To me the maintainability of the added code also plays a role,
and this PR is really nice and short in its implementation.

It needs better documentation (other than the plot_ file) to better
demonstrate its benefits, otherwise looks reasonable to have it
IMO.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:11 AM Gael Varoquaux <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I need core devs opinion (please, only core devs, I am sending this on
> the public ML for transparency):
>
> The following PR adds a speed up for expansion of polynomial kernels:
> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/13003
>
> According to the author, the speed up is significant (needs to be
> verified during a code review).
>
> The paper is a bit below citation level for inclusion of a new method,
> however this can be seen as a speed up of Nystrom. Strictly speaking, it
> is not just a speed-up, as it introduces a new estimator.
>
> The discussion on the PR is short and quickly reviews the relevant
> literature.
>
>
> My question: should we consider this as acceptable for inclusion
> (provided that it does show significant speedups with good prediction
> accuracy)? I am asking to know if we start the review and inclusion
> process or not.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Gaƫl
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