Categorical kernels

Implemented:

  • MatchCountKernel

API

Module for categorical kernels

Please refer to the following papers and theses for more details:

  • Villegas García, Marco Antonio. “An investigation into new kernels for categorical variables.” Master’s thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013.

class kernelmethods.categorical.MatchCountKernel(return_perc=True, skip_input_checks=False)[source]

Bases: kernelmethods.base.BaseKernelFunction

Categorical kernel measuring similarity via the number of matching categorical dimensions.

Parameters

return_perc (bool) – If True, the return value would be normalized by the number of dimensions.

References

Villegas García, Marco A., “An investigation into new kernels for categorical variables.” Master’s thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013.