Lasso#

class sklearn.linear_model.Lasso(alpha=1.0, *, fit_intercept=True, precompute=False, copy_X=True, max_iter=1000, tol=0.0001, warm_start=False, positive=False, random_state=None, selection='cyclic')[source]#

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).

See also

lars_path: Regularization path using LARS.
lasso_path: Regularization path using Lasso.
LassoLars: Lasso Path along the regularization parameter using LARS algorithm.
LassoCV: Lasso alpha parameter by cross-validation.
LassoLarsCV: Lasso least angle parameter algorithm by cross-validation.
sklearn.decomposition.sparse_encode: Sparse coding array estimator.

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.

Regularization improves the conditioning of the problem and reduces the variance of the estimates. Larger values specify stronger regularization. Alpha corresponds to 1 / (2C) in other linear models such as LogisticRegression or LinearSVC. If an array is passed, penalties are assumed to be specific to the targets. Hence they must correspond in number.

The precise stopping criteria based on tol are the following: First, check that that maximum coordinate update, i.e. $\max_j |w_j^{new} - w_j^{old}|$ is smaller than tol times the maximum absolute coefficient, $\max_j |w_j|$. If so, then additionally check whether the dual gap is smaller than tol times $||y||_2^2 / n_{\text{samples}}$.

The target can be a 2-dimensional array, resulting in the optimization of the following objective:

(1 / (2 * n_samples)) * ||Y - XW||^2_F + alpha * ||W||_11

where $||W||_{1,1}$ is the sum of the magnitude of the matrix coefficients. It should not be confused with MultiTaskLasso which instead penalizes the $L_{2,1}$ norm of the coefficients, yielding row-wise sparsity in the coefficients.

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)
>>> print(clf.coef_)
[0.85 0.  ]
>>> print(clf.intercept_)
0.15...

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

Fit model with coordinate descent.

Parameters:

X{ndarray, sparse matrix, sparse array} of (n_samples, n_features)

Data.

Note that large sparse matrices and arrays requiring int64 indices are not accepted.

yndarray of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_targets)

Target. Will be cast to X’s dtype if necessary.

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

Sample weights. Internally, the sample_weight vector will be rescaled to sum to n_samples.

Added in version 0.23.

check_inputbool, default=True

Allow to bypass several input checking. Don’t use this parameter unless you know what you do.

Returns:

selfobject: Fitted estimator.

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_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.

static path(X, y, *, l1_ratio=0.5, 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, check_input=True, **params)[source]#

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.

See also

MultiTaskElasticNet: Multi-task ElasticNet model trained with L1/L2 mixed-norm as regularizer.
MultiTaskElasticNetCV: Multi-task L1/L2 ElasticNet with built-in cross-validation.
ElasticNet: Linear regression with combined L1 and L2 priors as regularizer.
ElasticNetCV: Elastic Net model with iterative fitting along a regularization path.

Notes

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

Examples

>>> from sklearn.linear_model import enet_path
>>> from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
>>> X, y, true_coef = make_regression(
...    n_samples=100, n_features=5, n_informative=2, coef=True, random_state=0
... )
>>> true_coef
array([ 0.        ,  0.        ,  0.        , 97.9..., 45.7...])
>>> alphas, estimated_coef, _ = enet_path(X, y, n_alphas=3)
>>> alphas.shape
(3,)
>>> estimated_coef
 array([[ 0.        ,  0.78...,  0.56...],
        [ 0.        ,  1.12...,  0.61...],
        [-0.        , -2.12..., -1.12...],
        [ 0.        , 23.04..., 88.93...],
        [ 0.        , 10.63..., 41.56...]])

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 = '$UNCHANGED$') → Lasso[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 = '$UNCHANGED$') → Lasso[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.

property sparse_coef_#: Sparse representation of the fitted coef_.

Gallery examples#

Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.4

Release Highlights for scikit-learn 0.23

Compressive sensing: tomography reconstruction with L1 prior (Lasso)

Joint feature selection with multi-task Lasso

L1-based models for Sparse Signals

Lasso on dense and sparse data

Ordinary Least Squares Example