mlpack v1.0.7 Release Notes

  • 2013-10-04
    • Cover tree support for range search (range_search), rank-approximate nearest neighbors (allkrann), minimum spanning tree calculation (emst), and FastMKS (fastmks).

    • Dual-tree FastMKS implementation added and tested.

    • Added collaborative filtering package (cf) that can provide recommendations when given users and items.

    • Fix for correctness of Kernel PCA (kernel_pca) (#270).

    • Speedups for PCA and Kernel PCA (#198).

    • Fix for correctness of Neighborhood Components Analysis (NCA) (#279).

    • Minor speedups for dual-tree algorithms.

    • Fix for Naive Bayes Classifier (nbc) (#269).

    • Added a ridge regression option to LinearRegression (linear_regression) (#286).

    • Gaussian Mixture Models (gmm::GMM<>) now support arbitrary covariance matrix constraints (#283).

    • MVU (mvu) removed because it is known to not work (#183).

    • Minor updates and fixes for kernels (in mlpack::kernel).