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VBeta

VBeta.

VBeta (or V-Measure) 1 is an external entropy-based cluster evaluation measure. It provides an elegant solution to many problems that affect previously defined cluster evaluation measures including

  • Dependance of clustering algorithm or dataset,

  • The "problem of matching", where the clustering of only a portion of data points are evaluated, and

  • Accurate evaluation and combination of two desirable aspects of clustering, homogeneity and completeness.

Based upon the calculations of homogeneity and completeness, a clustering solution's V-measure is calculated by computing the weighted harmonic mean of homogeneity and completeness,

\[ V_{\beta} = \frac{(1 + \beta) \times h \times c}{\beta \times h + c}. \]

Parameters

  • beta (float) – defaults to 1.0

    Weight of Homogeneity in the harmonic mean.

  • cm – defaults to None

    This parameter allows sharing the same confusion matrix between multiple metrics. Sharing a confusion matrix reduces the amount of storage and computation time.

Attributes

  • bigger_is_better

    Indicate if a high value is better than a low one or not.

  • requires_labels

    Indicates if labels are required, rather than probabilities.

  • works_with_weights

    Indicate whether the model takes into consideration the effect of sample weights

Examples

>>> from river import metrics

>>> y_true = [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3]
>>> y_pred = [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2]

>>> metric = metrics.VBeta(beta=1.0)
>>> for yt, yp in zip(y_true, y_pred):
...     print(metric.update(yt, yp).get())
1.0
1.0
0.0
0.3437110184854507
0.4580652856440158
0.5158037429793888

>>> metric
VBeta: 51.58%

Methods

clone

Return a fresh estimator with the same parameters.

The clone has the same parameters but has not been updated with any data. This works by looking at the parameters from the class signature. Each parameter is either - recursively cloned if it's a River classes. - deep-copied via copy.deepcopy if not. If the calling object is stochastic (i.e. it accepts a seed parameter) and has not been seeded, then the clone will not be idempotent. Indeed, this method's purpose if simply to return a new instance with the same input parameters.

get

Return the current value of the metric.

is_better_than
revert

Revert the metric.

Parameters

  • y_true
  • y_pred
  • sample_weight – defaults to 1.0
update

Update the metric.

Parameters

  • y_true
  • y_pred
  • sample_weight – defaults to 1.0
works_with

Indicates whether or not a metric can work with a given model.

Parameters

  • model (river.base.estimator.Estimator)

References

  1. Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg (2007). V-Measure: A conditional entropy-based external cluster evaluation measure. Proceedings of the 2007 Joing Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pp. 410 - 420, Prague, June 2007. ↩