I think all of the ones that I'm thinking of already have an estimator interface.
On 09/09/2015 04:10 PM, Sebastian Raschka wrote: > Might sound like a drastic step, but I would suggest a) making the functions > private and deprecating the public interface. I think this would be easier on > "new" users, and more experienced people would still be able to use them on > own risk. And over time, some of those functions could optionally be made > "public" with a more "consistent interface." But I think that this is really > a big project and would take a lot of efforts. Maybe, alternatively, they > could be wrapped in some object-oriented API interface? Anyways, I would > suggest making them private for now and worry about the "consistent" > interface some time later -- maybe someone comes up with a brilliant idea > some time :) > > Best, > Sebastian > >> On Sep 9, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Andreas Mueller <t3k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> A api issue that has been annoying me for some while is that we don't >> have common tests for functions. >> That means that incompatibilities are only fixed if someone points them >> out in an issue, and API changes like >> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/5152 >> >> I see two possible ways forward: >> a) Make the functions private and deprecate the public interface, like >> k_means, lars_path, .... >> b) add common tests. >> >> b) means that they all need to have a consistent interface. >> Vighnesh said he would work on this, but I'm not sure it will work and >> I'm not entirely sure how hard it is. >> Some functions are not algorithms, but ``train_test_split`` or metrics >> etc which are tested separately, >> so we might need to blacklist modules etc. >> >> I want to make sure that this is the way we want to go before putting >> any serious effort into it. >> >> Best, >> Andy >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! >> Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools >> in one place. >> SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 >> _______________________________________________ >> Scikit-learn-general mailing list >> Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
