RegressorPipeline

Pipeline of transformers and a regressor.

The RegressorPipeline compositor chains transformers and a single regressor. The pipeline is constructed with a list of sktime transformers, plus a regressor,

i.e., estimators following the BaseTransformer resp BaseRegressor interface.

The transformer list can be unnamed - a simple list of transformers -

or string named - a list of pairs of string, estimator.

For a list of transformers trafo1, trafo2, …, trafoN and a regressor reg,

the pipeline behaves as follows:

fit(X, y) - changes styte by running trafo1.fit_transform on X,

them trafo2.fit_transform on the output of trafo1.fit_transform, etc sequentially, with trafo[i] receiving the output of trafo[i-1], and then running reg.fit with X being the output of trafo[N], and y identical with the input to self.fit

predict(X) - result is of executing trafo1.transform, trafo2.transform, etc

with trafo[i].transform input = output of trafo[i-1].transform, then running reg.predict on the output of trafoN.transform, and returning the output of reg.predict

get_params, set_params uses sklearn compatible nesting interface

if list is unnamed, names are generated as names of classes if names are non-unique, f”_{str(i)}” is appended to each name string

where i is the total count of occurrence of a non-unique string inside the list of names leading up to it (inclusive)

RegressorPipeline can also be created by using the magic multiplication

on any regressor, i.e., if my_reg inherits from BaseRegressor,

and my_trafo1, my_trafo2 inherit from BaseTransformer, then, for instance, my_trafo1 * my_trafo2 * my_reg will result in the same object as obtained from the constructor RegressorPipeline(regressor=my_reg, transformers=[my_trafo1, my_trafo2])

magic multiplication can also be used with (str, transformer) pairs,

as long as one element in the chain is a transformer