sklearn.metrics.v_measure_score  
sklearn.metrics.v_measure_score(labels_true, labels_pred, *, beta=1.0) [source]
 
V-measure cluster labeling given a ground truth. This score is identical to normalized_mutual_info_score with the 'arithmetic' option for averaging. The V-measure is the harmonic mean between homogeneity and completeness: v = (1 + beta) * homogeneity * completeness
     / (beta * homogeneity + completeness)
 This metric is independent of the absolute values of the labels: a permutation of the class or cluster label values won’t change the score value in any way. This metric is furthermore symmetric: switching label_true with label_pred will return the same score value. This can be useful to measure the agreement of two independent label assignments strategies on the same dataset when the real ground truth is not known. Read more in the User Guide.  Parameters 
 
labels_trueint array, shape = [n_samples] 

ground truth class labels to be used as a reference  
labels_predarray-like of shape (n_samples,) 

cluster labels to evaluate  
betafloat, default=1.0 

Ratio of weight attributed to homogeneity vs completeness. If beta is greater than 1, completeness is weighted more strongly in the calculation. If beta is less than 1, homogeneity is weighted more strongly.    Returns 
 
v_measurefloat 

score between 0.0 and 1.0. 1.0 stands for perfectly complete labeling      See also  
homogeneity_score


completeness_score


normalized_mutual_info_score

  References  
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Andrew Rosenberg and Julia Hirschberg, 2007. V-Measure: A conditional entropy-based external cluster evaluation measure   Examples Perfect labelings are both homogeneous and complete, hence have score 1.0: >>> from sklearn.metrics.cluster import v_measure_score
>>> v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 1, 1])
1.0
>>> v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 1], [1, 1, 0, 0])
1.0
 Labelings that assign all classes members to the same clusters are complete be not homogeneous, hence penalized: >>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 2], [0, 0, 1, 1]))
0.8...
>>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 0, 1, 1]))
0.66...
 Labelings that have pure clusters with members coming from the same classes are homogeneous but un-necessary splits harms completeness and thus penalize V-measure as well: >>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 1, 2]))
0.8...
>>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 1, 2, 3]))
0.66...
 If classes members are completely split across different clusters, the assignment is totally incomplete, hence the V-Measure is null: >>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 2, 3]))
0.0...
 Clusters that include samples from totally different classes totally destroy the homogeneity of the labeling, hence: >>> print("%.6f" % v_measure_score([0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0, 0]))
0.0...
 
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