imputers#
Components that impute missing values in the input data.
Package Contents#
Classes Summary#
Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy. |
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Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy per column. |
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Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy. Natural language columns are ignored. |
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Imputes missing target data according to a specified imputation strategy. |
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Imputes missing data according to a specified timeseries-specific imputation strategy. |
Contents#
- class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.imputers.Imputer(categorical_impute_strategy='most_frequent', categorical_fill_value=None, numeric_impute_strategy='mean', numeric_fill_value=None, boolean_impute_strategy='most_frequent', boolean_fill_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#
Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy.
- Parameters
categorical_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for string, object, boolean, categorical dtypes. Valid values include “most_frequent” and “constant”.
numeric_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for numeric columns. Valid values include “mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”, and “constant”.
boolean_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for boolean columns. Valid values include “most_frequent” and “constant”.
categorical_fill_value (string) – When categorical_impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. The default value of None will fill with the string “missing_value”.
numeric_fill_value (int, float) – When numeric_impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. The default value of None will fill with 0.
boolean_fill_value (bool) – When boolean_impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. The default value of None will fill with True.
random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.
Attributes
hyperparameter_ranges
{ “categorical_impute_strategy”: [“most_frequent”], “numeric_impute_strategy”: [“mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”], “boolean_impute_strategy”: [“most_frequent”]}
modifies_features
True
modifies_target
False
name
Imputer
training_only
False
Methods
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Describe a component and its parameters.
Fits imputer to data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
Fits on X and transforms X.
Loads component at file path.
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
Saves component at file path.
Transforms data X by imputing missing values.
- clone(self)#
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
- Returns
A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.
- default_parameters(cls)#
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.
- Returns
Default parameters for this component.
- Return type
dict
- describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#
Describe a component and its parameters.
- Parameters
print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component
return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}
- Returns
Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
- Return type
None or dict
- fit(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Fits imputer to data. ‘None’ values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]
y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples]
- Returns
self
- fit_transform(self, X, y=None)#
Fits on X and transforms X.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to fit and transform.
y (pd.Series) – Target data.
- Returns
Transformed X.
- Return type
pd.DataFrame
- Raises
MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If transformer does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform.
- static load(file_path)#
Loads component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to load file.
- Returns
ComponentBase object
- needs_fitting(self)#
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.
- Returns
True.
- property parameters(self)#
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
- save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#
Saves component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to save file.
pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.
- class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.imputers.PerColumnImputer(impute_strategies=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#
Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy per column.
- Parameters
impute_strategies (dict) – Column and {“impute_strategy”: strategy, “fill_value”:value} pairings. Valid values for impute strategy include “mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”, “constant” for numerical data, and “most_frequent”, “constant” for object data types. Defaults to None, which uses “most_frequent” for all columns. When impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. When None, uses 0 when imputing numerical data and “missing_value” for strings or object data types.
random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.
Attributes
hyperparameter_ranges
{}
modifies_features
True
modifies_target
False
name
Per Column Imputer
training_only
False
Methods
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Describe a component and its parameters.
Fits imputers on input data.
Fits on X and transforms X.
Loads component at file path.
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
Saves component at file path.
Transforms input data by imputing missing values.
- clone(self)#
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
- Returns
A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.
- default_parameters(cls)#
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.
- Returns
Default parameters for this component.
- Return type
dict
- describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#
Describe a component and its parameters.
- Parameters
print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component
return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}
- Returns
Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
- Return type
None or dict
- fit(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Fits imputers on input data.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features] to fit.
y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples]. Ignored.
- Returns
self
- fit_transform(self, X, y=None)#
Fits on X and transforms X.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to fit and transform.
y (pd.Series) – Target data.
- Returns
Transformed X.
- Return type
pd.DataFrame
- Raises
MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If transformer does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform.
- static load(file_path)#
Loads component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to load file.
- Returns
ComponentBase object
- needs_fitting(self)#
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.
- Returns
True.
- property parameters(self)#
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
- save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#
Saves component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to save file.
pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.
- transform(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Transforms input data by imputing missing values.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features] to transform.
y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples]. Ignored.
- Returns
Transformed X
- Return type
pd.DataFrame
- class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.imputers.SimpleImputer(impute_strategy='most_frequent', fill_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#
Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy. Natural language columns are ignored.
- Parameters
impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use. Valid values include “mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”, “constant” for numerical data, and “most_frequent”, “constant” for object data types.
fill_value (string) – When impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. Defaults to 0 when imputing numerical data and “missing_value” for strings or object data types.
random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.
Attributes
hyperparameter_ranges
{ “impute_strategy”: [“mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”]}
modifies_features
True
modifies_target
False
name
Simple Imputer
training_only
False
Methods
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Describe a component and its parameters.
Fits imputer to data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
Fits on X and transforms X.
Loads component at file path.
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
Saves component at file path.
Transforms input by imputing missing values. 'None' and np.nan values are treated as the same.
- clone(self)#
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
- Returns
A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.
- default_parameters(cls)#
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.
- Returns
Default parameters for this component.
- Return type
dict
- describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#
Describe a component and its parameters.
- Parameters
print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component
return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}
- Returns
Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
- Return type
None or dict
- fit(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Fits imputer to data. ‘None’ values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – the input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]
y (pd.Series, optional) – the target training data of length [n_samples]
- Returns
self
- Raises
ValueError – if the SimpleImputer receives a dataframe with both Boolean and Categorical data.
- fit_transform(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Fits on X and transforms X.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to fit and transform
y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data.
- Returns
Transformed X
- Return type
pd.DataFrame
- static load(file_path)#
Loads component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to load file.
- Returns
ComponentBase object
- needs_fitting(self)#
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.
- Returns
True.
- property parameters(self)#
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
- save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#
Saves component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to save file.
pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.
- class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.imputers.TargetImputer(impute_strategy='most_frequent', fill_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#
Imputes missing target data according to a specified imputation strategy.
- Parameters
impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use. Valid values include “mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”, “constant” for numerical data, and “most_frequent”, “constant” for object data types. Defaults to “most_frequent”.
fill_value (string) – When impute_strategy == “constant”, fill_value is used to replace missing data. Defaults to None which uses 0 when imputing numerical data and “missing_value” for strings or object data types.
random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.
Attributes
hyperparameter_ranges
{ “impute_strategy”: [“mean”, “median”, “most_frequent”]}
modifies_features
False
modifies_target
True
name
Target Imputer
training_only
False
Methods
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Describe a component and its parameters.
Fits imputer to target data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
Fits on and transforms the input target data.
Loads component at file path.
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
Saves component at file path.
Transforms input target data by imputing missing values. 'None' and np.nan values are treated as the same.
- clone(self)#
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
- Returns
A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.
- default_parameters(cls)#
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.
- Returns
Default parameters for this component.
- Return type
dict
- describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#
Describe a component and its parameters.
- Parameters
print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component
return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}
- Returns
Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
- Return type
None or dict
- fit(self, X, y)[source]#
Fits imputer to target data. ‘None’ values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]. Ignored.
y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].
- Returns
self
- Raises
TypeError – If target is filled with all null values.
- fit_transform(self, X, y)[source]#
Fits on and transforms the input target data.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Features. Ignored.
y (pd.Series) – Target data to impute.
- Returns
The original X, transformed y
- Return type
(pd.DataFrame, pd.Series)
- static load(file_path)#
Loads component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to load file.
- Returns
ComponentBase object
- needs_fitting(self)#
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.
- Returns
True.
- property parameters(self)#
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
- save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#
Saves component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to save file.
pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.
- transform(self, X, y)[source]#
Transforms input target data by imputing missing values. ‘None’ and np.nan values are treated as the same.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Features. Ignored.
y (pd.Series) – Target data to impute.
- Returns
The original X, transformed y
- Return type
(pd.DataFrame, pd.Series)
- class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.imputers.TimeSeriesImputer(categorical_impute_strategy='forwards_fill', numeric_impute_strategy='interpolate', target_impute_strategy='forwards_fill', random_seed=0, **kwargs)[source]#
Imputes missing data according to a specified timeseries-specific imputation strategy.
This Transformer should be used after the TimeSeriesRegularizer in order to impute the missing values that were added to X and y (if passed).
- Parameters
categorical_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for string, object, boolean, categorical dtypes. Valid values include “backwards_fill” and “forwards_fill”. Defaults to “forwards_fill”.
numeric_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for numeric columns. Valid values include “backwards_fill”, “forwards_fill”, and “interpolate”. Defaults to “interpolate”.
target_impute_strategy (string) – Impute strategy to use for the target column. Valid values include “backwards_fill”, “forwards_fill”, and “interpolate”. Defaults to “forwards_fill”.
random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.
- Raises
ValueError – If categorical_impute_strategy, numeric_impute_strategy, or target_impute_strategy is not one of the valid values.
Attributes
hyperparameter_ranges
{ “categorical_impute_strategy”: [“backwards_fill”, “forwards_fill”], “numeric_impute_strategy”: [“backwards_fill”, “forwards_fill”, “interpolate”], “target_impute_strategy”: [“backwards_fill”, “forwards_fill”, “interpolate”],}
modifies_features
True
modifies_target
True
name
Time Series Imputer
training_only
True
Methods
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Describe a component and its parameters.
Fits imputer to data.
Fits on X and transforms X.
Loads component at file path.
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
Saves component at file path.
Transforms data X by imputing missing values using specified timeseries-specific strategies. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
- clone(self)#
Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
- Returns
A new instance of this component with identical parameters and random state.
- default_parameters(cls)#
Returns the default parameters for this component.
Our convention is that Component.default_parameters == Component().parameters.
- Returns
Default parameters for this component.
- Return type
dict
- describe(self, print_name=False, return_dict=False)#
Describe a component and its parameters.
- Parameters
print_name (bool, optional) – whether to print name of component
return_dict (bool, optional) – whether to return description as dictionary in the format {“name”: name, “parameters”: parameters}
- Returns
Returns dictionary if return_dict is True, else None.
- Return type
None or dict
- fit(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Fits imputer to data.
‘None’ values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same. If a value is missing at the beginning or end of a column, that value will be imputed using backwards fill or forwards fill as necessary, respectively.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame, np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]
y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples]
- Returns
self
- fit_transform(self, X, y=None)#
Fits on X and transforms X.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to fit and transform.
y (pd.Series) – Target data.
- Returns
Transformed X.
- Return type
pd.DataFrame
- Raises
MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If transformer does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform.
- static load(file_path)#
Loads component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to load file.
- Returns
ComponentBase object
- needs_fitting(self)#
Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
This can be overridden to False for components that do not need to be fit or whose fit methods do nothing.
- Returns
True.
- property parameters(self)#
Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
- save(self, file_path, pickle_protocol=cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL)#
Saves component at file path.
- Parameters
file_path (str) – Location to save file.
pickle_protocol (int) – The pickle data stream format.
- transform(self, X, y=None)[source]#
Transforms data X by imputing missing values using specified timeseries-specific strategies. ‘None’ values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
- Parameters
X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.
y (pd.Series, optional) – Optionally, target data to transform.
- Returns
Transformed X and y
- Return type
pd.DataFrame