scikit-learn: LocalOutlierFactor exposes methods that it shouldn't
Describe the issue linked to the documentation
The LocalOutlierFactor class (and hence documentation) exposes methods that it probably shouldn’t:
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.neighbors.LocalOutlierFactor.html#sklearn.neighbors.LocalOutlierFactor.kneighbors https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.neighbors.LocalOutlierFactor.html#sklearn.neighbors.LocalOutlierFactor.kneighbors_graph
these appear to be inherited from the parent class, and should not be exposed.
Suggest a potential alternative/fix
Rather than using KNeighborsMixin
and NeighborsBase
, the implementation should probably just use an instance of a nearest neighbor search internally, and not expose this as part of the local outlier factor API.
About this issue
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- State: open
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 17 (16 by maintainers)
Hiding them in the documentation is a hack, not a solution: The methods will still show up in tab completion in IDEs, and still pollute the API.