On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:08:43PM +0100, Andreas wrote:
> Like Emanuel said, the full grid is already available.
> If someone really cares about their parameter selection, they should 
> have a look
> and decide themselves.

Okay, if the full grid is available then nevermind returning a list.
It would be nice to notify the user that there were ties, somehow, so they'd
know to go looking.

> I think 'best_estimator' should be chosen in the easiest way possible.
> 
> I agree with David, that this should not happen in practice and so I think
> it is of little relevance. I disagree on returning a list, though,
> since that would make the usage a bit more awkward and will
> be of use only in some degenerate cases.
> 
> I am a bit against random choice as that would make the
> GridSearch have a random_state, which is a bit unexpected.

I think randomly breaking ties is a bad idea too. Arbitrarily breaking ties,
however, is fairly normal (first or last one encountered) and quite
forgivable.

> just my .02 euro

No fair, that's like $10 USD! :)

David

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