Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* 2025.0.0

Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* is happy to introduce 2025.0.0 release!

🚨 What's New

• Introduced new Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • Enabled functional support for Array API
  • k-Means algorithm is moved out of preview namespace
  • SHAP value support for XGBoost's binary classification models
  • SPMD interfaces support: IncrementalLinearRegression, IncrementalPCA, IncrementalEmpiricalCovariance

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix issues with sklearn conformance for preview Ridge for 2024.6.0
• Fix on preview ridge tests having too little error tolerance for coefficients assertions
• Fix for Logistic Regression loss scaling
• Fix to prevent support_usm_ndarray from changing queue if explicitly provided
• Fix Multivariate Ridge Regression coefficients
• Fix circular import in daal4py/sklearnex device_offloading
• Align sklearnex BasicStatistics._onedal_fit with other algos

❌ Deprecation Notice

• Removed Python 3.8 support

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who helped us make 2025.0.0 release possible!

@Alexsandruss, @Alexandr-Solovev, @Vika-F, @icfaust, @napetrov, @maria-Petrova, @ahuber21, @ethanglaser, @samir-nasibli, @aepanchi, @emmwalsh, @olegkkruglov, @razdoburdin, @avolkov-intel, @md-shafiul-alam, @david-cortes-intel

Full Changelog: 2024.7.0...2025.0.0