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Homogeneity

Homogeneity Score.

Homogeneity metric 1 of a cluster labeling given a ground truth.

In order to satisfy the homogeneity criteria, a clustering must assign only those data points that are members of a single class to a single cluster. That is, the class distribution within each cluster should be skewed to a single class, that is, zero entropy. We determine how close a given clustering is to this ideal by examining the conditional entropy of the class distribution given the proposed clustering.

However, in an imperfect situation, the size of this value is dependent on the size of the dataset and the distribution of class sizes. Therefore, instead of taking the raw conditional entropy, we normalize by the maximum reduction in entropy the clustering information could provide.

As such, we define homogeneity as:

\[ h = \begin{cases} 1 if H(C) = 0, \\ 1 - \frac{H(C|K)}{H(C)} otherwise. \end{cases}. \]

Parameters

  • cm

    Default → 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.Homogeneity()
for yt, yp in zip(y_true, y_pred):
    metric.update(yt, yp)
    print(metric.get())

1.0
1.0
0.0
0.311278
0.37515
0.42062


metric

Homogeneity: 42.06%

Methods

get

Return the current value of the metric.

is_better_than

Indicate if the current metric is better than another one.

Parameters

  • other

revert

Revert the metric.

Parameters

  • y_true
  • y_pred
  • w — defaults to 1.0

update

Update the metric.

Parameters

  • y_true
  • y_pred
  • w — defaults to 1.0

works_with

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

Parameters

  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. ↩