transformers

Components that transform data.

Subpackages

• dimensionality_reduction
  • lda
  • pca
• encoders
  • label_encoder
  • onehot_encoder
  • ordinal_encoder
  • target_encoder
• feature_selection
  • feature_selector
  • recursive_feature_elimination_selector
  • rf_classifier_feature_selector
  • rf_regressor_feature_selector
• imputers
  • imputer
  • knn_imputer
  • per_column_imputer
  • simple_imputer
  • target_imputer
  • time_series_imputer
• preprocessing
  • datetime_featurizer
  • decomposer
  • drop_nan_rows_transformer
  • drop_null_columns
  • drop_rows_transformer
  • featuretools
  • log_transformer
  • lsa
  • natural_language_featurizer
  • polynomial_decomposer
  • replace_nullable_types
  • stl_decomposer
  • text_transformer
  • time_series_featurizer
  • time_series_regularizer
  • transform_primitive_components
• samplers
  • base_sampler
  • oversampler
  • undersampler
• scalers
  • standard_scaler

Submodules

• column_selectors
• transformer

Package Contents

Classes Summary

DateTimeFeaturizer	Transformer that can automatically extract features from datetime columns.
DFSTransformer	Featuretools DFS component that generates features for the input features.
DropColumns	Drops specified columns in input data.
DropNaNRowsTransformer	Transformer to drop rows with NaN values.
DropNullColumns	Transformer to drop features whose percentage of NaN values exceeds a specified threshold.
DropRowsTransformer	Transformer to drop rows specified by row indices.
EmailFeaturizer	Transformer that can automatically extract features from emails.
FeatureSelector	Selects top features based on importance weights.
Imputer	Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy.
LabelEncoder	A transformer that encodes target labels using values between 0 and num_classes - 1.
LinearDiscriminantAnalysis	Reduces the number of features by using Linear Discriminant Analysis.
LogTransformer	Applies a log transformation to the target data.
LSA	Transformer to calculate the Latent Semantic Analysis Values of text input.
NaturalLanguageFeaturizer	Transformer that can automatically featurize text columns using featuretools' nlp_primitives.
OneHotEncoder	A transformer that encodes categorical features in a one-hot numeric array.
OrdinalEncoder	A transformer that encodes ordinal features as an array of ordinal integers representing the relative order of categories.
Oversampler	SMOTE Oversampler component. Will automatically select whether to use SMOTE, SMOTEN, or SMOTENC based on inputs to the component.
PCA	Reduces the number of features by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
PerColumnImputer	Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy per column.
PolynomialDecomposer	Removes trends and seasonality from time series by fitting a polynomial and moving average to the data.
ReplaceNullableTypes	Transformer to replace features with the new nullable dtypes with a dtype that is compatible in EvalML.
RFClassifierRFESelector	Selects relevant features using recursive feature elimination with a Random Forest Classifier.
RFClassifierSelectFromModel	Selects top features based on importance weights using a Random Forest classifier.
RFRegressorRFESelector	Selects relevant features using recursive feature elimination with a Random Forest Regressor.
RFRegressorSelectFromModel	Selects top features based on importance weights using a Random Forest regressor.
SelectByType	Selects columns by specified Woodwork logical type or semantic tag in input data.
SelectColumns	Selects specified columns in input data.
SimpleImputer	Imputes missing data according to a specified imputation strategy. Natural language columns are ignored.
StandardScaler	A transformer that standardizes input features by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance.
STLDecomposer	Removes trends and seasonality from time series using the STL algorithm.
TargetEncoder	A transformer that encodes categorical features into target encodings.
TargetImputer	Imputes missing target data according to a specified imputation strategy.
TimeSeriesFeaturizer	Transformer that delays input features and target variable for time series problems.
TimeSeriesImputer	Imputes missing data according to a specified timeseries-specific imputation strategy.
TimeSeriesRegularizer	Transformer that regularizes an inconsistently spaced datetime column.
Transformer	A component that may or may not need fitting that transforms data. These components are used before an estimator.
Undersampler	Initializes an undersampling transformer to downsample the majority classes in the dataset.
URLFeaturizer	Transformer that can automatically extract features from URL.

Contents

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DateTimeFeaturizer(features_to_extract=None, encode_as_categories=False, time_index=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that can automatically extract features from datetime columns.

Parameters

• features_to_extract (list) – List of features to extract. Valid options include “year”, “month”, “day_of_week”, “hour”. Defaults to None.

• encode_as_categories (bool) – Whether day-of-week and month features should be encoded as pandas “category” dtype. This allows OneHotEncoders to encode these features. Defaults to False.

• time_index (str) – Name of the column containing the datetime information used to order the data. Ignored.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	DateTime Featurizer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fit the datetime featurizer component.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
get_feature_names	Gets the categories of each datetime feature.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by creating new features using existing DateTime columns, and then dropping those DateTime columns.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fit the datetime featurizer component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input features.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. 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.

get_feature_names(self)

Gets the categories of each datetime feature.

Returns

Dictionary, where each key-value pair is a column name and a dictionary

mapping the unique feature values to their integer encoding.

Return type

dict

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)

Transforms data X by creating new features using existing DateTime columns, and then dropping those DateTime columns.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input features.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DFSTransformer(index='index', features=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Featuretools DFS component that generates features for the input features.

Parameters

• index (string) – The name of the column that contains the indices. If no column with this name exists, then featuretools.EntitySet() creates a column with this name to serve as the index column. Defaults to ‘index’.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

• features (list) – List of features to run DFS on. Defaults to None. Features will only be computed if the columns used by the feature exist in the input and if the feature itself is not in input. If features is an empty list, no transformation will occur to inputted data.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	DFS Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
contains_pre_existing_features	Determines whether or not features from a DFS Transformer match pipeline input features.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the DFSTransformer Transformer component.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Computes the feature matrix for the input X using featuretools' dfs algorithm.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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.

static contains_pre_existing_features(dfs_features: Optional[List[featuretools.feature_base.FeatureBase]], input_feature_names: List[str], target: Optional[str] = None)

Determines whether or not features from a DFS Transformer match pipeline input features.

Parameters

• dfs_features (Optional[List[FeatureBase]]) – List of features output from a DFS Transformer.

• input_feature_names (List[str]) – List of input features into the DFS Transformer.

• target (Optional[str]) – The target whose values we are trying to predict. This is used to know which column to ignore if the target column is present in the list of features in the DFS Transformer’s parameters.

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)

Fits the DFSTransformer Transformer component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, np.array) – The input data to transform, of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series) – 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)

Computes the feature matrix for the input X using featuretools’ dfs algorithm.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – The input training data to transform. Has shape [n_samples, n_features]

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Feature matrix

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DropColumns(columns=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Drops specified columns in input data.

Parameters

• columns (list(string)) – List of column names, used to determine which columns to drop.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Drop Columns Transformer
needs_fitting	False
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by dropping columns.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to check.

• y (pd.Series, ignored) – Targets.

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

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)

Transforms data X by dropping columns.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Targets.

Returns

Transformed X.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DropNaNRowsTransformer(parameters=None, component_obj=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer to drop rows with NaN values.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Is not used by this component. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Drop NaN Rows Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data using fitted component.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Transforms data using fitted component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data.

Returns

Data with NaN rows dropped.

Return type

(pd.DataFrame, pd.Series)

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DropNullColumns(pct_null_threshold=1.0, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer to drop features whose percentage of NaN values exceeds a specified threshold.

Parameters

• pct_null_threshold (float) – The percentage of NaN values in an input feature to drop. Must be a value between [0, 1] inclusive. If equal to 0.0, will drop columns with any null values. If equal to 1.0, will drop columns with all null values. Defaults to 0.95.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Drop Null Columns Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by dropping columns that exceed the threshold of null values.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Transforms data X by dropping columns that exceed the threshold of null values.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.DropRowsTransformer(indices_to_drop=None, random_seed=0)

Transformer to drop rows specified by row indices.

Parameters

• indices_to_drop (list) – List of indices to drop in the input data. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Is not used by this component. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Drop Rows Transformer
training_only	True

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data using fitted component.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 indices to drop do not exist in input features or target.

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)

Transforms data using fitted component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data.

Returns

Data with row indices dropped.

Return type

(pd.DataFrame, pd.Series)

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.EmailFeaturizer(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that can automatically extract features from emails.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Email Featurizer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

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)

Transforms data X.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – 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.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.FeatureSelector(parameters=None, component_obj=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects top features based on importance weights.

Parameters

• parameters (dict) – Dictionary of parameters for the component. Defaults to None.

• component_obj (obj) – Third-party objects useful in component implementation. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the feature selector.
get_names	Get names of selected features.
load	Loads component at file path.
name	Returns string name of this component.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the feature selector.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_names(self)

Get names of selected features.

Returns

List of the names of features selected.

Return type

list[str]

static load(file_path)

Loads component at file path.

Parameters

file_path (str) – Location to load file.

Returns

ComponentBase object

property name(cls)

Returns string name of this component.

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)

Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If feature selector does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.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)

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”, “knn”], “boolean_impute_strategy”: [“most_frequent”]}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Imputer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits imputer to data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by imputing missing values.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

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.

transform(self, X, y=None)

Transforms data X by imputing missing values.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.LabelEncoder(positive_label=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A transformer that encodes target labels using values between 0 and num_classes - 1.

Parameters

• positive_label (int, str) – The label for the class that should be treated as positive (1) for binary classification problems. Ignored for multiclass problems. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0. Ignored.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	False
modifies_target	True
name	Label Encoder
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the label encoder.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the label encoder.
inverse_transform	Decodes the target data.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform the target using the fitted label encoder.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the label encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]. Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

self

Raises

ValueError – If input y is None.

fit_transform(self, X, y)

Fit and transform data using the label encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

The original features and an encoded version of the target.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

inverse_transform(self, y)

Decodes the target data.

Parameters

y (pd.Series) – Target data.

Returns

The decoded version of the target.

Return type

pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If input y is None.

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)

Transform the target using the fitted label encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]. Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

The original features and an encoded version of the target.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If input y is None.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.LinearDiscriminantAnalysis(n_components=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Reduces the number of features by using Linear Discriminant Analysis.

Parameters

• n_components (int) – The number of features to maintain after computation. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Linear Discriminant Analysis Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the LDA component.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the LDA component.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform data using the fitted LDA component.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the LDA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 input data is not all numeric.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the LDA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If input data is not all numeric.

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)

Transform data using the fitted LDA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If input data is not all numeric.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.LogTransformer(random_seed=0)

Applies a log transformation to the target data.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	False
modifies_target	True
name	Log Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the LogTransformer.
fit_transform	Log transforms the target variable.
inverse_transform	Apply exponential to target data.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Log transforms the target variable.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the LogTransformer.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – Ignored.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

self

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Log transforms the target variable.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to log transform.

Returns

The input features are returned without modification. The target

variable y is log transformed.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

inverse_transform(self, y)

Apply exponential to target data.

Parameters

y (pd.Series) – Target variable.

Returns

Target with exponential applied.

Return type

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=None)

Log transforms the target variable.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – Target data to log transform.

Returns

The input features are returned without modification. The target

variable y is log transformed.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.LSA(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer to calculate the Latent Semantic Analysis Values of text input.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	LSA Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the input data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by applying the LSA pipeline.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the input data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – 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)

Transforms data X by applying the LSA pipeline.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X. The original column is removed and replaced with two columns of the

format LSA(original_column_name)[feature_number], where feature_number is 0 or 1.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.NaturalLanguageFeaturizer(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that can automatically featurize text columns using featuretools’ nlp_primitives.

Since models cannot handle non-numeric data, any text must be broken down into features that provide useful information about that text. This component splits each text column into several informative features: Diversity Score, Mean Characters per Word, Polarity Score, LSA (Latent Semantic Analysis), Number of Characters, and Number of Words. Calling transform on this component will replace any text columns in the given dataset with these numeric columns.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Natural Language Featurizer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by creating new features using existing text columns.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame or np.ndarray) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features]

• y (pd.Series) – 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)

Transforms data X by creating new features using existing text columns.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.OneHotEncoder(top_n=10, features_to_encode=None, categories=None, drop='if_binary', handle_unknown='ignore', handle_missing='error', random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A transformer that encodes categorical features in a one-hot numeric array.

Parameters

• top_n (int) – Number of categories per column to encode. If None, all categories will be encoded. Otherwise, the n most frequent will be encoded and all others will be dropped. Defaults to 10.

• features_to_encode (list[str]) – List of columns to encode. All other columns will remain untouched. If None, all appropriate columns will be encoded. Defaults to None.

• categories (list) – A two dimensional list of categories, where categories[i] is a list of the categories for the column at index i. This can also be None, or “auto” if top_n is not None. Defaults to None.

• drop (string, list) – Method (“first” or “if_binary”) to use to drop one category per feature. Can also be a list specifying which categories to drop for each feature. Defaults to ‘if_binary’.

• handle_unknown (string) – Whether to ignore or error for unknown categories for a feature encountered during fit or transform. If either top_n or categories is used to limit the number of categories per column, this must be “ignore”. Defaults to “ignore”.

• handle_missing (string) – Options for how to handle missing (NaN) values encountered during fit or transform. If this is set to “as_category” and NaN values are within the n most frequent, “nan” values will be encoded as their own column. If this is set to “error”, any missing values encountered will raise an error. Defaults to “error”.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	One Hot Encoder
training_only	False

Methods

categories	Returns a list of the unique categories to be encoded for the particular feature, in order.
clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the one-hot encoder component.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
get_feature_names	Return feature names for the categorical features after fitting.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	One-hot encode the input data.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

categories(self, feature_name)

Returns a list of the unique categories to be encoded for the particular feature, in order.

Parameters

feature_name (str) – The name of any feature provided to one-hot encoder during fit.

Returns

The unique categories, in the same dtype as they were provided during fit.

Return type

np.ndarray

Raises

ValueError – If feature was not provided to one-hot encoder as a training feature.

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)

Fits the one-hot encoder component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 encoding a column failed.

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.

get_feature_names(self)

Return feature names for the categorical features after fitting.

Feature names are formatted as {column name}_{category name}. In the event of a duplicate name, an integer will be added at the end of the feature name to distinguish it.

For example, consider a dataframe with a column called “A” and category “x_y” and another column called “A_x” with “y”. In this example, the feature names would be “A_x_y” and “A_x_y_1”.

Returns

The feature names after encoding, provided in the same order as input_features.

Return type

np.ndarray

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)

One-hot encode the input data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features to one-hot encode.

• y (pd.Series) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed data, where each categorical feature has been encoded into numerical columns using one-hot encoding.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.OrdinalEncoder(features_to_encode=None, categories=None, handle_unknown='error', unknown_value=None, encoded_missing_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A transformer that encodes ordinal features as an array of ordinal integers representing the relative order of categories.

Parameters

• features_to_encode (list[str]) – List of columns to encode. All other columns will remain untouched. If None, all appropriate columns will be encoded. Defaults to None. The order of columns does not matter.

• categories (dict[str, list[str]]) – A dictionary mapping column names to their categories in the dataframes passed in at fit and transform. The order of categories specified for a column does not matter. Any category found in the data that is not present in categories will be handled as an unknown value. To not have unknown values raise an error, set handle_unknown to “use_encoded_value”. Defaults to None.

• handle_unknown ("error" or "use_encoded_value") – Whether to ignore or error for unknown categories for a feature encountered during fit or transform. When set to “error”, an error will be raised when an unknown category is found. When set to “use_encoded_value”, unknown categories will be encoded as the value given for the parameter unknown_value. Defaults to “error.”

• unknown_value (int or np.nan) – The value to use for unknown categories seen during fit or transform. Required when the parameter handle_unknown is set to “use_encoded_value.” The value has to be distinct from the values used to encode any of the categories in fit. Defaults to None.

• encoded_missing_value (int or np.nan) – The value to use for missing (null) values seen during fit or transform. Defaults to np.nan.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Ordinal Encoder
training_only	False

Methods

categories	Returns a list of the unique categories to be encoded for the particular feature, in order.
clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the ordinal encoder component.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
get_feature_names	Return feature names for the ordinal features after fitting.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Ordinally encode the input data.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

categories(self, feature_name)

Returns a list of the unique categories to be encoded for the particular feature, in order.

Parameters

feature_name (str) – The name of any feature provided to ordinal encoder during fit.

Returns

The unique categories, in the same dtype as they were provided during fit.

Return type

np.ndarray

Raises

ValueError – If feature was not provided to ordinal encoder as a training feature.

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)

Fits the ordinal encoder component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 encoding a column failed.

• TypeError – If non-Ordinal columns are specified in features_to_encode.

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.

get_feature_names(self)

Return feature names for the ordinal features after fitting.

Feature names are formatted as {column name}_ordinal_encoding.

Returns

The feature names after encoding, provided in the same order as input_features.

Return type

np.ndarray

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)

Ordinally encode the input data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Features to encode.

• y (pd.Series) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed data, where each ordinal feature has been encoded into a numerical column where ordinal integers represent the relative order of categories.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.Oversampler(sampling_ratio=0.25, sampling_ratio_dict=None, k_neighbors_default=5, n_jobs=- 1, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

SMOTE Oversampler component. Will automatically select whether to use SMOTE, SMOTEN, or SMOTENC based on inputs to the component.

Parameters

• sampling_ratio (float) – This is the goal ratio of the minority to majority class, with range (0, 1]. A value of 0.25 means we want a 1:4 ratio of the minority to majority class after oversampling. We will create the a sampling dictionary using this ratio, with the keys corresponding to the class and the values responding to the number of samples. Defaults to 0.25.

• sampling_ratio_dict (dict) – A dictionary specifying the desired balanced ratio for each target value. For instance, in a binary case where class 1 is the minority, we could specify: sampling_ratio_dict={0: 0.5, 1: 1}, which means we would undersample class 0 to have twice the number of samples as class 1 (minority:majority ratio = 0.5), and don’t sample class 1. Overrides sampling_ratio if provided. Defaults to None.

• k_neighbors_default (int) – The number of nearest neighbors used to construct synthetic samples. This is the default value used, but the actual k_neighbors value might be smaller if there are less samples. Defaults to 5.

• n_jobs (int) – The number of CPU cores to use. Defaults to -1.

• random_seed (int) – The seed to use for random sampling. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	None
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Oversampler
training_only	True

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits oversampler to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the sampler component.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms the input data by Oversampling the data.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits oversampler to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Fit and transform data using the sampler component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

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=None)

Transforms the input data by Oversampling the data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Training features.

• y (pd.Series) – Target.

Returns

Transformed features and target.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.PCA(variance=0.95, n_components=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Reduces the number of features by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

Parameters

• variance (float) – The percentage of the original data variance that should be preserved when reducing the number of features. Defaults to 0.95.

• n_components (int) – The number of features to maintain after computing SVD. Defaults to None, but will override variance variable if set.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	Real(0.25, 1)}:type: {“variance”
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	PCA Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the PCA component.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the PCA component.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform data using fitted PCA component.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the PCA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 input data is not all numeric.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the PCA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If input data is not all numeric.

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)

Transform data using fitted PCA component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

ValueError – If input data is not all numeric.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.PerColumnImputer(impute_strategies=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

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	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Per Column Imputer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits imputers on input data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by imputing missing values.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

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)

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

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.PolynomialDecomposer(time_index: str = None, degree: int = 1, period: int = - 1, random_seed: int = 0, **kwargs)

Removes trends and seasonality from time series by fitting a polynomial and moving average to the data.

Scikit-learn’s PolynomialForecaster is used to generate the additive trend portion of the target data. A polynomial

will be fit to the data during fit. That additive polynomial trend will be removed during fit so that statsmodel’s seasonal_decompose can determine the addititve seasonality of the data by using rolling averages over the series’ inferred periodicity.

For example, daily time series data will generate rolling averages over the first week of data, normalize out the mean and return those 7 averages repeated over the entire length of the given series. Those seven averages, repeated as many times as necessary to match the length of the given target data, will be used as the seasonal signal of the data.

Parameters

• time_index (str) – Specifies the name of the column in X that provides the datetime objects. Defaults to None.

• degree (int) – Degree for the polynomial. If 1, linear model is fit to the data. If 2, quadratic model is fit, etc. Defaults to 1.

• period (int) – The number of entries in the time series data that corresponds to one period of a cyclic signal. For instance, if data is known to possess a weekly seasonal signal, and if the data is daily data, period should be 7. For daily data with a yearly seasonal signal, period should be 365. Defaults to -1, which uses the statsmodels libarary’s freq_to_period function. statsmodels/statsmodels

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{ “degree”: Integer(1, 3)}
invalid_frequencies	[]
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	False
modifies_target	True
name	Polynomial Decomposer
needs_fitting	True
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
determine_periodicity	Function that uses autocorrelative methods to determine the likely most signficant period of the seasonal signal.
fit	Fits the PolynomialDecomposer and determine the seasonal signal.
fit_transform	Removes fitted trend and seasonality from target variable.
get_trend_dataframe	Return a list of dataframes with 4 columns: signal, trend, seasonality, residual.
inverse_transform	Adds back fitted trend and seasonality to target variable.
is_freq_valid	Determines if the given string represents a valid frequency for this decomposer.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
plot_decomposition	Plots the decomposition of the target signal.
save	Saves component at file path.
set_period	Function to set the component's seasonal period based on the target's seasonality.
transform	Transforms the target data by removing the polynomial trend and rolling average seasonality.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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

classmethod determine_periodicity(cls, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, acf_threshold: float = 0.01, rel_max_order: int = 5)

Function that uses autocorrelative methods to determine the likely most signficant period of the seasonal signal.

Parameters

• X (pandas.DataFrame) – The feature data of the time series problem.

• y (pandas.Series) – The target data of a time series problem.

• acf_threshold (float) – The threshold for the autocorrelation function to determine the period. Any values below the threshold are considered to be 0 and will not be considered for the period. Defaults to 0.01.

• rel_max_order (int) – The order of the relative maximum to determine the period. Defaults to 5.

Returns

The integer number of entries in time series data over which the seasonal part of the target data

repeats. If the time series data is in days, then this is the number of days that it takes the target’s seasonal signal to repeat. Note: the target data can contain multiple seasonal signals. This function will only return the stronger. E.g. if the target has both weekly and yearly seasonality, the function may return either “7” or “365”, depending on which seasonality is more strongly autocorrelated. If no period is detected, returns None.

Return type

int

fit(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → PolynomialDecomposer

Fits the PolynomialDecomposer and determine the seasonal signal.

Currently only fits the polynomial detrender. The seasonality is determined by removing the trend from the signal and using statsmodels’ seasonal_decompose(). Both the trend and seasonality are currently assumed to be additive.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Conditionally used to build datetime index.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

self

Raises

• NotImplementedError – If the input data has a frequency of “month-begin”. This isn’t supported by statsmodels decompose as the freqstr “MS” is misinterpreted as milliseconds.

• ValueError – If y is None.

• ValueError – If target data doesn’t have DatetimeIndex AND no Datetime features in features data

fit_transform(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Removes fitted trend and seasonality from target variable.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

The first element are the input features returned without modification.

The second element is the target variable y with the fitted trend removed.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

get_trend_dataframe(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series) → list[pandas.DataFrame]

Return a list of dataframes with 4 columns: signal, trend, seasonality, residual.

Scikit-learn’s PolynomialForecaster is used to generate the trend portion of the target data. statsmodel’s seasonal_decompose is used to generate the seasonality of the data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input data with time series data in index.

• y (pd.Series or pd.DataFrame) – Target variable data provided as a Series for univariate problems or a DataFrame for multivariate problems.

Returns

Each DataFrame contains the columns “signal”, “trend”, “seasonality” and “residual,”

with the latter 3 column values being the decomposed elements of the target data. The “signal” column is simply the input target signal but reindexed with a datetime index to match the input features.

Return type

list of pd.DataFrame

Raises

• TypeError – If X does not have time-series data in the index.

• ValueError – If time series index of X does not have an inferred frequency.

• ValueError – If the forecaster associated with the detrender has not been fit yet.

• TypeError – If y is not provided as a pandas Series or DataFrame.

inverse_transform(self, y_t: pandas.Series) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Adds back fitted trend and seasonality to target variable.

The polynomial trend is added back into the signal, calling the detrender’s inverse_transform(). Then, the seasonality is projected forward to and added back into the signal.

Parameters

y_t (pd.Series) – Target variable.

Returns

The first element are the input features returned without modification.

The second element is the target variable y with the trend and seasonality added back in.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If y is None.

classmethod is_freq_valid(cls, freq: str)

Determines if the given string represents a valid frequency for this decomposer.

Parameters

freq (str) – A frequency to validate. See the pandas docs at https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/timeseries.html#offset-aliases for options.

Returns

boolean representing whether the frequency is valid or not.

static load(file_path)

Loads component at file path.

Parameters

file_path (str) – Location to load file.

Returns

ComponentBase object

property parameters(self)

Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.

plot_decomposition(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, show: bool = False) → tuple[matplotlib.pyplot.Figure, list]

Plots the decomposition of the target signal.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input data with time series data in index.

• y (pd.Series or pd.DataFrame) – Target variable data provided as a Series for univariate problems or a DataFrame for multivariate problems.

• show (bool) – Whether to display the plot or not. Defaults to False.

Returns

The figure and axes that have the decompositions

plotted on them

Return type

matplotlib.pyplot.Figure, list[matplotlib.pyplot.Axes]

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.

set_period(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, acf_threshold: float = 0.01, rel_max_order: int = 5)

Function to set the component’s seasonal period based on the target’s seasonality.

Parameters

• X (pandas.DataFrame) – The feature data of the time series problem.

• y (pandas.Series) – The target data of a time series problem.

• acf_threshold (float) – The threshold for the autocorrelation function to determine the period. Any values below the threshold are considered to be 0 and will not be considered for the period. Defaults to 0.01.

• rel_max_order (int) – The order of the relative maximum to determine the period. Defaults to 5.

transform(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Transforms the target data by removing the polynomial trend and rolling average seasonality.

Applies the fit polynomial detrender to the target data, removing the additive polynomial trend. Then, utilizes the first period’s worth of seasonal data determined in the .fit() function to extrapolate the seasonal signal of the data to be transformed. This seasonal signal is also assumed to be additive and is removed.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Conditionally used to build datetime index.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

The input features are returned without modification. The target

variable y is detrended and deseasonalized.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If target data doesn’t have DatetimeIndex AND no Datetime features in features data

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.ReplaceNullableTypes(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer to replace features with the new nullable dtypes with a dtype that is compatible in EvalML.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	None
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	{}
name	Replace Nullable Types Transformer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Substitutes non-nullable types for the new pandas nullable types in the data and target data.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data by replacing columns that contain nullable types with the appropriate replacement type.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Substitutes non-nullable types for the new pandas nullable types in the data and target data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Input features.

• y (pd.Series) – Target data.

Returns

The input features and target data with the non-nullable types set.

Return type

tuple of 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=None)

Transforms data by replacing columns that contain nullable types with the appropriate replacement type.

“float64” for nullable integers and “category” for nullable booleans.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data to transform

Returns

Transformed X pd.Series: Transformed y

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.RFClassifierRFESelector(step=0.2, min_features_to_select=1, cv=None, scoring=None, n_jobs=- 1, n_estimators=10, max_depth=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects relevant features using recursive feature elimination with a Random Forest Classifier.

Parameters

• step (int, float) – The number of features to eliminate in each iteration. If an integer is specified this will represent the number of features to eliminate. If a float is specified this represents the percentage of features to eliminate each iteration. The last iteration may drop fewer than this number of features in order to satisfy the min_features_to_select constraint. Defaults to 0.2.

• min_features_to_select (int) – The minimum number of features to return. Defaults to 1.

• cv (int or None) – Number of folds to use for the cross-validation splitting strategy. Defaults to None which will use 5 folds.

• scoring (str, callable or None) – A string or scorer callable object to specify the scoring method.

• n_jobs (int or None) – Number of jobs to run in parallel. -1 uses all processes. Defaults to -1.

• n_estimators (int) – The number of trees in the forest. Defaults to 10.

• max_depth (int) – Maximum tree depth for base learners. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{ “step”: Real(0.05, 0.25)}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	RFE Selector with RF Classifier
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the feature selector.
get_names	Get names of selected features.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the feature selector.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_names(self)

Get names of selected features.

Returns

List of the names of features selected.

Return type

list[str]

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)

Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If feature selector does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.RFClassifierSelectFromModel(number_features=None, n_estimators=10, max_depth=None, percent_features=0.5, threshold='median', n_jobs=- 1, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects top features based on importance weights using a Random Forest classifier.

Parameters

• number_features (int) – The maximum number of features to select. If both percent_features and number_features are specified, take the greater number of features. Defaults to None.

• n_estimators (int) – The number of trees in the forest. Defaults to 10.

• max_depth (int) – Maximum tree depth for base learners. Defaults to None.

• percent_features (float) – Percentage of features to use. If both percent_features and number_features are specified, take the greater number of features. Defaults to 0.5.

• threshold (string or float) – The threshold value to use for feature selection. Features whose importance is greater or equal are kept while the others are discarded. If “median”, then the threshold value is the median of the feature importances. A scaling factor (e.g., “1.25*mean”) may also be used. Defaults to median.

• n_jobs (int or None) – Number of jobs to run in parallel. -1 uses all processes. Defaults to -1.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{ “percent_features”: Real(0.01, 1), “threshold”: [“mean”, “median”],}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	RF Classifier Select From Model
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the feature selector.
get_names	Get names of selected features.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the feature selector.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_names(self)

Get names of selected features.

Returns

List of the names of features selected.

Return type

list[str]

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)

Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If feature selector does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.RFRegressorRFESelector(step=0.2, min_features_to_select=1, cv=None, scoring=None, n_jobs=- 1, n_estimators=10, max_depth=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects relevant features using recursive feature elimination with a Random Forest Regressor.

Parameters

• step (int, float) – The number of features to eliminate in each iteration. If an integer is specified this will represent the number of features to eliminate. If a float is specified this represents the percentage of features to eliminate each iteration. The last iteration may drop fewer than this number of features in order to satisfy the min_features_to_select constraint. Defaults to 0.2.

• min_features_to_select (int) – The minimum number of features to return. Defaults to 1.

• cv (int or None) – Number of folds to use for the cross-validation splitting strategy. Defaults to None which will use 5 folds.

• scoring (str, callable or None) – A string or scorer callable object to specify the scoring method.

• n_jobs (int or None) – Number of jobs to run in parallel. -1 uses all processes. Defaults to -1.

• n_estimators (int) – The number of trees in the forest. Defaults to 10.

• max_depth (int) – Maximum tree depth for base learners. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{ “step”: Real(0.05, 0.25)}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	RFE Selector with RF Regressor
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the feature selector.
get_names	Get names of selected features.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the feature selector.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_names(self)

Get names of selected features.

Returns

List of the names of features selected.

Return type

list[str]

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)

Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If feature selector does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.RFRegressorSelectFromModel(number_features=None, n_estimators=10, max_depth=None, percent_features=0.5, threshold='median', n_jobs=- 1, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects top features based on importance weights using a Random Forest regressor.

Parameters

• number_features (int) – The maximum number of features to select. If both percent_features and number_features are specified, take the greater number of features. Defaults to 0.5.

• n_estimators (int) – The number of trees in the forest. Defaults to 10.

• max_depth (int) – Maximum tree depth for base learners. Defaults to None.

• percent_features (float) – Percentage of features to use. If both percent_features and number_features are specified, take the greater number of features. Defaults to 0.5.

• threshold (string or float) – The threshold value to use for feature selection. Features whose importance is greater or equal are kept while the others are discarded. If “median”, then the threshold value is the median of the feature importances. A scaling factor (e.g., “1.25*mean”) may also be used. Defaults to median.

• n_jobs (int or None) – Number of jobs to run in parallel. -1 uses all processes. Defaults to -1.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{ “percent_features”: Real(0.01, 1), “threshold”: [“mean”, “median”],}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	RF Regressor Select From Model
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the feature selector.
get_names	Get names of selected features.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit and transform data using the feature selector.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_names(self)

Get names of selected features.

Returns

List of the names of features selected.

Return type

list[str]

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)

Transforms input data by selecting features. If the component_obj does not have a transform method, will raise an MethodPropertyNotFoundError exception.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Target data. Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

Raises

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If feature selector does not have a transform method or a component_obj that implements transform

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.SelectByType(column_types=None, exclude=False, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects columns by specified Woodwork logical type or semantic tag in input data.

Parameters

• column_types (string, ww.LogicalType, list(string), list(ww.LogicalType)) – List of Woodwork types or tags, used to determine which columns to select or exclude.

• exclude (bool) – If true, exclude the column_types instead of including them. Defaults to False.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Select Columns By Type Transformer
needs_fitting	False
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X by selecting columns.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to check.

• y (pd.Series, ignored) – Targets.

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

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)

Transforms data X by selecting columns.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Targets.

Returns

Transformed X.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.SelectColumns(columns=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Selects specified columns in input data.

Parameters

• columns (list(string)) – List of column names, used to determine which columns to select. If columns are not present, they will not be selected.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Select Columns Transformer
needs_fitting	False
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform data using fitted column selector component.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the transformer by checking if column names are present in the dataset.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to check.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Targets.

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

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)

Transform data using fitted column selector component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.SimpleImputer(impute_strategy='most_frequent', fill_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

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”]}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Simple Imputer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits imputer to data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input by imputing missing values. 'None' and np.nan values are treated as the same.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

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)

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.

transform(self, X, y=None)

Transforms input by imputing missing values. ‘None’ and np.nan values are treated as the same.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – Ignored.

Returns

Transformed X

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.StandardScaler(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A transformer that standardizes input features by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Standard Scaler
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the standard scalar on the given data.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the standard scaler component.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform data using the fitted standard scaler.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the standard scalar on the given data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Fit and transform data using the standard scaler component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

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.

transform(self, X, y=None)

Transform data using the fitted standard scaler.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.STLDecomposer(time_index: str = None, degree: int = 1, period: int = None, seasonal_smoother: int = 7, random_seed: int = 0, **kwargs)

Removes trends and seasonality from time series using the STL algorithm.

https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/generated/statsmodels.tsa.seasonal.STL.html

Parameters

• time_index (str) – Specifies the name of the column in X that provides the datetime objects. Defaults to None.

• degree (int) – Not currently used. STL 3x “degree-like” values. None are able to be set at this time. Defaults to 1.

• period (int) – The number of entries in the time series data that corresponds to one period of a cyclic signal. For instance, if data is known to possess a weekly seasonal signal, and if the data is daily data, the period should likely be 7. For daily data with a yearly seasonal signal, the period should likely be 365. If None, statsmodels will infer the period based on the frequency. Defaults to None.

• seasonal_smoother (int) – The length of the seasonal smoother used by the underlying STL algorithm. For compatibility, must be odd. If an even number is provided, the next, highest odd number will be used. Defaults to 7.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	None
invalid_frequencies	[]
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	False
modifies_target	True
name	STL Decomposer
needs_fitting	True
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
determine_periodicity	Function that uses autocorrelative methods to determine the likely most signficant period of the seasonal signal.
fit	Fits the STLDecomposer and determine the seasonal signal.
fit_transform	Removes fitted trend and seasonality from target variable.
get_trend_dataframe	Return a list of dataframes with 4 columns: signal, trend, seasonality, residual.
get_trend_prediction_intervals	Calculate the prediction intervals for the trend data.
inverse_transform	Adds back fitted trend and seasonality to target variable.
is_freq_valid	Determines if the given string represents a valid frequency for this decomposer.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
plot_decomposition	Plots the decomposition of the target signal.
save	Saves component at file path.
set_period	Function to set the component's seasonal period based on the target's seasonality.
transform	Transforms the target data by removing the STL trend and seasonality.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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

classmethod determine_periodicity(cls, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, acf_threshold: float = 0.01, rel_max_order: int = 5)

Function that uses autocorrelative methods to determine the likely most signficant period of the seasonal signal.

Parameters

• X (pandas.DataFrame) – The feature data of the time series problem.

• y (pandas.Series) – The target data of a time series problem.

• acf_threshold (float) – The threshold for the autocorrelation function to determine the period. Any values below the threshold are considered to be 0 and will not be considered for the period. Defaults to 0.01.

• rel_max_order (int) – The order of the relative maximum to determine the period. Defaults to 5.

Returns

The integer number of entries in time series data over which the seasonal part of the target data

repeats. If the time series data is in days, then this is the number of days that it takes the target’s seasonal signal to repeat. Note: the target data can contain multiple seasonal signals. This function will only return the stronger. E.g. if the target has both weekly and yearly seasonality, the function may return either “7” or “365”, depending on which seasonality is more strongly autocorrelated. If no period is detected, returns None.

Return type

int

fit(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → STLDecomposer

Fits the STLDecomposer and determine the seasonal signal.

Instantiates a statsmodels STL decompose object with the component’s stored parameters and fits it. Since the statsmodels object does not fit the sklearn api, it is not saved during __init__() in _component_obj and will be re-instantiated each time fit is called.

To emulate the sklearn API, when the STL decomposer is fit, the full seasonal component, a single period sample of the seasonal component, the full trend-cycle component and the residual are saved.

y(t) = S(t) + T(t) + R(t)

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Conditionally used to build datetime index.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

self

Raises

• ValueError – If y is None.

• ValueError – If target data doesn’t have DatetimeIndex AND no Datetime features in features data

fit_transform(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Removes fitted trend and seasonality from target variable.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Ignored.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

The first element are the input features returned without modification.

The second element is the target variable y with the fitted trend removed.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

get_trend_dataframe(self, X, y)

Return a list of dataframes with 4 columns: signal, trend, seasonality, residual.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input data with time series data in index.

• y (pd.Series or pd.DataFrame) – Target variable data provided as a Series for univariate problems or a DataFrame for multivariate problems.

Returns

Each DataFrame contains the columns “signal”, “trend”, “seasonality” and “residual,”

with the latter 3 column values being the decomposed elements of the target data. The “signal” column is simply the input target signal but reindexed with a datetime index to match the input features.

Return type

list of pd.DataFrame

Raises

• TypeError – If X does not have time-series data in the index.

• ValueError – If time series index of X does not have an inferred frequency.

• ValueError – If the forecaster associated with the detrender has not been fit yet.

• TypeError – If y is not provided as a pandas Series or DataFrame.

get_trend_prediction_intervals(self, y, coverage=None)

Calculate the prediction intervals for the trend data.

Parameters

• y (pd.Series) – Target data.

• coverage (list[float]) – A list of floats between the values 0 and 1 that the upper and lower bounds of the prediction interval should be calculated for.

Returns

Prediction intervals, keys are in the format {coverage}_lower or {coverage}_upper.

Return type

dict of pd.Series

inverse_transform(self, y_t: pandas.Series) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Adds back fitted trend and seasonality to target variable.

The STL trend is projected to cover the entire requested target range, then added back into the signal. Then, the seasonality is projected forward to and added back into the signal.

Parameters

y_t (pd.Series) – Target variable.

Returns

The first element are the input features returned without modification.

The second element is the target variable y with the trend and seasonality added back in.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If y is None.

classmethod is_freq_valid(cls, freq: str)

Determines if the given string represents a valid frequency for this decomposer.

Parameters

freq (str) – A frequency to validate. See the pandas docs at https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/timeseries.html#offset-aliases for options.

Returns

boolean representing whether the frequency is valid or not.

static load(file_path)

Loads component at file path.

Parameters

file_path (str) – Location to load file.

Returns

ComponentBase object

property parameters(self)

Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.

plot_decomposition(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, show: bool = False) → tuple[matplotlib.pyplot.Figure, list]

Plots the decomposition of the target signal.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input data with time series data in index.

• y (pd.Series or pd.DataFrame) – Target variable data provided as a Series for univariate problems or a DataFrame for multivariate problems.

• show (bool) – Whether to display the plot or not. Defaults to False.

Returns

The figure and axes that have the decompositions

plotted on them

Return type

matplotlib.pyplot.Figure, list[matplotlib.pyplot.Axes]

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.

set_period(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series, acf_threshold: float = 0.01, rel_max_order: int = 5)

Function to set the component’s seasonal period based on the target’s seasonality.

Parameters

• X (pandas.DataFrame) – The feature data of the time series problem.

• y (pandas.Series) – The target data of a time series problem.

• acf_threshold (float) – The threshold for the autocorrelation function to determine the period. Any values below the threshold are considered to be 0 and will not be considered for the period. Defaults to 0.01.

• rel_max_order (int) – The order of the relative maximum to determine the period. Defaults to 5.

transform(self, X: pandas.DataFrame, y: pandas.Series = None) → tuple[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series]

Transforms the target data by removing the STL trend and seasonality.

Uses an ARIMA model to project forward the addititve trend and removes it. Then, utilizes the first period’s worth of seasonal data determined in the .fit() function to extrapolate the seasonal signal of the data to be transformed. This seasonal signal is also assumed to be additive and is removed.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame, optional) – Conditionally used to build datetime index.

• y (pd.Series) – Target variable to detrend and deseasonalize.

Returns

The input features are returned without modification. The target

variable y is detrended and deseasonalized.

Return type

tuple of pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

Raises

ValueError – If target data doesn’t have DatetimeIndex AND no Datetime features in features data

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.TargetEncoder(cols=None, smoothing=1, handle_unknown='value', handle_missing='value', random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A transformer that encodes categorical features into target encodings.

Parameters

• cols (list) – Columns to encode. If None, all string columns will be encoded, otherwise only the columns provided will be encoded. Defaults to None

• smoothing (float) – The smoothing factor to apply. The larger this value is, the more influence the expected target value has on the resulting target encodings. Must be strictly larger than 0. Defaults to 1.0

• handle_unknown (string) – Determines how to handle unknown categories for a feature encountered. Options are ‘value’, ‘error’, nd ‘return_nan’. Defaults to ‘value’, which replaces with the target mean

• handle_missing (string) – Determines how to handle missing values encountered during fit or transform. Options are ‘value’, ‘error’, and ‘return_nan’. Defaults to ‘value’, which replaces with the target mean

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Target Encoder
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the target encoder.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the target encoder.
get_feature_names	Return feature names for the input features after fitting.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transform data using the fitted target encoder.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the target encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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)

Fit and transform data using the target encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

get_feature_names(self)

Return feature names for the input features after fitting.

Returns

The feature names after encoding.

Return type

np.array

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)

Transform data using the fitted target encoder.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.TargetImputer(impute_strategy='most_frequent', fill_value=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

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”]}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	False
modifies_target	True
name	Target Imputer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits imputer to target data. 'None' values are converted to np.nan before imputation and are treated as the same.
fit_transform	Fits on and transforms the input target data.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms input target data by imputing missing values. 'None' and np.nan values are treated as the same.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

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)

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)

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)

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.TimeSeriesFeaturizer(time_index=None, max_delay=2, gap=0, forecast_horizon=1, conf_level=0.05, rolling_window_size=0.25, delay_features=True, delay_target=True, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that delays input features and target variable for time series problems.

This component uses an algorithm based on the autocorrelation values of the target variable to determine which lags to select from the set of all possible lags.

The algorithm is based on the idea that the local maxima of the autocorrelation function indicate the lags that have the most impact on the present time.

The algorithm computes the autocorrelation values and finds the local maxima, called “peaks”, that are significant at the given conf_level. Since lags in the range [0, 10] tend to be predictive but not local maxima, the union of the peaks is taken with the significant lags in the range [0, 10]. At the end, only selected lags in the range [0, max_delay] are used.

Parametrizing the algorithm by conf_level lets the AutoMLAlgorithm tune the set of lags chosen so that the chances of finding a good set of lags is higher.

Using conf_level value of 1 selects all possible lags.

Parameters

• time_index (str) – Name of the column containing the datetime information used to order the data. Ignored.

• max_delay (int) – Maximum number of time units to delay each feature. Defaults to 2.

• forecast_horizon (int) – The number of time periods the pipeline is expected to forecast.

• conf_level (float) – Float in range (0, 1] that determines the confidence interval size used to select which lags to compute from the set of [1, max_delay]. A delay of 1 will always be computed. If 1, selects all possible lags in the set of [1, max_delay], inclusive.

• rolling_window_size (float) – Float in range (0, 1] that determines the size of the window used for rolling features. Size is computed as rolling_window_size * max_delay.

• delay_features (bool) – Whether to delay the input features. Defaults to True.

• delay_target (bool) – Whether to delay the target. Defaults to True.

• gap (int) – The number of time units between when the features are collected and when the target is collected. For example, if you are predicting the next time step’s target, gap=1. This is only needed because when gap=0, we need to be sure to start the lagging of the target variable at 1. Defaults to 1.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. This transformer performs the same regardless of the random seed provided.

Attributes

df_colname_prefix	{}_delay_{}
hyperparameter_ranges	Real(0.001, 1.0), “rolling_window_size”: Real(0.001, 1.0)}:type: {“conf_level”
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	Time Series Featurizer
needs_fitting	True
target_colname_prefix	target_delay_{}
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the DelayFeatureTransformer.
fit_transform	Fit the component and transform the input data.
load	Loads component at file path.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Computes the delayed values and rolling means for X and y.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the DelayFeatureTransformer.

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 self.time_index is None

fit_transform(self, X, y=None)

Fit the component and transform the input data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, or None) – Target.

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

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)

Computes the delayed values and rolling means for X and y.

The chosen delays are determined by the autocorrelation function of the target variable. See the class docstring for more information on how they are chosen. If y is None, all possible lags are chosen.

If y is not None, it will also compute the delayed values for the target variable.

The rolling means for all numeric features in X and y, if y is numeric, are also returned.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame or None) – Data to transform. None is expected when only the target variable is being used.

• y (pd.Series, or None) – Target.

Returns

Transformed X. No original features are returned.

Return type

pd.DataFrame

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.TimeSeriesImputer(categorical_impute_strategy='forwards_fill', numeric_impute_strategy='interpolate', target_impute_strategy='forwards_fill', random_seed=0, **kwargs)

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”],}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Time Series Imputer
training_only	True

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits imputer to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	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.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

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)

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

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.TimeSeriesRegularizer(time_index=None, frequency_payload=None, window_length=4, threshold=0.4, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that regularizes an inconsistently spaced datetime column.

If X is passed in to fit/transform, the column time_index will be checked for an inferrable offset frequency. If the time_index column is perfectly inferrable then this Transformer will do nothing and return the original X and y.

If X does not have a perfectly inferrable frequency but one can be estimated, then X and y will be reformatted based on the estimated frequency for time_index. In the original X and y passed: - Missing datetime values will be added and will have their corresponding columns in X and y set to None. - Duplicate datetime values will be dropped. - Extra datetime values will be dropped. - If it can be determined that a duplicate or extra value is misaligned, then it will be repositioned to take the place of a missing value.

This Transformer should be used before the TimeSeriesImputer in order to impute the missing values that were added to X and y (if passed).

Parameters

• time_index (string) – Name of the column containing the datetime information used to order the data, required. Defaults to None.

• frequency_payload (tuple) – Payload returned from Woodwork’s infer_frequency function where debug is True. Defaults to None.

• window_length (int) – The size of the rolling window over which inference is conducted to determine the prevalence of uninferrable frequencies.

• 5. (Lower values make this component more sensitive to recognizing numerous faulty datetime values. Defaults to) –

• threshold (float) – The minimum percentage of windows that need to have been able to infer a frequency. Lower values make this component more

• 0.8. (sensitive to recognizing numerous faulty datetime values. Defaults to) –

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. This transformer performs the same regardless of the random seed provided.

• 0. (Defaults to) –

Raises

ValueError – if the frequency_payload parameter has not been passed a tuple

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Time Series Regularizer
training_only	True

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the TimeSeriesRegularizer.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Regularizes a dataframe and target data to an inferrable offset frequency.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the TimeSeriesRegularizer.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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 self.time_index is None, if X and y have different lengths, if time_index in X does not have an offset frequency that can be estimated

• TypeError – if the time_index column is not of type Datetime

• KeyError – if the time_index column doesn’t exist

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)

Regularizes a dataframe and target data to an inferrable offset frequency.

A ‘clean’ X and y (if y was passed in) are created based on an inferrable offset frequency and matching datetime values with the original X and y are imputed into the clean X and y. Datetime values identified as misaligned are shifted into their appropriate position.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Data with an inferrable time_index offset frequency.

Return type

(pd.DataFrame, pd.Series)

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.Transformer(parameters=None, component_obj=None, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

A component that may or may not need fitting that transforms data. These components are used before an estimator.

To implement a new Transformer, define your own class which is a subclass of Transformer, including a name and a list of acceptable ranges for any parameters to be tuned during the automl search (hyperparameters). Define an __init__ method which sets up any necessary state and objects. Make sure your __init__ only uses standard keyword arguments and calls super().__init__() with a parameters dict. You may also override the fit, transform, fit_transform and other methods in this class if appropriate.

To see some examples, check out the definitions of any Transformer component.

Parameters

• parameters (dict) – Dictionary of parameters for the component. Defaults to None.

• component_obj (obj) – Third-party objects useful in component implementation. Defaults to None.

• random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
name	Returns string name of this component.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

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

property name(cls)

Returns string name of this component.

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.

abstract transform(self, X, y=None)

Transforms data X.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – 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.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.Undersampler(sampling_ratio=0.25, sampling_ratio_dict=None, min_samples=100, min_percentage=0.1, random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Initializes an undersampling transformer to downsample the majority classes in the dataset.

This component is only run during training and not during predict.

Parameters

• sampling_ratio (float) – The smallest minority:majority ratio that is accepted as ‘balanced’. For instance, a 1:4 ratio would be represented as 0.25, while a 1:1 ratio is 1.0. Must be between 0 and 1, inclusive. Defaults to 0.25.

• sampling_ratio_dict (dict) – A dictionary specifying the desired balanced ratio for each target value. For instance, in a binary case where class 1 is the minority, we could specify: sampling_ratio_dict={0: 0.5, 1: 1}, which means we would undersample class 0 to have twice the number of samples as class 1 (minority:majority ratio = 0.5), and don’t sample class 1. Overrides sampling_ratio if provided. Defaults to None.

• min_samples (int) – The minimum number of samples that we must have for any class, pre or post sampling. If a class must be downsampled, it will not be downsampled past this value. To determine severe imbalance, the minority class must occur less often than this and must have a class ratio below min_percentage. Must be greater than 0. Defaults to 100.

• min_percentage (float) – The minimum percentage of the minimum class to total dataset that we tolerate, as long as it is above min_samples. If min_percentage and min_samples are not met, treat this as severely imbalanced, and we will not resample the data. Must be between 0 and 0.5, inclusive. Defaults to 0.1.

• random_seed (int) – The seed to use for random sampling. Defaults to 0.

Raises

• ValueError – If sampling_ratio is not in the range (0, 1].

• ValueError – If min_sample is not greater than 0.

• ValueError – If min_percentage is not between 0 and 0.5, inclusive.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	True
name	Undersampler
training_only	True

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits the sampler to the data.
fit_resample	Resampling technique for this sampler.
fit_transform	Fit and transform data using the sampler component.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms the input data by sampling the data.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits the sampler to the data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Input features.

• y (pd.Series) – Target.

Returns

self

Raises

ValueError – If y is None.

fit_resample(self, X, y)

Resampling technique for this sampler.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Training data to fit and resample.

• y (pd.Series) – Training data targets to fit and resample.

Returns

Indices to keep for training data.

Return type

list

fit_transform(self, X, y)

Fit and transform data using the sampler component.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – The input training data of shape [n_samples, n_features].

• y (pd.Series, optional) – The target training data of length [n_samples].

Returns

Transformed data.

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=None)

Transforms the input data by sampling the data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Training features.

• y (pd.Series) – Target.

Returns

Transformed features and target.

Return type

pd.DataFrame, pd.Series

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.

class evalml.pipelines.components.transformers.URLFeaturizer(random_seed=0, **kwargs)

Transformer that can automatically extract features from URL.

Parameters

random_seed (int) – Seed for the random number generator. Defaults to 0.

Attributes

hyperparameter_ranges	{}
is_multiseries	False
modifies_features	True
modifies_target	False
name	URL Featurizer
training_only	False

Methods

clone	Constructs a new component with the same parameters and random state.
default_parameters	Returns the default parameters for this component.
describe	Describe a component and its parameters.
fit	Fits component to data.
fit_transform	Fits on X and transforms X.
load	Loads component at file path.
needs_fitting	Returns boolean determining if component needs fitting before calling predict, predict_proba, transform, or feature_importances.
parameters	Returns the parameters which were used to initialize the component.
save	Saves component at file path.
transform	Transforms data X.
update_parameters	Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

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)

Fits component to data.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – 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

MethodPropertyNotFoundError – If component does not have a fit method or a component_obj that implements fit.

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)

Transforms data X.

Parameters

• X (pd.DataFrame) – Data to transform.

• y (pd.Series, optional) – 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.

update_parameters(self, update_dict, reset_fit=True)

Updates the parameter dictionary of the component.

Parameters

• update_dict (dict) – A dict of parameters to update.

• reset_fit (bool, optional) – If True, will set _is_fitted to False.