New API for ML.NET

[Zruty0]

We are creating a stable API that:

• Uses parallel terminology with other well-known ML libraries (Spark, sklearn);
• Takes advantage of strong types of .NET to shorten path to success;
• Is going to be present from now till 1.0 and beyond;
• Keeps simple ML scenarios concise;
• Allows advanced ML scenarios: see Direct API: Scenarios to light up for V1 #584 .

To that end, we are going to expose a selection of Estimators and Transformers (see #581 ) that cover existing transforms, learners and loaders.

This issue will be used to track the overall project status: what is planned to be done, what is done, etc.

[Zruty0]

List of transforms:

Transform	Category	Priority	Has entry point	Status
Key To Value Transform	Categorical	0	1	#856
Concat Transform	Schema manipulation	0	1	#896
Term Transform	Categorical	0	1	#759
Text Transform	Text processing	0	1	#801
Image Greyscale Transform	Image	0	0	#753
Image Loader Transform	Image	0	0	#753
Image Pixel Extractor Transform	Image	0	0	#753
Image Resizer Transform	Image	0	0	#753
Tensorflow Scoring Transform	Image	0	1	#840 #877
Min-Max Normalizer	Normalizer	0	1	#797
NA Handle Transform	Missing values	1	1	no need
NA Indicator Transform	Missing values	1	1	#1217
NA Replace Transform	Missing values	1	1	#917
Categorical Transform	Categorical	1	1	#899
Categorical Hash Transform	Categorical	1	1	#1033
Hash Transform	Categorical	1	0	#944
Copy Columns Transform	Schema manipulation	1	1	#706
Word Embeddings Transform	Text processing	1	1	#928
Key To Vector Transform	Categorical	1	0	#858
Character Tokenizer Transform	Text processing	2	1	#931
Ngram Hash Transform	Text processing	2	0	#953
Ngram Transform	Text processing	2	1	#953
Stopwords Remover Transform	Text processing	2	0	#953
Text Normalizer Transform	Text processing	2	0	#953
Word Bag Transform	Text processing	2	0	#953
Word Hash Bag Transform	Text processing	2	0	#953
Word Tokenizer Transform	Text processing	2	1	#931
Convert Transform	Column mapper	2	1
Drop Slots Transform	Feature selection	2	0	no need
LogMeanVar Normalizer	Normalizer	2	1	#797
MeanVar Normalizer	Normalizer	2	1	#797
Latent Dirichlet Allocation Transform	Projection	2	1	#972
Tree Ensemble Featurization Transform	Projection	2	1
NA Filter	Row manipulation	2	1
Count Feature Selection Transform	Feature selection	2	1	#991
Mutual Information Feature Selection Transform	Feature selection	2	1	#991
NA Drop Transform	Missing values	2	1
Binning Normalizer	Normalizer	2	1	#797
Global Contrast Normalization Transform	Normalizer	2	1	#961
Principal Component Analysis Transform	Projection	2	1	#1333
Random Fourier Features Transform	Projection	2	0	#1122
Bootstrap Sample Transform	Row manipulation	2	1
Shuffle Transform	Row manipulation	2	0
Custom Stopwords Remover Transform	Text processing	2	0
Learner Feature Selection Transform	Feature selection	3	0
Lp-Norm Normalizer	Normalizer	3	1	#961
Supervised Binning Normalizer	Normalizer	3	1
Whitening Transform	Normalizer	3	0	#961, #1326
Choose Columns Transform	Schema manipulation	3	0
Drop Columns Transform	Schema manipulation	3	1
Generate Number Transform	Schema manipulation	3	1
Keep Columns Transform	Schema manipulation	3	0
Key To Binary Vector Transform	Categorical	3	0	#858
Term Lookup Transform	Categorical	3	0
Label Indicator Transform	Column mapper	3	1
Group Transform	Relational operation	3	1
Un-group Transform	Relational operation	3	1
Range Filter	Row manipulation	3	1
Skip Filter	Row manipulation	3	1
Skip and Take Filter	Row manipulation	3	1
Take Filter	Row manipulation	3	1
Evaluate Predictor	Re-evaluate	4	0
Hash Join Transform	Re-evaluate	4	1
Load Transform	Re-evaluate	4	0
Optional Column Transform	Re-evaluate	4	1
Score Predictor	Re-evaluate	4	0
Sentiment Analyzing Transform	Re-evaluate	4	1
Train and Score Predictor	Re-evaluate	4	0

[Zruty0]

List of trainers:

Trainer	Category	Priority	Status
SDCA: Fast Linear (SA-SDCA)	Linear	0	#716
SDCAMC: Fast Linear Multi-class Classification (SA-SDCA)	Linear	0	#716
SDCAR: Fast Linear Regression (SA-SDCA)	Linear	0	#716
AveragedPerceptron: Averaged Perceptron	Linear	0	#849
OVA: One-vs-All	Meta	0	#865
FieldAwareFactorizationMachine: Field-aware Factorization Machine	FFM	0	#912
FastTreeBinaryClassification: FastTree (Boosted Trees) Classification	Tree	0	#855
FastTreeRegression: FastTree (Boosted Trees) Regression	Tree	0	#855
KMeansPlusPlus: KMeans++ Clustering	Clustering	0	#979
LightGBMBinary: LightGBM Binary Classifier	Tree	0	#962
LightGBMMulticlass: LightGBM Multi-class Classifier	Tree	0	#962
LightGBMRegression: LightGBM Regressor	Tree	0	#962
LogisticRegression: Logistic Regression	Linear	0	#957
MultiClassLogisticRegression: Multi-class Logistic Regression	Linear	0	#957
OLSLinearRegression: Ordinary Least Squares (Regression)	Linear	0	#1002
SymbolicSGD: Symbolic SGD (binary)	Linear	0	#1012
FastForestClassification: Fast Forest Classification	Tree	0	#855
FastForestRegression: Fast Forest Regression	Tree	0	#855
BinaryClassificationGamTrainer: Generalized Additive Model for Binary Classification	GAM	1	#962
RegressionGamTrainer: Generalized Additive Model for Regression	GAM	1	#962
OnlineGradientDescent: Stochastic Gradient Descent (Regression)	Linear	1	#849
PoissonRegression: Poisson Regression	Linear	1	#957
PKPD: Pairwise coupling (PKPD)	Meta	1	#865
pcaAnomaly: PCA Anomaly Detector	Projection	1	#996
FastTreeTweedieRegression: FastTree (Boosted Trees) Tweedie Regression	Tree	1	#855
PriorPredictor: Prior Predictor	Baseline	2	#875
RandomPredictor: Random Predictor	Baseline	2	#875
MultiClassNaiveBayes: Multiclass Naive Bayes	Bayes	2	#1111
BinarySGD: Hogwild SGD (binary)	Linear	2	#1134
LinearSVM: SVM (Pegasos-Linear)	Linear	2	#849
EnsembleRegression: Regression Ensemble (bagging, stacking, etc)	Meta	2	On hold until we decide how to change the ensemble learners #1152
WeightedEnsemble: Parallel Ensemble (bagging, stacking, etc)	Meta	2	On hold until we decide how to change the ensemble learners #1152
WeightedEnsembleMulticlass: Multi-class Parallel Ensemble (bagging, stacking, etc)	Meta	2	On hold until we decide how to change the ensemble learners #1152
FastTreeRanking: FastTree (Boosted Trees) Ranking	Tree	2	#855
LightGBMRanking: LightGBM Ranking	Tree	2	#962

[shauheen]

@Ivanidzo4ka can you please verify if this can be closed now?

[eerhardt]

I believe this can be closed. We have made this new API and have separate issues tracking remaining necessary API work.

Please re-open if I'm wrong.