Numpy、Pandas和Sklearn中的多维缩放拟合（值错误）

Question

我在尝试用sklearn、pandas和numpy进行多维缩放。Im使用的数据文件有10个数字列，没有丢失的值。我试着用sklearn把这个10维数据可视化成2维，流形的多维标度如下：

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn import manifold
from sklearn.metrics import euclidean_distances

seed = np.random.RandomState(seed=3)
data = pd.read_csv('data/big-file.csv')

#  start small dont take all the data, 
#  its about 200k records
subset = data[:10000]
similarities = euclidean_distances(subset)

mds = manifold.MDS(n_components=2, max_iter=3000, eps=1e-9, 
      random_state=seed, dissimilarity="precomputed", n_jobs=1)

pos = mds.fit(similarities).embedding_

但我得到这个值错误：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "demo/mds-demo.py", line 18, in <module>
    pos = mds.fit(similarities).embedding_
  File "/Users/dwilliams/Desktop/Anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/manifold/mds.py", line 360, in fit
    self.fit_transform(X, init=init)
  File "/Users/dwilliams/Desktop/Anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/manifold/mds.py", line 395, in fit_transform
eps=self.eps, random_state=self.random_state)
  File "/Users/dwilliams/Desktop/Anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/manifold/mds.py", line 242, in smacof
eps=eps, random_state=random_state)
  File "/Users/dwilliams/Desktop/Anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sklearn/manifold/mds.py", line 73, in _smacof_single
raise ValueError("similarities must be symmetric")
ValueError: similarities must be symmetric

我认为欧氏距离返回了一个对称矩阵。我做错了什么？我该怎么解决？

Answer 1

我遇到了同样的问题；结果发现，我的数据是一个np.float32数组，浮点精度降低导致距离矩阵不对称。在运行MDS之前，我将数据转换为np.float64来解决这个问题。

下面是一个使用随机数据来说明问题的示例：

import numpy as np
from sklearn.manifold import MDS
from sklearn.metrics import euclidean_distances
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification

data, labels = make_classification()
mds = MDS(n_components=2)

similarities = euclidean_distances(data.astype(np.float64))
print np.abs(similarities - similarities.T).max()
# Prints 1.7763568394e-15
mds.fit(data.astype(np.float64))
# Succeeds

similarities = euclidean_distances(data.astype(np.float32))
print np.abs(similarities - similarities.T).max()
# Prints 9.53674e-07
mds.fit(data.astype(np.float32))
# Fails with "ValueError: similarities must be symmetric"