iter_libsvm¶

Iterates over a dataset in LIBSVM format.

The LIBSVM format is a popular way in the machine learning community to store sparse datasets. Only numerical feature values are supported. The feature names will be considered as strings.

Parameters¶

filepath_or_buffer

Type → str

Either a string indicating the location of a file, or a buffer object that has a read method.
target_type

Default → <class 'float'>

The type of the target value.
compression

Default → infer

For on-the-fly decompression of on-disk data. If this is set to 'infer' and filepath_or_buffer is a path, then the decompression method is inferred for the following extensions: '.gz', '.zip'.

Examples¶

import io
from river import stream

data = io.StringIO('''+1 x:-134.26 y:0.2563
1 x:-12 z:0.3
-1 y:.25
''')

for x, y in stream.iter_libsvm(data, target_type=int):
    print(y, x)

1 {'x': -134.26, 'y': 0.2563}
1 {'x': -12.0, 'z': 0.3}
-1 {'y': 0.25}

LIBSVM documentation ↩