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Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.2
We are pleased to announce the release of scikit-learn 1.2! Many bug fixes and improvements were added, as well as some new key features. We detail below a few of the major features of this release. For an exhaustive list of all the changes, please refer to the release notes.
To install the latest version (with pip):
pip install --upgrade scikit-learn
or with conda:
conda install -c conda-forge scikit-learn
Pandas output with set_output API
scikit-learn’s transformers now support pandas output with the set_output API. To learn more about the set_output API see the example: Introducing the set_output API and # this video, pandas DataFrame output for scikit-learn transformers (some examples).
import numpy as np
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.preprocessing import KBinsDiscretizer, StandardScaler
X, y = load_iris(as_frame=True, return_X_y=True)
sepal_cols = ["sepal length (cm)", "sepal width (cm)"]
petal_cols = ["petal length (cm)", "petal width (cm)"]
preprocessor = ColumnTransformer(
[
("scaler", StandardScaler(), sepal_cols),
(
"kbin",
KBinsDiscretizer(encode="ordinal", quantile_method="averaged_inverted_cdf"),
petal_cols,
),
],
verbose_feature_names_out=False,
).set_output(transform="pandas")
X_out = preprocessor.fit_transform(X)
X_out.sample(n=5, random_state=0)
Interaction constraints in Histogram-based Gradient Boosting Trees
HistGradientBoostingRegressor and HistGradientBoostingClassifier now supports interaction constraints with the interaction_cst parameter. For details, see the User Guide. In the following example, features are not allowed to interact.
from sklearn.datasets import load_diabetes
from sklearn.ensemble import HistGradientBoostingRegressor
X, y = load_diabetes(return_X_y=True, as_frame=True)
hist_no_interact = HistGradientBoostingRegressor(
interaction_cst=[[i] for i in range(X.shape[1])], random_state=0
)
hist_no_interact.fit(X, y)
New and enhanced displays
PredictionErrorDisplay provides a way to analyze regression models in a qualitative manner.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.metrics import PredictionErrorDisplay
fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(12, 5))
_ = PredictionErrorDisplay.from_estimator(
hist_no_interact, X, y, kind="actual_vs_predicted", ax=axs[0]
)
_ = PredictionErrorDisplay.from_estimator(
hist_no_interact, X, y, kind="residual_vs_predicted", ax=axs[1]
)
LearningCurveDisplay is now available to plot results from learning_curve.
from sklearn.model_selection import LearningCurveDisplay
_ = LearningCurveDisplay.from_estimator(
hist_no_interact, X, y, cv=5, n_jobs=2, train_sizes=np.linspace(0.1, 1, 5)
)
PartialDependenceDisplay exposes a new parameter categorical_features to display partial dependence for categorical features using bar plots and heatmaps.
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml
X, y = fetch_openml(
"titanic", version=1, as_frame=True, return_X_y=True, parser="pandas"
)
X = X.select_dtypes(["number", "category"]).drop(columns=["body"])
from sklearn.pipeline import make_pipeline
from sklearn.preprocessing import OrdinalEncoder
categorical_features = ["pclass", "sex", "embarked"]
model = make_pipeline(
ColumnTransformer(
transformers=[("cat", OrdinalEncoder(), categorical_features)],
remainder="passthrough",
),
HistGradientBoostingRegressor(random_state=0),
).fit(X, y)
from sklearn.inspection import PartialDependenceDisplay
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(14, 4), constrained_layout=True)
_ = PartialDependenceDisplay.from_estimator(
model,
X,
features=["age", "sex", ("pclass", "sex")],
categorical_features=categorical_features,
ax=ax,
)
Faster parser in fetch_openml
fetch_openml now supports a new "pandas" parser that is more memory and CPU efficient. In v1.4, the default will change to parser="auto" which will automatically use the "pandas" parser for dense data and "liac-arff" for sparse data.
X, y = fetch_openml(
"titanic", version=1, as_frame=True, return_X_y=True, parser="pandas"
)
X.head()
Experimental Array API support in LinearDiscriminantAnalysis
Experimental support for the Array API specification was added to LinearDiscriminantAnalysis. The estimator can now run on any Array API compliant libraries such as CuPy, a GPU-accelerated array library. For details, see the User Guide.
Improved efficiency of many estimators
In version 1.1 the efficiency of many estimators relying on the computation of pairwise distances (essentially estimators related to clustering, manifold learning and neighbors search algorithms) was greatly improved for float64 dense input. Efficiency improvement especially were a reduced memory footprint and a much better scalability on multi-core machines. In version 1.2, the efficiency of these estimators was further improved for all combinations of dense and sparse inputs on float32 and float64 datasets, except the sparse-dense and dense-sparse combinations for the Euclidean and Squared Euclidean Distance metrics. A detailed list of the impacted estimators can be found in the changelog.
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