# Normalizedmutualinfoscore

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

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# normalizedmutualinfoscore

> Metric `NormalizedMutualInfoScore` from `torchmetrics` (torchmetrics.clustering.NormalizedMutualInfoScore)

## When to invoke this skill

The user has predictions + ground truth and asks to evaluate with NormalizedMutualInfoScore, or
mentions `torchmetrics.clustering.NormalizedMutualInfoScore` directly, or wants the standard torchmetrics implementation.

## Reference signature

```python
from torchmetrics.clustering import NormalizedMutualInfoScore

# NormalizedMutualInfoScore(average_method: Literal['min', 'geometric', 'arithmetic', 'max'] = 'arithmetic', **kwargs: Any) -> None
```

## Library docstring

```
Compute `Normalized Mutual Information Score`_.

.. math::
    NMI(U,V) = \frac{MI(U,V)}{M_p(U,V)}

Where :math:`U` is a tensor of target values, :math:`V` is a tensor of predictions, :math:`M_p(U,V)` is the
generalized mean of order :math:`p` of :math:`U` and :math:`V`, and :math:`MI(U,V)` is the mutual information score
between clusters :math:`U` and :math:`V`. The metric is symmetric, therefore swapping :math:`U` and :math:`V` yields
the same mutual information score.

This clustering metric is an extrinsic measure, because it requires ground truth clustering labels, which may not
be available in practice since clustering in generally is used for unsupervised learning.

As input to ``forward`` and ``update`` the metric accepts the following input:

- ``preds`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): single integer tensor with shape ``(N,)`` with predicted cluster labels
- ``target`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): single integer tensor with shape ``(N,)`` with ground truth cluster labels

As output of ``forward`` and ``compute`` the metric returns the following output:

- ``nmi_score`` (:class:`~torch.Tensor`): A tensor with the Normalized Mutual Information Score

Args:
    average_method: Method used to calculate generalized mean for normalization
    kwargs: Additional keyword arguments, see :ref:`Metric kwargs` for more info.

Example::
    >>> import torch
    >>> from torchmetrics.clustering import NormalizedMutualInfoScore
    >>> preds = torch.tensor([2, 1, 0, 1, 0])
    >>> target = torch.tensor([0, 2, 1, 1, 0])
    >>> nmi_score = NormalizedMutualInfoScore("arithmetic")
    >>> nmi_score(preds, target)
    tensor(0.4744)
```

## Quick recipe

```python
import torchmetrics.clustering as _m
score = _m.NormalizedMutualInfoScore(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)`.