Model saving

[adavoli91]

Hi,
is it possible to save a model, e.g. with pickle?
Thanks

[mgckind]

Hi @adavoli91,
On the python version of eif can be pickled, for the cython and faster version we need to implement that. Thanks for letting us know, we'll try to add that in the future.

[adavoli91]

Thank you for the reply.

I managed to pickle eif_old, but I noticed that the output file is very large (~100MB for a dataset with ~500 rows and ~60 columns); the same dataset, processed with IF from sklearn, gives a pickle file of less than 1MB. Is that expected, or can it be handled?

Thans

[mgckind]

Thanks,

I think that;s expected since the eif_old is purely python while sklearn is C-based. The ideal scenario would be to add pickle to the cython class which requires some little development.

[lpryszcz]

Hi @mgckind , I back this feature request. I found eIF super useful and the only feature I'm lacking currently is model saving. Have you had any opportunity to work on that?

[lpryszcz]

I've rewritten Python version as eif_new.py. This version has performance matching C++ (~40x faster than eif_old.py) and allow model saving with model files 10x smaller than eif_old.py #24