Announcing PyCaret 2.

0
Moez Ali Follow
Aug 1 · 5 min read

https://www.pycaret.org

We are excited to announce the second release of PyCaret today.

PyCaret is an open source, low-code machine learning library in Python that automates
machine learning workflow. It is an end-to-end machine learning and model
management tool that speeds up machine learning experiment cycle and makes you
more productive.
In comparison with the other open source machine learning libraries, PyCaret is an
alternate low-code library that can be used to replace hundreds of lines of code with few
words only. This makes experiments exponentially fast and efficient.

See detailed release notes for PyCaret 2.0.

Why use PyCaret?

PyCaret 2.0 Features

Installing PyCaret 2.0

Installing PyCaret is very easy and takes only a few minutes. We strongly recommend
using virtual environment to avoid potential conflict with other libraries. See the
following example code to create a conda environment and install pycaret within that
conda environment:

# create a conda environment

conda create --name yourenvname python=3.6

# activate environment
conda activate yourenvname
 # install pycaret
pip install pycaret==2.0

# create notebook kernel linked with the conda environment python -m

ipykernel install --user --name yourenvname --display-name "display-
name"

If you are using Azure notebooks or Google Colab, run the following code to install
PyCaret.

!pip install pycaret==2.0

All hard dependencies are automatically installed when you install PyCaret using pip.
Click here to see the complete list of dependencies.

👉 Getting Started with PyCaret 2.0

The first step of any machine learning experiment in PyCaret is to set up an environment
by importing the relevant module and initialize the setup function by passing
dataframe and name of the target variable. See example code:

Sample Output:
 Output is truncated

All the preprocessing transformations are applied within setup function. PyCaret
provides over 20 different pre-processing transformation that can be defined within
setup function. Click here to learn more about PyCaret’s preprocessing abilities.

https://www.pycaret.org/preprocessing

👉 Compare Models
This is the first step we recommend in any supervised machine learning task. This
function trains all the models in the model library using default hyperparameters and
evaluates performance metrics using cross validation. It returns the trained model object
class. The evaluation metrics used are:

For Classification: Accuracy, AUC, Recall, Precision, F1, Kappa, MCC

For Regression: MAE, MSE, RMSE, R2, RMSLE, MAPE

Here are few ways you can use compare_models function:

Sample Output:

Sample output from compare_models function

👉 Create Model
Create Model function trains a model using default hyperparameters and evaluates
performance metrics using cross validation. This function is base to almost all other
functions in PyCaret. It returns the trained model object class. Here are few ways you
can use this function:

Sample Output:
 Sample output from create_model function

To learn more about create model function, click here.

👉 Tune Model
Tune Model function tunes the hyperparameter of the model passed as an estimator. It
uses Random grid search with pre-defined tuning grids that are fully customizable. Here
are few ways you can use this function:

To learn more about tune model function, click here.

👉 Ensemble Model
There are few functions available to ensemble base learners. ensemble_model,
blend_models and stack_models are three of them. Here are few ways you can use this
function:

To learn more about ensemble models in PyCaret, click here.

👉 Predict Model
As the name suggests, this function is used for inference / prediction. Here is how you
can use it:

👉 Plot Model
Plot Model function is used to evaluate performance of the trained machine learning
model. Here is an example:

Sample output from plot_model function

Click here to learn more about different visualization in PyCaret.

Alternatively, you can use evaluate_model function to see plots via the user interface
within notebook.
 evaluate_model function in PyCaret

👉 Util functions
PyCaret 2.0 includes several new util functions that comes handy when managing your
machine learning experiments with PyCaret. Some of them are shown below:

To see all new functions implemented in PyCaret 2.0, See release notes.

👉 Experiment Logging
PyCaret 2.0 embeds MLflow tracking component as a backend API and UI for logging
parameters, code versions, metrics, and output files when running your machine
learning code and for later visualizing the results. Here is how you can log your
experiment in PyCaret.

Output (on localhost:5000)

 https://localhost:5000

👉 Putting it all together — Create your own AutoML software

Using all the functions, let’s create a simple command line software that will train
multiple models with default parameters, tune hyperparameters of top candidate
models, try different ensembling techniques and returns / saves the best model. Here is
the command line script:

This script will dynamically select and saves the best model. In just few lines of code you
have developed your own Auto ML software with a full fledged logging system and even
a UI presenting beautiful leaderboard.

There is no limit to what you can achieve using the light weight workflow automation
library in Python. If you find this useful, please do not forget to give us ⭐ on our github
repo if you like PyCaret.

To hear more about PyCaret follow us on LinkedIn and Youtube.

Important Links
Release Notes for PyCaret 2.0
User Guide / Documentation
Github
Install PyCaret
Notebook Tutorials
Contribute in PyCaret

Want to learn about a specific module?

Click on the links below to see the documentation and working examples.

Classification
Regression
Clustering
Anomaly Detection
Natural Language Processing
Association Rule Mining

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