# sklearn.decomposition.IncrementalPCA¶

class sklearn.decomposition.IncrementalPCA(n_components=None, *, whiten=False, copy=True, batch_size=None)[source]

Incremental principal components analysis (IPCA).

Linear dimensionality reduction using Singular Value Decomposition of the data, keeping only the most significant singular vectors to project the data to a lower dimensional space. The input data is centered but not scaled for each feature before applying the SVD.

Depending on the size of the input data, this algorithm can be much more memory efficient than a PCA, and allows sparse input.

This algorithm has constant memory complexity, on the order of batch_size * n_features, enabling use of np.memmap files without loading the entire file into memory. For sparse matrices, the input is converted to dense in batches (in order to be able to subtract the mean) which avoids storing the entire dense matrix at any one time.

The computational overhead of each SVD is O(batch_size * n_features ** 2), but only 2 * batch_size samples remain in memory at a time. There will be n_samples / batch_size SVD computations to get the principal components, versus 1 large SVD of complexity O(n_samples * n_features ** 2) for PCA.

Read more in the User Guide.

New in version 0.16.

Parameters:
n_componentsint, default=None

Number of components to keep. If n_components is None, then n_components is set to min(n_samples, n_features).

whitenbool, default=False

When True (False by default) the components_ vectors are divided by n_samples times components_ to ensure uncorrelated outputs with unit component-wise variances.

Whitening will remove some information from the transformed signal (the relative variance scales of the components) but can sometimes improve the predictive accuracy of the downstream estimators by making data respect some hard-wired assumptions.

copybool, default=True

If False, X will be overwritten. copy=False can be used to save memory but is unsafe for general use.

batch_sizeint, default=None

The number of samples to use for each batch. Only used when calling fit. If batch_size is None, then batch_size is inferred from the data and set to 5 * n_features, to provide a balance between approximation accuracy and memory consumption.

Attributes:
components_ndarray of shape (n_components, n_features)

Principal axes in feature space, representing the directions of maximum variance in the data. Equivalently, the right singular vectors of the centered input data, parallel to its eigenvectors. The components are sorted by decreasing explained_variance_.

explained_variance_ndarray of shape (n_components,)

Variance explained by each of the selected components.

explained_variance_ratio_ndarray of shape (n_components,)

Percentage of variance explained by each of the selected components. If all components are stored, the sum of explained variances is equal to 1.0.

singular_values_ndarray of shape (n_components,)

The singular values corresponding to each of the selected components. The singular values are equal to the 2-norms of the n_components variables in the lower-dimensional space.

mean_ndarray of shape (n_features,)

Per-feature empirical mean, aggregate over calls to partial_fit.

var_ndarray of shape (n_features,)

Per-feature empirical variance, aggregate over calls to partial_fit.

noise_variance_float

The estimated noise covariance following the Probabilistic PCA model from Tipping and Bishop 1999. See “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by C. Bishop, 12.2.1 p. 574 or http://www.miketipping.com/papers/met-mppca.pdf.

n_components_int

The estimated number of components. Relevant when n_components=None.

n_samples_seen_int

The number of samples processed by the estimator. Will be reset on new calls to fit, but increments across partial_fit calls.

batch_size_int

Inferred batch size from batch_size.

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.

PCA

Principal component analysis (PCA).

KernelPCA

Kernel Principal component analysis (KPCA).

SparsePCA

Sparse Principal Components Analysis (SparsePCA).

TruncatedSVD

Dimensionality reduction using truncated SVD.

Notes

Implements the incremental PCA model from: D. Ross, J. Lim, R. Lin, M. Yang, Incremental Learning for Robust Visual Tracking, International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 77, Issue 1-3, pp. 125-141, May 2008. See https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dross/ivt/RossLimLinYang_ijcv.pdf

This model is an extension of the Sequential Karhunen-Loeve Transform from: A. Levy and M. Lindenbaum, Sequential Karhunen-Loeve Basis Extraction and its Application to Images, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 9, Number 8, pp. 1371-1374, August 2000.

We have specifically abstained from an optimization used by authors of both papers, a QR decomposition used in specific situations to reduce the algorithmic complexity of the SVD. The source for this technique is Matrix Computations, Third Edition, G. Holub and C. Van Loan, Chapter 5, section 5.4.4, pp 252-253.. This technique has been omitted because it is advantageous only when decomposing a matrix with n_samples (rows) >= 5/3 * n_features (columns), and hurts the readability of the implemented algorithm. This would be a good opportunity for future optimization, if it is deemed necessary.

References

D. Ross, J. Lim, R. Lin, M. Yang. Incremental Learning for Robust Visual Tracking, International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 77, Issue 1-3, pp. 125-141, May 2008.

G. Golub and C. Van Loan. Matrix Computations, Third Edition, Chapter 5, Section 5.4.4, pp. 252-253.

Examples

>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
>>> from sklearn.decomposition import IncrementalPCA
>>> from scipy import sparse
>>> transformer = IncrementalPCA(n_components=7, batch_size=200)
>>> # either partially fit on smaller batches of data
>>> transformer.partial_fit(X[:100, :])
IncrementalPCA(batch_size=200, n_components=7)
>>> # or let the fit function itself divide the data into batches
>>> X_sparse = sparse.csr_matrix(X)
>>> X_transformed = transformer.fit_transform(X_sparse)
>>> X_transformed.shape
(1797, 7)


Methods

 fit(X[, y]) Fit the model with X, using minibatches of size batch_size. fit_transform(X[, y]) Fit to data, then transform it. Compute data covariance with the generative model. get_feature_names_out([input_features]) Get output feature names for transformation. get_params([deep]) Get parameters for this estimator. Compute data precision matrix with the generative model. Transform data back to its original space. partial_fit(X[, y, check_input]) Incremental fit with X. set_output(*[, transform]) Set output container. set_params(**params) Set the parameters of this estimator. Apply dimensionality reduction to X.
fit(X, y=None)[source]

Fit the model with X, using minibatches of size batch_size.

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

Training data, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

yIgnored

Not used, present for API consistency by convention.

Returns:
selfobject

Returns the instance itself.

fit_transform(X, y=None, **fit_params)[source]

Fit to data, then transform it.

Fits transformer to X and y with optional parameters fit_params and returns a transformed version of X.

Parameters:
Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Input samples.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs), default=None

Target values (None for unsupervised transformations).

**fit_paramsdict

Returns:
X_newndarray array of shape (n_samples, n_features_new)

Transformed array.

get_covariance()[source]

Compute data covariance with the generative model.

cov = components_.T * S**2 * components_ + sigma2 * eye(n_features) where S**2 contains the explained variances, and sigma2 contains the noise variances.

Returns:
covarray of shape=(n_features, n_features)

Estimated covariance of data.

get_feature_names_out(input_features=None)[source]

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"].

Parameters:
input_featuresarray-like of str or None, default=None

Only used to validate feature names with the names seen in fit.

Returns:
feature_names_outndarray of str objects

Transformed feature names.

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.

get_precision()[source]

Compute data precision matrix with the generative model.

Equals the inverse of the covariance but computed with the matrix inversion lemma for efficiency.

Returns:
precisionarray, shape=(n_features, n_features)

Estimated precision of data.

inverse_transform(X)[source]

Transform data back to its original space.

In other words, return an input X_original whose transform would be X.

Parameters:
Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_components)

New data, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_components is the number of components.

Returns:
X_original array-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Original data, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

Notes

If whitening is enabled, inverse_transform will compute the exact inverse operation, which includes reversing whitening.

partial_fit(X, y=None, check_input=True)[source]

Incremental fit with X. All of X is processed as a single batch.

Parameters:
Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Training data, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

yIgnored

Not used, present for API consistency by convention.

check_inputbool, default=True

Run check_array on X.

Returns:
selfobject

Returns the instance itself.

set_output(*, transform=None)[source]

Set output container.

See Introducing the set_output API for an example on how to use the API.

Parameters:
transform{“default”, “pandas”}, default=None

Configure output of transform and fit_transform.

• "default": Default output format of a transformer

• "pandas": DataFrame output

• None: Transform configuration is unchanged

Returns:
selfestimator instance

Estimator instance.

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.

transform(X)[source]

Apply dimensionality reduction to X.

X is projected on the first principal components previously extracted from a training set, using minibatches of size batch_size if X is sparse.

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

New data, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.

Returns:
X_newndarray of shape (n_samples, n_components)

Projection of X in the first principal components.

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.decomposition import IncrementalPCA
>>> X = np.array([[-1, -1], [-2, -1], [-3, -2],
...               [1, 1], [2, 1], [3, 2]])
>>> ipca = IncrementalPCA(n_components=2, batch_size=3)
>>> ipca.fit(X)
IncrementalPCA(batch_size=3, n_components=2)
>>> ipca.transform(X)


Incremental PCA

Incremental PCA