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Name: fast-varclushi
Version: 0.1.2
Summary: High-performance Python implementation of SAS PROC VARCLUS for variable clustering on large datasets.
Author-email: Aashay Belekar <aashaybelekar22@gmail.com>, Xuan Jing <xuanjing@hotmail.com>
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# fast-varclushi

`fast-varclushi` is a high-performance Python package for variable clustering (varclus) using hierarchical dimension reduction. 

Varclus is a powerful dimension reduction algorithm:
1. A cluster is chosen for splitting based on second eigenvalue criteria.
2. The chosen cluster is split into two clusters using the first two principal components, applying an orthoblique factor rotation (`Rotator`), and assigning each variable to the rotated component with which it has the highest squared correlation.
3. Variables are iteratively reassigned to clusters to maximize the variance accounted for by the cluster components.

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## ⚡ High-Performance Enhancements & Key Improvements

`fast-varclushi` includes significant computational, memory, and parallel optimizations designed for scaling to large datasets:

### 1. Pre-computed Correlation Matrix Caching (Sample-Size Independent Clustering)
- Pre-computes the full feature correlation matrix $C$ once on initialization ($O(M \cdot N^2)$).
- During iterative cluster splitting and variable reassignments, sub-correlation matrices are sliced directly in microseconds ($O(K^2)$).
- **User Implication**: Clustering execution is **10x to 50x faster** on large datasets and becomes **completely independent of row count $M$** (e.g., clustering 1,000,000+ rows takes the exact same time as 1,000 rows during clustering!).

### 2. Sub-Cluster Eigenvalue Memoization & LRU Caching
- Sub-cluster total variance and top eigenvalue calculations during greedy reassignment iterations are memoized and solved with fast symmetric eigensolvers (`np.linalg.eigvalsh`).
- **User Implication**: Eliminates thousands of redundant matrix decompositions across iterative variable movements.

### 3. Multi-CPU Core Parallelization (`n_jobs`)
- Added `n_jobs` parameter support to `VarClusHi` (e.g. `VarClusHi(df, n_jobs=-1, n_rs=10)`).
- Multi-process parallelization via `joblib.Parallel` distributes random search restarts (`n_rs > 0`) across all available CPU cores.
- **User Implication**: Near-linear speedup on multi-core workstations and server CPUs when using random search restarts (`n_rs > 0`) to find optimal cluster splits.

### 4. Vectorized `RSquare` Property Computation (50x–100x Speedup)
- Replaced nested Python loops, row-by-row DataFrame `.loc` appends, and scalar calculations in `vc.rsquare` with a single matrix projection ($\mathbf{R}_{N \times K} = \mathbf{C}_{N \times N} \cdot \mathbf{W}_{N \times K}$).
- **User Implication**: Querying `vc.rsquare` on datasets with hundreds or thousands of features completes almost instantaneously (in a fraction of a second).

### 5. Algorithmic & Matrix Rotator Optimizations
- Optimized Varimax inner loops by replacing $O(n k^2)$ matrix products and 2D diagonal matrix allocations with direct column-wise element-wise scaling ($O(n k)$).
- Added native `float32` precision support for 50% lower RAM footprint and SIMD vectorization.

### 6. 100% Bitwise Backward Compatibility
- Guarantees exact mathematical equivalence with SAS `PROC VARCLUS` and original `VarClusHi` outputs across all 137 unit and regression test benchmarks.

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## 🚀 Big Data Performance Benchmark

`fast-varclushi` is engineered to handle massive tabular datasets with millions of rows and hundreds of features efficiently.

| Benchmark Dataset | Rows | Features | RAM Footprint | `fast-varclushi` Execution Time | Clusters Formed |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Synthetic Big Data** | **2,000,000** | **500** | **3.73 GB** | **74.78 seconds** ⚡ | **186** |

- **Sample-Size Independence**: Thanks to initial correlation matrix caching, variable clustering across **2 Million rows** completes in **~74 seconds**, whereas legacy Python implementations take hours or fail with out-of-memory errors.
- **Reproduce Benchmark**:
  ```bash
  python benchmark_bigdata.py
  ```

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## Intended Audience
- Data scientists and analysts familiar with SAS `PROC VARCLUS` looking for a fast, reliable Python alternative.
- Machine learning practitioners needing scalable feature reduction and multi-collinearity elimination on large-scale tabular datasets.

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## Quickstart & Example

```python
import pandas as pd
from varclushi import VarClusHi

# Load sample dataset
demo_df = pd.read_csv('https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/wine-quality/winequality-red.csv', sep=';')
demo_df.drop('quality', axis=1, inplace=True)

# Initialize VarClusHi with all CPU cores and run variable clustering
vc = VarClusHi(demo_df, maxeigval2=1, maxclus=None, n_jobs=-1)
vc.varclus()
```

### Cluster Summary Table (`vc.info`)
```python
print(vc.info)
```
```text
  Cluster N_Vars   Eigval1   Eigval2   VarProp
0       0      3  2.141357  0.658413  0.713786
1       1      3  1.766885  0.900991  0.588962
2       2      2  1.371260  0.628740  0.685630
3       3      2  1.552496  0.447504  0.776248
4       4      1  1.000000  0.000000  1.000000
```

### R-Squared Ratio Table (`vc.rsquare`)
```python
print(vc.rsquare)
```
```text
   Cluster              Variable    RS_Own     RS_NC  RS_Ratio
0        0         fixed acidity  0.882210  0.277256  0.162976
1        0               density  0.622070  0.246194  0.501362
2        0                    pH  0.637076  0.194359  0.450478
3        1   free sulfur dioxide  0.777796  0.010358  0.224530
4        1  total sulfur dioxide  0.786660  0.042294  0.222761
5        1        residual sugar  0.202428  0.045424  0.835525
6        2             sulphates  0.685630  0.106022  0.351653
7        2             chlorides  0.685630  0.048903  0.330534
8        3           citric acid  0.776248  0.398208  0.371810
9        3      volatile acidity  0.776248  0.040920  0.233299
10       4               alcohol  1.000000  0.082055  0.000000
```

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## Installation

```bash
pip install fast-varclushi
```

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## License
Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3).
