Milad Shahidi

StackingCVClassifier: Passing parameters to the fit method of the underlying classifiers

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I'm using `StackingCVClassifier` and one of my classifiers is an `XGBoostClassifier` instance and I'm trying to pass a parameter (early_stopping_rounds or simply verbose) to its fit method via the fit...

Setting random_state in iterative_train_test_split

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For the sake of reproducibility (and convenience), it would be useful if one could pass `random_state` to `iterative_train_test_split` as an argument, to set the random_state of the internal `IterativeStratification` object.

Best vs mean CV score

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Thank you for this helpful notebook. Can you explain why you return the best cv scores in the objective function? Isn't that an overly optimistic (upward bias) measure of performance?...