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A library of extension and helper modules for Python's data analysis and machine learning libraries.
https://rasbt.github.io/mlxtend/
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Apply create_counterfactual method to regression task? #758

Closed MauroLuzzatto closed 3 years ago

MauroLuzzatto commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot, to the creators for the nice implementation of the create_counterfactual!

I was wondering, if it is reasonable to use the implementation also for regression task? As for example if y_desired could also be a float, which should be reached? I tried it out and the results seem reasonable, nevertheless, I quickly want to ask, if this usage would make sense. Thanks a lot!

rasbt commented 3 years ago

yeah, I think this would generally work. In practice it may be trickier though due to the nature of regression values (compared to class label probabilities in range (0, 1)). The implementation may have to be slightly tweaked for regression but I am not 100% sure; haven't tried.

MauroLuzzatto commented 3 years ago

Great, thanks for the fast response. I will look into this!