Machine learning toolkit

Machine-learning toolkit¶

The toolkit contains a number of libraries and scripts. These have been produced to provide kdb+ users with general-use functions and procedures to perform machine-learning tasks on a wide variety of datasets.

The toolkit contains:

• Utility functions relating to important aspects of machine learning including data preprocessing and statistical testing, and includes functions useful in many machine-learning applications.

• An implementation of the FRESH (FeatuRe Extraction and Scalable Hypothesis testing) algorithm in q. This lets a q/kdb+ user perform feature-extraction and feature-significance tests on structured time-series data for forecasting, regression and classification.

Over time the machine-learning functionality in this library will be extended to include

• q-specific implementations of machine-learning algorithms

Requirements¶

The following requirements cover all those needed to run the libraries in the current build of the toolkit.

A number of Python dependencies also exist for the running of embedPy functions within both the the machine-learning utilities and FRESH libraries. These can be installed as outlined at

KxSystems/ml using pip

pip install -r requirements.txt


or via conda;

conda install --file requirements.txt


Running notebooks

Running notebooks within the Utilities and FRESH sections requires JupyterQ as well as embedPy. However this is not a requirement for the toolkit itself.

Installation¶

Copy (a link to) the library into \$QHOME to install and load all libraries using

q)\l ml/ml.q
q).ml.loadfile:init.q
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