Changelog

0.9.0

  • ADD #560: OpenML-Python can now handle regression tasks as well.

  • ADD #620, #628, #632, #649, #682: Full support for studies and distinguishes suites from studies.

  • ADD #607: Tasks can now be created and uploaded.

  • ADD #647, #673: Introduced the extension interface. This provides an easy way to create a hook for machine learning packages to perform e.g. automated runs.

  • ADD #548, #646, #676: Support for Pandas DataFrame and SparseDataFrame

  • ADD #662: Results of listing functions can now be returned as pandas.DataFrame.

  • ADD #59: Datasets can now also be retrieved by name.

  • ADD #672: Add timing measurements for runs, when possible.

  • ADD #661: Upload time and error messages now displayed with list_runs.

  • ADD #644: Datasets can now be downloaded ‘lazily’, retrieving only metadata at first, and the full dataset only when necessary.

  • ADD #659: Lazy loading of task splits.

  • ADD #516: run_flow_on_task flow uploading is now optional.

  • ADD #680: Adds openml.config.start_using_configuration_for_example (and resp. stop) to easily connect to the test server.

  • FIX #642: check_datasets_active now correctly also returns active status of deactivated datasets.

  • FIX #304, #636: Allow serialization of numpy datatypes and list of lists of more types (e.g. bools, ints) for flows.

  • FIX #651: Fixed a bug that would prevent openml-python from finding the user’s config file.

  • DOC #678: Better color scheme for code examples in documentation.

  • DOC #681: Small improvements and removing list of missing functions.

  • DOC #684: Add notice to examples that connect to the test server.

  • DOC #691: Update contributing guidelines to use Github draft feature instead of tags in title.

  • MAINT #184: Dropping Python2 support.

  • MAINT #596: Fewer dependencies for regular pip install.

  • MAINT #652: Numpy and Scipy are no longer required before installation.

  • MAINT #655: Lazy loading is now preferred in unit tests.

  • MAINT #667: Different tag functions now share code.

  • MAINT #666: More descriptive error message for TypeError in list_runs.

  • MAINT #668: Fix some type hints.

  • MAINT #677: dataset.get_data now has consistent behavior in its return type.

  • MAINT #686: Adds ignore directives for several mypy folders.

  • MAINT #629, #630: Code now adheres to single PEP8 standard.

0.8.0

  • ADD #440: Improved dataset upload.

  • ADD #545, #583: Allow uploading a dataset from a pandas DataFrame.

  • ADD #528: New functions to update the status of a dataset.

  • ADD #523: Support for scikit-learn 0.20’s new ColumnTransformer.

  • ADD #459: Enhanced support to store runs on disk prior to uploading them to OpenML.

  • ADD #564: New helpers to access the structure of a flow (and find its subflows).

  • ADD #618: The software will from now on retry to connect to the server if a connection failed. The number of retries can be configured.

  • FIX #538: Support loading clustering tasks.

  • FIX #464: Fixes a bug related to listing functions (returns correct listing size).

  • FIX #580: Listing function now works properly when there are less results than requested.

  • FIX #571: Fixes an issue where tasks could not be downloaded in parallel.

  • FIX #536: Flows can now be printed when the flow name is None.

  • FIX #504: Better support for hierarchical hyperparameters when uploading scikit-learn’s grid and random search.

  • FIX #569: Less strict checking of flow dependencies when loading flows.

  • FIX #431: Pickle of task splits are no longer cached.

  • DOC #540: More examples for dataset uploading.

  • DOC #554: Remove the doubled progress entry from the docs.

  • MAINT #613: Utilize the latest updates in OpenML evaluation listings.

  • MAINT #482: Cleaner interface for handling search traces.

  • MAINT #557: Continuous integration works for scikit-learn 0.18-0.20.

  • MAINT #542: Continuous integration now runs python3.7 as well.

  • MAINT #535: Continuous integration now enforces PEP8 compliance for new code.

  • MAINT #527: Replace deprecated nose by pytest.

  • MAINT #510: Documentation is now built by travis-ci instead of circle-ci.

  • MAINT: Completely re-designed documentation built on sphinx gallery.

  • MAINT #462: Appveyor CI support.

  • MAINT #477: Improve error handling for issue #479: the OpenML connector fails earlier and with a better error message when failing to create a flow from the OpenML description.

  • MAINT #561: Improve documentation on running specific unit tests.

0.4.-0.7

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0.3.0

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  • 2nd example notebook PyOpenML.ipynb

  • Pagination support for list datasets and list tasks

Prior

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