Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* 2025.2.0

Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* is happy to introduce 2025.2.0 release!

🚨 What's New

• Introduced new Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • Enabled linear regression on GPU with non-PSD systems
  • Added serialization for IncrementalBasicStatistics, IncrementalEmpiricalCovariance, IncrementalPCA
  • Moved Ridge Regression out of preview
  • Disabled patching for k-Means(n_clusters=1)
  • Added sklearnex version of validate_data, _check_sample_weight
  • Upgraded IncrementalLinearRegression for underdetermined systems
  • Enabled new RNG engines support

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Enabled proper GPU offloading with fp64 support when dpctl unavailable
• Fixed to_table for a non-array input when a low-precision queue is used
• Fixed incremental pca example patching logic

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who helped us make 2025.2.0 release possible!

@Alexsandruss, @Alexandr-Solovev, @Vika-F, @david-cortes-intel, @icfaust, @napetrov, @maria-Petrova, @homksei, @ahuber21, @ethanglaser, @razdoburdin, @avolkov-intel, @yuejiaointel,

New Contributors

• @yuejiaointel made their first contribution in #2229

Full Changelog: 2025.1.0...2025.2.0