Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins)

2013-04-23 Thread John Collins
er of different projects in the SciPy > ecosystem. > > http://scikits.appspot.com/ > > The term is similar in scope to the MATLAB(TM) "Toolbox" term. You > would not title a book about the MATLAB(TM) Signal Processing > Toolbox(TM) _Learning Toolbox_. > > Good luck in your search. > > -- &

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins) (Robert McGibbon)

2013-04-22 Thread John Collins
It seems like there is already a manifold learning project in progress. These two topics are closely related. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~liuy/lle_isomap_metric.pdf -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of a

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins)

2013-04-22 Thread John Collins
Does anyone have any code for computing rotations of components after > PCA or FactorAnalysis, etc. E.g., varimax? > > Thanks, > > Skipper > > > > ------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:43:44 -0700 > From: Robert McGibbon > Subject: Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Le

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins)

2013-04-21 Thread Robert McGibbon
John, I just meant that if the scikit's maintainers didn't think it was within the scope of the project, I'd still be interested in assembling and contributing to a collection of metric learning algorithms in the scikit's style. -Robert On Apr 21, 2013, at 6:25 PM, John Collins wrote: > Hi Ro

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins)

2013-04-21 Thread John Collins
Hi Robert, Ken, Robert, I'm not convinced we would need a separate interface. Perhaps I'm wrong because I've not really been exposed to all of the metric learning techniques, but in all the ones I've seen the goal is to learn a matrix A. Calling say .fit(X, y) could create A. Perhaps the response