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scikit-learn: How to compose LabelEncoder and OneHotEncoder with a pipeline?

While preprocessing the labels for a machine learning classifying task, I need to one hot encode the labels which take string values. It happens that OneHotEncoder from sklearn.preprocessing or to_categorical from kera.np_utils require int inputs. This means that I need to precede the one hot encoder with a LabelEncoder. I have done it by hand with a custom class:

class LabelOneHotEncoder():
    def __init__(self):
        self.ohe = OneHotEncoder()
        self.le = LabelEncoder()
    def fit_transform(self, x):
        features = self.le.fit_transform( x)
        return self.ohe.fit_transform( features.reshape(-1,1))
    def transform( self, x):
        return self.ohe.transform( self.la.transform( x.reshape(-1,1)))
    def inverse_tranform( self, x):
        return self.le.inverse_transform( self.ohe.inverse_tranform( x))
    def inverse_labels( self, x):
        return self.le.inverse_transform( x)

I am confident there must a way of doing it within the sklearn API using a sklearn.pipeline, but when using:

LabelOneHotEncoder = Pipeline( [ ("le",LabelEncoder), ("ohe", OneHotEncoder)])

I get the error ValueError: bad input shape () from the OneHotEncoder. My guess is that the output of the LabelEncoder needs to be reshaped, by adding a trivial second axis. I am not sure how to add this feature though.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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It's strange that they don't play together nicely... I'm surprised. I'd extend the class to return the reshaped data like you suggested.

class ModifiedLabelEncoder(LabelEncoder):

    def fit_transform(self, y, *args, **kwargs):
        return super().fit_transform(y).reshape(-1, 1)

    def transform(self, y, *args, **kwargs):
        return super().transform(y).reshape(-1, 1)

Then using the pipeline should work.

pipe = Pipeline([("le", ModifiedLabelEncoder()), ("ohe", OneHotEncoder())])
pipe.fit_transform(['dog', 'cat', 'dog'])

https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/a24c8b46/sklearn/preprocessing/label.py#L39

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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From scikit-learn 0.20, OneHotEncoder accepts strings, so you don't need a LabelEncoder before it anymore. And you can just use it in a pipeline.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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I have used a customized class to wrap my label encoder function and it returns the whole updated dataset.

 class CustomLabelEncode(BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin):
  def fit(self, X, y=None):
   return self
  def transform(self, X ,y=None):
    le=LabelEncoder()
    for i in X[cat_cols]:
    X[i]=le.fit_transform(X[i])
    return X 
cat_cols=['Family','Education','Securities Account','CDAccount','Online','CreditCard']
le_ct=make_column_transformer((CustomLabelEncode(),cat_cols),remainder='passthrough') 
pd.DataFrame(ct3.fit_transform(X)) #This will show you your changes
Final_pipeline=make_pipeline(le_ct)

[I have implemented it you can see my github link] [1]: https://github.com/Ayushmina-20/sklearn_pipeline

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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