Version 1.7

Legend for changelogs

• Major Feature something big that you couldn’t do before.

• Feature something that you couldn’t do before.

• Efficiency an existing feature now may not require as much computation or memory.

• Enhancement a miscellaneous minor improvement.

• Fix something that previously didn’t work as documented – or according to reasonable expectations – should now work.

• API Change you will need to change your code to have the same effect in the future; or a feature will be removed in the future.

Version 1.7.dev0

December 2024

Support for Array API

Additional estimators and functions have been updated to include support for all Array API compliant inputs.

See Array API support (experimental) for more details.

• Feature sklearn.utils.check_consistent_length now supports Array API compatible inputs. By Stefanie Senger #29519

• Feature sklearn.metrics.explained_variance_score and sklearn.metrics.mean_pinball_loss now support Array API compatible inputs. by Virgil Chan #29978

sklearn.decomposition

• Feature DictionaryLearning, SparseCoder and MiniBatchDictionaryLearning now have a inverse_transform method. By Rémi Flamary #30443

sklearn.inspection

• Enhancement Add custom_values parameter in inspection.partial_dependence. It enables users to pass their own grid of values at which the partial dependence should be calculated. By Freddy A. Boulton and Stephen Pardy #26202

• API Change inspection.partial_dependence does no longer accept integer dtype for numerical feature columns. Explicity conversion to floating point values is now required before calling this tool (and preferably even before fitting the model to inspect). By Olivier Grisel #30409

sklearn.metrics

• Fix Fix regression when scikit-learn metric called on PyTorch CPU tensors would raise an error (with array API dispatch disabled which is the default). By Loïc Estève #30454

sklearn.mixture

• Efficiency Simplified redundant computation when estimating covariances in GaussianMixture with a covariance_type="spherical" or covariance_type="diag". By Leonce Mekinda and Olivier Grisel #30414

Code and documentation contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the project since version 1.7, including:

TODO: update at the time of the release.