all_estimators#

all_estimators(estimator_types=None, filter_tags=None, exclude_estimators=None, return_names=True, as_dataframe=False, return_tags=None, suppress_import_stdout=True)[source]#

List all estimators or objects in sktime, by scitype or tag.

This function crawls the module and gets all classes that inherit from sktime’s and sklearn’s base classes.

Not included are: the base classes themselves, classes defined in test modules.

Parameters:
estimator_types: str, list of str, optional (default=None)

Which kind of estimators should be returned. if None, no filter is applied and all estimators are returned. if str or list of str, strings define scitypes specified in search only estimators that are of (at least) one of the scitypes are returned possible str values are entries of registry.BASE_CLASS_REGISTER (first col) for instance ‘classifier’, ‘regressor’, ‘transformer’, ‘forecaster’

return_names: bool, optional (default=True)

if True, estimator class name is included in the all_estimators return in the order: name, estimator class, optional tags, either as a tuple or as pandas.DataFrame columns

if False, estimator class name is removed from the all_estimators return.

filter_tags: dict of (str or list of str or re.Pattern), optional (default=None)

For a list of valid tag strings, use the registry.all_tags utility.

filter_tags subsets the returned estimators as follows:

  • each key/value pair is statement in “and”/conjunction

  • key is tag name to sub-set on

  • value str or list of string are tag values

  • condition is “key must be equal to value, or in set(value)”

In detail, he return will be filtered to keep exactly the classes where tags satisfy all the filter conditions specified by filter_tags. Filter conditions are as follows, for tag_name: search_value pairs in the filter_tags dict, applied to a class klass:

  • If klass does not have a tag with name tag_name, it is excluded. Otherwise, let tag_value be the value of the tag with name tag_name.

  • If search_value is a string, and tag_value is a string, the filter condition is that search_value must match the tag value.

  • If search_value is a string, and tag_value is a list, the filter condition is that search_value is contained in tag_value.

  • If search_value is a re.Pattern, and tag_value is a string, the filter condition is that search_value.fullmatch(tag_value) is true, i.e., the regex matches the tag value.

  • If search_value is a re.Pattern, and tag_value is a list, the filter condition is that at least one element of tag_value matches the regex.

  • If search_value is iterable, then the filter condition is that at least one element of search_value satisfies the above conditions, applied to tag_value.

Note: re.Pattern is supported only from scikit-base version 0.8.0.

exclude_estimators: str, list of str, optional (default=None)

Names of estimators to exclude.

as_dataframe: bool, optional (default=False)

True: all_estimators will return a pandas.DataFrame with named columns for all of the attributes being returned.

False: all_estimators will return a list (either a list of estimators or a list of tuples, see Returns)

return_tags: str or list of str, optional (default=None)

Names of tags to fetch and return each estimator’s value of. For a list of valid tag strings, use the registry.all_tags utility. if str or list of str, the tag values named in return_tags will be fetched for each estimator and will be appended as either columns or tuple entries.

suppress_import_stdoutbool, optional. Default=True

whether to suppress stdout printout upon import.

Returns:
all_estimators will return one of the following:

  1. list of estimators, if return_names=False, and return_tags is None

2. list of tuples (optional estimator name, class, ~ptional estimator tags), if return_names=True or return_tags is not None.

  1. pandas.DataFrame if as_dataframe = True

if list of estimators:

entries are estimators matching the query, in alphabetical order of estimator name

if list of tuples:

list of (optional estimator name, estimator, optional estimator tags) matching the query, in alphabetical order of estimator name, where name is the estimator name as string, and is an optional return estimator is the actual estimator tags are the estimator’s values for each tag in return_tags and is an optional return.

if DataFrame:

column names represent the attributes contained in each column. “estimators” will be the name of the column of estimators, “names” will be the name of the column of estimator class names and the string(s) passed in return_tags will serve as column names for all columns of tags that were optionally requested.

References

Modified version of scikit-learn’s all_estimators.

Examples

>>> from sktime.registry import all_estimators
>>> # return a complete list of estimators as pd.Dataframe
>>> all_estimators(as_dataframe=True)  
>>> # return all forecasters by filtering for estimator type
>>> all_estimators("forecaster")  
>>> # return all forecasters which handle missing data in the input by tag filtering
>>> all_estimators("forecaster", filter_tags={"capability:missing_values": True})
On this page