DOC Release highlights for 1.3 (#26526)

Co-authored-by: adrinjalali <adrin.jalali@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Guillaume Lemaitre <g.lemaitre58@gmail.com>

doc/whats_new/v1.3.rst

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 **June 2023**
 
+For a short description of the main highlights of the release, please refer to
+:ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_release_highlights_plot_release_highlights_1_3_0.py`.
+
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examples/release_highlights/plot_release_highlights_1_3_0.py

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+# flake8: noqa
+"""
+=======================================
+Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.3
+=======================================
+
+.. currentmodule:: sklearn
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of scikit-learn 1.3! Many bug fixes
+and improvements were added, as well as some new key features. We detail
+below a few of the major features of this release. **For an exhaustive list of
+all the changes**, please refer to the :ref:`release notes <changes_1_3>`.
+
+To install the latest version (with pip)::
+
+    pip install --upgrade scikit-learn
+
+or with conda::
+
+    conda install -c conda-forge scikit-learn
+
+"""
+
+# %%
+# Metadata Routing
+# ----------------
+# We are in the process of introducing a new way to route metadata such as
+# ``sample_weight`` throughout the codebase, which would affect how
+# meta-estimators such as :class:`pipeline.Pipeline` and
+# :class:`model_selection.GridSearchCV` route metadata. While the
+# infrastructure for this feature is already included in this release, the work
+# is ongoing and not all meta-estimators support this new feature. You can read
+# more about this feature in the :ref:`Metadata Routing User Guide
+# <metadata_routing>`. Note that this feature is still under development and
+# not implemented for most meta-estimators.
+#
+# Third party developers can already start incorporating this into their
+# meta-estimators. For more details, see
+# :ref:`metadata routing developer guide
+# <sphx_glr_auto_examples_miscellaneous_plot_metadata_routing.py>`.
+
+# %%
+# HDBSCAN: hierarchical density-based clustering
+# ----------------------------------------------
+# Originally hosted in the scikit-learn-contrib repository, :class:`cluster.HDBSCAN`
+# has been adpoted into scikit-learn. It's missing a few features from the original
+# implementation which will be added in future releases.
+# By performing a modified version of :class:`cluster.DBSCAN` over multiple epsilon
+# values simultaneously, :class:`cluster.HDBSCAN` finds clusters of varying densities
+# making it more robust to parameter selection than :class:`cluster.DBSCAN`.
+# More details in the :ref:`User Guide <hdbscan>`.
+import numpy as np
+from sklearn.cluster import HDBSCAN
+from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
+from sklearn.metrics import v_measure_score
+
+X, true_labels = load_digits(return_X_y=True)
+print(f"number of digits: {len(np.unique(true_labels))}")
+
+hdbscan = HDBSCAN(min_cluster_size=15).fit(X)
+non_noisy_labels = hdbscan.labels_[hdbscan.labels_ != -1]
+print(f"number of clusters found: {len(np.unique(non_noisy_labels))}")
+
+print(v_measure_score(true_labels[hdbscan.labels_ != -1], non_noisy_labels))
+
+# %%
+# TargetEncoder: a new category encoding strategy
+# -----------------------------------------------
+# Well suited for categorical features with high cardinality,
+# :class:`preprocessing.TargetEncoder` encodes the categories based on a shrunk
+# estimate of the average target values for observations belonging to that category.
+# More details in the :ref:`User Guide <target_encoder>`.
+import numpy as np
+from sklearn.preprocessing import TargetEncoder
+
+X = np.array([["cat"] * 30 + ["dog"] * 20 + ["snake"] * 38], dtype=object).T
+y = [90.3] * 30 + [20.4] * 20 + [21.2] * 38
+
+enc = TargetEncoder(random_state=0)
+X_trans = enc.fit_transform(X, y)
+
+enc.encodings_
+
+# %%
+# Missing values support in decision trees
+# ----------------------------------------
+# The classes :class:`tree.DecisionTreeClassifier` and
+# :class:`tree.DecisionTreeRegressor` now support missing values. For each potential
+# threshold on the non-missing data, the splitter will evaluate the split with all the
+# missing values going to the left node or the right node.
+# More details in the :ref:`User Guide <tree_missing_value_support>`.
+import numpy as np
+from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
+
+X = np.array([0, 1, 6, np.nan]).reshape(-1, 1)
+y = [0, 0, 1, 1]
+
+tree = DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=0).fit(X, y)
+tree.predict(X)
+
+# %%
+# New display `model_selection.ValidationCurveDisplay`
+# ----------------------------------------------------
+# :class:`model_selection.ValidationCurveDisplay` is now available to plot results
+# from :func:`model_selection.validation_curve`.
+from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
+from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
+from sklearn.model_selection import ValidationCurveDisplay
+
+X, y = make_classification(1000, 10, random_state=0)
+
+_ = ValidationCurveDisplay.from_estimator(
+    LogisticRegression(),
+    X,
+    y,
+    param_name="C",
+    param_range=np.geomspace(1e-5, 1e3, num=9),
+    score_type="both",
+    score_name="Accuracy",
+)
+
+# %%
+# Gamma loss for gradient boosting
+# --------------------------------
+# The class :class:`ensemble.HistGradientBoostingRegressor` supports the
+# Gamma deviance loss function via `loss="gamma"`. This loss function is useful for
+# modeling strictly positive targets with a right-skewed distribution.
+import numpy as np
+from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
+from sklearn.datasets import make_low_rank_matrix
+from sklearn.ensemble import HistGradientBoostingRegressor
+
+n_samples, n_features = 500, 10
+rng = np.random.RandomState(0)
+X = make_low_rank_matrix(n_samples, n_features, random_state=rng)
+coef = rng.uniform(low=-10, high=20, size=n_features)
+y = rng.gamma(shape=2, scale=np.exp(X @ coef) / 2)
+gbdt = HistGradientBoostingRegressor(loss="gamma")
+cross_val_score(gbdt, X, y).mean()
+
+# %%
+# Grouping infrequent categories in :class:`preprocessing.OrdinalEncoder`
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Similarly to :class:`preprocessing.OneHotEncoder`, the class
+# :class:`preprocessing.OrdinalEncoder` now supports aggregating infrequent categories
+# into a single output for each feature. The parameters to enable the gathering of
+# infrequent categories are `min_frequency` and `max_categories`.
+# See the :ref:`User Guide <encoder_infrequent_categories>` for more details.
+from sklearn.preprocessing import OrdinalEncoder
+import numpy as np
+
+X = np.array(
+    [["dog"] * 5 + ["cat"] * 20 + ["rabbit"] * 10 + ["snake"] * 3], dtype=object
+).T
+enc = OrdinalEncoder(min_frequency=6).fit(X)
+enc.infrequent_categories_