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# Utilities for Developers

This document provides an overview of the utility functions and classes available for developers. These utilities are designed to assist with compatibility fixes, input validation, parallel processing, and more. Below is a detailed description of the key utilities provided in the code.

## Compatibility Fixes

The module includes several compatibility fixes for older versions of Python, NumPy, and SciPy. These fixes ensure that the codebase remains functional across different versions of these libraries.

### Sparse Matrix Containers

The code defines several lists of sparse matrix containers, such as `CSR_CONTAINERS`, `CSC_CONTAINERS`, etc. These lists are used to handle different types of sparse matrices and arrays, ensuring compatibility with various versions of SciPy.

### Function Renaming

The `_percentile` function is provided to handle the renaming of the `method` keyword argument to `interpolation` in NumPy versions prior to 1.22.

### Threadpool Controller

The `_get_threadpool_controller` function ensures compatibility with threadpoolctl versions 3.0.0 and above by setting up a global threadpool controller.

## Input Validation Utilities

The module provides several utilities for input validation, ensuring that the data passed to functions and classes is in the expected format.

### Data Type Checks

Functions like `check_array`, `check_X_y`, and `assert_all_finite` are provided to validate the input data types, check for NaN or infinite values, and ensure that the data meets the required specifications.

### Shape and Length Consistency

Utilities such as `check_consistent_length` and `_num_samples` ensure that input arrays have consistent shapes and lengths, which is crucial for maintaining data integrity across operations.

## Parallel Processing

The module includes utilities for parallel processing, leveraging joblib and threadpoolctl to manage parallel execution efficiently.

### Parallel Class

The `Parallel` class is a subclass of `joblib.Parallel` that propagates the scikit-learn configuration to parallel workers, ensuring consistent behavior across different execution environments.

### Delayed Function Execution

The `delayed` function is a decorator used to capture the arguments of a function for delayed execution, allowing for efficient parallel processing.

## Deprecation Handling

The module includes utilities for handling deprecated functions and parameters, ensuring smooth transitions to newer versions of the code.

### Deprecated Decorator

The `deprecated` decorator is used to mark functions as deprecated, providing warnings to developers about the planned removal of these functions in future versions.

## Miscellaneous Utilities

The module also includes various other utilities for tasks such as logging, configuration management, and more.

### Logging and Warnings

Functions like `ignore_warnings` and `_IgnoreWarnings` provide mechanisms to suppress warnings during execution, which can be useful during testing and debugging.

### Configuration Management

The `config_context` function allows for temporary changes to the global configuration, enabling developers to test different configurations without permanently altering the settings.

These utilities are designed to streamline the development process, providing robust tools for handling common tasks and ensuring compatibility across different environments.

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Utilities for Developers
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The utilities described here are intended to ease development and maintenance of the codebase. These include helpers for handling Python and third-party library version compatibility, tools for parallel computations, specialized data validation and metadata routing helpers, as well as various testing and debugging utilities.

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Compatibility Fixes
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These utilities provide workarounds or improvements that ensure the code remains compatible with different Python versions and various versions of NumPy or SciPy:

• Fixes for NumPy/Scipy updates  
• Imports of functions or classes renamed across library versions  
• Safeguards for changes in APIs such as SciPy optimization or NumPy’s percentile computation

For example, this module might contain backports of features introduced in newer library releases and conditionally offer them when running on older versions. Whenever the mainstream dependency versions advance, older fixes can be removed once they are no longer needed.

Threadpool and Parallel Execution
---------------------------------

Several utilities related to threadpool and parallel computation are provided:

• Threadpool Controller:  
  A mechanism to limit or retrieve information about thread pools used by linear algebra libraries (e.g., using ``threadpoolctl``).

• threadpool_limits / threadpool_info:  
  Functions to dynamically control or query the threading behavior (number of threads, which libraries or user API are affected, etc.).

• Parallel and delayed:  
  An extended version of joblib’s Parallel and delayed that propagates scikit-learn’s configuration seamlessly (random state, configuration contexts, etc.). They are meant to be used in place of ``joblib.Parallel`` and ``joblib.delayed`` to avoid missing or inconsistent configuration in workers.

Metadata Routing
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Metadata routing allows developers to attach and route custom data (metadata) across estimators, pipelines, and model selection routines internally. Its main goal is making intermediate transformations or additional information flow without polluting ``X`` or requiring separate single-purpose parameters. Key classes and helpers include:

• MetadataRouter and MetadataRequest:  
  Classes for specifying and introspecting what metadata is requested and how it is routed at different steps.

• process_routing:  
  Primary function that ensures metadata from one object is compatible and properly routed to another.

• _routing_enabled:  
  A safeguard or toggle for controlling whether routing is enforced.

Validation Tools
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A set of useful functions to validate (or check) inputs passed to estimators and other components:

• check_array, check_X_y, check_consistent_length, check_is_fitted, etc.  
  Common routines for ensuring array shapes, dtypes, presence of NaNs or infinite values, and so forth.

• as_float_array / assert_all_finite:
  Convert inputs to floating dtype arrays and verify everything is finite where expected.

• column_or_1d / indexable:
  Helpers to ensure that input data is shaped as needed and sliceable.

• _num_samples:
  Utility to inspect the first dimension of array-likes without converting them fully to arrays when possible.

Testing Utilities
-----------------

A wide-ranging collection of testing helpers and checks to ensure consistency, correctness, and compliance with the library’s guidelines:

• Estimator checks (check_estimator, parametrize_with_checks, etc.):  
  Standard checks that confirm a new estimator’s compliance with scikit-learn API.

• Assertions extending or complementing those from NumPy/SciPy (e.g., assert_allclose, assert_array_equal).

• Tools to test compliance of pipeline steps, transformer behaviors, or cross-validation components with corner cases (e.g., singular matrices, shape mismatch, presence of NaN).

• Decorators and context managers like ``ignore_warnings`` to suppress or check warnings in a controlled fashion.

• create_memmap_backed_data:
  Creates memory-mapped arrays for verifying read-only usage or testing large-scale data handling.

Additionally, specialized methods such as:

• _check_psd_eigenvalues:  
  Checking if an array is a valid set of eigenvalues for a positive semidefinite matrix (used in certain kernels or covariance checks).

• Minimal implementations (MinimalClassifier, MinimalRegressor, MinimalTransformer):  
  Examples of minimal working constructs with the necessary API, used in testing the library’s guidelines for new estimators.

Miscellaneous Helpers
---------------------

Other utilities include:

• _inner_log_logistic_sigmoid / _log_logistic_sigmoid:  
  Low-level routines for computing the log of the logistic function, used internally in some optimization.

• MurmurHash functions (murmurhash3_int_u32, murmurhash3_bytes_s32, …):  
  Fast hashing functions for integer or byte inputs, used in feature hashing or other specialized tasks.

• Cython inline math (log, exp) and typed definitions for efficient numeric tasks, supplementing internal loops in performance-critical parts.

These utilities collect small helpers and building blocks that should remain internal to advanced development tasks such as implementing new estimators, custom model selection routines, or specialized transformations that need to fit seamlessly into the scikit-learn ecosystem.

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