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SequentialFeatureSelection Early Stopping Criterion #886

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aldder committed Feb 2, 2022
commit 4db4c971cb2917dcd293a059f4ad12c4126ddef2
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions mlxtend/feature_selection/sequential_feature_selector.py
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Expand Up @@ -567,8 +567,8 @@ def fit(self, X, y, custom_feature_names=None, groups=None, **fit_params):

# early stop
if self.early_stop_rounds \
and k != k_to_select \
and self.k_features in {'best', 'parsimonious'}:
and k != k_to_select \
and self.k_features in {'best', 'parsimonious'}:
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Instead of the check here, i would maybe change it to raising a ValueError in the top of the function if self.k_features is not in {'best', 'parsimonious'} and self.early_stop_rounds. This way the user is aware, and we only have to perform the check once.

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@rasbt Do you prefer having this check on top of fit function or during initialization?

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Ahh, totally lost track and missed your comment! Sorry! Regarding your question, I think fit might be better to keep it more consistent with scikit-learn behavior.

if k_score <= best_score:
early_stop_count -= 1
if early_stop_count == 0:
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