Re: [scikit-learn] Contribute to Scikit-learn

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Raschka
Hi all, first of all, I think that having more feature selection capabilities in scikit-learn would be nice, especially, an algorithm from the wrapper category that also regards dependence/interaction between features. Regarding the SequentialFeatureSelection class... We actually decided to si

Re: [scikit-learn] Contribute to Scikit-learn

2018-09-03 Thread Guillaume Lemaître
I would add that Sequential Forward Selection is on the way to be ported by Sebastian (@rabst) to scikit-learn: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/8684 However, I am sure that Sebastian would be grateful if you wish to take over the PR and to move it forward. But Sebastian is proba

Re: [scikit-learn] Contribute to Scikit-learn

2018-09-03 Thread Oliver Tomic
Hi Shuki and Yaniv, the sequential forward selection algorithm is already implemented in the mlxtend python package, which is complimentary to scikit learn. https://rasbt.github.io/mlxtend/user_guide/feature_selection/SequentialFeatureSelector/   best wishes Oliver On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:17

Re: [scikit-learn] Contribute to Scikit-learn

2018-09-03 Thread Shuki Cohen
On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:21 PM Shuki Cohen wrote: > Hi all, > > Me and a friend of mine found lack of feature selection functionalities in > Scikit-learn and we thought to contribute in order to answer this need. > More specifically, we want to add: > 1. Sequential Forward Selection algorithm > <