# mcp-ml-lab MCP Server

Run end-to-end ML experiments from natural language (XGBoost, LightGBM, Optuna).

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## Connect

Published as `mcp-ml-lab` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### Isolate test database from user's real SQLite store

Tests currently write to ~/.mcp-ml-lab/store.db — the user's real DB.

Scope:
- Use a pytest fixture with a tmp_path SQLite file (or in-memory)
- Inject the test engine via a session-factory override
- Confirm tests no longer touch the real store

Cleanest first contribution in the repo — small, well-bounded, obviously correct.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rohithraju-ops/mcp-ml-lab/issues/6) · 2026-05-29 · open · 0 comments

### Persist trained model artifacts

Reports refit the model on every call because nothing is saved.

Scope:
- joblib-serialize the winning pipeline (preprocessor + model) per experiment
- Store the artifact path on the Experiment row
- get_results / compare_runs load the artifact instead of refitting
- This is the bridge from "demo" to "production tool"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rohithraju-ops/mcp-ml-lab/issues/5) · 2026-05-29 · open · 0 comments

### Add permutation feature importance

Reports currently use tree gain importance, which is biased toward
high-cardinality features.

Scope:
- Add sklearn.inspection.permutation_importance as an option in reporting.py
- Surface both gain and permutation in the report, labeled clearly
- Note the speed tradeoff in the docstring (permutation is slower)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rohithraju-ops/mcp-ml-lab/issues/4) · 2026-05-29 · open · 0 comments

### Optuna MedianPruner + CV-internal early stopping

Search currently runs full trials with no pruning.

Scope:
- Enable MedianPruner on the Optuna study
- Add early_stopping_rounds inside CV folds using a held-out slice of each
  fold's *train* set (never the test fold — that leaks)
- Verify wall-clock improvement on the breast-cancer smoke test

Good entry point — self-contained in search.py.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rohithraju-ops/mcp-ml-lab/issues/3) · 2026-05-29 · open · 0 comments

### Support regression tasks

v0.1.0 is classification-only. Add regression as a task_type in define_task.

Scope:
- Accept numeric targets; validate task_type="regression" against target dtype
- KFold (not StratifiedKFold) for CV
- Regression metrics: RMSE, MAE, R² — optimize RMSE in the Optuna objective
- XGBRegressor / LGBMRegressor variants in the existing trainers

This is the highest-leverage v0.2.0 item — it roughly doubles the addressable use case.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/rohithraju-ops/mcp-ml-lab/issues/1) · 2026-05-29 · open · 0 comments

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