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Make MLBlocks an optional dependency

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, tensorflow

Research direction

Start by tracing PipelineExplorer.score_pipeline, Pipeline.score_template, and MLPipeline loading to see how MLBlocks is currently imported for exploration and scoring. Check the package installation options mentioned in the issue and verify that S3 exploration works without MLBlocks while both scoring entry points remain available with the scoring extra.

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Description

enhancement

MLBlocks is a pretty heavy-weight dependency as it requires tensorflow, xgboost, etc. to be installed. To just "explore" pipelines from S3, users shoudn't need MLBlocks.

Desired functionality:

  • for all methods except PipelineExplorer.score_pipeline and Pipeline.score_template, MLBlocks should not need to be installed
  • if the user wants to score pipelines or templates using PipelineExplorer.score_pipeline and Pipeline.score_template, they can enable this by pip install piex[mlblocks] (or piex[scoring] or piex[all] or some other variant)

Note that this would require a workaround for using MLPipeline to load pipelines/templates for the express purpose of extracting metadata from them

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