shap 0.42.0

v0.42.0

on Python PyPI

This release incorporates many changes that were originally contributed by the SHAP community via @dsgibbons's Community Fork, which has now been merged into the main shap repository. PRs from this origin are labelled here as fork#123.

This will be the last release that supports python 3.7.

Added

• Added support for python 3.11 (fork#72 by @connortann).
• Added n_points parameter to all functions in shap.datasets (fork#39 by @thatlittleboy).
• Added __call__ to KernelExplainer (#2966 by @dwolfeu).
• Added contributing guidelines (#2996 by @connortann).

Fixed

• Fixed plot.waterfall to support yticklabels with boolean features (fork#58 by @dwolfeu).
• Prevent TreeExplainer.__call__ from throwing ValueError when passed a pandas DataFrame containing Categorical columns (fork#88 by @thatlittleboy).
• Fixed sampling in shap.datasets to sample without replacement (fork#36 by @thatlittleboy).
• Fixed an UnboundLocalError problem arising from passing a dictionary input to shap.plots.bar (#3001 by @thatlittleboy).
• Fixed tensorflow import issue with Pyspark when using Gradient (#2983 by @skamdar).
• Fixed the aspect ratio of the colorbar in shap.plots.heatmap, and use the ax matplotlib API internally for plotting (#3040 by @thatlittleboy).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for numba>=0.44 (fork#9 and fork#68 by @connortann).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for numpy>=1.24 from numpy types (fork#7 by @dsgibbons).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for Ipython>=8 from Ipython.core.display (fork#13 by @thatlittleboy).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for tensorflow>=2.11 from tf.optimisers (fork#16 by @simonangerbauer).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for sklearn>=1.2 from sklearn.linear_model (fork#22 by @dsgibbons).
• Fixed deprecation warnings for xgboost>=1.4 from ntree_limit in tree explainer (#2987 by @adnene-guessoum).
• Fixed build on Windows and MacOS (#3015 by @PrimozGodec; #3028, #3029 and #3031 by @connortann).
• Fixed creation of ragged arrays in shap.explainers.Exact (#3064 by @connortann).

Changed

• Updates to docstrings of several shap.plots functions (#3003, #3005 by @thatlittleboy).

Removed

• Deprecated the Boston house price dataset (fork#38 by @thatlittleboy).
• Removed the unused mimic.py file and MimicExplainer code (fork#53 by @thatlittleboy).

Maintenance

• Fixed failing unit tests (fork#29 by @dsgibbons, fork#20 by @simonangerbauer, #3044 and fork#24 by @connortann).
• Include CUDA GPU C extension files in the source distribution (#3009 by @jklaise).
• Fixed installation of package via setuptools (fork#51 by @thatlittleboy).
• Introduced a minimal set of ruff linting (fork#25, fork#26, fork#27, #2973, #2972 and #2976 by @connortann; #2968, #2986 by @thatlittleboy).
• Updated project metadata to PEP 517 (#3022 by @connortann).
• Introduced more thorough testing on CI against newer dependencies (fork#61 and #3017 by @connortann)
• Reduced unit test time by ~5 mins (#3046 by @connortann).
• Introduced fixtures for reproducible fuzz testing (#3048 by @connortann).