ml-research 0.4a1

Implementation of Machine Learning algorithms, experiments and utilities.

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ML-Research is an open source library for machine learning research. It contains the software implementation of most algorithms used or developed in my research. Specifically, it contains scikit-learn compatible implementations for Active Learning, Oversampling, Datasets and various utilities to assist in experiment design and results reporting. Other techniques, such as self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning are currently under development and are being implemented in pytorch and intended to be scikit-learn compatible.

The LaTeX and Python code for generating the paper, experiments' results and visualizations reported in each paper is available (whenever possible) in the publications repo.

Contributions at the algorithm level are available in the package mlresearch.

Installation

A Python distribution of version 3.8, 3.9 or 3.10 is required to run this project. Earlier Python versions might work in most cases, but they are not tested. ML-Research requires:

• numpy (>= 1.14.6)
• pandas (>= 1.3.5)
• sklearn (>= 1.0.0)
• imblearn (>= 0.8.0)
• rich (>= 10.16.1)
• matplotlib (>= 2.2.3)
• seaborn (>= 0.9.0)
• pytorch (>= 1.10.1)
• torchvision (>= 0.11.2)
• pytorch_lightning (>= 1.5.8)

User Installation

If you already have a working installation of numpy and scipy, the easiest way to install scikit-learn is using pip :

pip install -U ml-research

The documentation includes more detailed installation instructions.

Installing from source

The following commands should allow you to setup the development version of the project with minimal effort:

# Clone the project.
git clone https://github.com/joaopfonseca/ml-research.git
cd ml-research

# Create and activate an environment 
make environment 
conda activate mlresearch # Adapt this line accordingly if you're not running conda

# Install project requirements and the research package
pip install .[tests,docs]

Citing ML-Research

If you use ML-Research in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following paper:

@article{Fonseca2021,
  doi = {10.3390/RS13132619},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/RS13132619},
  keywords = {SMOTE,active learning,artificial data generation,land use/land cover classification,oversampling},
  year = {2021},
  month = {jul},
  publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
  volume = {13},
  pages = {2619},
  author = {Fonseca, Joao and Douzas, Georgios and Bacao, Fernando},
  title = {{Increasing the Effectiveness of Active Learning: Introducing Artificial Data Generation in Active Learning for Land Use/Land Cover Classification}},
  journal = {Remote Sensing}
}