sklearn/doc/modules/model_evaluation.rst

.. currentmodule:: sklearn

.. _model_evaluation:

===========================================================
Metrics and scoring: quantifying the quality of predictions
===========================================================

There are 3 different APIs for evaluating the quality of a model's
predictions:

* **Estimator score method**: Estimators have a ``score`` method providing a
  default evaluation criterion for the problem they are designed to solve.
  This is not discussed on this page, but in each estimator's documentation.

* **Scoring parameter**: Model-evaluation tools using
  :ref:`cross-validation <cross_validation>` (such as
  :func:`model_selection.cross_val_score` and
  :class:`model_selection.GridSearchCV`) rely on an internal *scoring* strategy.
  This is discussed in the section :ref:`scoring_parameter`.

* **Metric functions**: The :mod:`sklearn.metrics` module implements functions
  assessing prediction error for specific purposes. These metrics are detailed
  in sections on :ref:`classification_metrics`,
  :ref:`multilabel_ranking_metrics`, :ref:`regression_metrics` and
  :ref:`clustering_metrics`.

Finally, :ref:`dummy_estimators` are useful to get a baseline
value of those metrics for random predictions.

.. seealso::

   For "pairwise" metrics, between *samples* and not estimators or
   predictions, see the :ref:`metrics` section.

.. _scoring_parameter:

The ``scoring`` parameter: defining model evaluation rules
==========================================================

Model selection and evaluation using tools, such as
:class:`model_selection.GridSearchCV` and
:func:`model_selection.cross_val_score`, take a ``scoring`` parameter that
controls what metric they apply to the estimators evaluated.

Common cases: predefined values
-------------------------------

For the most common use cases, you can designate a scorer object with the
``scoring`` parameter; the table below shows all possible values.
All scorer objects follow the convention that **higher return values are better
than lower return values**.  Thus metrics which measure the distance between
the model and the data, like :func:`metrics.mean_squared_error`, are
available as neg_mean_squared_error which return the negated value
of the metric.

====================================   ==============================================     ==================================
Scoring                                Function                                           Comment
====================================   ==============================================     ==================================
**Classification**
'accuracy'                             :func:`metrics.accuracy_score`
'balanced_accuracy'                    :func:`metrics.balanced_accuracy_score`
'top_k_accuracy'                       :func:`metrics.top_k_accuracy_score`
'average_precision'                    :func:`metrics.average_precision_score`
'neg_brier_score'                      :func:`metrics.brier_score_loss`
'f1'                                   :func:`metrics.f1_score`                           for binary targets
'f1_micro'                             :func:`metrics.f1_score`                           micro-averaged
'f1_macro'                             :func:`metrics.f1_score`                           macro-averaged
'f1_weighted'                          :func:`metrics.f1_score`                           weighted average
'f1_samples'                           :func:`metrics.f1_score`                           by multilabel sample
'neg_log_loss'                         :func:`metrics.log_loss`                           requires ``predict_proba`` support
'precision' etc.                       :func:`metrics.precision_score`                    suffixes apply as with 'f1'
'recall' etc.                          :func:`metrics.recall_score`                       suffixes apply as with 'f1'
'jaccard' etc.                         :func:`metrics.jaccard_score`                      suffixes apply as with 'f1'
'roc_auc'                              :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`
'roc_auc_ovr'                          :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`
'roc_auc_ovo'                          :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`
'roc_auc_ovr_weighted'                 :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`
'roc_auc_ovo_weighted'                 :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`
'd2_log_loss_score'                    :func:`metrics.d2_log_loss_score`

**Clustering**
'adjusted_mutual_info_score'           :func:`metrics.adjusted_mutual_info_score`
'adjusted_rand_score'                  :func:`metrics.adjusted_rand_score`
'completeness_score'                   :func:`metrics.completeness_score`
'fowlkes_mallows_score'                :func:`metrics.fowlkes_mallows_score`
'homogeneity_score'                    :func:`metrics.homogeneity_score`
'mutual_info_score'                    :func:`metrics.mutual_info_score`
'normalized_mutual_info_score'         :func:`metrics.normalized_mutual_info_score`
'rand_score'                           :func:`metrics.rand_score`
'v_measure_score'                      :func:`metrics.v_measure_score`

**Regression**
'explained_variance'                   :func:`metrics.explained_variance_score`
'max_error'                            :func:`metrics.max_error`
'neg_mean_absolute_error'              :func:`metrics.mean_absolute_error`
'neg_mean_squared_error'               :func:`metrics.mean_squared_error`
'neg_root_mean_squared_error'          :func:`metrics.root_mean_squared_error`
'neg_mean_squared_log_error'           :func:`metrics.mean_squared_log_error`
'neg_root_mean_squared_log_error'      :func:`metrics.root_mean_squared_log_error`
'neg_median_absolute_error'            :func:`metrics.median_absolute_error`
'r2'                                   :func:`metrics.r2_score`
'neg_mean_poisson_deviance'            :func:`metrics.mean_poisson_deviance`
'neg_mean_gamma_deviance'              :func:`metrics.mean_gamma_deviance`
'neg_mean_absolute_percentage_error'   :func:`metrics.mean_absolute_percentage_error`
'd2_absolute_error_score' 	           :func:`metrics.d2_absolute_error_score`
====================================   ==============================================     ==================================

Usage examples:

    >>> from sklearn import svm, datasets
    >>> from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
    >>> X, y = datasets.load_iris(return_X_y=True)
    >>> clf = svm.SVC(random_state=0)
    >>> cross_val_score(clf, X, y, cv=5, scoring='recall_macro')
    array([0.96..., 0.96..., 0.96..., 0.93..., 1.        ])

.. note::

    If a wrong scoring name is passed, an ``InvalidParameterError`` is raised.
    You can retrieve the names of all available scorers by calling
    :func:`~sklearn.metrics.get_scorer_names`.

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.metrics

.. _scoring:

Defining your scoring strategy from metric functions
-----------------------------------------------------

The following metrics functions are not implemented as named scorers,
sometimes because they require additional parameters, such as
:func:`fbeta_score`. They cannot be passed to the ``scoring``
parameters; instead their callable needs to be passed to
:func:`make_scorer` together with the value of the user-settable
parameters.

=====================================  =========  ==============================================
Function                               Parameter  Example usage
=====================================  =========  ==============================================
**Classification**
:func:`metrics.fbeta_score`            ``beta``   ``make_scorer(fbeta_score, beta=2)``

**Regression**
:func:`metrics.mean_tweedie_deviance`  ``power``  ``make_scorer(mean_tweedie_deviance, power=1.5)``
:func:`metrics.mean_pinball_loss`      ``alpha``  ``make_scorer(mean_pinball_loss, alpha=0.95)``
:func:`metrics.d2_tweedie_score`       ``power``  ``make_scorer(d2_tweedie_score, power=1.5)``
:func:`metrics.d2_pinball_score`       ``alpha``  ``make_scorer(d2_pinball_score, alpha=0.95)``
=====================================  =========  ==============================================

One typical use case is to wrap an existing metric function from the library
with non-default values for its parameters, such as the ``beta`` parameter for
the :func:`fbeta_score` function::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import fbeta_score, make_scorer
    >>> ftwo_scorer = make_scorer(fbeta_score, beta=2)
    >>> from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
    >>> from sklearn.svm import LinearSVC
    >>> grid = GridSearchCV(LinearSVC(), param_grid={'C': [1, 10]},
    ...                     scoring=ftwo_scorer, cv=5)

The module :mod:`sklearn.metrics` also exposes a set of simple functions
measuring a prediction error given ground truth and prediction:

- functions ending with ``_score`` return a value to
  maximize, the higher the better.

- functions ending with ``_error``, ``_loss``, or ``_deviance`` return a
  value to minimize, the lower the better.  When converting
  into a scorer object using :func:`make_scorer`, set
  the ``greater_is_better`` parameter to ``False`` (``True`` by default; see the
  parameter description below).


.. dropdown:: Custom scorer objects

  The second use case is to build a completely custom scorer object
  from a simple python function using :func:`make_scorer`, which can
  take several parameters:

  * the python function you want to use (``my_custom_loss_func``
    in the example below)

  * whether the python function returns a score (``greater_is_better=True``,
    the default) or a loss (``greater_is_better=False``).  If a loss, the output
    of the python function is negated by the scorer object, conforming to
    the cross validation convention that scorers return higher values for better models.

  * for classification metrics only: whether the python function you provided requires
    continuous decision certainties. If the scoring function only accepts probability
    estimates (e.g. :func:`metrics.log_loss`) then one needs to set the parameter
    `response_method`, thus in this case `response_method="predict_proba"`. Some scoring
    function do not necessarily require probability estimates but rather non-thresholded
    decision values (e.g. :func:`metrics.roc_auc_score`). In this case, one provides a
    list such as `response_method=["decision_function", "predict_proba"]`. In this case,
    the scorer will use the first available method, in the order given in the list,
    to compute the scores.

  * any additional parameters, such as ``beta`` or ``labels`` in :func:`f1_score`.

  Here is an example of building custom scorers, and of using the
  ``greater_is_better`` parameter::

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> def my_custom_loss_func(y_true, y_pred):
      ...     diff = np.abs(y_true - y_pred).max()
      ...     return np.log1p(diff)
      ...
      >>> # score will negate the return value of my_custom_loss_func,
      >>> # which will be np.log(2), 0.693, given the values for X
      >>> # and y defined below.
      >>> score = make_scorer(my_custom_loss_func, greater_is_better=False)
      >>> X = [[1], [1]]
      >>> y = [0, 1]
      >>> from sklearn.dummy import DummyClassifier
      >>> clf = DummyClassifier(strategy='most_frequent', random_state=0)
      >>> clf = clf.fit(X, y)
      >>> my_custom_loss_func(y, clf.predict(X))
      0.69...
      >>> score(clf, X, y)
      -0.69...

.. _diy_scoring:

Implementing your own scoring object
------------------------------------

You can generate even more flexible model scorers by constructing your own
scoring object from scratch, without using the :func:`make_scorer` factory.


.. dropdown:: How to build a scorer from scratch

  For a callable to be a scorer, it needs to meet the protocol specified by
  the following two rules:

  - It can be called with parameters ``(estimator, X, y)``, where ``estimator``
    is the model that should be evaluated, ``X`` is validation data, and ``y`` is
    the ground truth target for ``X`` (in the supervised case) or ``None`` (in the
    unsupervised case).

  - It returns a floating point number that quantifies the
    ``estimator`` prediction quality on ``X``, with reference to ``y``.
    Again, by convention higher numbers are better, so if your scorer
    returns loss, that value should be negated.

  - Advanced: If it requires extra metadata to be passed to it, it should expose
    a ``get_metadata_routing`` method returning the requested metadata. The user
    should be able to set the requested metadata via a ``set_score_request``
    method. Please see :ref:`User Guide <metadata_routing>` and :ref:`Developer
    Guide <sphx_glr_auto_examples_miscellaneous_plot_metadata_routing.py>` for
    more details.


  .. note:: **Using custom scorers in functions where n_jobs > 1**

      While defining the custom scoring function alongside the calling function
      should work out of the box with the default joblib backend (loky),
      importing it from another module will be a more robust approach and work
      independently of the joblib backend.

      For example, to use ``n_jobs`` greater than 1 in the example below,
      ``custom_scoring_function`` function is saved in a user-created module
      (``custom_scorer_module.py``) and imported::

          >>> from custom_scorer_module import custom_scoring_function # doctest: +SKIP
          >>> cross_val_score(model,
          ...  X_train,
          ...  y_train,
          ...  scoring=make_scorer(custom_scoring_function, greater_is_better=False),
          ...  cv=5,
          ...  n_jobs=-1) # doctest: +SKIP

.. _multimetric_scoring:

Using multiple metric evaluation
--------------------------------

Scikit-learn also permits evaluation of multiple metrics in ``GridSearchCV``,
``RandomizedSearchCV`` and ``cross_validate``.

There are three ways to specify multiple scoring metrics for the ``scoring``
parameter:

- As an iterable of string metrics::
      >>> scoring = ['accuracy', 'precision']

- As a ``dict`` mapping the scorer name to the scoring function::
      >>> from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
      >>> from sklearn.metrics import make_scorer
      >>> scoring = {'accuracy': make_scorer(accuracy_score),
      ...            'prec': 'precision'}

  Note that the dict values can either be scorer functions or one of the
  predefined metric strings.

- As a callable that returns a dictionary of scores::

    >>> from sklearn.model_selection import cross_validate
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
    >>> # A sample toy binary classification dataset
    >>> X, y = datasets.make_classification(n_classes=2, random_state=0)
    >>> svm = LinearSVC(random_state=0)
    >>> def confusion_matrix_scorer(clf, X, y):
    ...      y_pred = clf.predict(X)
    ...      cm = confusion_matrix(y, y_pred)
    ...      return {'tn': cm[0, 0], 'fp': cm[0, 1],
    ...              'fn': cm[1, 0], 'tp': cm[1, 1]}
    >>> cv_results = cross_validate(svm, X, y, cv=5,
    ...                             scoring=confusion_matrix_scorer)
    >>> # Getting the test set true positive scores
    >>> print(cv_results['test_tp'])
    [10  9  8  7  8]
    >>> # Getting the test set false negative scores
    >>> print(cv_results['test_fn'])
    [0 1 2 3 2]

.. _classification_metrics:

Classification metrics
=======================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.metrics

The :mod:`sklearn.metrics` module implements several loss, score, and utility
functions to measure classification performance.
Some metrics might require probability estimates of the positive class,
confidence values, or binary decisions values.
Most implementations allow each sample to provide a weighted contribution
to the overall score, through the ``sample_weight`` parameter.

Some of these are restricted to the binary classification case:

.. autosummary::

   precision_recall_curve
   roc_curve
   class_likelihood_ratios
   det_curve


Others also work in the multiclass case:

.. autosummary::

   balanced_accuracy_score
   cohen_kappa_score
   confusion_matrix
   hinge_loss
   matthews_corrcoef
   roc_auc_score
   top_k_accuracy_score


Some also work in the multilabel case:

.. autosummary::

   accuracy_score
   classification_report
   f1_score
   fbeta_score
   hamming_loss
   jaccard_score
   log_loss
   multilabel_confusion_matrix
   precision_recall_fscore_support
   precision_score
   recall_score
   roc_auc_score
   zero_one_loss
   d2_log_loss_score

And some work with binary and multilabel (but not multiclass) problems:

.. autosummary::

   average_precision_score


In the following sub-sections, we will describe each of those functions,
preceded by some notes on common API and metric definition.

.. _average:

From binary to multiclass and multilabel
----------------------------------------

Some metrics are essentially defined for binary classification tasks (e.g.
:func:`f1_score`, :func:`roc_auc_score`). In these cases, by default
only the positive label is evaluated, assuming by default that the positive
class is labelled ``1`` (though this may be configurable through the
``pos_label`` parameter).

In extending a binary metric to multiclass or multilabel problems, the data
is treated as a collection of binary problems, one for each class.
There are then a number of ways to average binary metric calculations across
the set of classes, each of which may be useful in some scenario.
Where available, you should select among these using the ``average`` parameter.

* ``"macro"`` simply calculates the mean of the binary metrics,
  giving equal weight to each class.  In problems where infrequent classes
  are nonetheless important, macro-averaging may be a means of highlighting
  their performance. On the other hand, the assumption that all classes are
  equally important is often untrue, such that macro-averaging will
  over-emphasize the typically low performance on an infrequent class.
* ``"weighted"`` accounts for class imbalance by computing the average of
  binary metrics in which each class's score is weighted by its presence in the
  true data sample.
* ``"micro"`` gives each sample-class pair an equal contribution to the overall
  metric (except as a result of sample-weight). Rather than summing the
  metric per class, this sums the dividends and divisors that make up the
  per-class metrics to calculate an overall quotient.
  Micro-averaging may be preferred in multilabel settings, including
  multiclass classification where a majority class is to be ignored.
* ``"samples"`` applies only to multilabel problems. It does not calculate a
  per-class measure, instead calculating the metric over the true and predicted
  classes for each sample in the evaluation data, and returning their
  (``sample_weight``-weighted) average.
* Selecting ``average=None`` will return an array with the score for each
  class.

While multiclass data is provided to the metric, like binary targets, as an
array of class labels, multilabel data is specified as an indicator matrix,
in which cell ``[i, j]`` has value 1 if sample ``i`` has label ``j`` and value
0 otherwise.

.. _accuracy_score:

Accuracy score
--------------

The :func:`accuracy_score` function computes the
`accuracy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision>`_, either the fraction
(default) or the count (normalize=False) of correct predictions.


In multilabel classification, the function returns the subset accuracy. If
the entire set of predicted labels for a sample strictly match with the true
set of labels, then the subset accuracy is 1.0; otherwise it is 0.0.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of
the :math:`i`-th sample and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value,
then the fraction of correct predictions over :math:`n_\text{samples}` is
defined as

.. math::

  \texttt{accuracy}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} 1(\hat{y}_i = y_i)

where :math:`1(x)` is the `indicator function
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function>`_.

  >>> import numpy as np
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
  >>> y_pred = [0, 2, 1, 3]
  >>> y_true = [0, 1, 2, 3]
  >>> accuracy_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.5
  >>> accuracy_score(y_true, y_pred, normalize=False)
  2.0

In the multilabel case with binary label indicators::

  >>> accuracy_score(np.array([[0, 1], [1, 1]]), np.ones((2, 2)))
  0.5

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_permutation_tests_for_classification.py`
  for an example of accuracy score usage using permutations of
  the dataset.

.. _top_k_accuracy_score:

Top-k accuracy score
--------------------

The :func:`top_k_accuracy_score` function is a generalization of
:func:`accuracy_score`. The difference is that a prediction is considered
correct as long as the true label is associated with one of the ``k`` highest
predicted scores. :func:`accuracy_score` is the special case of `k = 1`.

The function covers the binary and multiclass classification cases but not the
multilabel case.

If :math:`\hat{f}_{i,j}` is the predicted class for the :math:`i`-th sample
corresponding to the :math:`j`-th largest predicted score and :math:`y_i` is the
corresponding true value, then the fraction of correct predictions over
:math:`n_\text{samples}` is defined as

.. math::

   \texttt{top-k accuracy}(y, \hat{f}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} \sum_{j=1}^{k} 1(\hat{f}_{i,j} = y_i)

where :math:`k` is the number of guesses allowed and :math:`1(x)` is the
`indicator function <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function>`_.

  >>> import numpy as np
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import top_k_accuracy_score
  >>> y_true = np.array([0, 1, 2, 2])
  >>> y_score = np.array([[0.5, 0.2, 0.2],
  ...                     [0.3, 0.4, 0.2],
  ...                     [0.2, 0.4, 0.3],
  ...                     [0.7, 0.2, 0.1]])
  >>> top_k_accuracy_score(y_true, y_score, k=2)
  0.75
  >>> # Not normalizing gives the number of "correctly" classified samples
  >>> top_k_accuracy_score(y_true, y_score, k=2, normalize=False)
  3

.. _balanced_accuracy_score:

Balanced accuracy score
-----------------------

The :func:`balanced_accuracy_score` function computes the `balanced accuracy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision>`_, which avoids inflated
performance estimates on imbalanced datasets. It is the macro-average of recall
scores per class or, equivalently, raw accuracy where each sample is weighted
according to the inverse prevalence of its true class.
Thus for balanced datasets, the score is equal to accuracy.

In the binary case, balanced accuracy is equal to the arithmetic mean of
`sensitivity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity>`_
(true positive rate) and `specificity
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity>`_ (true negative
rate), or the area under the ROC curve with binary predictions rather than
scores:

.. math::

   \texttt{balanced-accuracy} = \frac{1}{2}\left( \frac{TP}{TP + FN} + \frac{TN}{TN + FP}\right )

If the classifier performs equally well on either class, this term reduces to
the conventional accuracy (i.e., the number of correct predictions divided by
the total number of predictions).

In contrast, if the conventional accuracy is above chance only because the
classifier takes advantage of an imbalanced test set, then the balanced
accuracy, as appropriate, will drop to :math:`\frac{1}{n\_classes}`.

The score ranges from 0 to 1, or when ``adjusted=True`` is used, it rescaled to
the range :math:`\frac{1}{1 - n\_classes}` to 1, inclusive, with
performance at random scoring 0.

If :math:`y_i` is the true value of the :math:`i`-th sample, and :math:`w_i`
is the corresponding sample weight, then we adjust the sample weight to:

.. math::

   \hat{w}_i = \frac{w_i}{\sum_j{1(y_j = y_i) w_j}}

where :math:`1(x)` is the `indicator function <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function>`_.
Given predicted :math:`\hat{y}_i` for sample :math:`i`, balanced accuracy is
defined as:

.. math::

   \texttt{balanced-accuracy}(y, \hat{y}, w) = \frac{1}{\sum{\hat{w}_i}} \sum_i 1(\hat{y}_i = y_i) \hat{w}_i

With ``adjusted=True``, balanced accuracy reports the relative increase from
:math:`\texttt{balanced-accuracy}(y, \mathbf{0}, w) =
\frac{1}{n\_classes}`.  In the binary case, this is also known as
`*Youden's J statistic* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youden%27s_J_statistic>`_,
or *informedness*.

.. note::

    The multiclass definition here seems the most reasonable extension of the
    metric used in binary classification, though there is no certain consensus
    in the literature:

    * Our definition: [Mosley2013]_, [Kelleher2015]_ and [Guyon2015]_, where
      [Guyon2015]_ adopt the adjusted version to ensure that random predictions
      have a score of :math:`0` and perfect predictions have a score of :math:`1`..
    * Class balanced accuracy as described in [Mosley2013]_: the minimum between the precision
      and the recall for each class is computed. Those values are then averaged over the total
      number of classes to get the balanced accuracy.
    * Balanced Accuracy as described in [Urbanowicz2015]_: the average of sensitivity and specificity
      is computed for each class and then averaged over total number of classes.

.. rubric:: References

.. [Guyon2015] I. Guyon, K. Bennett, G. Cawley, H.J. Escalante, S. Escalera, T.K. Ho, N. Macià,
    B. Ray, M. Saeed, A.R. Statnikov, E. Viegas, `Design of the 2015 ChaLearn AutoML Challenge
    <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7280767>`_, IJCNN 2015.
.. [Mosley2013] L. Mosley, `A balanced approach to the multi-class imbalance problem
    <https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13537/>`_, IJCV 2010.
.. [Kelleher2015] John. D. Kelleher, Brian Mac Namee, Aoife D'Arcy, `Fundamentals of
    Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics: Algorithms, Worked Examples,
    and Case Studies <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fundamentals-machine-learning-predictive-data-analytics>`_,
    2015.
.. [Urbanowicz2015] Urbanowicz R.J.,  Moore, J.H. :doi:`ExSTraCS 2.0: description
    and evaluation of a scalable learning classifier
    system <10.1007/s12065-015-0128-8>`, Evol. Intel. (2015) 8: 89.

.. _cohen_kappa:

Cohen's kappa
-------------

The function :func:`cohen_kappa_score` computes `Cohen's kappa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%27s_kappa>`_ statistic.
This measure is intended to compare labelings by different human annotators,
not a classifier versus a ground truth.

The kappa score (see docstring) is a number between -1 and 1.
Scores above .8 are generally considered good agreement;
zero or lower means no agreement (practically random labels).

Kappa scores can be computed for binary or multiclass problems,
but not for multilabel problems (except by manually computing a per-label score)
and not for more than two annotators.

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import cohen_kappa_score
  >>> y_true = [2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1]
  >>> y_pred = [0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2]
  >>> cohen_kappa_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.4285714285714286

.. _confusion_matrix:

Confusion matrix
----------------

The :func:`confusion_matrix` function evaluates
classification accuracy by computing the `confusion matrix
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix>`_ with each row corresponding
to the true class (Wikipedia and other references may use different convention
for axes).

By definition, entry :math:`i, j` in a confusion matrix is
the number of observations actually in group :math:`i`, but
predicted to be in group :math:`j`. Here is an example::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
  >>> y_true = [2, 0, 2, 2, 0, 1]
  >>> y_pred = [0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2]
  >>> confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred)
  array([[2, 0, 0],
         [0, 0, 1],
         [1, 0, 2]])

:class:`ConfusionMatrixDisplay` can be used to visually represent a confusion
matrix as shown in the
:ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_confusion_matrix.py`
example, which creates the following figure:

.. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_confusion_matrix_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_confusion_matrix.html
   :scale: 75
   :align: center

The parameter ``normalize`` allows to report ratios instead of counts. The
confusion matrix can be normalized in 3 different ways: ``'pred'``, ``'true'``,
and ``'all'`` which will divide the counts by the sum of each columns, rows, or
the entire matrix, respectively.

  >>> y_true = [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
  >>> y_pred = [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]
  >>> confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred, normalize='all')
  array([[0.25 , 0.125],
         [0.25 , 0.375]])

For binary problems, we can get counts of true negatives, false positives,
false negatives and true positives as follows::

  >>> y_true = [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
  >>> y_pred = [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]
  >>> tn, fp, fn, tp = confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred).ravel()
  >>> tn, fp, fn, tp
  (2, 1, 2, 3)

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_confusion_matrix.py`
  for an example of using a confusion matrix to evaluate classifier output
  quality.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_classification_plot_digits_classification.py`
  for an example of using a confusion matrix to classify
  hand-written digits.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_text_plot_document_classification_20newsgroups.py`
  for an example of using a confusion matrix to classify text
  documents.

.. _classification_report:

Classification report
----------------------

The :func:`classification_report` function builds a text report showing the
main classification metrics. Here is a small example with custom ``target_names``
and inferred labels::

   >>> from sklearn.metrics import classification_report
   >>> y_true = [0, 1, 2, 2, 0]
   >>> y_pred = [0, 0, 2, 1, 0]
   >>> target_names = ['class 0', 'class 1', 'class 2']
   >>> print(classification_report(y_true, y_pred, target_names=target_names))
                 precision    recall  f1-score   support
   <BLANKLINE>
        class 0       0.67      1.00      0.80         2
        class 1       0.00      0.00      0.00         1
        class 2       1.00      0.50      0.67         2
   <BLANKLINE>
       accuracy                           0.60         5
      macro avg       0.56      0.50      0.49         5
   weighted avg       0.67      0.60      0.59         5
   <BLANKLINE>

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_classification_plot_digits_classification.py`
  for an example of classification report usage for
  hand-written digits.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_grid_search_digits.py`
  for an example of classification report usage for
  grid search with nested cross-validation.

.. _hamming_loss:

Hamming loss
-------------

The :func:`hamming_loss` computes the average Hamming loss or `Hamming
distance <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance>`_ between two sets
of samples.

If :math:`\hat{y}_{i,j}` is the predicted value for the :math:`j`-th label of a
given sample :math:`i`, :math:`y_{i,j}` is the corresponding true value,
:math:`n_\text{samples}` is the number of samples and :math:`n_\text{labels}`
is the number of labels, then the Hamming loss :math:`L_{Hamming}` is defined
as:

.. math::

   L_{Hamming}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples} * n_\text{labels}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} \sum_{j=0}^{n_\text{labels} - 1} 1(\hat{y}_{i,j} \not= y_{i,j})

where :math:`1(x)` is the `indicator function
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function>`_.

The equation above does not hold true in the case of multiclass classification.
Please refer to the note below for more information. ::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import hamming_loss
  >>> y_pred = [1, 2, 3, 4]
  >>> y_true = [2, 2, 3, 4]
  >>> hamming_loss(y_true, y_pred)
  0.25

In the multilabel case with binary label indicators::

  >>> hamming_loss(np.array([[0, 1], [1, 1]]), np.zeros((2, 2)))
  0.75

.. note::

    In multiclass classification, the Hamming loss corresponds to the Hamming
    distance between ``y_true`` and ``y_pred`` which is similar to the
    :ref:`zero_one_loss` function.  However, while zero-one loss penalizes
    prediction sets that do not strictly match true sets, the Hamming loss
    penalizes individual labels.  Thus the Hamming loss, upper bounded by the zero-one
    loss, is always between zero and one, inclusive; and predicting a proper subset
    or superset of the true labels will give a Hamming loss between
    zero and one, exclusive.

.. _precision_recall_f_measure_metrics:

Precision, recall and F-measures
---------------------------------

Intuitively, `precision
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall#Precision>`_ is the ability
of the classifier not to label as positive a sample that is negative, and
`recall <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall#Recall>`_ is the
ability of the classifier to find all the positive samples.

The  `F-measure <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score>`_
(:math:`F_\beta` and :math:`F_1` measures) can be interpreted as a weighted
harmonic mean of the precision and recall. A
:math:`F_\beta` measure reaches its best value at 1 and its worst score at 0.
With :math:`\beta = 1`,  :math:`F_\beta` and
:math:`F_1`  are equivalent, and the recall and the precision are equally important.

The :func:`precision_recall_curve` computes a precision-recall curve
from the ground truth label and a score given by the classifier
by varying a decision threshold.

The :func:`average_precision_score` function computes the
`average precision <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information_retrieval&oldid=793358396#Average_precision>`_
(AP) from prediction scores. The value is between 0 and 1 and higher is better.
AP is defined as

.. math::
    \text{AP} = \sum_n (R_n - R_{n-1}) P_n

where :math:`P_n` and :math:`R_n` are the precision and recall at the
nth threshold. With random predictions, the AP is the fraction of positive
samples.

References [Manning2008]_ and [Everingham2010]_ present alternative variants of
AP that interpolate the precision-recall curve. Currently,
:func:`average_precision_score` does not implement any interpolated variant.
References [Davis2006]_ and [Flach2015]_ describe why a linear interpolation of
points on the precision-recall curve provides an overly-optimistic measure of
classifier performance. This linear interpolation is used when computing area
under the curve with the trapezoidal rule in :func:`auc`.

Several functions allow you to analyze the precision, recall and F-measures
score:

.. autosummary::

   average_precision_score
   f1_score
   fbeta_score
   precision_recall_curve
   precision_recall_fscore_support
   precision_score
   recall_score

Note that the :func:`precision_recall_curve` function is restricted to the
binary case. The :func:`average_precision_score` function supports multiclass
and multilabel formats by computing each class score in a One-vs-the-rest (OvR)
fashion and averaging them or not depending of its ``average`` argument value.

The :func:`PrecisionRecallDisplay.from_estimator` and
:func:`PrecisionRecallDisplay.from_predictions` functions will plot the
precision-recall curve as follows.

.. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_precision_recall_001.png
        :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_precision_recall.html#plot-the-precision-recall-curve
        :scale: 75
        :align: center

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_grid_search_digits.py`
  for an example of :func:`precision_score` and :func:`recall_score` usage
  to estimate parameters using grid search with nested cross-validation.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_precision_recall.py`
  for an example of :func:`precision_recall_curve` usage to evaluate
  classifier output quality.

.. rubric:: References

.. [Manning2008] C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze, `Introduction to Information Retrieval
    <https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/evaluation-of-ranked-retrieval-results-1.html>`_,
    2008.
.. [Everingham2010] M. Everingham, L. Van Gool, C.K.I. Williams, J. Winn, A. Zisserman,
    `The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge
    <https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/doc_view/pid/b6bebfd529b233f00cb854b7d8070319600cf59d>`_,
    IJCV 2010.
.. [Davis2006] J. Davis, M. Goadrich, `The Relationship Between Precision-Recall and ROC Curves
    <https://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~page/rocpr.pdf>`_,
    ICML 2006.
.. [Flach2015] P.A. Flach, M. Kull, `Precision-Recall-Gain Curves: PR Analysis Done Right
    <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5867-precision-recall-gain-curves-pr-analysis-done-right.pdf>`_,
    NIPS 2015.

Binary classification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In a binary classification task, the terms ''positive'' and ''negative'' refer
to the classifier's prediction, and the terms ''true'' and ''false'' refer to
whether that prediction corresponds to the external judgment (sometimes known
as the ''observation''). Given these definitions, we can formulate the
following table:

+-------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|                   |    Actual class (observation)                  |
+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+
|   Predicted class | tp (true positive)  | fp (false positive)      |
|   (expectation)   | Correct result      | Unexpected result        |
|                   +---------------------+--------------------------+
|                   | fn (false negative) | tn (true negative)       |
|                   | Missing result      | Correct absence of result|
+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+

In this context, we can define the notions of precision and recall:

.. math::

   \text{precision} = \frac{\text{tp}}{\text{tp} + \text{fp}},

.. math::

   \text{recall} = \frac{\text{tp}}{\text{tp} + \text{fn}},

(Sometimes recall is also called ''sensitivity'')

F-measure is the weighted harmonic mean of precision and recall, with precision's
contribution to the mean weighted by some parameter :math:`\beta`:

.. math::

   F_\beta = (1 + \beta^2) \frac{\text{precision} \times \text{recall}}{\beta^2 \text{precision} + \text{recall}}

To avoid division by zero when precision and recall are zero, Scikit-Learn calculates F-measure with this
otherwise-equivalent formula:

.. math::

   F_\beta = \frac{(1 + \beta^2) \text{tp}}{(1 + \beta^2) \text{tp} + \text{fp} + \beta^2 \text{fn}}

Note that this formula is still undefined when there are no true positives, false
positives, or false negatives. By default, F-1 for a set of exclusively true negatives
is calculated as 0, however this behavior can be changed using the `zero_division`
parameter.
Here are some small examples in binary classification::

  >>> from sklearn import metrics
  >>> y_pred = [0, 1, 0, 0]
  >>> y_true = [0, 1, 0, 1]
  >>> metrics.precision_score(y_true, y_pred)
  1.0
  >>> metrics.recall_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.5
  >>> metrics.f1_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.66...
  >>> metrics.fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta=0.5)
  0.83...
  >>> metrics.fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta=1)
  0.66...
  >>> metrics.fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta=2)
  0.55...
  >>> metrics.precision_recall_fscore_support(y_true, y_pred, beta=0.5)
  (array([0.66..., 1.        ]), array([1. , 0.5]), array([0.71..., 0.83...]), array([2, 2]))


  >>> import numpy as np
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import precision_recall_curve
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import average_precision_score
  >>> y_true = np.array([0, 0, 1, 1])
  >>> y_scores = np.array([0.1, 0.4, 0.35, 0.8])
  >>> precision, recall, threshold = precision_recall_curve(y_true, y_scores)
  >>> precision
  array([0.5       , 0.66..., 0.5       , 1.        , 1.        ])
  >>> recall
  array([1. , 1. , 0.5, 0.5, 0. ])
  >>> threshold
  array([0.1 , 0.35, 0.4 , 0.8 ])
  >>> average_precision_score(y_true, y_scores)
  0.83...



Multiclass and multilabel classification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In a multiclass and multilabel classification task, the notions of precision,
recall, and F-measures can be applied to each label independently.
There are a few ways to combine results across labels,
specified by the ``average`` argument to the
:func:`average_precision_score`, :func:`f1_score`,
:func:`fbeta_score`, :func:`precision_recall_fscore_support`,
:func:`precision_score` and :func:`recall_score` functions, as described
:ref:`above <average>`.

Note the following behaviors when averaging:

* If all labels are included, "micro"-averaging in a multiclass setting will produce
  precision, recall and :math:`F` that are all identical to accuracy.
* "weighted" averaging may produce a F-score that is not between precision and recall.
* "macro" averaging for F-measures is calculated as the arithmetic mean over
  per-label/class F-measures, not the harmonic mean over the arithmetic precision and
  recall means. Both calculations can be seen in the literature but are not equivalent,
  see [OB2019]_ for details.

To make this more explicit, consider the following notation:

* :math:`y` the set of *true* :math:`(sample, label)` pairs
* :math:`\hat{y}` the set of *predicted* :math:`(sample, label)` pairs
* :math:`L` the set of labels
* :math:`S` the set of samples
* :math:`y_s` the subset of :math:`y` with sample :math:`s`,
  i.e. :math:`y_s := \left\{(s', l) \in y | s' = s\right\}`
* :math:`y_l` the subset of :math:`y` with label :math:`l`
* similarly, :math:`\hat{y}_s` and :math:`\hat{y}_l` are subsets of
  :math:`\hat{y}`
* :math:`P(A, B) := \frac{\left| A \cap B \right|}{\left|B\right|}` for some
  sets :math:`A` and :math:`B`
* :math:`R(A, B) := \frac{\left| A \cap B \right|}{\left|A\right|}`
  (Conventions vary on handling :math:`A = \emptyset`; this implementation uses
  :math:`R(A, B):=0`, and similar for :math:`P`.)
* :math:`F_\beta(A, B) := \left(1 + \beta^2\right) \frac{P(A, B) \times R(A, B)}{\beta^2 P(A, B) + R(A, B)}`

Then the metrics are defined as:

+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|``average``    | Precision                                                                                                        | Recall                                                                                                           | F\_beta                                                                                                              |
+===============+==================================================================================================================+==================================================================================================================+======================================================================================================================+
|``"micro"``    | :math:`P(y, \hat{y})`                                                                                            | :math:`R(y, \hat{y})`                                                                                            | :math:`F_\beta(y, \hat{y})`                                                                                          |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|``"samples"``  | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|S\right|} \sum_{s \in S} P(y_s, \hat{y}_s)`                                                | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|S\right|} \sum_{s \in S} R(y_s, \hat{y}_s)`                                                | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|S\right|} \sum_{s \in S} F_\beta(y_s, \hat{y}_s)`                                              |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|``"macro"``    | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|L\right|} \sum_{l \in L} P(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`                                                | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|L\right|} \sum_{l \in L} R(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`                                                | :math:`\frac{1}{\left|L\right|} \sum_{l \in L} F_\beta(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`                                              |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|``"weighted"`` | :math:`\frac{1}{\sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right|} \sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right| P(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`              | :math:`\frac{1}{\sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right|} \sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right| R(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`              | :math:`\frac{1}{\sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right|} \sum_{l \in L} \left|y_l\right| F_\beta(y_l, \hat{y}_l)`            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|``None``       | :math:`\langle P(y_l, \hat{y}_l) | l \in L \rangle`                                                              | :math:`\langle R(y_l, \hat{y}_l) | l \in L \rangle`                                                              | :math:`\langle F_\beta(y_l, \hat{y}_l) | l \in L \rangle`                                                            |
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  >>> from sklearn import metrics
  >>> y_true = [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2]
  >>> y_pred = [0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1]
  >>> metrics.precision_score(y_true, y_pred, average='macro')
  0.22...
  >>> metrics.recall_score(y_true, y_pred, average='micro')
  0.33...
  >>> metrics.f1_score(y_true, y_pred, average='weighted')
  0.26...
  >>> metrics.fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, average='macro', beta=0.5)
  0.23...
  >>> metrics.precision_recall_fscore_support(y_true, y_pred, beta=0.5, average=None)
  (array([0.66..., 0.        , 0.        ]), array([1., 0., 0.]), array([0.71..., 0.        , 0.        ]), array([2, 2, 2]...))

For multiclass classification with a "negative class", it is possible to exclude some labels:

  >>> metrics.recall_score(y_true, y_pred, labels=[1, 2], average='micro')
  ... # excluding 0, no labels were correctly recalled
  0.0

Similarly, labels not present in the data sample may be accounted for in macro-averaging.

  >>> metrics.precision_score(y_true, y_pred, labels=[0, 1, 2, 3], average='macro')
  0.166...

.. rubric:: References

.. [OB2019] :arxiv:`Opitz, J., & Burst, S. (2019). "Macro f1 and macro f1."
    <1911.03347>`

.. _jaccard_similarity_score:

Jaccard similarity coefficient score
-------------------------------------

The :func:`jaccard_score` function computes the average of `Jaccard similarity
coefficients <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index>`_, also called the
Jaccard index, between pairs of label sets.

The Jaccard similarity coefficient with a ground truth label set :math:`y` and
predicted label set :math:`\hat{y}`, is defined as

.. math::

    J(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{|y \cap \hat{y}|}{|y \cup \hat{y}|}.

The :func:`jaccard_score` (like :func:`precision_recall_fscore_support`) applies
natively to binary targets. By computing it set-wise it can be extended to apply
to multilabel and multiclass through the use of `average` (see
:ref:`above <average>`).

In the binary case::

  >>> import numpy as np
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import jaccard_score
  >>> y_true = np.array([[0, 1, 1],
  ...                    [1, 1, 0]])
  >>> y_pred = np.array([[1, 1, 1],
  ...                    [1, 0, 0]])
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true[0], y_pred[0])
  0.6666...

In the 2D comparison case (e.g. image similarity):

  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average="micro")
  0.6

In the multilabel case with binary label indicators::

  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average='samples')
  0.5833...
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average='macro')
  0.6666...
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average=None)
  array([0.5, 0.5, 1. ])

Multiclass problems are binarized and treated like the corresponding
multilabel problem::

  >>> y_pred = [0, 2, 1, 2]
  >>> y_true = [0, 1, 2, 2]
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average=None)
  array([1. , 0. , 0.33...])
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average='macro')
  0.44...
  >>> jaccard_score(y_true, y_pred, average='micro')
  0.33...

.. _hinge_loss:

Hinge loss
----------

The :func:`hinge_loss` function computes the average distance between
the model and the data using
`hinge loss <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinge_loss>`_, a one-sided metric
that considers only prediction errors. (Hinge
loss is used in maximal margin classifiers such as support vector machines.)

If the true label :math:`y_i` of a binary classification task is encoded as
:math:`y_i=\left\{-1, +1\right\}` for every sample :math:`i`; and :math:`w_i`
is the corresponding predicted decision (an array of shape (`n_samples`,) as
output by the `decision_function` method), then the hinge loss is defined as:

.. math::

  L_\text{Hinge}(y, w) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} \max\left\{1 - w_i y_i, 0\right\}

If there are more than two labels, :func:`hinge_loss` uses a multiclass variant
due to Crammer & Singer.
`Here <https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume2/crammer01a/crammer01a.pdf>`_ is
the paper describing it.

In this case the predicted decision is an array of shape (`n_samples`,
`n_labels`). If :math:`w_{i, y_i}` is the predicted decision for the true label
:math:`y_i` of the :math:`i`-th sample; and
:math:`\hat{w}_{i, y_i} = \max\left\{w_{i, y_j}~|~y_j \ne y_i \right\}`
is the maximum of the
predicted decisions for all the other labels, then the multi-class hinge loss
is defined by:

.. math::

  L_\text{Hinge}(y, w) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}}
  \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} \max\left\{1 + \hat{w}_{i, y_i}
  - w_{i, y_i}, 0\right\}

Here is a small example demonstrating the use of the :func:`hinge_loss` function
with a svm classifier in a binary class problem::

  >>> from sklearn import svm
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import hinge_loss
  >>> X = [[0], [1]]
  >>> y = [-1, 1]
  >>> est = svm.LinearSVC(random_state=0)
  >>> est.fit(X, y)
  LinearSVC(random_state=0)
  >>> pred_decision = est.decision_function([[-2], [3], [0.5]])
  >>> pred_decision
  array([-2.18...,  2.36...,  0.09...])
  >>> hinge_loss([-1, 1, 1], pred_decision)
  0.3...

Here is an example demonstrating the use of the :func:`hinge_loss` function
with a svm classifier in a multiclass problem::

  >>> X = np.array([[0], [1], [2], [3]])
  >>> Y = np.array([0, 1, 2, 3])
  >>> labels = np.array([0, 1, 2, 3])
  >>> est = svm.LinearSVC()
  >>> est.fit(X, Y)
  LinearSVC()
  >>> pred_decision = est.decision_function([[-1], [2], [3]])
  >>> y_true = [0, 2, 3]
  >>> hinge_loss(y_true, pred_decision, labels=labels)
  0.56...

.. _log_loss:

Log loss
--------

Log loss, also called logistic regression loss or
cross-entropy loss, is defined on probability estimates.  It is
commonly used in (multinomial) logistic regression and neural networks, as well
as in some variants of expectation-maximization, and can be used to evaluate the
probability outputs (``predict_proba``) of a classifier instead of its
discrete predictions.

For binary classification with a true label :math:`y \in \{0,1\}`
and a probability estimate :math:`p = \operatorname{Pr}(y = 1)`,
the log loss per sample is the negative log-likelihood
of the classifier given the true label:

.. math::

    L_{\log}(y, p) = -\log \operatorname{Pr}(y|p) = -(y \log (p) + (1 - y) \log (1 - p))

This extends to the multiclass case as follows.
Let the true labels for a set of samples
be encoded as a 1-of-K binary indicator matrix :math:`Y`,
i.e., :math:`y_{i,k} = 1` if sample :math:`i` has label :math:`k`
taken from a set of :math:`K` labels.
Let :math:`P` be a matrix of probability estimates,
with :math:`p_{i,k} = \operatorname{Pr}(y_{i,k} = 1)`.
Then the log loss of the whole set is

.. math::

    L_{\log}(Y, P) = -\log \operatorname{Pr}(Y|P) = - \frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=0}^{N-1} \sum_{k=0}^{K-1} y_{i,k} \log p_{i,k}

To see how this generalizes the binary log loss given above,
note that in the binary case,
:math:`p_{i,0} = 1 - p_{i,1}` and :math:`y_{i,0} = 1 - y_{i,1}`,
so expanding the inner sum over :math:`y_{i,k} \in \{0,1\}`
gives the binary log loss.

The :func:`log_loss` function computes log loss given a list of ground-truth
labels and a probability matrix, as returned by an estimator's ``predict_proba``
method.

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import log_loss
    >>> y_true = [0, 0, 1, 1]
    >>> y_pred = [[.9, .1], [.8, .2], [.3, .7], [.01, .99]]
    >>> log_loss(y_true, y_pred)
    0.1738...

The first ``[.9, .1]`` in ``y_pred`` denotes 90% probability that the first
sample has label 0.  The log loss is non-negative.

.. _matthews_corrcoef:

Matthews correlation coefficient
---------------------------------

The :func:`matthews_corrcoef` function computes the
`Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthews_correlation_coefficient>`_
for binary classes.  Quoting Wikipedia:


    "The Matthews correlation coefficient is used in machine learning as a
    measure of the quality of binary (two-class) classifications. It takes
    into account true and false positives and negatives and is generally
    regarded as a balanced measure which can be used even if the classes are
    of very different sizes. The MCC is in essence a correlation coefficient
    value between -1 and +1. A coefficient of +1 represents a perfect
    prediction, 0 an average random prediction and -1 an inverse prediction.
    The statistic is also known as the phi coefficient."


In the binary (two-class) case, :math:`tp`, :math:`tn`, :math:`fp` and
:math:`fn` are respectively the number of true positives, true negatives, false
positives and false negatives, the MCC is defined as

.. math::

  MCC = \frac{tp \times tn - fp \times fn}{\sqrt{(tp + fp)(tp + fn)(tn + fp)(tn + fn)}}.

In the multiclass case, the Matthews correlation coefficient can be `defined
<http://rk.kvl.dk/introduction/index.html>`_ in terms of a
:func:`confusion_matrix` :math:`C` for :math:`K` classes.  To simplify the
definition consider the following intermediate variables:

* :math:`t_k=\sum_{i}^{K} C_{ik}` the number of times class :math:`k` truly occurred,
* :math:`p_k=\sum_{i}^{K} C_{ki}` the number of times class :math:`k` was predicted,
* :math:`c=\sum_{k}^{K} C_{kk}` the total number of samples correctly predicted,
* :math:`s=\sum_{i}^{K} \sum_{j}^{K} C_{ij}` the total number of samples.

Then the multiclass MCC is defined as:

.. math::
    MCC = \frac{
        c \times s - \sum_{k}^{K} p_k \times t_k
    }{\sqrt{
        (s^2 - \sum_{k}^{K} p_k^2) \times
        (s^2 - \sum_{k}^{K} t_k^2)
    }}

When there are more than two labels, the value of the MCC will no longer range
between -1 and +1. Instead the minimum value will be somewhere between -1 and 0
depending on the number and distribution of ground true labels. The maximum
value is always +1.
For additional information, see [WikipediaMCC2021]_.

Here is a small example illustrating the usage of the :func:`matthews_corrcoef`
function:

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import matthews_corrcoef
    >>> y_true = [+1, +1, +1, -1]
    >>> y_pred = [+1, -1, +1, +1]
    >>> matthews_corrcoef(y_true, y_pred)
    -0.33...

.. topic:: References:

  .. [WikipediaMCC2021] Wikipedia contributors. Phi coefficient.
     Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. April 21, 2021, 12:21 CEST.
     Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_coefficient
     Accessed April 21, 2021.

.. _multilabel_confusion_matrix:

Multi-label confusion matrix
----------------------------

The :func:`multilabel_confusion_matrix` function computes class-wise (default)
or sample-wise (samplewise=True) multilabel confusion matrix to evaluate
the accuracy of a classification. multilabel_confusion_matrix also treats
multiclass data as if it were multilabel, as this is a transformation commonly
applied to evaluate multiclass problems with binary classification metrics
(such as precision, recall, etc.).

When calculating class-wise multilabel confusion matrix :math:`C`, the
count of true negatives for class :math:`i` is :math:`C_{i,0,0}`, false
negatives is :math:`C_{i,1,0}`, true positives is :math:`C_{i,1,1}`
and false positives is :math:`C_{i,0,1}`.

Here is an example demonstrating the use of the
:func:`multilabel_confusion_matrix` function with
:term:`multilabel indicator matrix` input::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import multilabel_confusion_matrix
    >>> y_true = np.array([[1, 0, 1],
    ...                    [0, 1, 0]])
    >>> y_pred = np.array([[1, 0, 0],
    ...                    [0, 1, 1]])
    >>> multilabel_confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred)
    array([[[1, 0],
            [0, 1]],
    <BLANKLINE>
           [[1, 0],
            [0, 1]],
    <BLANKLINE>
           [[0, 1],
            [1, 0]]])

Or a confusion matrix can be constructed for each sample's labels:

    >>> multilabel_confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred, samplewise=True)
    array([[[1, 0],
            [1, 1]],
    <BLANKLINE>
           [[1, 1],
            [0, 1]]])

Here is an example demonstrating the use of the
:func:`multilabel_confusion_matrix` function with
:term:`multiclass` input::

    >>> y_true = ["cat", "ant", "cat", "cat", "ant", "bird"]
    >>> y_pred = ["ant", "ant", "cat", "cat", "ant", "cat"]
    >>> multilabel_confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred,
    ...                             labels=["ant", "bird", "cat"])
    array([[[3, 1],
            [0, 2]],
    <BLANKLINE>
           [[5, 0],
            [1, 0]],
    <BLANKLINE>
           [[2, 1],
            [1, 2]]])

Here are some examples demonstrating the use of the
:func:`multilabel_confusion_matrix` function to calculate recall
(or sensitivity), specificity, fall out and miss rate for each class in a
problem with multilabel indicator matrix input.

Calculating
`recall <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity>`__
(also called the true positive rate or the sensitivity) for each class::

    >>> y_true = np.array([[0, 0, 1],
    ...                    [0, 1, 0],
    ...                    [1, 1, 0]])
    >>> y_pred = np.array([[0, 1, 0],
    ...                    [0, 0, 1],
    ...                    [1, 1, 0]])
    >>> mcm = multilabel_confusion_matrix(y_true, y_pred)
    >>> tn = mcm[:, 0, 0]
    >>> tp = mcm[:, 1, 1]
    >>> fn = mcm[:, 1, 0]
    >>> fp = mcm[:, 0, 1]
    >>> tp / (tp + fn)
    array([1. , 0.5, 0. ])

Calculating
`specificity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity>`__
(also called the true negative rate) for each class::

    >>> tn / (tn + fp)
    array([1. , 0. , 0.5])

Calculating `fall out <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate>`__
(also called the false positive rate) for each class::

    >>> fp / (fp + tn)
    array([0. , 1. , 0.5])

Calculating `miss rate
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives>`__
(also called the false negative rate) for each class::

    >>> fn / (fn + tp)
    array([0. , 0.5, 1. ])

.. _roc_metrics:

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
---------------------------------------

The function :func:`roc_curve` computes the
`receiver operating characteristic curve, or ROC curve <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic>`_.
Quoting Wikipedia :

  "A receiver operating characteristic (ROC), or simply ROC curve, is a
  graphical plot which illustrates the performance of a binary classifier
  system as its discrimination threshold is varied. It is created by plotting
  the fraction of true positives out of the positives (TPR = true positive
  rate) vs. the fraction of false positives out of the negatives (FPR = false
  positive rate), at various threshold settings. TPR is also known as
  sensitivity, and FPR is one minus the specificity or true negative rate."

This function requires the true binary value and the target scores, which can
either be probability estimates of the positive class, confidence values, or
binary decisions. Here is a small example of how to use the :func:`roc_curve`
function::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import roc_curve
    >>> y = np.array([1, 1, 2, 2])
    >>> scores = np.array([0.1, 0.4, 0.35, 0.8])
    >>> fpr, tpr, thresholds = roc_curve(y, scores, pos_label=2)
    >>> fpr
    array([0. , 0. , 0.5, 0.5, 1. ])
    >>> tpr
    array([0. , 0.5, 0.5, 1. , 1. ])
    >>> thresholds
    array([ inf, 0.8 , 0.4 , 0.35, 0.1 ])

Compared to metrics such as the subset accuracy, the Hamming loss, or the
F1 score, ROC doesn't require optimizing a threshold for each label.

The :func:`roc_auc_score` function, denoted by ROC-AUC or AUROC, computes the
area under the ROC curve. By doing so, the curve information is summarized in
one number.

The following figure shows the ROC curve and ROC-AUC score for a classifier
aimed to distinguish the virginica flower from the rest of the species in the
:ref:`iris_dataset`:

.. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_roc_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_roc.html
   :scale: 75
   :align: center



For more information see the `Wikipedia article on AUC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic#Area_under_the_curve>`_.

.. _roc_auc_binary:

Binary case
^^^^^^^^^^^

In the **binary case**, you can either provide the probability estimates, using
the `classifier.predict_proba()` method, or the non-thresholded decision values
given by the `classifier.decision_function()` method. In the case of providing
the probability estimates, the probability of the class with the
"greater label" should be provided. The "greater label" corresponds to
`classifier.classes_[1]` and thus `classifier.predict_proba(X)[:, 1]`.
Therefore, the `y_score` parameter is of size (n_samples,).

  >>> from sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer
  >>> from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
  >>> from sklearn.metrics import roc_auc_score
  >>> X, y = load_breast_cancer(return_X_y=True)
  >>> clf = LogisticRegression(solver="liblinear").fit(X, y)
  >>> clf.classes_
  array([0, 1])

We can use the probability estimates corresponding to `clf.classes_[1]`.

  >>> y_score = clf.predict_proba(X)[:, 1]
  >>> roc_auc_score(y, y_score)
  0.99...

Otherwise, we can use the non-thresholded decision values

  >>> roc_auc_score(y, clf.decision_function(X))
  0.99...

.. _roc_auc_multiclass:

Multi-class case
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The :func:`roc_auc_score` function can also be used in **multi-class
classification**. Two averaging strategies are currently supported: the
one-vs-one algorithm computes the average of the pairwise ROC AUC scores, and
the one-vs-rest algorithm computes the average of the ROC AUC scores for each
class against all other classes. In both cases, the predicted labels are
provided in an array with values from 0 to ``n_classes``, and the scores
correspond to the probability estimates that a sample belongs to a particular
class. The OvO and OvR algorithms support weighting uniformly
(``average='macro'``) and by prevalence (``average='weighted'``).

.. dropdown:: One-vs-one Algorithm

  Computes the average AUC of all possible pairwise
  combinations of classes. [HT2001]_ defines a multiclass AUC metric weighted
  uniformly:

  .. math::

    \frac{1}{c(c-1)}\sum_{j=1}^{c}\sum_{k > j}^c (\text{AUC}(j | k) +
    \text{AUC}(k | j))

  where :math:`c` is the number of classes and :math:`\text{AUC}(j | k)` is the
  AUC with class :math:`j` as the positive class and class :math:`k` as the
  negative class. In general,
  :math:`\text{AUC}(j | k) \neq \text{AUC}(k | j))` in the multiclass
  case. This algorithm is used by setting the keyword argument ``multiclass``
  to ``'ovo'`` and ``average`` to ``'macro'``.

  The [HT2001]_ multiclass AUC metric can be extended to be weighted by the
  prevalence:

  .. math::

    \frac{1}{c(c-1)}\sum_{j=1}^{c}\sum_{k > j}^c p(j \cup k)(
    \text{AUC}(j | k) + \text{AUC}(k | j))

  where :math:`c` is the number of classes. This algorithm is used by setting
  the keyword argument ``multiclass`` to ``'ovo'`` and ``average`` to
  ``'weighted'``. The ``'weighted'`` option returns a prevalence-weighted average
  as described in [FC2009]_.

.. dropdown:: One-vs-rest Algorithm

  Computes the AUC of each class against the rest
  [PD2000]_. The algorithm is functionally the same as the multilabel case. To
  enable this algorithm set the keyword argument ``multiclass`` to ``'ovr'``.
  Additionally to ``'macro'`` [F2006]_ and ``'weighted'`` [F2001]_ averaging, OvR
  supports ``'micro'`` averaging.

  In applications where a high false positive rate is not tolerable the parameter
  ``max_fpr`` of :func:`roc_auc_score` can be used to summarize the ROC curve up
  to the given limit.

  The following figure shows the micro-averaged ROC curve and its corresponding
  ROC-AUC score for a classifier aimed to distinguish the different species in
  the :ref:`iris_dataset`:

  .. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_roc_002.png
    :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_roc.html
    :scale: 75
    :align: center

.. _roc_auc_multilabel:

Multi-label case
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In **multi-label classification**, the :func:`roc_auc_score` function is
extended by averaging over the labels as :ref:`above <average>`. In this case,
you should provide a `y_score` of shape `(n_samples, n_classes)`. Thus, when
using the probability estimates, one needs to select the probability of the
class with the greater label for each output.

  >>> from sklearn.datasets import make_multilabel_classification
  >>> from sklearn.multioutput import MultiOutputClassifier
  >>> X, y = make_multilabel_classification(random_state=0)
  >>> inner_clf = LogisticRegression(solver="liblinear", random_state=0)
  >>> clf = MultiOutputClassifier(inner_clf).fit(X, y)
  >>> y_score = np.transpose([y_pred[:, 1] for y_pred in clf.predict_proba(X)])
  >>> roc_auc_score(y, y_score, average=None)
  array([0.82..., 0.86..., 0.94..., 0.85... , 0.94...])

And the decision values do not require such processing.

  >>> from sklearn.linear_model import RidgeClassifierCV
  >>> clf = RidgeClassifierCV().fit(X, y)
  >>> y_score = clf.decision_function(X)
  >>> roc_auc_score(y, y_score, average=None)
  array([0.81..., 0.84... , 0.93..., 0.87..., 0.94...])

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_roc.py` for an example of
  using ROC to evaluate the quality of the output of a classifier.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_roc_crossval.py`  for an
  example of using ROC to evaluate classifier output quality, using cross-validation.

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_applications_plot_species_distribution_modeling.py`
  for an example of using ROC to model species distribution.

.. rubric:: References

.. [HT2001] Hand, D.J. and Till, R.J., (2001). `A simple generalisation
   of the area under the ROC curve for multiple class classification problems.
   <http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1010920819831>`_
   Machine learning, 45(2), pp. 171-186.

.. [FC2009] Ferri, Cèsar & Hernandez-Orallo, Jose & Modroiu, R. (2009).
   `An Experimental Comparison of Performance Measures for Classification.
   <https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/data/roc/ferri-class-perf-metrics.pdf>`_
   Pattern Recognition Letters. 30. 27-38.

.. [PD2000] Provost, F., Domingos, P. (2000). `Well-trained PETs: Improving
   probability estimation trees
   <https://fosterprovost.com/publication/well-trained-pets-improving-probability-estimation-trees/>`_
   (Section 6.2), CeDER Working Paper #IS-00-04, Stern School of Business,
   New York University.

.. [F2006] Fawcett, T., 2006. `An introduction to ROC analysis.
   <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016786550500303X>`_
   Pattern Recognition Letters, 27(8), pp. 861-874.

.. [F2001] Fawcett, T., 2001. `Using rule sets to maximize
   ROC performance <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/989510/>`_
   In Data Mining, 2001.
   Proceedings IEEE International Conference, pp. 131-138.

.. _det_curve:

Detection error tradeoff (DET)
------------------------------

The function :func:`det_curve` computes the
detection error tradeoff curve (DET) curve [WikipediaDET2017]_.
Quoting Wikipedia:

  "A detection error tradeoff (DET) graph is a graphical plot of error rates
  for binary classification systems, plotting false reject rate vs. false
  accept rate. The x- and y-axes are scaled non-linearly by their standard
  normal deviates (or just by logarithmic transformation), yielding tradeoff
  curves that are more linear than ROC curves, and use most of the image area
  to highlight the differences of importance in the critical operating region."

DET curves are a variation of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves
where False Negative Rate is plotted on the y-axis instead of True Positive
Rate.
DET curves are commonly plotted in normal deviate scale by transformation with
:math:`\phi^{-1}` (with :math:`\phi` being the cumulative distribution
function).
The resulting performance curves explicitly visualize the tradeoff of error
types for given classification algorithms.
See [Martin1997]_ for examples and further motivation.

This figure compares the ROC and DET curves of two example classifiers on the
same classification task:

.. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_det_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_det.html
   :scale: 75
   :align: center

.. dropdown:: Properties

  * DET curves form a linear curve in normal deviate scale if the detection
    scores are normally (or close-to normally) distributed.
    It was shown by [Navratil2007]_ that the reverse is not necessarily true and
    even more general distributions are able to produce linear DET curves.

  * The normal deviate scale transformation spreads out the points such that a
    comparatively larger space of plot is occupied.
    Therefore curves with similar classification performance might be easier to
    distinguish on a DET plot.

  * With False Negative Rate being "inverse" to True Positive Rate the point
    of perfection for DET curves is the origin (in contrast to the top left
    corner for ROC curves).

.. dropdown:: Applications and limitations

  DET curves are intuitive to read and hence allow quick visual assessment of a
  classifier's performance.
  Additionally DET curves can be consulted for threshold analysis and operating
  point selection.
  This is particularly helpful if a comparison of error types is required.

  On the other hand DET curves do not provide their metric as a single number.
  Therefore for either automated evaluation or comparison to other
  classification tasks metrics like the derived area under ROC curve might be
  better suited.

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_det.py`
  for an example comparison between receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
  curves and Detection error tradeoff (DET) curves.

.. rubric:: References

.. [WikipediaDET2017] Wikipedia contributors. Detection error tradeoff.
    Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. September 4, 2017, 23:33 UTC.
    Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detection_error_tradeoff&oldid=798982054.
    Accessed February 19, 2018.

.. [Martin1997] A. Martin, G. Doddington, T. Kamm, M. Ordowski, and M. Przybocki,
    `The DET Curve in Assessment of Detection Task Performance
    <https://ccc.inaoep.mx/~villasen/bib/martin97det.pdf>`_, NIST 1997.

.. [Navratil2007] J. Navractil and D. Klusacek,
    `"On Linear DETs" <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4218079>`_,
    2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
    Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '07, Honolulu,
    HI, 2007, pp. IV-229-IV-232.

.. _zero_one_loss:

Zero one loss
--------------

The :func:`zero_one_loss` function computes the sum or the average of the 0-1
classification loss (:math:`L_{0-1}`) over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}`. By
default, the function normalizes over the sample. To get the sum of the
:math:`L_{0-1}`, set ``normalize`` to ``False``.

In multilabel classification, the :func:`zero_one_loss` scores a subset as
one if its labels strictly match the predictions, and as a zero if there
are any errors.  By default, the function returns the percentage of imperfectly
predicted subsets.  To get the count of such subsets instead, set
``normalize`` to ``False``

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of
the :math:`i`-th sample and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value,
then the 0-1 loss :math:`L_{0-1}` is defined as:

.. math::

   L_{0-1}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples}-1} 1(\hat{y}_i \not= y_i)

where :math:`1(x)` is the `indicator function
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_function>`_. The zero one
loss can also be computed as :math:`zero-one loss = 1 - accuracy`.


  >>> from sklearn.metrics import zero_one_loss
  >>> y_pred = [1, 2, 3, 4]
  >>> y_true = [2, 2, 3, 4]
  >>> zero_one_loss(y_true, y_pred)
  0.25
  >>> zero_one_loss(y_true, y_pred, normalize=False)
  1.0

In the multilabel case with binary label indicators, where the first label
set [0,1] has an error::

  >>> zero_one_loss(np.array([[0, 1], [1, 1]]), np.ones((2, 2)))
  0.5

  >>> zero_one_loss(np.array([[0, 1], [1, 1]]), np.ones((2, 2)),  normalize=False)
  1.0

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_feature_selection_plot_rfe_with_cross_validation.py`
  for an example of zero one loss usage to perform recursive feature
  elimination with cross-validation.

.. _brier_score_loss:

Brier score loss
----------------

The :func:`brier_score_loss` function computes the
`Brier score <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score>`_
for binary classes [Brier1950]_. Quoting Wikipedia:

    "The Brier score is a proper score function that measures the accuracy of
    probabilistic predictions. It is applicable to tasks in which predictions
    must assign probabilities to a set of mutually exclusive discrete outcomes."

This function returns the mean squared error of the actual outcome
:math:`y \in \{0,1\}` and the predicted probability estimate
:math:`p = \operatorname{Pr}(y = 1)` (:term:`predict_proba`) as outputted by:

.. math::

   BS = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}} - 1}(y_i - p_i)^2

The Brier score loss is also between 0 to 1 and the lower the value (the mean
square difference is smaller), the more accurate the prediction is.

Here is a small example of usage of this function::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import brier_score_loss
    >>> y_true = np.array([0, 1, 1, 0])
    >>> y_true_categorical = np.array(["spam", "ham", "ham", "spam"])
    >>> y_prob = np.array([0.1, 0.9, 0.8, 0.4])
    >>> y_pred = np.array([0, 1, 1, 0])
    >>> brier_score_loss(y_true, y_prob)
    0.055
    >>> brier_score_loss(y_true, 1 - y_prob, pos_label=0)
    0.055
    >>> brier_score_loss(y_true_categorical, y_prob, pos_label="ham")
    0.055
    >>> brier_score_loss(y_true, y_prob > 0.5)
    0.0

The Brier score can be used to assess how well a classifier is calibrated.
However, a lower Brier score loss does not always mean a better calibration.
This is because, by analogy with the bias-variance decomposition of the mean
squared error, the Brier score loss can be decomposed as the sum of calibration
loss and refinement loss [Bella2012]_. Calibration loss is defined as the mean
squared deviation from empirical probabilities derived from the slope of ROC
segments. Refinement loss can be defined as the expected optimal loss as
measured by the area under the optimal cost curve. Refinement loss can change
independently from calibration loss, thus a lower Brier score loss does not
necessarily mean a better calibrated model. "Only when refinement loss remains
the same does a lower Brier score loss always mean better calibration"
[Bella2012]_, [Flach2008]_.

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_calibration_plot_calibration.py`
  for an example of Brier score loss usage to perform probability
  calibration of classifiers.

.. rubric:: References

.. [Brier1950] G. Brier, `Verification of forecasts expressed in terms of probability
  <ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/mwr/078/mwr-078-01-0001.pdf>`_,
  Monthly weather review 78.1 (1950)

.. [Bella2012] Bella, Ferri, Hernández-Orallo, and Ramírez-Quintana
  `"Calibration of Machine Learning Models"
  <http://dmip.webs.upv.es/papers/BFHRHandbook2010.pdf>`_
  in Khosrow-Pour, M. "Machine learning: concepts, methodologies, tools
  and applications." Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference (2012).

.. [Flach2008] Flach, Peter, and Edson Matsubara. `"On classification, ranking,
  and probability estimation." <https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1382/>`_
  Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fr Informatik (2008).

.. _class_likelihood_ratios:

Class likelihood ratios
-----------------------

The :func:`class_likelihood_ratios` function computes the `positive and negative
likelihood ratios
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_ratios_in_diagnostic_testing>`_
:math:`LR_\pm` for binary classes, which can be interpreted as the ratio of
post-test to pre-test odds as explained below. As a consequence, this metric is
invariant w.r.t. the class prevalence (the number of samples in the positive
class divided by the total number of samples) and **can be extrapolated between
populations regardless of any possible class imbalance.**

The :math:`LR_\pm` metrics are therefore very useful in settings where the data
available to learn and evaluate a classifier is a study population with nearly
balanced classes, such as a case-control study, while the target application,
i.e. the general population, has very low prevalence.

The positive likelihood ratio :math:`LR_+` is the probability of a classifier to
correctly predict that a sample belongs to the positive class divided by the
probability of predicting the positive class for a sample belonging to the
negative class:

.. math::

   LR_+ = \frac{\text{PR}(P+|T+)}{\text{PR}(P+|T-)}.

The notation here refers to predicted (:math:`P`) or true (:math:`T`) label and
the sign :math:`+` and :math:`-` refer to the positive and negative class,
respectively, e.g. :math:`P+` stands for "predicted positive".

Analogously, the negative likelihood ratio :math:`LR_-` is the probability of a
sample of the positive class being classified as belonging to the negative class
divided by the probability of a sample of the negative class being correctly
classified:

.. math::

   LR_- = \frac{\text{PR}(P-|T+)}{\text{PR}(P-|T-)}.

For classifiers above chance :math:`LR_+` above 1 **higher is better**, while
:math:`LR_-` ranges from 0 to 1 and **lower is better**.
Values of :math:`LR_\pm\approx 1` correspond to chance level.

Notice that probabilities differ from counts, for instance
:math:`\operatorname{PR}(P+|T+)` is not equal to the number of true positive
counts ``tp`` (see `the wikipedia page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_ratios_in_diagnostic_testing>`_ for
the actual formulas).

.. rubric:: Examples

* :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_plot_likelihood_ratios.py`

.. dropdown:: Interpretation across varying prevalence

  Both class likelihood ratios are interpretable in terms of an odds ratio
  (pre-test and post-tests):

  .. math::

    \text{post-test odds} = \text{Likelihood ratio} \times \text{pre-test odds}.

  Odds are in general related to probabilities via

  .. math::

    \text{odds} = \frac{\text{probability}}{1 - \text{probability}},

  or equivalently

  .. math::

    \text{probability} = \frac{\text{odds}}{1 + \text{odds}}.

  On a given population, the pre-test probability is given by the prevalence. By
  converting odds to probabilities, the likelihood ratios can be translated into a
  probability of truly belonging to either class before and after a classifier
  prediction:

  .. math::

    \text{post-test odds} = \text{Likelihood ratio} \times
    \frac{\text{pre-test probability}}{1 - \text{pre-test probability}},

  .. math::

    \text{post-test probability} = \frac{\text{post-test odds}}{1 + \text{post-test odds}}.

.. dropdown:: Mathematical divergences

  The positive likelihood ratio is undefined when :math:`fp = 0`, which can be
  interpreted as the classifier perfectly identifying positive cases. If :math:`fp
  = 0` and additionally :math:`tp = 0`, this leads to a zero/zero division. This
  happens, for instance, when using a `DummyClassifier` that always predicts the
  negative class and therefore the interpretation as a perfect classifier is lost.

  The negative likelihood ratio is undefined when :math:`tn = 0`. Such divergence
  is invalid, as :math:`LR_- > 1` would indicate an increase in the odds of a
  sample belonging to the positive class after being classified as negative, as if
  the act of classifying caused the positive condition. This includes the case of
  a `DummyClassifier` that always predicts the positive class (i.e. when
  :math:`tn=fn=0`).

  Both class likelihood ratios are undefined when :math:`tp=fn=0`, which means
  that no samples of the positive class were present in the testing set. This can
  also happen when cross-validating highly imbalanced data.

  In all the previous cases the :func:`class_likelihood_ratios` function raises by
  default an appropriate warning message and returns `nan` to avoid pollution when
  averaging over cross-validation folds.

  For a worked-out demonstration of the :func:`class_likelihood_ratios` function,
  see the example below.

.. dropdown:: References

  * `Wikipedia entry for Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_ratios_in_diagnostic_testing>`_

  * Brenner, H., & Gefeller, O. (1997).
    Variation of sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios and predictive
    values with disease prevalence.
    Statistics in medicine, 16(9), 981-991.


.. _d2_score_classification:

D² score for classification
---------------------------

The D² score computes the fraction of deviance explained.
It is a generalization of R², where the squared error is generalized and replaced
by a classification deviance of choice :math:`\text{dev}(y, \hat{y})`
(e.g., Log loss). D² is a form of a *skill score*.
It is calculated as

.. math::

  D^2(y, \hat{y}) = 1 - \frac{\text{dev}(y, \hat{y})}{\text{dev}(y, y_{\text{null}})} \,.

Where :math:`y_{\text{null}}` is the optimal prediction of an intercept-only model
(e.g., the per-class proportion of `y_true` in the case of the Log loss).

Like R², 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
:math:`y_{\text{null}}`, disregarding the input features, would get a D² score
of 0.0.

.. dropdown:: D2 log loss score

  The :func:`d2_log_loss_score` function implements the special case
  of D² with the log loss, see :ref:`log_loss`, i.e.:

  .. math::

    \text{dev}(y, \hat{y}) = \text{log_loss}(y, \hat{y}).

  Here are some usage examples of the :func:`d2_log_loss_score` function::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import d2_log_loss_score
    >>> y_true = [1, 1, 2, 3]
    >>> y_pred = [
    ...    [0.5, 0.25, 0.25],
    ...    [0.5, 0.25, 0.25],
    ...    [0.5, 0.25, 0.25],
    ...    [0.5, 0.25, 0.25],
    ... ]
    >>> d2_log_loss_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.0
    >>> y_true = [1, 2, 3]
    >>> y_pred = [
    ...     [0.98, 0.01, 0.01],
    ...     [0.01, 0.98, 0.01],
    ...     [0.01, 0.01, 0.98],
    ... ]
    >>> d2_log_loss_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.981...
    >>> y_true = [1, 2, 3]
    >>> y_pred = [
    ...     [0.1, 0.6, 0.3],
    ...     [0.1, 0.6, 0.3],
    ...     [0.4, 0.5, 0.1],
    ... ]
    >>> d2_log_loss_score(y_true, y_pred)
    -0.552...


.. _multilabel_ranking_metrics:

Multilabel ranking metrics
==========================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.metrics

In multilabel learning, each sample can have any number of ground truth labels
associated with it. The goal is to give high scores and better rank to
the ground truth labels.

.. _coverage_error:

Coverage error
--------------

The :func:`coverage_error` function computes the average number of labels that
have to be included in the final prediction such that all true labels
are predicted. This is useful if you want to know how many top-scored-labels
you have to predict in average without missing any true one. The best value
of this metrics is thus the average number of true labels.

.. note::

    Our implementation's score is 1 greater than the one given in Tsoumakas
    et al., 2010. This extends it to handle the degenerate case in which an
    instance has 0 true labels.

Formally, given a binary indicator matrix of the ground truth labels
:math:`y \in \left\{0, 1\right\}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}` and the
score associated with each label
:math:`\hat{f} \in \mathbb{R}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}`,
the coverage is defined as

.. math::
  coverage(y, \hat{f}) = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}}
    \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}} - 1} \max_{j:y_{ij} = 1} \text{rank}_{ij}

with :math:`\text{rank}_{ij} = \left|\left\{k: \hat{f}_{ik} \geq \hat{f}_{ij} \right\}\right|`.
Given the rank definition, ties in ``y_scores`` are broken by giving the
maximal rank that would have been assigned to all tied values.

Here is a small example of usage of this function::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import coverage_error
    >>> y_true = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1]])
    >>> y_score = np.array([[0.75, 0.5, 1], [1, 0.2, 0.1]])
    >>> coverage_error(y_true, y_score)
    2.5

.. _label_ranking_average_precision:

Label ranking average precision
-------------------------------

The :func:`label_ranking_average_precision_score` function
implements label ranking average precision (LRAP). This metric is linked to
the :func:`average_precision_score` function, but is based on the notion of
label ranking instead of precision and recall.

Label ranking average precision (LRAP) averages over the samples the answer to
the following question: for each ground truth label, what fraction of
higher-ranked labels were true labels? This performance measure will be higher
if you are able to give better rank to the labels associated with each sample.
The obtained score is always strictly greater than 0, and the best value is 1.
If there is exactly one relevant label per sample, label ranking average
precision is equivalent to the `mean
reciprocal rank <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_reciprocal_rank>`_.

Formally, given a binary indicator matrix of the ground truth labels
:math:`y \in \left\{0, 1\right\}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}`
and the score associated with each label
:math:`\hat{f} \in \mathbb{R}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}`,
the average precision is defined as

.. math::
  LRAP(y, \hat{f}) = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}}
    \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}} - 1} \frac{1}{||y_i||_0}
    \sum_{j:y_{ij} = 1} \frac{|\mathcal{L}_{ij}|}{\text{rank}_{ij}}


where
:math:`\mathcal{L}_{ij} = \left\{k: y_{ik} = 1, \hat{f}_{ik} \geq \hat{f}_{ij} \right\}`,
:math:`\text{rank}_{ij} = \left|\left\{k: \hat{f}_{ik} \geq \hat{f}_{ij} \right\}\right|`,
:math:`|\cdot|` computes the cardinality of the set (i.e., the number of
elements in the set), and :math:`||\cdot||_0` is the :math:`\ell_0` "norm"
(which computes the number of nonzero elements in a vector).

Here is a small example of usage of this function::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import label_ranking_average_precision_score
    >>> y_true = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1]])
    >>> y_score = np.array([[0.75, 0.5, 1], [1, 0.2, 0.1]])
    >>> label_ranking_average_precision_score(y_true, y_score)
    0.416...

.. _label_ranking_loss:

Ranking loss
------------

The :func:`label_ranking_loss` function computes the ranking loss which
averages over the samples the number of label pairs that are incorrectly
ordered, i.e. true labels have a lower score than false labels, weighted by
the inverse of the number of ordered pairs of false and true labels.
The lowest achievable ranking loss is zero.

Formally, given a binary indicator matrix of the ground truth labels
:math:`y \in \left\{0, 1\right\}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}` and the
score associated with each label
:math:`\hat{f} \in \mathbb{R}^{n_\text{samples} \times n_\text{labels}}`,
the ranking loss is defined as

.. math::
  ranking\_loss(y, \hat{f}) =  \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}}
    \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}} - 1} \frac{1}{||y_i||_0(n_\text{labels} - ||y_i||_0)}
    \left|\left\{(k, l): \hat{f}_{ik} \leq \hat{f}_{il}, y_{ik} = 1, y_{il} = 0 \right\}\right|

where :math:`|\cdot|` computes the cardinality of the set (i.e., the number of
elements in the set) and :math:`||\cdot||_0` is the :math:`\ell_0` "norm"
(which computes the number of nonzero elements in a vector).

Here is a small example of usage of this function::

    >>> import numpy as np
    >>> from sklearn.metrics import label_ranking_loss
    >>> y_true = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1]])
    >>> y_score = np.array([[0.75, 0.5, 1], [1, 0.2, 0.1]])
    >>> label_ranking_loss(y_true, y_score)
    0.75...
    >>> # With the following prediction, we have perfect and minimal loss
    >>> y_score = np.array([[1.0, 0.1, 0.2], [0.1, 0.2, 0.9]])
    >>> label_ranking_loss(y_true, y_score)
    0.0


.. dropdown:: References

  * Tsoumakas, G., Katakis, I., & Vlahavas, I. (2010). Mining multi-label data. In
    Data mining and knowledge discovery handbook (pp. 667-685). Springer US.


.. _ndcg:

Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain
-------------------------------------

Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG) and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain
(NDCG) are ranking metrics implemented in :func:`~sklearn.metrics.dcg_score`
and :func:`~sklearn.metrics.ndcg_score` ; they compare a predicted order to
ground-truth scores, such as the relevance of answers to a query.

From the Wikipedia page for Discounted Cumulative Gain:

"Discounted cumulative gain (DCG) is a measure of ranking quality. In
information retrieval, it is often used to measure effectiveness of web search
engine algorithms or related applications. Using a graded relevance scale of
documents in a search-engine result set, DCG measures the usefulness, or gain,
of a document based on its position in the result list. The gain is accumulated
from the top of the result list to the bottom, with the gain of each result
discounted at lower ranks"

DCG orders the true targets (e.g. relevance of query answers) in the predicted
order, then multiplies them by a logarithmic decay and sums the result. The sum
can be truncated after the first :math:`K` results, in which case we call it
DCG@K.
NDCG, or NDCG@K is DCG divided by the DCG obtained by a perfect prediction, so
that it is always between 0 and 1. Usually, NDCG is preferred to DCG.

Compared with the ranking loss, NDCG can take into account relevance scores,
rather than a ground-truth ranking. So if the ground-truth consists only of an
ordering, the ranking loss should be preferred; if the ground-truth consists of
actual usefulness scores (e.g. 0 for irrelevant, 1 for relevant, 2 for very
relevant), NDCG can be used.

For one sample, given the vector of continuous ground-truth values for each
target :math:`y \in \mathbb{R}^{M}`, where :math:`M` is the number of outputs, and
the prediction :math:`\hat{y}`, which induces the ranking function :math:`f`, the
DCG score is

.. math::
   \sum_{r=1}^{\min(K, M)}\frac{y_{f(r)}}{\log(1 + r)}

and the NDCG score is the DCG score divided by the DCG score obtained for
:math:`y`.

.. dropdown:: References

  * `Wikipedia entry for Discounted Cumulative Gain
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cumulative_gain>`_

  * Jarvelin, K., & Kekalainen, J. (2002).
    Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques. ACM Transactions on
    Information Systems (TOIS), 20(4), 422-446.

  * Wang, Y., Wang, L., Li, Y., He, D., Chen, W., & Liu, T. Y. (2013, May).
    A theoretical analysis of NDCG ranking measures. In Proceedings of the 26th
    Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2013)

  * McSherry, F., & Najork, M. (2008, March). Computing information retrieval
    performance measures efficiently in the presence of tied scores. In
    European conference on information retrieval (pp. 414-421). Springer,
    Berlin, Heidelberg.


.. _regression_metrics:

Regression metrics
===================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.metrics

The :mod:`sklearn.metrics` module implements several loss, score, and utility
functions to measure regression performance. Some of those have been enhanced
to handle the multioutput case: :func:`mean_squared_error`,
:func:`mean_absolute_error`, :func:`r2_score`,
:func:`explained_variance_score`, :func:`mean_pinball_loss`, :func:`d2_pinball_score`
and :func:`d2_absolute_error_score`.


These functions have a ``multioutput`` keyword argument which specifies the
way the scores or losses for each individual target should be averaged. The
default is ``'uniform_average'``, which specifies a uniformly weighted mean
over outputs. If an ``ndarray`` of shape ``(n_outputs,)`` is passed, then its
entries are interpreted as weights and an according weighted average is
returned. If ``multioutput`` is ``'raw_values'``, then all unaltered
individual scores or losses will be returned in an array of shape
``(n_outputs,)``.


The :func:`r2_score` and :func:`explained_variance_score` accept an additional
value ``'variance_weighted'`` for the ``multioutput`` parameter. This option
leads to a weighting of each individual score by the variance of the
corresponding target variable. This setting quantifies the globally captured
unscaled variance. If the target variables are of different scale, then this
score puts more importance on explaining the higher variance variables.

.. _r2_score:

R² score, the coefficient of determination
-------------------------------------------

The :func:`r2_score` function computes the `coefficient of
determination <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination>`_,
usually denoted as :math:`R^2`.

It represents the proportion of variance (of y) that has been explained by the
independent variables in the model. It provides an indication of goodness of
fit and therefore a measure of how well unseen samples are likely to be
predicted by the model, through the proportion of explained variance.

As such variance is dataset dependent, :math:`R^2` may not be meaningfully comparable
across different datasets. 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 (average) value of y, disregarding the input features,
would get an :math:`R^2` score of 0.0.

Note: when the prediction residuals have zero mean, the :math:`R^2` score and
the :ref:`explained_variance_score` are identical.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value for total :math:`n` samples,
the estimated :math:`R^2` is defined as:

.. math::

  R^2(y, \hat{y}) = 1 - \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} (y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2}{\sum_{i=1}^{n} (y_i - \bar{y})^2}

where :math:`\bar{y} = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} y_i` and :math:`\sum_{i=1}^{n} (y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2 = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \epsilon_i^2`.

Note that :func:`r2_score` calculates unadjusted :math:`R^2` without correcting for
bias in sample variance of y.

In the particular case where the true target is constant, the :math:`R^2` score is
not finite: it is either ``NaN`` (perfect predictions) or ``-Inf`` (imperfect
predictions). Such non-finite scores may prevent correct model optimization
such as grid-search cross-validation to be performed correctly. For this reason
the default behaviour of :func:`r2_score` is to replace them with 1.0 (perfect
predictions) or 0.0 (imperfect predictions). If ``force_finite``
is set to ``False``, this score falls back on the original :math:`R^2` definition.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`r2_score` function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import r2_score
  >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
  >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.948...
  >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]]
  >>> y_pred = [[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]]
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput='variance_weighted')
  0.938...
  >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]]
  >>> y_pred = [[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]]
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput='uniform_average')
  0.936...
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput='raw_values')
  array([0.965..., 0.908...])
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput=[0.3, 0.7])
  0.925...
  >>> y_true = [-2, -2, -2]
  >>> y_pred = [-2, -2, -2]
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred)
  1.0
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, force_finite=False)
  nan
  >>> y_true = [-2, -2, -2]
  >>> y_pred = [-2, -2, -2 + 1e-8]
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred)
  0.0
  >>> r2_score(y_true, y_pred, force_finite=False)
  -inf

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_linear_model_plot_lasso_and_elasticnet.py`
  for an example of R² score usage to
  evaluate Lasso and Elastic Net on sparse signals.

.. _mean_absolute_error:

Mean absolute error
-------------------

The :func:`mean_absolute_error` function computes `mean absolute
error <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_absolute_error>`_, a risk
metric corresponding to the expected value of the absolute error loss or
:math:`l1`-norm loss.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample,
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the mean absolute error
(MAE) estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}` is defined as

.. math::

  \text{MAE}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}}-1} \left| y_i - \hat{y}_i \right|.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`mean_absolute_error` function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_error
  >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
  >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
  >>> mean_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.5
  >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]]
  >>> y_pred = [[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]]
  >>> mean_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.75
  >>> mean_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred, multioutput='raw_values')
  array([0.5, 1. ])
  >>> mean_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred, multioutput=[0.3, 0.7])
  0.85...

.. _mean_squared_error:

Mean squared error
-------------------

The :func:`mean_squared_error` function computes `mean square
error <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_squared_error>`_, a risk
metric corresponding to the expected value of the squared (quadratic) error or
loss.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample,
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the mean squared error
(MSE) estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}` is defined as

.. math::

  \text{MSE}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples} - 1} (y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`mean_squared_error`
function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error
  >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
  >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
  >>> mean_squared_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.375
  >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]]
  >>> y_pred = [[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]]
  >>> mean_squared_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.7083...

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_ensemble_plot_gradient_boosting_regression.py`
  for an example of mean squared error usage to evaluate gradient boosting regression.

Taking the square root of the MSE, called the root mean squared error (RMSE), is another
common metric that provides a measure in the same units as the target variable. RSME is
available through the :func:`root_mean_squared_error` function.

.. _mean_squared_log_error:

Mean squared logarithmic error
------------------------------

The :func:`mean_squared_log_error` function computes a risk metric
corresponding to the expected value of the squared logarithmic (quadratic)
error or loss.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample,
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the mean squared
logarithmic error (MSLE) estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}` is
defined as

.. math::

  \text{MSLE}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples} - 1} (\log_e (1 + y_i) - \log_e (1 + \hat{y}_i) )^2.

Where :math:`\log_e (x)` means the natural logarithm of :math:`x`. This metric
is best to use when targets having exponential growth, such as population
counts, average sales of a commodity over a span of years etc. Note that this
metric penalizes an under-predicted estimate greater than an over-predicted
estimate.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`mean_squared_log_error`
function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_log_error
  >>> y_true = [3, 5, 2.5, 7]
  >>> y_pred = [2.5, 5, 4, 8]
  >>> mean_squared_log_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.039...
  >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [1, 2], [7, 6]]
  >>> y_pred = [[0.5, 2], [1, 2.5], [8, 8]]
  >>> mean_squared_log_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.044...

The root mean squared logarithmic error (RMSLE) is available through the
:func:`root_mean_squared_log_error` function.

.. _mean_absolute_percentage_error:

Mean absolute percentage error
------------------------------
The :func:`mean_absolute_percentage_error` (MAPE), also known as mean absolute
percentage deviation (MAPD), is an evaluation metric for regression problems.
The idea of this metric is to be sensitive to relative errors. It is for example
not changed by a global scaling of the target variable.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the mean absolute percentage
error (MAPE) estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}` is defined as

.. math::

  \text{MAPE}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}}-1} \frac{{}\left| y_i - \hat{y}_i \right|}{\max(\epsilon, \left| y_i \right|)}

where :math:`\epsilon` is an arbitrary small yet strictly positive number to
avoid undefined results when y is zero.

The :func:`mean_absolute_percentage_error` function supports multioutput.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`mean_absolute_percentage_error`
function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_absolute_percentage_error
  >>> y_true = [1, 10, 1e6]
  >>> y_pred = [0.9, 15, 1.2e6]
  >>> mean_absolute_percentage_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.2666...

In above example, if we had used `mean_absolute_error`, it would have ignored
the small magnitude values and only reflected the error in prediction of highest
magnitude value. But that problem is resolved in case of MAPE because it calculates
relative percentage error with respect to actual output.

.. _median_absolute_error:

Median absolute error
---------------------

The :func:`median_absolute_error` is particularly interesting because it is
robust to outliers. The loss is calculated by taking the median of all absolute
differences between the target and the prediction.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the median absolute error
(MedAE) estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}` is defined as

.. math::

  \text{MedAE}(y, \hat{y}) = \text{median}(\mid y_1 - \hat{y}_1 \mid, \ldots, \mid y_n - \hat{y}_n \mid).

The :func:`median_absolute_error` does not support multioutput.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`median_absolute_error`
function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import median_absolute_error
  >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
  >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
  >>> median_absolute_error(y_true, y_pred)
  0.5



.. _max_error:

Max error
-------------------

The :func:`max_error` function computes the maximum `residual error
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors_and_residuals>`_ , a metric
that captures the worst case error between the predicted value and
the true value. In a perfectly fitted single output regression
model, ``max_error`` would be ``0`` on the training set and though this
would be highly unlikely in the real world, this metric shows the
extent of error that the model had when it was fitted.


If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample,
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the max error is
defined as

.. math::

  \text{Max Error}(y, \hat{y}) = \max(| y_i - \hat{y}_i |)

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`max_error` function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import max_error
  >>> y_true = [3, 2, 7, 1]
  >>> y_pred = [9, 2, 7, 1]
  >>> max_error(y_true, y_pred)
  6

The :func:`max_error` does not support multioutput.

.. _explained_variance_score:

Explained variance score
-------------------------

The :func:`explained_variance_score` computes the `explained variance
regression score <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explained_variation>`_.

If :math:`\hat{y}` is the estimated target output, :math:`y` the corresponding
(correct) target output, and :math:`Var` is `Variance
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance>`_, the square of the standard deviation,
then the explained variance is estimated as follow:

.. math::

  explained\_{}variance(y, \hat{y}) = 1 - \frac{Var\{ y - \hat{y}\}}{Var\{y\}}

The best possible score is 1.0, lower values are worse.

.. topic:: Link to :ref:`r2_score`

    The difference between the explained variance score and the :ref:`r2_score`
    is that when the explained variance score does not account for
    systematic offset in the prediction. For this reason, the
    :ref:`r2_score` should be preferred in general.

In the particular case where the true target is constant, the Explained
Variance score is not finite: it is either ``NaN`` (perfect predictions) or
``-Inf`` (imperfect predictions). Such non-finite scores may prevent correct
model optimization such as grid-search cross-validation to be performed
correctly. For this reason the default behaviour of
:func:`explained_variance_score` is to replace them with 1.0 (perfect
predictions) or 0.0 (imperfect predictions). You can set the ``force_finite``
parameter to ``False`` to prevent this fix from happening and fallback on the
original Explained Variance score.

Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`explained_variance_score`
function::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import explained_variance_score
    >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
    >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.957...
    >>> y_true = [[0.5, 1], [-1, 1], [7, -6]]
    >>> y_pred = [[0, 2], [-1, 2], [8, -5]]
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput='raw_values')
    array([0.967..., 1.        ])
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred, multioutput=[0.3, 0.7])
    0.990...
    >>> y_true = [-2, -2, -2]
    >>> y_pred = [-2, -2, -2]
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred)
    1.0
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred, force_finite=False)
    nan
    >>> y_true = [-2, -2, -2]
    >>> y_pred = [-2, -2, -2 + 1e-8]
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.0
    >>> explained_variance_score(y_true, y_pred, force_finite=False)
    -inf


.. _mean_tweedie_deviance:

Mean Poisson, Gamma, and Tweedie deviances
------------------------------------------
The :func:`mean_tweedie_deviance` function computes the `mean Tweedie
deviance error
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedie_distribution#The_Tweedie_deviance>`_
with a ``power`` parameter (:math:`p`). This is a metric that elicits
predicted expectation values of regression targets.

Following special cases exist,

- when ``power=0`` it is equivalent to :func:`mean_squared_error`.
- when ``power=1`` it is equivalent to :func:`mean_poisson_deviance`.
- when ``power=2`` it is equivalent to :func:`mean_gamma_deviance`.

If :math:`\hat{y}_i` is the predicted value of the :math:`i`-th sample,
and :math:`y_i` is the corresponding true value, then the mean Tweedie
deviance error (D) for power :math:`p`, estimated over :math:`n_{\text{samples}}`
is defined as

.. math::

  \text{D}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_\text{samples}}
  \sum_{i=0}^{n_\text{samples} - 1}
  \begin{cases}
  (y_i-\hat{y}_i)^2, & \text{for }p=0\text{ (Normal)}\\
  2(y_i \log(y_i/\hat{y}_i) + \hat{y}_i - y_i),  & \text{for }p=1\text{ (Poisson)}\\
  2(\log(\hat{y}_i/y_i) + y_i/\hat{y}_i - 1),  & \text{for }p=2\text{ (Gamma)}\\
  2\left(\frac{\max(y_i,0)^{2-p}}{(1-p)(2-p)}-
  \frac{y_i\,\hat{y}_i^{1-p}}{1-p}+\frac{\hat{y}_i^{2-p}}{2-p}\right),
  & \text{otherwise}
  \end{cases}

Tweedie deviance is a homogeneous function of degree ``2-power``.
Thus, Gamma distribution with ``power=2`` means that simultaneously scaling
``y_true`` and ``y_pred`` has no effect on the deviance. For Poisson
distribution ``power=1`` the deviance scales linearly, and for Normal
distribution (``power=0``), quadratically.  In general, the higher
``power`` the less weight is given to extreme deviations between true
and predicted targets.

For instance, let's compare the two predictions 1.5 and 150 that are both
50% larger than their corresponding true value.

The mean squared error (``power=0``) is very sensitive to the
prediction difference of the second point,::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_tweedie_deviance
    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([1.0], [1.5], power=0)
    0.25
    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([100.], [150.], power=0)
    2500.0

If we increase ``power`` to 1,::

    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([1.0], [1.5], power=1)
    0.18...
    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([100.], [150.], power=1)
    18.9...

the difference in errors decreases. Finally, by setting, ``power=2``::

    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([1.0], [1.5], power=2)
    0.14...
    >>> mean_tweedie_deviance([100.], [150.], power=2)
    0.14...

we would get identical errors. The deviance when ``power=2`` is thus only
sensitive to relative errors.

.. _pinball_loss:

Pinball loss
------------

The :func:`mean_pinball_loss` function is used to evaluate the predictive
performance of `quantile regression
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile_regression>`_ models.

.. math::

  \text{pinball}(y, \hat{y}) = \frac{1}{n_{\text{samples}}} \sum_{i=0}^{n_{\text{samples}}-1}  \alpha \max(y_i - \hat{y}_i, 0) + (1 - \alpha) \max(\hat{y}_i - y_i, 0)

The value of pinball loss is equivalent to half of :func:`mean_absolute_error` when the quantile
parameter ``alpha`` is set to 0.5.


Here is a small example of usage of the :func:`mean_pinball_loss` function::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import mean_pinball_loss
  >>> y_true = [1, 2, 3]
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, [0, 2, 3], alpha=0.1)
  0.03...
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, [1, 2, 4], alpha=0.1)
  0.3...
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, [0, 2, 3], alpha=0.9)
  0.3...
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, [1, 2, 4], alpha=0.9)
  0.03...
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, y_true, alpha=0.1)
  0.0
  >>> mean_pinball_loss(y_true, y_true, alpha=0.9)
  0.0

It is possible to build a scorer object with a specific choice of ``alpha``::

  >>> from sklearn.metrics import make_scorer
  >>> mean_pinball_loss_95p = make_scorer(mean_pinball_loss, alpha=0.95)

Such a scorer can be used to evaluate the generalization performance of a
quantile regressor via cross-validation:

  >>> from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
  >>> from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
  >>> from sklearn.ensemble import GradientBoostingRegressor
  >>>
  >>> X, y = make_regression(n_samples=100, random_state=0)
  >>> estimator = GradientBoostingRegressor(
  ...     loss="quantile",
  ...     alpha=0.95,
  ...     random_state=0,
  ... )
  >>> cross_val_score(estimator, X, y, cv=5, scoring=mean_pinball_loss_95p)
  array([13.6..., 9.7..., 23.3..., 9.5..., 10.4...])

It is also possible to build scorer objects for hyper-parameter tuning. The
sign of the loss must be switched to ensure that greater means better as
explained in the example linked below.

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_ensemble_plot_gradient_boosting_quantile.py`
  for an example of using the pinball loss to evaluate and tune the
  hyper-parameters of quantile regression models on data with non-symmetric
  noise and outliers.

.. _d2_score:

D² score
--------

The D² score computes the fraction of deviance explained.
It is a generalization of R², where the squared error is generalized and replaced
by a deviance of choice :math:`\text{dev}(y, \hat{y})`
(e.g., Tweedie, pinball or mean absolute error). D² is a form of a *skill score*.
It is calculated as

.. math::

  D^2(y, \hat{y}) = 1 - \frac{\text{dev}(y, \hat{y})}{\text{dev}(y, y_{\text{null}})} \,.

Where :math:`y_{\text{null}}` is the optimal prediction of an intercept-only model
(e.g., the mean of `y_true` for the Tweedie case, the median for absolute
error and the alpha-quantile for pinball loss).

Like R², 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
:math:`y_{\text{null}}`, disregarding the input features, would get a D² score
of 0.0.

.. dropdown:: D² Tweedie score

  The :func:`d2_tweedie_score` function implements the special case of D²
  where :math:`\text{dev}(y, \hat{y})` is the Tweedie deviance, see :ref:`mean_tweedie_deviance`.
  It is also known as D² Tweedie and is related to McFadden's likelihood ratio index.

  The argument ``power`` defines the Tweedie power as for
  :func:`mean_tweedie_deviance`. Note that for `power=0`,
  :func:`d2_tweedie_score` equals :func:`r2_score` (for single targets).

  A scorer object with a specific choice of ``power`` can be built by::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import d2_tweedie_score, make_scorer
    >>> d2_tweedie_score_15 = make_scorer(d2_tweedie_score, power=1.5)

.. dropdown:: D² pinball score

  The :func:`d2_pinball_score` function implements the special case
  of D² with the pinball loss, see :ref:`pinball_loss`, i.e.:

  .. math::

    \text{dev}(y, \hat{y}) = \text{pinball}(y, \hat{y}).

  The argument ``alpha`` defines the slope of the pinball loss as for
  :func:`mean_pinball_loss` (:ref:`pinball_loss`). It determines the
  quantile level ``alpha`` for which the pinball loss and also D²
  are optimal. Note that for `alpha=0.5` (the default) :func:`d2_pinball_score`
  equals :func:`d2_absolute_error_score`.

  A scorer object with a specific choice of ``alpha`` can be built by::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import d2_pinball_score, make_scorer
    >>> d2_pinball_score_08 = make_scorer(d2_pinball_score, alpha=0.8)

.. dropdown:: D² absolute error score

  The :func:`d2_absolute_error_score` function implements the special case of
  the :ref:`mean_absolute_error`:

  .. math::

    \text{dev}(y, \hat{y}) = \text{MAE}(y, \hat{y}).

  Here are some usage examples of the :func:`d2_absolute_error_score` function::

    >>> from sklearn.metrics import d2_absolute_error_score
    >>> y_true = [3, -0.5, 2, 7]
    >>> y_pred = [2.5, 0.0, 2, 8]
    >>> d2_absolute_error_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.764...
    >>> y_true = [1, 2, 3]
    >>> y_pred = [1, 2, 3]
    >>> d2_absolute_error_score(y_true, y_pred)
    1.0
    >>> y_true = [1, 2, 3]
    >>> y_pred = [2, 2, 2]
    >>> d2_absolute_error_score(y_true, y_pred)
    0.0


.. _visualization_regression_evaluation:

Visual evaluation of regression models
--------------------------------------

Among methods to assess the quality of regression models, scikit-learn provides
the :class:`~sklearn.metrics.PredictionErrorDisplay` class. It allows to
visually inspect the prediction errors of a model in two different manners.

.. image:: ../auto_examples/model_selection/images/sphx_glr_plot_cv_predict_001.png
   :target: ../auto_examples/model_selection/plot_cv_predict.html
   :scale: 75
   :align: center

The plot on the left shows the actual values vs predicted values. For a
noise-free regression task aiming to predict the (conditional) expectation of
`y`, a perfect regression model would display data points on the diagonal
defined by predicted equal to actual values. The further away from this optimal
line, the larger the error of the model. In a more realistic setting with
irreducible noise, that is, when not all the variations of `y` can be explained
by features in `X`, then the best model would lead to a cloud of points densely
arranged around the diagonal.

Note that the above only holds when the predicted values is the expected value
of `y` given `X`. This is typically the case for regression models that
minimize the mean squared error objective function or more generally the
:ref:`mean Tweedie deviance <mean_tweedie_deviance>` for any value of its
"power" parameter.

When plotting the predictions of an estimator that predicts a quantile
of `y` given `X`, e.g. :class:`~sklearn.linear_model.QuantileRegressor`
or any other model minimizing the :ref:`pinball loss <pinball_loss>`, a
fraction of the points are either expected to lie above or below the diagonal
depending on the estimated quantile level.

All in all, while intuitive to read, this plot does not really inform us on
what to do to obtain a better model.

The right-hand side plot shows the residuals (i.e. the difference between the
actual and the predicted values) vs. the predicted values.

This plot makes it easier to visualize if the residuals follow and
`homoscedastic or heteroschedastic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoscedasticity_and_heteroscedasticity>`_
distribution.

In particular, if the true distribution of `y|X` is Poisson or Gamma
distributed, it is expected that the variance of the residuals of the optimal
model would grow with the predicted value of `E[y|X]` (either linearly for
Poisson or quadratically for Gamma).

When fitting a linear least squares regression model (see
:class:`~sklearn.linear_model.LinearRegression` and
:class:`~sklearn.linear_model.Ridge`), we can use this plot to check
if some of the `model assumptions
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares#Assumptions>`_
are met, in particular that the residuals should be uncorrelated, their
expected value should be null and that their variance should be constant
(homoschedasticity).

If this is not the case, and in particular if the residuals plot show some
banana-shaped structure, this is a hint that the model is likely mis-specified
and that non-linear feature engineering or switching to a non-linear regression
model might be useful.

Refer to the example below to see a model evaluation that makes use of this
display.

.. rubric:: Examples

* See :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_compose_plot_transformed_target.py` for
  an example on how to use :class:`~sklearn.metrics.PredictionErrorDisplay`
  to visualize the prediction quality improvement of a regression model
  obtained by transforming the target before learning.

.. _clustering_metrics:

Clustering metrics
======================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.metrics

The :mod:`sklearn.metrics` module implements several loss, score, and utility
functions. For more information see the :ref:`clustering_evaluation`
section for instance clustering, and :ref:`biclustering_evaluation` for
biclustering.


.. _dummy_estimators:


Dummy estimators
=================

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.dummy

When doing supervised learning, a simple sanity check consists of comparing
one's estimator against simple rules of thumb. :class:`DummyClassifier`
implements several such simple strategies for classification:

- ``stratified`` generates random predictions by respecting the training
  set class distribution.
- ``most_frequent`` always predicts the most frequent label in the training set.
- ``prior`` always predicts the class that maximizes the class prior
  (like ``most_frequent``) and ``predict_proba`` returns the class prior.
- ``uniform`` generates predictions uniformly at random.
- ``constant`` always predicts a constant label that is provided by the user.
   A major motivation of this method is F1-scoring, when the positive class
   is in the minority.

Note that with all these strategies, the ``predict`` method completely ignores
the input data!

To illustrate :class:`DummyClassifier`, first let's create an imbalanced
dataset::

  >>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
  >>> from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
  >>> X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True)
  >>> y[y != 1] = -1
  >>> X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, random_state=0)

Next, let's compare the accuracy of ``SVC`` and ``most_frequent``::

  >>> from sklearn.dummy import DummyClassifier
  >>> from sklearn.svm import SVC
  >>> clf = SVC(kernel='linear', C=1).fit(X_train, y_train)
  >>> clf.score(X_test, y_test)
  0.63...
  >>> clf = DummyClassifier(strategy='most_frequent', random_state=0)
  >>> clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
  DummyClassifier(random_state=0, strategy='most_frequent')
  >>> clf.score(X_test, y_test)
  0.57...

We see that ``SVC`` doesn't do much better than a dummy classifier. Now, let's
change the kernel::

  >>> clf = SVC(kernel='rbf', C=1).fit(X_train, y_train)
  >>> clf.score(X_test, y_test)
  0.94...

We see that the accuracy was boosted to almost 100%.  A cross validation
strategy is recommended for a better estimate of the accuracy, if it
is not too CPU costly. For more information see the :ref:`cross_validation`
section. Moreover if you want to optimize over the parameter space, it is highly
recommended to use an appropriate methodology; see the :ref:`grid_search`
section for details.

More generally, when the accuracy of a classifier is too close to random, it
probably means that something went wrong: features are not helpful, a
hyperparameter is not correctly tuned, the classifier is suffering from class
imbalance, etc...

:class:`DummyRegressor` also implements four simple rules of thumb for regression:

- ``mean`` always predicts the mean of the training targets.
- ``median`` always predicts the median of the training targets.
- ``quantile`` always predicts a user provided quantile of the training targets.
- ``constant`` always predicts a constant value that is provided by the user.

In all these strategies, the ``predict`` method completely ignores
the input data.