History
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Dask in machine learning originally consisted of a number of smaller libraries focused around particular sub-domains of machine learning.
dask-searchcv: Scalable model selection
dask-glm: Generalized Linear Model solvers
dask-xgboost: Connection to the XGBoost library
dask-tensorflow: Connection to the Tensorflow library
While these special-purpose libraries were convenient for development, they
were inconvenient for users who found the number of libraries daunting. The
dask-ml project started as a combination of these that presented a single
unified API and entry-point that mimicked Scikit-Learn. Afterwards additional
algorithm development happened in the dask-ml library itself.
The pre-existing libraries are still valid and dask-ml defers to them for future development.