I'm working on an assignment where I am tasked to implement PCA in Python for an online course. Unfortunately, when I try to run a comparison (provided by the course) between my implementation and SKLearn's, my results appear to differ too greatly.
After many hours of review, I am still unsure where it is going wrong. If someone could take a look and determine what step I have coded or interpreted incorrectly, I would greatly appreciate it.
def normalize(X):
"""
Normalize the given dataset X to have zero mean.
Args:
X: ndarray, dataset of shape (N,D)
Returns:
(Xbar, mean): tuple of ndarray, Xbar is the normalized dataset
with mean 0; mean is the sample mean of the dataset.
Note:
You will encounter dimensions where the standard deviation is zero.
For those ones, the process of normalization results in normalized data with NaN entries.
We can handle this by setting the std = 1 for those dimensions when doing normalization.
"""
# YOUR CODE HERE
### Uncomment and modify the code below
mu = np.mean(X, axis = 0) # Setting axis = 0 will compute means column-wise. Setting it to 1 will compute the mean across rows.
std = np.std(X, axis = 0) # Computing the std dev column wise using axis = 0.
std_filled = std.copy()
std_filled[std == 0] = 1
# Compute the normalized data as Xbar
Xbar = (X - mu)/std_filled
return Xbar, mu, # std_filled
def eig(S):
"""
Compute the eigenvalues and corresponding unit eigenvectors for the covariance matrix S.
Args:
S: ndarray, covariance matrix
Returns:
(eigvals, eigvecs): ndarray, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Note:
the eigenvals and eigenvecs should be sorted in descending
order of the eigen values
"""
# YOUR CODE HERE
# Uncomment and modify the code below
# Compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors
# You can use library routines in `np.linalg.*` https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/routines.linalg.html for this
eigvals, eigvecs = np.linalg.eig(S)
# The eigenvalues and eigenvectors need to be sorted in descending order according to the eigenvalues
# We will use `np.argsort` (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.argsort.html) to find a permutation of the indices
# of eigvals that will sort eigvals in ascending order and then find the descending order via [::-1], which reverse the indices
sort_indices = np.argsort(eigvals)[::-1]
# Notice that we are sorting the columns (not rows) of eigvecs since the columns represent the eigenvectors.
return eigvals[sort_indices], eigvecs[:, sort_indices]
def projection_matrix(B):
"""Compute the projection matrix onto the space spanned by the columns of `B`
Args:
B: ndarray of dimension (D, M), the basis for the subspace
Returns:
P: the projection matrix
"""
# YOUR CODE HERE
P = B @ (np.linalg.inv(B.T @ B)) @ B.T
return P
def select_components(eig_vals, eig_vecs, num_components):
"""
Selects the n components desired for projecting the data upon.
Args:
eig_vals: The eigenvalues sorted in descending order of magnitude.
eig_vecs: The eigenvectors sorted in order relative to that of the eigenvalues.
num_components: the number of principal components to use.
Returns:
The number of desired components to keep for projection of the data upon.
"""
principal_vals, principal_components = eig_vals[:num_components], eig_vecs[:, range(num_components)]
return principal_vals, principal_components
def PCA(X, num_components):
"""
Projects normalized data onto the 'n' desired principal components.
Args:
X: ndarray of size (N, D), where D is the dimension of the data,
and N is the number of datapoints
num_components: the number of principal components to use.
Returns:
the reconstructed data, the sample mean of the X, principal values
and principal components
"""
# Normalize to have mean 0 and variance 1.
Z, mean_vec = normalize(X)
# Calculate the covariance matrix
S = np.cov(Z, rowvar=False, bias=True) # Set rowvar = False to treat columns as variables. Set bias = True to ensure normalization is done with N and not N-1
# Calculate the (unit) eigenvectors and eigenvalues of S. Sort them in descending order of importance relative to the magnitude of the eigenvalues.
eig_vals, eig_vecs = eig(S)
# Keep only the n largest Principle Components of the sorted unit eigenvectors.
principal_vals, principal_components = select_components(eig_vals, eig_vecs, num_components)
# Compute the projection matrix using only the n largest Principle Components of the sorted unit eigenvectors, where n = num_components.
#P = projection_matrix(eig_vecs[:, :num_components])
P = projection_matrix(principal_components)
# Reconstruct the data by using the projection matrix to project the data onto the principal component vectors we've kept
X_reconst = (P @ X.T).T
return X_reconst, mean_vec, principal_vals, principal_components
And here is the test case I'm supposed to pass:
random = np.random.RandomState(0)
X = random.randn(10, 5)
from sklearn.decomposition import PCA as SKPCA
for num_component in range(1, 4):
# We can compute a standard solution given by scikit-learn's implementation of PCA
pca = SKPCA(n_components=num_component, svd_solver="full")
sklearn_reconst = pca.inverse_transform(pca.fit_transform(X))
reconst, _, _, _ = PCA(X, num_component)
# The difference in the result should be very small (<10^-20)
print(
"difference in reconstruction for num_components = {}: {}".format(
num_component, np.square(reconst - sklearn_reconst).sum()
)
)
np.testing.assert_allclose(reconst, sklearn_reconst)