.metrics.pairwise. Note: Evaluation of eval_gradient is not analytic but numeric and all kernels support only isotropic distances. The parameter gamma is considered to be a hyperparameter and may be optimized. The other kernel parameters are set directly at initialization and are kept fixed. .. versionadded:: 0.18 Parameters ---------- gamma : float, default=1.0 Parameter gamma of the pairwise kernel specified by metric. It should be positive. gamma_bounds : pair of floats >= 0 or "fixed", default=(1e-5, 1e5) The lower and upper bound on 'gamma'. If set to "fixed", 'gamma' cannot be changed during hyperparameter tuning. metric : {"linear", "additive_chi2", "chi2", "poly", "polynomial", "rbf", "laplacian", "sigmoid", "cosine"} or callable, default="linear" The metric to use when calculating kernel between instances in a feature array. If metric is a string, it must be one of the metrics in pairwise.PAIRWISE_KERNEL_FUNCTIONS. If metric is "precomputed", X is assumed to be a kernel matrix. Alternatively, if metric is a callable function, it is called on each pair of instances (rows) and the resulting value recorded. The callable should take two arrays from X as input and return a value indicating the distance between them. pairwise_kernels_kwargs : dict, default=None All entries of this dict (if any) are passed as keyword arguments to the pairwise kernel function. Examples -------- >>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris >>> from sklearn.gaussian_process import GaussianProcessClassifier >>> from sklearn.gaussian_process.kernels import PairwiseKernel >>> X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True) >>> kernel = PairwiseKernel(metric='rbf') >>> gpc = GaussianProcessClassifier(kernel=kernel, ... random_state=0).fit(X, y) >>> gpc.score(X, y) 0.9733... >>> gpc.predict_proba(X[:2,:]) array([[0.8880..., 0.05663..., 0.05532...], [0.8676..., 0.07073..., 0.06165...]]) Nc