Welcome to ruptures

ruptures is a Python library for off-line change point detection. This package provides methods for the analysis and segmentation of non-stationary signals. Implemented algorithms include exact and approximate detection for various parametric and non-parametric models. ruptures focuses on ease of use by providing a well-documented and consistent interface. In addition, thanks to its modular structure, different algorithms and models can be connected and extended within this package.

How to cite. If you use ruptures in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following paper:

• C. Truong, L. Oudre, N. Vayatis. Selective review of offline change point detection methods. Signal Processing, 167:107299, 2020. [journal] [pdf]

Latest news

• Welcome to our new PhD student, Nicolas Cecchi! He will integrate new algorithms in ruptures and create tutorials and illustrative examples.

• NASA uses ruptures! They monitor crops in California and Iran. We submitted an article, let's hope for the best!!

  • Jalilvand, E., Kumar, S.V., Haacker, E., Truong, C., Mahanama, S., 2024, Characterizing spatiotemporal variability in irrigation extent and timing through thermal remote sensing, submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.

• We have been contacted by CHELSEA FC to monitor players using ruptures. Stay tuned...

• We use ruptures to understand the regulation of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter that plays a role in muscle contraction (involved in myasthenia gravis). Check out our work at the Journal of Physiology

• They use ruptures to detect changes in classroom engagement and student participation in Japan. Check out their work

• ruptures is part of a larger pipeline to observe Earth, in particular marine biodiversity. The authors use it to find change in the phytoplankton diversity. Check out their work

• We work with Croatian crystallographers (hi Zoran Štefanić!) to understand protein motions using angular diagrams. We will keep you posted for our next joint publications.

• Charles Truong presented ruptures at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2024. Check out the video.

Basic usage

(Please refer to the documentation for more advanced use.)

The following snippet creates a noisy piecewise constant signal, performs a penalized kernel change point detection and displays the results (alternating colors mark true regimes and dashed lines mark estimated change points).

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import ruptures as rpt

# generate signal
n_samples, dim, sigma = 1000, 3, 4
n_bkps = 4  # number of breakpoints
signal, bkps = rpt.pw_constant(n_samples, dim, n_bkps, noise_std=sigma)

# detection
algo = rpt.Pelt(model="rbf").fit(signal)
result = algo.predict(pen=10)

# display
rpt.display(signal, bkps, result)
plt.show()

General information

Contact

Concerning this package, its use and bugs, use the issue page of the ruptures repository. For other inquiries, you can contact me here.

Important links

• Documentation
• Pypi package index

Dependencies and install

Installation instructions can be found here.

Changelog

See the changelog for a history of notable changes to ruptures.

Thanks to all our contributors

License

This project is under BSD license.

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