Installation

System requirements

auto-sklearn has the following system requirements:

For an explanation of missing Microsoft Windows and MAC OSX support please check the Section Windows/OSX compatibility.

Installing auto-sklearn

Please install all dependencies manually with:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/automl/auto-sklearn/master/requirements.txt | xargs -n 1 -L 1 pip3 install

Then install auto-sklearn:

pip3 install auto-sklearn

We recommend installing auto-sklearn into a virtual environment or an Anaconda environment.

If the pip3 installation command fails, make sure you have the System requirements installed correctly.

Ubuntu installation

To provide Python 3, a C++11 building environment and the latest SWIG version on Ubuntu, run:

sudo apt-get install build-essential swig python3-dev

Anaconda installation

Anaconda does not ship auto-sklearn, and there are no conda packages for auto-sklearn. Thus, it is easiest to install auto-sklearn as detailed in the Section Installing auto-sklearn.

A common installation problem under recent Linux distribution is the incompatibility of the compiler version used to compile the Python binary shipped by AnaConda and the compiler installed by the distribution. This can be solved by installing the gcc compiler shipped with AnaConda (as well as swig):

conda install gxx_linux-64 gcc_linux-64 swig

Windows/OSX compatibility

Windows

auto-sklearn relies heavily on the Python module resource. resource is part of Python’s Unix Specific Services and not available on a Windows machine. Therefore, it is not possible to run auto-sklearn on a Windows machine.

Possible solutions (not tested):

  • Windows 10 bash shell

  • virtual machine

  • docker image

Mac OSX

We currently do not know if auto-sklearn works on OSX. There are at least two issues holding us back from actively supporting OSX:

  • The resource module cannot enforce a memory limit on a Python process (see SMAC3/issues/115).

  • OSX machines on travis-ci take more than 30 minutes to spawn. This makes it impossible for us to run unit tests for auto-sklearn and its dependencies SMAC3 and ConfigSpace.

In case you’re having issues installing the pyrfr package, check out this installation suggestion on github.

Possible other solutions (not tested):

  • virtual machine

  • docker image

Docker Image

A Docker image is also provided on dockerhub. To download from dockerhub, use:

docker pull mfeurer/auto-sklearn:master

You can also verify that the image was downloaded via:

docker images  # Verify that the image was downloaded

This image can be used to start an interactive session as follows:

docker run -it mfeurer/auto-sklearn:master

To start a Jupyter notebook, you could instead run e.g.:

docker run -it -v $PWD:/opt/nb -p 8888:8888 mfeurer/auto-sklearn:master /bin/bash -c "mkdir -p /opt/nb && jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=/opt/nb --ip='0.0.0.0' --port=8888 --no-browser --allow-root"

Alternatively, it is possible to use the development version of auto-sklearn by replacing all occurences of master by development.