DummyClassifier

class sklearn.dummy.DummyClassifier(*, strategy='prior', random_state=None, constant=None)

DummyClassifier makes predictions that ignore the input features.

This classifier serves as a simple baseline to compare against other more complex classifiers.

The specific behavior of the baseline is selected with the strategy parameter.

All strategies make predictions that ignore the input feature values passed as the X argument to fit and predict. The predictions, however, typically depend on values observed in the y parameter passed to fit.

Note that the “stratified” and “uniform” strategies lead to non-deterministic predictions that can be rendered deterministic by setting the random_state parameter if needed. The other strategies are naturally deterministic and, once fit, always return the same constant prediction for any value of X.

Read more in the User Guide.

Added in version 0.13.

Parameters:

strategy{“most_frequent”, “prior”, “stratified”, “uniform”, “constant”}, default=”prior”

Strategy to use to generate predictions.

• “most_frequent”: the predict method always returns the most frequent class label in the observed y argument passed to fit. The predict_proba method returns the matching one-hot encoded vector.

• “prior”: the predict method always returns the most frequent class label in the observed y argument passed to fit (like “most_frequent”). predict_proba always returns the empirical class distribution of y also known as the empirical class prior distribution.

• “stratified”: the predict_proba method randomly samples one-hot vectors from a multinomial distribution parametrized by the empirical class prior probabilities. The predict method returns the class label which got probability one in the one-hot vector of predict_proba. Each sampled row of both methods is therefore independent and identically distributed.

• “uniform”: generates predictions uniformly at random from the list of unique classes observed in y, i.e. each class has equal probability.

• “constant”: always predicts a constant label that is provided by the user. This is useful for metrics that evaluate a non-majority class.

  Changed in version 0.24: The default value of strategy has changed to “prior” in version 0.24.

random_stateint, RandomState instance or None, default=None

Controls the randomness to generate the predictions when strategy='stratified' or strategy='uniform'. Pass an int for reproducible output across multiple function calls. See Glossary.

constantint or str or array-like of shape (n_outputs,), default=None

The explicit constant as predicted by the “constant” strategy. This parameter is useful only for the “constant” strategy.

Attributes:

classes_ndarray of shape (n_classes,) or list of such arrays

Unique class labels observed in y. For multi-output classification problems, this attribute is a list of arrays as each output has an independent set of possible classes.

n_classes_int or list of int

Number of label for each output.

class_prior_ndarray of shape (n_classes,) or list of such arrays

Frequency of each class observed in y. For multioutput classification problems, this is computed independently for each output.

n_features_in_int

Number of features seen during fit.

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.

n_outputs_int

Number of outputs.

sparse_output_bool

True if the array returned from predict is to be in sparse CSC format. Is automatically set to True if the input y is passed in sparse format.

See also

DummyRegressor

Regressor that makes predictions using simple rules.

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.dummy import DummyClassifier
>>> X = np.array([-1, 1, 1, 1])
>>> y = np.array([0, 1, 1, 1])
>>> dummy_clf = DummyClassifier(strategy="most_frequent")
>>> dummy_clf.fit(X, y)
DummyClassifier(strategy='most_frequent')
>>> dummy_clf.predict(X)
array([1, 1, 1, 1])
>>> dummy_clf.score(X, y)
0.75

fit(X, y, sample_weight=None)

Fit the baseline classifier.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Training data.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs)

Target values.

sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None

Sample weights.

Returns:

selfobject

Returns the instance itself.

get_metadata_routing()

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)

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.

predict(X)

Perform classification on test vectors X.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Test data.

Returns:

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs)

Predicted target values for X.

predict_log_proba(X)

Return log probability estimates for the test vectors X.

Parameters:

X{array-like, object with finite length or shape}

Training data.

Returns:

Pndarray of shape (n_samples, n_classes) or list of such arrays

Returns the log probability of the sample for each class in the model, where classes are ordered arithmetically for each output.

predict_proba(X)

Return probability estimates for the test vectors X.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Test data.

Returns:

Pndarray of shape (n_samples, n_classes) or list of such arrays

Returns the probability of the sample for each class in the model, where classes are ordered arithmetically, for each output.

score(X, y, sample_weight=None)

Return the mean accuracy on the given test data and labels.

In multi-label classification, this is the subset accuracy which is a harsh metric since you require for each sample that each label set be correctly predicted.

Parameters:

XNone or array-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Test samples. Passing None as test samples gives the same result as passing real test samples, since DummyClassifier operates independently of the sampled observations.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs)

True labels for X.

sample_weightarray-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None

Sample weights.

Returns:

scorefloat

Mean accuracy of self.predict(X) w.r.t. y.

set_fit_request(*, sample_weight: bool | None | str = '$UNCHANGED$') → DummyClassifier

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)

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 = '$UNCHANGED$') → DummyClassifier

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.

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