A poor-man's scikit-learn compatible wrapper around VW would be to call the
command line via popen and feed it data through stdin.
If you do that, create a gist and add it to the third-party snippet list in
https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Useful-Snippets
Mathieu
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Eustache DIEMERT <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> The kind of thing I would like to do is run vowpal-wabbit from within
>> scikit learn.
>>
>
> I know VW has a C interface now, so it is theoretically possible to
> develop a python binding (hunch.net seems down as of now, but John
> Langford wrote about it on the blog).
>
> However, memory structures possibly don't fit properly with numpy arrays
> (which are the recommended API choice for sklearn I believe), so it could
> become a bit hard.
>
> Also I would be inclined to think it could hurt VW performance to feed him
> with a different pattern of data input as the VW folks have passed a good
> amount of effort in optimizing I/Os I believe.
>
> HTH
>
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