# Mutual Info Score

> Compute the mutual_info_score metric — provided by scikit-learn. Use when the user has predictions and ground-truth and needs to compute mutual_info_score, or asks how to score with mutual_info_score.

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# mutual-info-score

> Metric `mutual_info_score` from `scikit-learn` (sklearn.metrics.mutual_info_score)

## When to invoke this skill

The user has predictions + ground truth and asks to evaluate with mutual_info_score, or
mentions `sklearn.metrics.mutual_info_score` directly, or wants the standard scikit-learn implementation.

## Reference signature

```python
from sklearn.metrics import mutual_info_score

# mutual_info_score(labels_true, labels_pred, *, contingency=None)
```

## Library docstring

```
Mutual Information between two clusterings.

The Mutual Information is a measure of the similarity between two labels
of the same data. Where :math:`|U_i|` is the number of the samples
in cluster :math:`U_i` and :math:`|V_j|` is the number of the
samples in cluster :math:`V_j`, the Mutual Information
between clusterings :math:`U` and :math:`V` is given as:

.. math::

    MI(U,V)=\sum_{i=1}^{|U|} \sum_{j=1}^{|V|} \frac{|U_i\cap V_j|}{N}
    \log\frac{N|U_i \cap V_j|}{|U_i||V_j|}

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 :math:`U` (i.e
``label_true``) with :math:`V` (i.e. ``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 :ref:`User Guide <mutual_info_score>`.

Parameters
----------
labels_true : array-like of shape (n_samples,), dtype=integral
    A clustering of the data into disjoint subsets, called :math:`U` in
    the above formula.

labels_pred : array-like of shape (n_samples,), dtype=integral
    A clustering of the data into disjoint subsets, called :math:`V` in
    the above formula.

contingency : {array-like, sparse matrix} of shape             (n_classes_true, n_classes_pred), default=None
    A contingency matrix given by the
    :func:`~sklearn.metrics.cluster.contingency_matrix` function. If value
    is ``None``, it will be computed, otherwise the given value is used,
    with ``labels_true`` and ``labels_pred`` ignored.

Returns
-------
mi : float
   Mutual information, a non-negative value, measured in nats using the
   natural logarithm.

See Also
--------
adjusted_mutual_info_score : Adjusted against chance Mutual Information.
normalized_mutual_info_score : Normalized Mutual Information.

Notes
-----
The logarithm used is the natural logarithm (base-e).

Examples
--------
>>> from sklearn.metrics import mutual_info_score
>>> labels_true = [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0]
>>> labels_pred = [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1]
>>> mutual_info_scor
```

## Quick recipe

```python
import sklearn.metrics as _m
score = _m.mutual_info_score(y_true, y_pred)
```

## Don'ts

- Don't reimplement when the library version handles edge cases (NaN, ties, empty inputs) better than a hand-rolled formula.
- Always check the library version's argument order — sklearn is `(y_true, y_pred)` while torchmetrics is `(preds, target)`.