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Python issues about Machine Learning: the project is written in Python and the issue is about Machine Learning. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly.

Machine Learning

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140k
New this week
2k
Nobody on it yet
128k
Average difficulty
4.0/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.0/5 across 146,868 issues.
  • 8% of 146,868 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Oct 20, 2026.

About Machine Learning

Machine learning builds models that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules. Open source work here spans training libraries, model code, datasets and the tooling around experiments.

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How many Machine Learning issues are open here?
140,374 open issues: 2,045 opened in the last seven days, and 128,077 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
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