History

skbase was started in May 2022 by Franz Király and Ryan Kuhns in order to make it easier for others to use scikit-learn and sktime design principles in a range of projects.

The project builds on and was heavily inspired by scikti-learn’s BaseEstimator API. sktime built on this by developing a BaseObject that built on these design principles and added an sktime interface for general parametric objects. The skbase project is focused on continuing to build on these efforts, while further genericizing the design concept to a variety of use-cases.

Development is supported by the original project members, new core developers and the broader community (see contributors).

If you are interested in contributing, check out our Contributing guide.