Mailman 3 November 2025 - scikit-learn

GaussianMixture - proposed features
by Ehud Schreiber Nov. 29, 2025

Nov. 29, 2025

Hi, I'd like to propose a couple of features that, as a user, I believe may be useful for Gaussian mixture modeling with GaussianMixture. I don't see how to currently do them, and I think they should be quite easy to implement, but I may be wrong. 1. The weights of the components may be known. In that case, we would like to provide them through weights_init, but then they should be frozen and not optimized by the EM steps. So perhaps a frozen_weights boolean parameter, relevant only when weights_init is not None? 2. In covariance_type, there are the full/diag/spherical options, but I think that logically "tied" is independent - currently it's "tied full", but there could just as well be "tied diag" and even "tied spherical" with only a single parameter for the variances. So I propose having two input parameters allowing for 3*2 = 6 structures instead of the current 4. Thanks for all your great work for the community, Ehud Schreiber.

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[ANN] scikit-learn 1.8.0rc1 is online ! Please test
by Loïc Estève Nov. 26, 2025

Nov. 26, 2025

Hi everyone, Please help us test the first release candidate for scikit-learn 1.8: pip install scikit-learn==1.8.0rc1 Changelog: https://scikit-learn.org/1.8/whats_new/v1.8.html In particular, if you maintain a project with a dependency on scikit-learn, please let us know about any regression. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Loïc, on behalf of the scikit-learn maintainer team.

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Removal from mailing list
by Jan Timko Nov. 24, 2025

Nov. 24, 2025

Hello, Please can I be removed from the mailing list? Best wishes, Jan T. Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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Next monthly meeting on December 15th.
by Olivier Grisel Nov. 24, 2025

Nov. 24, 2025

Hi all, During today's November project meeting, we did not have time to cover all the important topics on the agenda, so we decided to move the December meeting ahead by two weeks. This move also has the side benefit of having the December meeting before the end-of-year holiday season. The project calendar has been updated accordingly: https://blog.scikit-learn.org/calendar/ Cheers, -- Olivier

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by Nadeem Akhtar Nov. 8, 2025

Nov. 8, 2025

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scikit-learn.org currently unavailable
by Tim Head Nov. 7, 2025

Nov. 7, 2025

Hello all, The https://scikit-learn.org/ website is currently not available. It should be back soon. The reason it is not available is that as part of maintenance we deleted the wrong fork. Apologies for the inconvenience. Tim

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