HuberRegressor#

class sklearn.linear_model.HuberRegressor(*, epsilon=1.35, max_iter=100, alpha=0.0001, warm_start=False, fit_intercept=True, tol=1e-05)[source]#

L2-regularized linear regression model that is robust to outliers.

The Huber Regressor optimizes the squared loss for the samples where |(y - Xw - c) / sigma| < epsilon and the absolute loss for the samples where |(y - Xw - c) / sigma| > epsilon, where the model coefficients w, the intercept c and the scale sigma are parameters to be optimized. The parameter sigma makes sure that if y is scaled up or down by a certain factor, one does not need to rescale epsilon to achieve the same robustness. Note that this does not take into account the fact that the different features of X may be of different scales.

The Huber loss function has the advantage of not being heavily influenced by the outliers while not completely ignoring their effect.

See also

RANSACRegressor: RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm.
TheilSenRegressor: Theil-Sen Estimator robust multivariate regression model.
SGDRegressor: Fitted by minimizing a regularized empirical loss with SGD.

References

[1]

Peter J. Huber, Elvezio M. Ronchetti, Robust Statistics Concomitant scale estimates, pg 172

[2]

Art B. Owen (2006), A robust hybrid of lasso and ridge regression. https://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/reports/hhu.pdf

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from sklearn.linear_model import HuberRegressor, LinearRegression
>>> from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
>>> rng = np.random.RandomState(0)
>>> X, y, coef = make_regression(
...     n_samples=200, n_features=2, noise=4.0, coef=True, random_state=0)
>>> X[:4] = rng.uniform(10, 20, (4, 2))
>>> y[:4] = rng.uniform(10, 20, 4)
>>> huber = HuberRegressor().fit(X, y)
>>> huber.score(X, y)
-7.284...
>>> huber.predict(X[:1,])
array([806.7200...])
>>> linear = LinearRegression().fit(X, y)
>>> print("True coefficients:", coef)
True coefficients: [20.4923...  34.1698...]
>>> print("Huber coefficients:", huber.coef_)
Huber coefficients: [17.7906... 31.0106...]
>>> print("Linear Regression coefficients:", linear.coef_)
Linear Regression coefficients: [-1.9221...  7.0226...]

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

Fit the model according to the given training data.

Parameters:

Xarray-like, shape (n_samples, n_features): Training vector, where n_samples is the number of samples and n_features is the number of features.
yarray-like, shape (n_samples,): Target vector relative to X.
sample_weightarray-like, shape (n_samples,): Weight given to each sample.

Returns:

selfobject: Fitted HuberRegressor estimator.

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.

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

Gallery examples#

HuberRegressor vs Ridge on dataset with strong outliers

Ridge coefficients as a function of the L2 Regularization

Robust linear estimator fitting