘unicode’ use NFKD normalization from unicodedata.normalize.

lowercasebool, default=True

Convert all characters to lowercase before tokenizing.

preprocessorcallable, default=None

Override the preprocessing (string transformation) stage while preserving the tokenizing and n-grams generation steps. Only applies if analyzer is not callable.

tokenizercallable, default=None

Override the string tokenization step while preserving the preprocessing and n-grams generation steps. Only applies if analyzer == 'word'.

stop_wordsstring {‘english’}, list, default=None

If ‘english’, a built-in stop word list for English is used. There are several known issues with ‘english’ and you should consider an alternative (see Using stop words).

If a list, that list is assumed to contain stop words, all of which will be removed from the resulting tokens. Only applies if analyzer == 'word'.

token_patternstring

Regular expression denoting what constitutes a “token”, only used if analyzer == 'word'. The default regexp selects tokens of 2 or more alphanumeric characters (punctuation is completely ignored and always treated as a token separator).

ngram_rangetuple (min_n, max_n), default=(1, 1)

The lower and upper boundary of the range of n-values for different n-grams to be extracted. All values of n such that min_n <= n <= max_n will be used. For example an ngram_range of (1, 1) means only unigrams, (1, 2) means unigrams and bigrams, and (2, 2) means only bigrams. Only applies if analyzer is not callable.

analyzerstring, {‘word’, ‘char’, ‘char_wb’} or callable, default=’word’

Whether the feature should be made of word or character n-grams. Option ‘char_wb’ creates character n-grams only from text inside word boundaries; n-grams at the edges of words are padded with space.

If a callable is passed it is used to extract the sequence of features out of the raw, unprocessed input.

Changed in version 0.21.

Since v0.21, if input is filename or file, the data is first read from the file and then passed to the given callable analyzer.

n_featuresint, default=(2 ** 20)

The number of features (columns) in the output matrices. Small numbers of features are likely to cause hash collisions, but large numbers will cause larger coefficient dimensions in linear learners.

binarybool, default=False.

If True, all non zero counts are set to 1. This is useful for discrete probabilistic models that model binary events rather than integer counts.

norm{‘l1’, ‘l2’}, default=’l2’

Norm used to normalize term vectors. None for no normalization.

alternate_signbool, default=True

When True, an alternating sign is added to the features as to approximately conserve the inner product in the hashed space even for small n_features. This approach is similar to sparse random projection.

New in version 0.19.

dtypetype, default=np.float64

Type of the matrix returned by fit_transform() or transform().

See also

CountVectorizer, TfidfVectorizer

Examples

>>> from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import HashingVectorizer
>>> corpus = [
...     'This is the first document.',
...     'This document is the second document.',
...     'And this is the third one.',
...     'Is this the first document?',
... ]
>>> vectorizer = HashingVectorizer(n_features=2**4)
>>> X = vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus)
>>> print(X.shape)
(4, 16)

Methods

build_analyzer()

Return a callable that handles preprocessing, tokenization and n-grams generation.

build_preprocessor()

Return a function to preprocess the text before tokenization.

build_tokenizer()

Return a function that splits a string into a sequence of tokens.

decode(doc)

Decode the input into a string of unicode symbols.

fit(X[, y])

Does nothing: this transformer is stateless.

fit_transform(X[, y])

Transform a sequence of documents to a document-term matrix.

get_params([deep])

Get parameters for this estimator.

get_stop_words()

Build or fetch the effective stop words list.

partial_fit(X[, y])

Does nothing: this transformer is stateless.

set_params(**params)

Set the parameters of this estimator.

transform(X)

Transform a sequence of documents to a document-term matrix.
__init__(*, input='content', encoding='utf-8', decode_error='strict', strip_accents=None, lowercase=True, preprocessor=None, tokenizer=None, stop_words=None, token_pattern='(?u)\\b\\w\\w+\\b', ngram_range=(1, 1), analyzer='word', n_features=1048576, binary=False, norm='l2', alternate_sign=True, dtype=<class 'numpy.float64'>)[source]

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

build_analyzer()[source]

Return a callable that handles preprocessing, tokenization and n-grams generation.

Returns
analyzer: callable

A function to handle preprocessing, tokenization and n-grams generation.

build_preprocessor()[source]

Return a function to preprocess the text before tokenization.

Returns
preprocessor: callable

A function to preprocess the text before tokenization.

build_tokenizer()[source]

Return a function that splits a string into a sequence of tokens.

Returns
tokenizer: callable

A function to split a string into a sequence of tokens.

decode(doc)[source]

Decode the input into a string of unicode symbols.

The decoding strategy depends on the vectorizer parameters.

Parameters
docstr

The string to decode.

Returns
doc: str

A string of unicode symbols.

fit(X, y=None)[source]

Does nothing: this transformer is stateless.

Parameters
Xndarray of shape [n_samples, n_features]

Training data.

fit_transform(X, y=None)[source]

Transform a sequence of documents to a document-term matrix.

Parameters
Xiterable over raw text documents, length = n_samples

Samples. Each sample must be a text document (either bytes or unicode strings, file name or file object depending on the constructor argument) which will be tokenized and hashed.

yany

Ignored. This parameter exists only for compatibility with sklearn.pipeline.Pipeline.

Returns
Xsparse matrix of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Document-term matrix.

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
paramsmapping of string to any

Parameter names mapped to their values.

get_stop_words()[source]

Build or fetch the effective stop words list.

Returns
stop_words: list or None

A list of stop words.

partial_fit(X, y=None)[source]

Does nothing: this transformer is stateless.

This method is just there to mark the fact that this transformer can work in a streaming setup.

Parameters
Xndarray of shape [n_samples, n_features]

Training data.

set_params(**params)[source]

Set the parameters of this estimator.

The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as pipelines). 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
selfobject

Estimator instance.

transform(X)[source]

Transform a sequence of documents to a document-term matrix.

Parameters
Xiterable over raw text documents, length = n_samples

Samples. Each sample must be a text document (either bytes or unicode strings, file name or file object depending on the constructor argument) which will be tokenized and hashed.

Returns
Xsparse matrix of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Document-term matrix.

Examples using sklearn.feature_extraction.text.HashingVectorizer