Contributor
Pranav Prajapati

Scaling Backends : Polars, Hugging Face and Foundation Models


Mentors
Bene, Kiril Ralinovski
Organization
sktime
Technologies
python, Transformers, Polars
Topics
machine learning, deep learning, time-series, Forecasting
The idea behind this project is to integrate data backends like Polars and deep learning foundation models from libraries like Hugging-Face and building interfaces for them in sktime. Adding support to polars Series and DataFrame as mtypes which will represent sktime compatible scitypes will be a part of scaling backends for sktime datatypes. This includes writing/enhancing adapter for Polars, and implementing polars mtypes as an abstract data type, a scitype(Panel, Series). Adding Polars support to interfaced models that already support polars so users can directly pass Polars DataFrame for training and prediction in sktime.