OpenML: An R Package to Connect to the Machine Learning Platform OpenML

TL;DR

This paper introduces an R package that connects to the OpenML platform, enabling researchers to share data, tasks, and results efficiently, thereby enhancing collaboration, reproducibility, and research speed in machine learning.

Contribution

The paper presents a new R package that interfaces with OpenML, facilitating data sharing, experiment management, and result sharing for machine learning researchers.

Findings

Enables easy search, download, and upload of datasets and tasks.

Supports uploading and sharing experiment results.

Automates data management to improve research efficiency.

Abstract

OpenML is an online machine learning platform where researchers can easily share data, machine learning tasks and experiments as well as organize them online to work and collaborate more efficiently. In this paper, we present an R package to interface with the OpenML platform and illustrate its usage in combination with the machine learning R package mlr. We show how the OpenML package allows R users to easily search, download and upload data sets and machine learning tasks. Furthermore, we also show how to upload results of experiments, share them with others and download results from other users. Beyond ensuring reproducibility of results, the OpenML platform automates much of the drudge work, speeds up research, facilitates collaboration and increases the users' visibility online.