Unable to import SMOTE due to error <<ImportError: cannot import name 'lobpcg' from 'sklearn.utils.fixes' >>

Question

Unable to import SMOTE due to error ImportError: cannot import name 'lobpcg' from 'sklearn.utils.fixes' (E:\\Installations\\lib\\site-packages\\sklearn\\utils\\fixes.py)

Above error is displayed when I am trying to import below packages

from imblearn.combine          import SMOTETomek

from imblearn                  import under_sampling, over_sampling

from imblearn.over_sampling    import SMOTE

I have conda installed sklearn, imbllearn. Can some one help me to resolve this error

Answer 1

This is error is raised within scikit-learn.

Be sure to install both library using:

conda install scikit-learn -c conda-forge 
conda install imbalanced-learn -c conda-forge

Be aware that I am using the conda-forge channel to install scikit-learn to get the version 0.22 because the latest version is not available on the conda default channel for the moment.