On 11/30/2013 12:23 PM, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> 2013/11/30 Kyle Kastner <[email protected]>:
>> Does anyone have a consolidated list of API issues with HMM? I have been
>> working with them recently and would be willing to try and work it into
>> better shape, unless core devs would rather have it removed.
> The API of the HMMs is fundamentally different from all other
> estimators: their fit method takes a *list of* sequences, each a
> feature matrix. That means HMMs don't play with pipelines or anything
> else in scikit-learn, unless we somehow hack support for this format
> into everything else.
>
> If anything, I would like to remove MultinomialHMM from the next
> release. As I said earlier, it's not only a bad fit for scikit-learn,
> but also useless for all for a very small set of tasks.
>
I guess remove means deprecate, right?
I am +1 but we should definitely find a place for the code. Worse case 
it will be a repo with containing just the HMM.

Cheers,
Andy

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