Data¶

class cornac.data.FeatureModality(features=None, ids=None, normalized=False, **kwargs)[source]¶

Modality that contains features in general

Parameters:	features (numpy.ndarray or scipy.sparse.csr_matrix, default = None) – Numpy 2d-array that the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids. ids (List, default = None) – List of user/item ids that the indices are aligned with corpus. If None, the indices of provided features will be used as ids.

batch_feature(batch_ids)[source]¶: Return a matrix (batch of feature vectors) corresponding to provided batch_ids

build(id_map=None)[source]¶: Build the feature matrix. Features will be swapped if the id_map is provided

feature_dim¶: Return the dimensionality of the feature vectors

features¶: Return the whole feature matrix

class cornac.data.TextModality(corpus: List[str] = None, ids: List = None, tokenizer: cornac.data.text.Tokenizer = None, vocab: cornac.data.text.Vocabulary = None, max_vocab: int = None, max_doc_freq: Union[float, int] = 1.0, min_doc_freq: int = 1, tfidf_params: Dict = None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Text modality

Parameters:

corpus (List[str], default = None) – List of user/item texts that the indices are aligned with ids.
ids (List, default = None) – List of user/item ids that the indices are aligned with corpus. If None, the indices of provided corpus will be used as ids.
tokenizer (Tokenizer, optional, default = None) – Tokenizer for text splitting. If None, the BaseTokenizer will be used.
vocab (Vocabulary, optional, default = None) – Vocabulary of tokens. It contains mapping between tokens to their integer ids and vice versa.
max_vocab (int, optional, default = None) – The maximum size of the vocabulary. If vocab is provided, this will be ignored.
max_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1.0) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly higher than the given threshold (corpus-specific stop words). If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int for absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
min_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly lower than the given threshold. This value is also called cut-off in the literature. If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
tfidf_params (dict or None, optional, default=None) –
If None, a default arguments of <cornac.data.text.IfidfVectorizer> will be used. List of parameters:

’binary’ : boolean, default=False

If True, all non zero counts are set to 1.

’norm’ : ’l1’, ‘l2’ or None, optional, default=’l2’

Each output row will have unit norm, either: * ‘l2’: Sum of squares of vector elements is 1. The cosine similarity between two vectors is their dot product when l2 norm has been applied. * ‘l1’: Sum of absolute values of vector elements is 1. See utils.common.normalize()

’use_idf’ : boolean, default=True

Enable inverse-document-frequency reweighting.

’smooth_idf’ : boolean, default=True

Smooth idf weights by adding one to document frequencies, as if an extra document was seen containing every term in the collection exactly once. Prevents zero divisions.

’sublinear_tf’ : boolean (default=False)

Apply sublinear tf scaling, i.e. replace tf with 1 + log(tf).

batch_seq(batch_ids, max_length=None)[source]¶

Return a numpy matrix of text sequences containing token ids with size=(len(batch_ids), max_length).

Parameters:	batch_ids (Union[List, numpy.array], required) – An array containing the ids of rows of text sequences to be returned. max_length (int, optional) – Cut-off length of returned sequences. If None, it will be inferred based on retrieved sequences.
Returns:	batch_sequences – Batch of sequences with zero-padding at the end.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

batch_tfidf(batch_ids, keep_sparse=False)[source]¶

Return matrix of TF-IDF features corresponding to provided batch_ids

Parameters:	batch_ids (array) – An array of ids to retrieve the corresponding features. keep_sparse (bool, default = False) – If True, the return feature matrix will be a scipy.sparse.csr_matrix. Otherwise, it will be a dense matrix.
Returns:	batch_tfidf – Batch of TF-IDF representations corresponding to input batch_ids.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

build(id_map=None)[source]¶

Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

Parameters:	id_map (dict, optional) – A dictionary holds mapping from original ids to mapped integer indices of users/items.
Returns:	text_modality – An object of type TextModality.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.TextModality>`

tfidf_matrix¶: Return tf-idf matrix.

class cornac.data.ImageModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Image modality

Parameters:	images (Union[List, numpy.ndarray], optional) – A list or tensor of images that the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids. paths (List[str], optional) – A list of paths, to images stored on disk, which the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids..

batch_image(batch_ids, target_size=(256, 256), color_mode='rgb', interpolation='nearest')[source]¶

Return batch of images corresponding to provided batch_ids

Parameters:	batch_ids (Union[List, numpy.array], required) – An array containing the ids of rows of images to be returned. target_size (tuple, optional, default: (256, 256)) – Size (width, height) of returned images to be resized. color_mode (str, optional, default: 'rgb') – Color mode of returned images. interpolation (str, optional, default: 'nearest') – Method used for interpolation when resize images. Options are OpenCV supported methods.
Returns:	res – Batch of images corresponding to input batch_ids.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

build(id_map=None)[source]¶

Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

Parameters:	id_map (dict, optional) – A dictionary holds mapping from original ids to mapped integer indices of users/items.
Returns:	image_modality – An object of type ImageModality.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.ImageModality>`

class cornac.data.GraphModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Graph modality

Parameters:	data (List[str], required) – A list encoding an adjacency matrix, of a user or an item graph, in the sparse triplet format, e.g., data=[(‘user1’, ‘user4’, 1.0)].

batch(batch_ids)[source]¶

Return batch of vectors from the sparse adjacency matrix corresponding to provided batch_ids.

Parameters:	batch_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of rows to be returned from the sparse adjacency matrix.

build(id_map=None)[source]¶: Build the feature matrix. Features will be swapped if the id_map is provided

classmethod from_feature(features, k=5, ids=None, similarity='cosine', symmetric=False, verbose=True)[source]¶

Instantiate a GraphModality with a KNN graph build using input features.

Parameters:	features (2d Numpy array, shape: [n_objects, n_features], required) – A 2d Numpy array of features, e.g., visual, textual, etc. k (int, optional, default: 5) – The number of nearest neighbors ids (array, optional, default: None) – The list of object ids or labels, which align with the rows of features. For instance if you use textual (bag-of-word) features, then “ids” should be the same as the input to cornac.data.TextModality. similarity (string, optional, default: "cosine") – The similarity measure. At this time only the cosine is supported symmetric (bool, optional, default: False) – When True the resulting KNN-Graph is made symmetric verbose (bool, default: False) – The verbosity flag.
Returns:	graph_modality – GraphModality object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.GraphModality>`

get_node_degree(in_ids=None, out_ids=None)[source]¶

Get the “in” and “out” degree for the desired set of nodes

Parameters:	in_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids for which to get the “in” degree. out_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids for which to get the “out” degree.
Returns:	Dictionary of the from {node_id
Return type:	[in_degree,out_degree]}

get_train_triplet(train_row_ids, train_col_ids)[source]¶

Get the subset of relations which align with the training data

Parameters:	train_row_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of training objects (users or items) for which to get the “out” relations. train_col_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of training objects (users or items) for whom to get the “in” relations. Please refer to cornac/models/c2pf/recom_c2pf.py for a concrete usage example of this function.
Returns:
Return type:	A subset of the adjacency matrix, in the sparse triplet format, whose elements align with the training set as specified by “train_row_ids” and “train_col_ids”.

matrix¶: Return the adjacency matrix in scipy csr sparse format

class cornac.data.SentimentModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Aspect module :param data: A triplet list of user, item, and sentiment information which also a triplet list of aspect, opinion, and sentiment, e.g., data=[(‘user1’, ‘item1’, [(‘aspect1’, ‘opinion1’, ‘sentiment1’)])]. :type data: List[str], required

build(uid_map=None, iid_map=None, dok_matrix=None)[source]¶: Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

num_aspects¶: Return the number of aspects

num_opinions¶: Return the number of aspects

class cornac.data.Dataset(num_users, num_items, uid_map, iid_map, uir_tuple, timestamps=None, seed=None)[source]¶

Training set contains preference matrix

Parameters:

num_users (int, required) – Number of users.
num_items (int, required) – Number of items.
uid_map (OrderDict, required) – The dictionary containing mapping from user original ids to mapped integer indices.
iid_map (OrderDict, required) – The dictionary containing mapping from item original ids to mapped integer indices.
uir_tuple (tuple, required) – Tuple of 3 numpy arrays (user_indices, item_indices, rating_values).
timestamps (numpy.array, optional, default: None) – Array of timestamps corresponding to observations in uir_tuple.
seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.

num_users¶

Number of users in the dataset. For the case of validation or test dataset, this could add up the number of users in the training dataset as well.

Type:	int

num_items¶

Number of items in the dataset. For the case of validation or test dataset,: this could add up the number of items in the training dataset as well.

Type:	int

num_ratings¶

Number of rating observations in the dataset.

Type:	int

max_rating¶

Maximum value among the rating observations.

Type:	float

min_rating¶

Minimum value among the rating observations.

Type:	float

global_mean¶

Average value over the rating observations.

Type:	float

uir_tuple¶

Tuple three numpy arrays (user_indices, item_indices, rating_values).

Type:	tuple

timestamps¶

Numpy array of timestamps corresponding to feedback in uir_tuple. This is only available when input data is in UIRT format.

Type:	numpy.array

user_data¶

Data organized by user. A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of two lists (items, ratings) interacted by the corresponding users.

Type:	dict

item_data¶

Data organized by item. A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of two lists (users, ratings) interacted with the corresponding items.

Type:	dict

chrono_user_data¶

Data organized by user sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (items, ratings, timestamps) interacted by the corresponding users.

Type:	dict

chrono_item_data¶

Data organized by item sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (users, ratings, timestamps) interacted with the corresponding items.

Type:	dict

classmethod build(data, fmt='UIR', global_uid_map=None, global_iid_map=None, seed=None, exclude_unknowns=False)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from given data of specific format.

Parameters:	data (array-like, required) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating) for UIR format, or quadruplets (user, item, rating, timestamps) for UIRT format. fmt (str, default: 'UIR') – Format of the input data. Currently, we are supporting: ’UIR’: User, Item, Rating ‘UIRT’: User, Item, Rating, Timestamp global_uid_map (`defaultdict`, optional, default: None) – The dictionary containing global mapping from original ids to mapped ids of users. global_iid_map (`defaultdict`, optional, default: None) – The dictionary containing global mapping from original ids to mapped ids of items. seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling. exclude_unknowns (bool, default: False) – Ignore unknown users and items.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

chrono_item_data: Return data organized by item sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (users, ratings, timestamps) interacted with the corresponding items.

chrono_user_data: Return data organized by user sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (items, ratings, timestamps) interacted by the corresponding users.

csc_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSC sparse format

csr_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSR sparse format

dok_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in DOK sparse format

classmethod from_uir(data, seed=None)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from UIR (User, Item, Rating) triplet data.

Parameters:	data (array-like, shape: [n_examples, 3]) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating) seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

classmethod from_uirt(data, seed=None)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from UIRT (User, Item, Rating, Timestamp) quadruplet data.

Parameters:	data (array-like, shape: [n_examples, 4]) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating, timestamp) seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

idx_iter(idx_range, batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over batch of indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of indices (array of np.int)

is_unk_item(item_idx)[source]¶: Return whether or not an item is unknown given the item index

is_unk_user(user_idx)[source]¶: Return whether or not a user is unknown given the user index

item_data: Return data organized by item. A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of two lists (users, ratings) interacted with the corresponding items.

item_ids¶: Return an iterator over the raw item ids

item_indices¶: Return an iterator over the item indices

item_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over item indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of item indices (array of np.int)

matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSR sparse format

uij_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False, neg_sampling='uniform')[source]¶

Create an iterator over data yielding batch of users, positive items, and negative items

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept. neg_sampling (str, optional, default: 'uniform') – How negative item j will be sampled. Supported options: {uniform, popularity}.
Returns:	iterator – batch of negative items (array of np.int)
Return type:	batch of users (array of np.int), batch of positive items (array of np.int),

uir_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False, binary=False, num_zeros=0)[source]¶

Create an iterator over data yielding batch of users, items, and rating values

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept. binary (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, non-zero ratings will be turned into 1, otherwise, values remain unchanged. num_zeros (int, optional, default = 0) – Number of unobserved ratings (zeros) to be added per user. This could be used for negative sampling. By default, no values are added.
Returns:	iterator – batch of ratings (array of np.float)
Return type:	batch of users (array of np.int), batch of items (array of np.int),

user_data: Return data organized by user. A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of two lists (items, ratings) interacted by the corresponding users.

user_ids¶: Return an iterator over the raw user ids

user_indices¶: Return an iterator over the user indices

user_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over user indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of user indices (array of np.int)

class cornac.data.Reader(user_set=None, item_set=None, min_user_freq=1, min_item_freq=1, bin_threshold=None, encoding='utf-8', errors=None)[source]¶

Reader class for reading data with different types of format.

Parameters:

user_set (set, default = None) – Set of users to be selected when reading data. If None, all users that appear in the data will be included.
item_set (set, default = None) – Set of items to be selected when reading data. If None, all items that appear in the data will be included.
min_user_freq (int, default = 1) – The minimum frequency of a user to be selected. If min_user_freq=1, all users that appear in the data will be included.
min_item_freq (int, default = 1) – The minimum frequency of an item to be selected. If min_item_freq=1, all items that appear in the data will be included.
bin_threshold (float, default = None) – The rating threshold to binarize rating values (turn explicit feedback to implicit feedback). For example, if bin_threshold = 3.0, all rating values >= 3.0 will be set to 1.0, and the rest (< 3.0) will be discarded.
encoding (str, default = utf-8) – Encoding used to decode the file.
errors (int, default = None) – Optional string that specifies how encoding errors are to be handled. Pass ‘strict’ to raise a ValueError exception if there is an encoding error (None has the same effect), or pass ‘ignore’ to ignore errors.

read(fpath, fmt='UIR', sep='\t', skip_lines=0, id_inline=False, parser=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Read data and parse line by line based on provided fmt or parser.

Parameters:	fpath (str) – Path to the data file. fmt (str, default: UIR) – Line format to be parsed (UIR or UIRT). sep (str, default:) – The delimiter string. skip_lines (int, default: 0) – Number of first lines to skip id_inline (bool, default: False) – If True, user ids corresponding to the line numbers of the file, where all the ids in each line are item ids. parser (function, default: None) – Function takes a list of str tokenized by sep and returns a list of tuples which will be joined to the final results. If None, parser will be determined based on fmt.
Returns:	tuples – Data in the form of list of tuples. What inside each tuple depends on parser or fmt.
Return type:	list

Dataset¶

class cornac.data.dataset.Dataset(num_users, num_items, uid_map, iid_map, uir_tuple, timestamps=None, seed=None)[source]¶

Training set contains preference matrix

Parameters:

num_users (int, required) – Number of users.
num_items (int, required) – Number of items.
uid_map (OrderDict, required) – The dictionary containing mapping from user original ids to mapped integer indices.
iid_map (OrderDict, required) – The dictionary containing mapping from item original ids to mapped integer indices.
uir_tuple (tuple, required) – Tuple of 3 numpy arrays (user_indices, item_indices, rating_values).
timestamps (numpy.array, optional, default: None) – Array of timestamps corresponding to observations in uir_tuple.
seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.

num_users¶

Number of users in the dataset. For the case of validation or test dataset, this could add up the number of users in the training dataset as well.

Type:	int

num_items¶

Number of items in the dataset. For the case of validation or test dataset,: this could add up the number of items in the training dataset as well.

Type:	int

num_ratings¶

Number of rating observations in the dataset.

Type:	int

max_rating¶

Maximum value among the rating observations.

Type:	float

min_rating¶

Minimum value among the rating observations.

Type:	float

global_mean¶

Average value over the rating observations.

Type:	float

uir_tuple¶

Tuple three numpy arrays (user_indices, item_indices, rating_values).

Type:	tuple

timestamps¶

Numpy array of timestamps corresponding to feedback in uir_tuple. This is only available when input data is in UIRT format.

Type:	numpy.array

user_data¶

Data organized by user. A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of two lists (items, ratings) interacted by the corresponding users.

Type:	dict

item_data¶

Data organized by item. A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of two lists (users, ratings) interacted with the corresponding items.

Type:	dict

chrono_user_data¶

Data organized by user sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (items, ratings, timestamps) interacted by the corresponding users.

Type:	dict

chrono_item_data¶

Data organized by item sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (users, ratings, timestamps) interacted with the corresponding items.

Type:	dict

classmethod build(data, fmt='UIR', global_uid_map=None, global_iid_map=None, seed=None, exclude_unknowns=False)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from given data of specific format.

Parameters:	data (array-like, required) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating) for UIR format, or quadruplets (user, item, rating, timestamps) for UIRT format. fmt (str, default: 'UIR') – Format of the input data. Currently, we are supporting: ’UIR’: User, Item, Rating ‘UIRT’: User, Item, Rating, Timestamp global_uid_map (`defaultdict`, optional, default: None) – The dictionary containing global mapping from original ids to mapped ids of users. global_iid_map (`defaultdict`, optional, default: None) – The dictionary containing global mapping from original ids to mapped ids of items. seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling. exclude_unknowns (bool, default: False) – Ignore unknown users and items.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

chrono_item_data: Return data organized by item sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (users, ratings, timestamps) interacted with the corresponding items.

chrono_user_data: Return data organized by user sorted chronologically (timestamps required). A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of three chronologically sorted lists (items, ratings, timestamps) interacted by the corresponding users.

csc_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSC sparse format

csr_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSR sparse format

dok_matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in DOK sparse format

classmethod from_uir(data, seed=None)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from UIR (User, Item, Rating) triplet data.

Parameters:	data (array-like, shape: [n_examples, 3]) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating) seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

classmethod from_uirt(data, seed=None)[source]¶

Constructing Dataset from UIRT (User, Item, Rating, Timestamp) quadruplet data.

Parameters:	data (array-like, shape: [n_examples, 4]) – Data in the form of triplets (user, item, rating, timestamp) seed (int, optional, default: None) – Random seed for reproducing data sampling.
Returns:	res – Dataset object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.Dataset>`

idx_iter(idx_range, batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over batch of indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of indices (array of np.int)

is_unk_item(item_idx)[source]¶: Return whether or not an item is unknown given the item index

is_unk_user(user_idx)[source]¶: Return whether or not a user is unknown given the user index

item_data: Return data organized by item. A dictionary where keys are items, values are tuples of two lists (users, ratings) interacted with the corresponding items.

item_ids¶: Return an iterator over the raw item ids

item_indices¶: Return an iterator over the item indices

item_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over item indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of item indices (array of np.int)

matrix¶: Return the user-item interaction matrix in CSR sparse format

uij_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False, neg_sampling='uniform')[source]¶

Create an iterator over data yielding batch of users, positive items, and negative items

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept. neg_sampling (str, optional, default: 'uniform') – How negative item j will be sampled. Supported options: {uniform, popularity}.
Returns:	iterator – batch of negative items (array of np.int)
Return type:	batch of users (array of np.int), batch of positive items (array of np.int),

uir_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False, binary=False, num_zeros=0)[source]¶

Create an iterator over data yielding batch of users, items, and rating values

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept. binary (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, non-zero ratings will be turned into 1, otherwise, values remain unchanged. num_zeros (int, optional, default = 0) – Number of unobserved ratings (zeros) to be added per user. This could be used for negative sampling. By default, no values are added.
Returns:	iterator – batch of ratings (array of np.float)
Return type:	batch of users (array of np.int), batch of items (array of np.int),

user_data: Return data organized by user. A dictionary where keys are users, values are tuples of two lists (items, ratings) interacted by the corresponding users.

user_ids¶: Return an iterator over the raw user ids

user_indices¶: Return an iterator over the user indices

user_iter(batch_size=1, shuffle=False)[source]¶

Create an iterator over user indices

Parameters:	batch_size (int, optional, default = 1) – shuffle (bool, optional) – If True, orders of triplets will be randomized. If False, default orders kept
Returns:	iterator
Return type:	batch of user indices (array of np.int)

Modality¶

class cornac.data.modality.FeatureModality(features=None, ids=None, normalized=False, **kwargs)[source]¶

Modality that contains features in general

Parameters:	features (numpy.ndarray or scipy.sparse.csr_matrix, default = None) – Numpy 2d-array that the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids. ids (List, default = None) – List of user/item ids that the indices are aligned with corpus. If None, the indices of provided features will be used as ids.

batch_feature(batch_ids)[source]¶: Return a matrix (batch of feature vectors) corresponding to provided batch_ids

build(id_map=None)[source]¶: Build the feature matrix. Features will be swapped if the id_map is provided

feature_dim¶: Return the dimensionality of the feature vectors

features¶: Return the whole feature matrix

class cornac.data.modality.Modality(**kwargs)[source]¶: Generic class of Modality to extend from

cornac.data.modality.fallback_feature(func)[source]¶: Decorator to fallback to batch_feature in FeatureModality

Graph Modality¶

class cornac.data.graph.GraphModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Graph modality

Parameters:	data (List[str], required) – A list encoding an adjacency matrix, of a user or an item graph, in the sparse triplet format, e.g., data=[(‘user1’, ‘user4’, 1.0)].

batch(batch_ids)[source]¶

Return batch of vectors from the sparse adjacency matrix corresponding to provided batch_ids.

Parameters:	batch_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of rows to be returned from the sparse adjacency matrix.

build(id_map=None)[source]¶: Build the feature matrix. Features will be swapped if the id_map is provided

classmethod from_feature(features, k=5, ids=None, similarity='cosine', symmetric=False, verbose=True)[source]¶

Instantiate a GraphModality with a KNN graph build using input features.

Parameters:	features (2d Numpy array, shape: [n_objects, n_features], required) – A 2d Numpy array of features, e.g., visual, textual, etc. k (int, optional, default: 5) – The number of nearest neighbors ids (array, optional, default: None) – The list of object ids or labels, which align with the rows of features. For instance if you use textual (bag-of-word) features, then “ids” should be the same as the input to cornac.data.TextModality. similarity (string, optional, default: "cosine") – The similarity measure. At this time only the cosine is supported symmetric (bool, optional, default: False) – When True the resulting KNN-Graph is made symmetric verbose (bool, default: False) – The verbosity flag.
Returns:	graph_modality – GraphModality object.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.GraphModality>`

get_node_degree(in_ids=None, out_ids=None)[source]¶

Get the “in” and “out” degree for the desired set of nodes

Parameters:	in_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids for which to get the “in” degree. out_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids for which to get the “out” degree.
Returns:	Dictionary of the from {node_id
Return type:	[in_degree,out_degree]}

get_train_triplet(train_row_ids, train_col_ids)[source]¶

Get the subset of relations which align with the training data

Parameters:	train_row_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of training objects (users or items) for which to get the “out” relations. train_col_ids (array, required) – An array containing the ids of training objects (users or items) for whom to get the “in” relations. Please refer to cornac/models/c2pf/recom_c2pf.py for a concrete usage example of this function.
Returns:
Return type:	A subset of the adjacency matrix, in the sparse triplet format, whose elements align with the training set as specified by “train_row_ids” and “train_col_ids”.

matrix¶: Return the adjacency matrix in scipy csr sparse format

Text Modality¶

class cornac.data.text.Tokenizer[source]¶

Generic class for other subclasses to extend from. This typically either splits text into word tokens or character tokens.

batch_tokenize(texts: List[str]) → List[List[str]][source]¶

Splitting a corpus with multiple text documents.

Parameters:	texts (List[str], required) – Input list of texts to be tokenized.
Returns:	tokens
Return type:	`List[List[str]]`

tokenize(t: str) → List[str][source]¶

Splitting text into tokens.

Parameters:	t (str, required) – Input text to be tokenized.
Returns:	tokens
Return type:	`List[str]`

class cornac.data.text.BaseTokenizer(sep: str = ' ', pre_rules: List[Callable[str, str]] = None, stop_words: Union[List, str] = None)[source]¶

A base tokenizer use a provided delimiter sep to split text.

Parameters:	sep (str, optional, default: ' ') – Separator string used to split text into tokens. pre_rules (List[Callable[[str], str]], optional) – List of callable lambda functions to apply on text before tokenization. stop_words (Union[List, str], optional) – List of stop-words to be ignored during tokenization, or key of built-in stop-word lists (e.g., english).

batch_tokenize(texts: List[str]) → List[List[str]][source]¶

Splitting a corpus with multiple text documents.

Parameters:	texts (List[str], required) – Input list of texts to be tokenized.
Returns:	tokens
Return type:	`List[List[str]]`

tokenize(t: str) → List[str][source]¶

Splitting text into tokens.

Parameters:	t (str, required) – Input text to be tokenized.
Returns:	tokens
Return type:	`List[str]`

class cornac.data.text.Vocabulary(idx2tok: List[str], use_special_tokens: bool = False)[source]¶

Vocabulary basically contains mapping between numbers and tokens and vice versa.

Parameters:	idx2tok (List[str], required) – List of tokens where list indices are corresponding to their mapped integer indices. use_special_tokens (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, vocabulary will include SPECIAL_TOKENS.

build_tok2idx()[source]¶: Build a mapping between tokens to their integer indices

classmethod from_sequences(sequences: List[List[str]], max_vocab: int = None, min_freq: int = 1, use_special_tokens: bool = False) → cornac.data.text.Vocabulary[source]¶

Build a vocabulary from sequences (list of list of tokens).

Parameters:

sequences (List[List[str]], required) – Corpus of multiple lists of string tokens.
max_vocab (int, optional) – Limit for size of the vocabulary. If specified, tokens will be ranked based on counts and gathered top-down until reach max_vocab.
min_freq (int, optional, default: 1) – Cut-off threshold for tokens based on their counts.
use_special_tokens (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, vocabulary will include SPECIAL_TOKENS.

classmethod from_tokens(tokens: List[str], max_vocab: int = None, min_freq: int = 1, use_special_tokens: bool = False) → cornac.data.text.Vocabulary[source]¶

Build a vocabulary from list of tokens.

Parameters:

tokens (List[str], required) – List of string tokens.
max_vocab (int, optional) – Limit for size of the vocabulary. If specified, tokens will be ranked based on counts and gathered top-down until reach max_vocab.
min_freq (int, optional, default: 1) – Cut-off threshold for tokens based on their counts.
use_special_tokens (bool, optional, default: False) – If True, vocabulary will include SPECIAL_TOKENS.

classmethod load(path)[source]¶: Load a vocabulary from path to a pickle file.

save(path)[source]¶

Save idx2tok into a pickle file.

Parameters:	path (str, required) – Path to store the dictionary on disk.

to_idx(tokens: List[str]) → List[int][source]¶

Convert a list of tokens to their integer indices.

Parameters:	tokens (List[str], required) – List of string tokens.
Returns:	indices – List of integer indices corresponding to input tokens.
Return type:	List[int]

to_text(indices: List[int], sep=' ') → List[str][source]¶

Convert a list of integer indices to their tokens.

Parameters:	indices (List[int], required) – List of token integer indices. sep (str, optional, default: ' ') – Separator string used to connect tokens.
Returns:	text – Aggregated text of tokens seperated by sep.
Return type:	str

class cornac.data.text.CountVectorizer(tokenizer: cornac.data.text.Tokenizer = None, vocab: cornac.data.text.Vocabulary = None, max_doc_freq: Union[float, int] = 1.0, min_doc_freq: int = 1, max_features: int = None, binary: bool = False)[source]¶

Convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of token counts This implementation produces a sparse representation of the counts using scipy.sparse.csr_matrix.

Parameters:

tokenizer (Tokenizer, optional, default=None) – Tokenizer for text splitting. If None, the BaseTokenizer will be used.
vocab (Vocabulary, optional, default = None) – Vocabulary of tokens. It contains mapping between tokens to their integer ids and vice versa.
max_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1.0) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly higher than the given threshold (corpus-specific stop words). If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int for absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
min_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly lower than the given threshold. This value is also called cut-off in the literature. If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
max_features (int or None, optional, default=None) – If not None, build a vocabulary that only consider the top max_features ordered by term frequency across the corpus. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
binary (boolean, default=False) – If True, all non zero counts are set to 1.
Reference –
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https (//github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/master/sklearn/feature_extraction/text.py#L790) –

fit(raw_documents: List[str]) → cornac.data.text.CountVectorizer[source]¶

Build a vocabulary of all tokens in the raw documents.

Parameters:	raw_documents (iterable) – An iterable which yields either str, unicode or file objects.
Returns:	count_vectorizer – An object of type CountVectorizer.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.text.CountVectorizer>`

fit_transform(raw_documents: List[str]) -> (typing.List[typing.List[str]], <class 'scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix'>)[source]¶

Build the vocabulary and return term-document matrix.

Parameters:	raw_documents (List[str]) –
Returns:	sequences: List[List[str] Tokenized sequences of raw_documents X: array, [n_samples, n_features] Document-term matrix.
Return type:	(sequences, X)

transform(raw_documents: List[str]) -> (typing.List[typing.List[str]], <class 'scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix'>)[source]¶

Transform documents to document-term matrix.

Parameters:	raw_documents (List[str]) –
Returns:	sequences: List[List[str] Tokenized sequences of raw_documents. X: array, [n_samples, n_features] Document-term matrix.
Return type:	(sequences, X)

class cornac.data.text.TextModality(corpus: List[str] = None, ids: List = None, tokenizer: cornac.data.text.Tokenizer = None, vocab: cornac.data.text.Vocabulary = None, max_vocab: int = None, max_doc_freq: Union[float, int] = 1.0, min_doc_freq: int = 1, tfidf_params: Dict = None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Text modality

Parameters:

corpus (List[str], default = None) – List of user/item texts that the indices are aligned with ids.
ids (List, default = None) – List of user/item ids that the indices are aligned with corpus. If None, the indices of provided corpus will be used as ids.
tokenizer (Tokenizer, optional, default = None) – Tokenizer for text splitting. If None, the BaseTokenizer will be used.
vocab (Vocabulary, optional, default = None) – Vocabulary of tokens. It contains mapping between tokens to their integer ids and vice versa.
max_vocab (int, optional, default = None) – The maximum size of the vocabulary. If vocab is provided, this will be ignored.
max_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1.0) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly higher than the given threshold (corpus-specific stop words). If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int for absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
min_doc_freq (float in range [0.0, 1.0] or int, default=1) – When building the vocabulary ignore terms that have a document frequency strictly lower than the given threshold. This value is also called cut-off in the literature. If float, the value represents a proportion of documents, int absolute counts. If vocab is not None, this will be ignored.
tfidf_params (dict or None, optional, default=None) –
If None, a default arguments of <cornac.data.text.IfidfVectorizer> will be used. List of parameters:

’binary’ : boolean, default=False

If True, all non zero counts are set to 1.

’norm’ : ’l1’, ‘l2’ or None, optional, default=’l2’

Each output row will have unit norm, either: * ‘l2’: Sum of squares of vector elements is 1. The cosine similarity between two vectors is their dot product when l2 norm has been applied. * ‘l1’: Sum of absolute values of vector elements is 1. See utils.common.normalize()

’use_idf’ : boolean, default=True

Enable inverse-document-frequency reweighting.

’smooth_idf’ : boolean, default=True

Smooth idf weights by adding one to document frequencies, as if an extra document was seen containing every term in the collection exactly once. Prevents zero divisions.

’sublinear_tf’ : boolean (default=False)

Apply sublinear tf scaling, i.e. replace tf with 1 + log(tf).

batch_seq(batch_ids, max_length=None)[source]¶

Return a numpy matrix of text sequences containing token ids with size=(len(batch_ids), max_length).

Parameters:	batch_ids (Union[List, numpy.array], required) – An array containing the ids of rows of text sequences to be returned. max_length (int, optional) – Cut-off length of returned sequences. If None, it will be inferred based on retrieved sequences.
Returns:	batch_sequences – Batch of sequences with zero-padding at the end.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

batch_tfidf(batch_ids, keep_sparse=False)[source]¶

Return matrix of TF-IDF features corresponding to provided batch_ids

Parameters:	batch_ids (array) – An array of ids to retrieve the corresponding features. keep_sparse (bool, default = False) – If True, the return feature matrix will be a scipy.sparse.csr_matrix. Otherwise, it will be a dense matrix.
Returns:	batch_tfidf – Batch of TF-IDF representations corresponding to input batch_ids.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

build(id_map=None)[source]¶

Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

Parameters:	id_map (dict, optional) – A dictionary holds mapping from original ids to mapped integer indices of users/items.
Returns:	text_modality – An object of type TextModality.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.TextModality>`

tfidf_matrix¶: Return tf-idf matrix.

Image Modality¶

class cornac.data.image.ImageModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Image modality

Parameters:	images (Union[List, numpy.ndarray], optional) – A list or tensor of images that the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids. paths (List[str], optional) – A list of paths, to images stored on disk, which the row indices are aligned with user/item in ids..

batch_image(batch_ids, target_size=(256, 256), color_mode='rgb', interpolation='nearest')[source]¶

Return batch of images corresponding to provided batch_ids

Parameters:	batch_ids (Union[List, numpy.array], required) – An array containing the ids of rows of images to be returned. target_size (tuple, optional, default: (256, 256)) – Size (width, height) of returned images to be resized. color_mode (str, optional, default: 'rgb') – Color mode of returned images. interpolation (str, optional, default: 'nearest') – Method used for interpolation when resize images. Options are OpenCV supported methods.
Returns:	res – Batch of images corresponding to input batch_ids.
Return type:	numpy.ndarray

build(id_map=None)[source]¶

Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

Parameters:	id_map (dict, optional) – A dictionary holds mapping from original ids to mapped integer indices of users/items.
Returns:	image_modality – An object of type ImageModality.
Return type:	`<cornac.data.ImageModality>`

Sentiment Modality¶

class cornac.data.sentiment.SentimentModality(**kwargs)[source]¶

Aspect module :param data: A triplet list of user, item, and sentiment information which also a triplet list of aspect, opinion, and sentiment, e.g., data=[(‘user1’, ‘item1’, [(‘aspect1’, ‘opinion1’, ‘sentiment1’)])]. :type data: List[str], required

build(uid_map=None, iid_map=None, dok_matrix=None)[source]¶: Build the model based on provided list of ordered ids

num_aspects¶: Return the number of aspects

num_opinions¶: Return the number of aspects

Reader¶

class cornac.data.reader.Reader(user_set=None, item_set=None, min_user_freq=1, min_item_freq=1, bin_threshold=None, encoding='utf-8', errors=None)[source]¶

Reader class for reading data with different types of format.

Parameters:

user_set (set, default = None) – Set of users to be selected when reading data. If None, all users that appear in the data will be included.
item_set (set, default = None) – Set of items to be selected when reading data. If None, all items that appear in the data will be included.
min_user_freq (int, default = 1) – The minimum frequency of a user to be selected. If min_user_freq=1, all users that appear in the data will be included.
min_item_freq (int, default = 1) – The minimum frequency of an item to be selected. If min_item_freq=1, all items that appear in the data will be included.
bin_threshold (float, default = None) – The rating threshold to binarize rating values (turn explicit feedback to implicit feedback). For example, if bin_threshold = 3.0, all rating values >= 3.0 will be set to 1.0, and the rest (< 3.0) will be discarded.
encoding (str, default = utf-8) – Encoding used to decode the file.
errors (int, default = None) – Optional string that specifies how encoding errors are to be handled. Pass ‘strict’ to raise a ValueError exception if there is an encoding error (None has the same effect), or pass ‘ignore’ to ignore errors.

read(fpath, fmt='UIR', sep='\t', skip_lines=0, id_inline=False, parser=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Read data and parse line by line based on provided fmt or parser.

Parameters:	fpath (str) – Path to the data file. fmt (str, default: UIR) – Line format to be parsed (UIR or UIRT). sep (str, default:) – The delimiter string. skip_lines (int, default: 0) – Number of first lines to skip id_inline (bool, default: False) – If True, user ids corresponding to the line numbers of the file, where all the ids in each line are item ids. parser (function, default: None) – Function takes a list of str tokenized by sep and returns a list of tuples which will be joined to the final results. If None, parser will be determined based on fmt.
Returns:	tuples – Data in the form of list of tuples. What inside each tuple depends on parser or fmt.
Return type:	list

cornac.data.reader.read_text(fpath, sep=None, encoding='utf-8', errors=None)[source]¶

Read text file and return two lists of text documents and corresponding ids. If sep is None, only return one list containing elements are lines of text in the original file.

Parameters:

fpath (str) – Path to the data file
sep (str, default = None) – The delimiter string used to split id and text. Each line is assumed containing an id followed by corresponding text document. If None, each line will be a str in returned list.
encoding (str, default = utf-8) – Encoding used to decode the file.
errors (int, default = None) – Optional string that specifies how encoding errors are to be handled. Pass ‘strict’ to raise a ValueError exception if there is an encoding error (None has the same effect), or pass ‘ignore’ to ignore errors.