Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Contributing with Kernel partial least squares

2013-12-01 Thread Gael Varoquaux
> First I would like to thank you all for this great and handy machine > learning toolkit. Second, would it be of an interest to add an > implementation for Kernel Partial Least Squares for the library? Nelle Varoquaux (my sister, @NelleV on github) wants to do a Kernel CCA, which is heavily relat

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Contributing with Kernel partial least squares

2013-12-01 Thread abdalrahman eweiwi
Hi, Ok then, I will evaluate the classification result on the digits dataset and compare it with the linearSVC and SVC with gaussian kernel. For regression I will consider the Boston dataset, one remark here is what error criteria should I use? square loss or do you suggest something else. Regard

[Scikit-learn-general] Handle sparse data on Instance Reduction

2013-12-01 Thread Dayvid Victor
Hi Everybody, I have some IR techniques implemented in Python, and I want to contribute to sklearn. But I am having some trouble with sparse data: https://github.com/dvro/scikit-learn/blob/instance_reduction/sklearn/instance_reduction/enn.py Here is one of the techniques (I'll improve the style

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Contributing with Kernel partial least squares

2013-12-01 Thread Olivier Grisel
2013/11/29 abdalrahman eweiwi : > Well, Kernel partial least squares can be used for regression as well as for > classification. It has been shown to work as good as Gaussian processes for > regression on head pose estimation applications. See for example this CVPR > paper > > http://iselab.cvc.ua