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API design for machine learning software: experiences from the scikit-learn project
Abstract
International audienceScikit-learn is an increasingly popular machine learning li- brary. Written in Python, it is designed to be simple and efficient, accessible to non-experts, and reusable in various contexts. In this paper, we present and discuss our design choices for the application programming interface (API) of the project. In particular, we describe the simple and elegant interface shared by all learning and processing units in the library and then discuss its advantages in terms of composition and reusability. The paper also comments on implementation details specific to the Python ecosystem and analyzes obstacles faced by users and developers of the library- info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
- Conference papers
- Machine learning
- language design
- software engineering
- Python
- ACM: D.: Software/D.3: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
- ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/I.2.5: Programming Languages and Software
- ACM: I.: Computing Methodologies/I.2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/I.2.6: Learning
- [INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG]