Jupyter Notebook: Importing SMOTE from imblearn - ImportError: cannot import name 'pairwise_distances_chunked'

Question

I'm trying to use the SMOTE package in the imblearn library using:

from imblearn.over_sampling import SMOTE

getting the following error message:

ImportError: cannot import name 'pairwise_distances_chunked'.

Here is a screenshot of my import screenshot of download confirmation

Really stumped on this, any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Solution 1

I have encountered a similar problem. I could solve by opening a new IPython console.

Solution 2

I know it's a bit late, but for anyone using Jupyter notebook, I could solve my problem by just restarting the kernel.

Link:

ImportError: cannot import name check_array from sklearn.utils.validation

Comments

[Billy Hansen]

It finally worked for me too once I closed and re-opened Jupyter notebook. A bit of an odd dynamic but I guess that's the fix.