Normalize samples individually to unit norm.
Each sample (i.e. each row of the data matrix) with at least one non zero component is rescaled independently of other samples so that its norm (l1, l2 or inf) equals one.
This transformer is able to work both with dense numpy arrays and scipy.sparse matrix (use CSR format if you want to avoid the burden of a copy / conversion).
Scaling inputs to unit norms is a common operation for text classification or clustering for instance. For instance the dot product of two l2-normalized TF-IDF vectors is the cosine similarity of the vectors and is the base similarity metric for the Vector Space Model commonly used by the Information Retrieval community.
Read more in the :ref:`User Guide <preprocessing_normalization>`.
Parameters ---------- norm : 'l1', 'l2', or 'max', optional ('l2' by default) The norm to use to normalize each non zero sample. If norm='max' is used, values will be rescaled by the maximum of the absolute values.
copy : boolean, optional, default True set to False to perform inplace row normalization and avoid a copy (if the input is already a numpy array or a scipy.sparse CSR matrix).
Examples -------- >>> from sklearn.preprocessing import Normalizer >>> X = [4, 1, 2, 2],
... [1, 3, 9, 3],
... [5, 7, 5, 1]
>>> transformer = Normalizer().fit(X) # fit does nothing. >>> transformer Normalizer() >>> transformer.transform(X) array([0.8, 0.2, 0.4, 0.4],
[0.1, 0.3, 0.9, 0.3],
[0.5, 0.7, 0.5, 0.1]
)
Notes ----- This estimator is stateless (besides constructor parameters), the fit method does nothing but is useful when used in a pipeline.
For a comparison of the different scalers, transformers, and normalizers, see :ref:`examples/preprocessing/plot_all_scaling.py <sphx_glr_auto_examples_preprocessing_plot_all_scaling.py>`.
See also -------- normalize: Equivalent function without the estimator API.