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scikit-learn
@scikit-learn.org

Please help us test the first release candidate for scikit-learn 1.6: pip install scikit-learn==1.6.0rc1 Changelog: scikit-learn.org/1.6/whats_ne... In particular, if you maintain a project with a dependency on scikit-learn, please let us know about any regression.

scikit-learn.orgVersion 1.6Legend for changelogs something big that you couldn’t do before., something that you couldn’t do before., an existing feature now may not require as much computation or memory., a miscellaneous min...

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Olivier Grisel
@ogrisel.bsky.social

3rd-party library maintainers might find it cumbersome to handle the transition to the new estimator tags while keeping backward compatibility with older scikit-learn versions. We will devise a way to smooth out the transition before releasing 1.6.0 final: github.com/scikit-learn...

github.comEstimator creating `_more_tags` and inheriting from `BaseEstimator` will not warn about old tag infrastructure · Issue #30257 · scikit-learn/scikit-learnWhile making the code of skrub compatible with scikit-learn 1.6, I found that the following is really surprising: # %% import numpy as np from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, RegressorMixin clas...
James Lamb
@jameslamb.bsky.social

Thanks for the link, interesting project! At first glance, I don't think this is something I'd support using in 'lightgbm'. There, we support more than the most recent 4 versions of 'scikit-learn` (currently >=0.24.2), and try to keep the set of runtime dependencies as small as possible.