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0.5

Changelog

New classes

Documentation

Fixes

  • API changes: adhere variable names to PEP-8, give more meaningful names.
  • Fixes for svm module to run on a shared memory context (multiprocessing).
  • It is again possible to generate latex (and thus PDF) from the sphinx docs.

Examples

External dependencies

  • Joblib is now a dependencie of this package, although it is shipped with (scikits.learn.externals.joblib).

Removed modules

  • Module ann (Artificial Neural Networks) has been removed from the distribution. Users wanting this sort of algorithms should take a look into pybrain.

Misc

  • New sphinx theme for the web page.

Authors

The following is a list of authors for this release, preceeded by number of commits:

  • 262 Fabian Pedregosa
  • 240 Gael Varoquaux
  • 149 Alexandre Gramfort
  • 116 Olivier Grisel
  • 40 Vincent Michel
  • 38 Ron Weiss
  • 23 Matthieu Perrot
  • 10 Bertrand Thirion
  • 7 Yaroslav Halchenko
  • 9 VirgileFritsch
  • 6 Edouard Duchesnay
  • 4 Mathieu Blondel
  • 1 Ariel Rokem
  • 1 Matthieu Brucher

0.4

Changelog

Major changes in this release include:

  • Coordinate Descent algorithm (Lasso, ElasticNet) refactoring & speed improvements (roughly 100x times faster).
  • Coordinate Descent Refactoring (and bug fixing) for consistency with R’s package GLMNET.
  • New metrics module.
  • New GMM module contributed by Ron Weiss.
  • Implementation of the LARS algorithm (without Lasso variant for now).
  • feature_selection module redesign.
  • Migration to GIT as content management system.
  • Removal of obsolete attrselect module.
  • Rename of private compiled extensions (aded underscore).
  • Removal of legacy unmaintained code.
  • Documentation improvements (both docstring and rst).
  • Improvement of the build system to (optionally) link with MKL.

Also, provide a lite BLAS implementation in case no system-wide BLAS is found.

  • Lots of new examples.
  • Many, many bug fixes ...

Authors

The committer list for this release is the following (preceded by number of commits):

  • 143 Fabian Pedregosa
  • 35 Alexandre Gramfort
  • 34 Olivier Grisel
  • 11 Gael Varoquaux
  • 5 Yaroslav Halchenko
  • 2 Vincent Michel
  • 1 Chris Filo Gorgolewski