Mixture models are currently a bit different. They are basically clusterers, except they are probabilistic, and are applied to inductive problems unlike many clusterers. But they are unlike clusterers in API:
- they have an
n_components parameter, with identical purpose to n_clusters
- they do not store the
labels_ of the training data
- they do not have a
fit_predict method
And they are almost entirely documented separately.
Should we make the MMs more like clusterers?