chore: optimized dependencies

.gitignore

@@ -48,3 +48,5 @@ path
 
 # From example that uses MNIST
 .data
+data/MNIST/raw/
+neps_examples/convenience/declarative_usage/data/MNIST/raw/

neps/plot/plotting.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
-import seaborn as sns
 from scipy import stats
 
 _map_axs = (
@@ -64,7 +63,9 @@ def _get_fig_and_axs(
     )
 
     fig.tight_layout(pad=2.0, h_pad=2.5)  # type: ignore
-    sns.despine(fig)
+    for ax in fig.get_axes():
+        ax.spines["top"].set_visible(False)
+        ax.spines["right"].set_visible(False)
 
     return fig, axs  # type: ignore
 

neps/utils/cli.py

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import warnings
 from typing import Tuple
 from datetime import timedelta, datetime
-import seaborn as sns
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import os
 import numpy as np
@@ -797,6 +796,7 @@ def plot_incumbents(
     all_trials: List[Trial], incumbents: List[Trial], directory_path: Path
 ) -> str:
     """Plot the evolution of incumbent trials over the total number of trials."""
+
     id_to_index = {trial.id: idx + 1 for idx, trial in enumerate(all_trials)}
 
     # Collect data for plotting
@@ -808,14 +808,12 @@ def plot_incumbents(
     ]
 
     plt.figure(figsize=(12, 6))
-    sns.lineplot(
-        x=x_values,
-        y=y_values,
-        marker="o",
-        linestyle="-",
-        markersize=8,
-        color="dodgerblue",
+
+    # Create the line plot with desired styles
+    plt.plot(
+        x_values, y_values, marker="o", linestyle="-", markersize=8, color="dodgerblue"
     )
+
     plt.xlabel("Number of Trials")
     plt.ylabel("Loss")
     plt.title("Evolution of Incumbents Over Trials")
@@ -833,8 +831,10 @@ def plot_incumbents(
     ticks[0] = 1
     plt.xticks(ticks)
 
-    sns.set_style("whitegrid")
+    # Manually set grid and style elements from Seaborn
     plt.grid(True, linestyle="--", linewidth=0.5)
+    plt.axis("on")  # Equivalent to whitegrid background
+
     plt.tight_layout()
 
     # Save the figure

pyproject.toml

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ keywords = [
 classifiers = [
   "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
   "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-  "Intended Audience :: Science/Research", 
+  "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
   "Natural Language :: English",
   "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
   "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
@@ -45,23 +45,23 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.13"
 dependencies = [
     "ConfigSpace>=0.7,<1.0",
     "grakel>=0.1,<0.2",
-    "numpy>=1.0,<2.0",
-    "pandas>=2.0,<3.0",
-    "networkx>=2.6.3,<3.0",
-    "nltk>=3.6.4,<4.0",
-    "scipy>=1.13.1",
-    "torch>=2.0.1",
-    "matplotlib>=3.0,<4.0",
-    "more-itertools",
-    "portalocker>=2.0,<3.0",
-    "seaborn>=0.13,<0.14",
     "pyyaml>=6.0,<7.0",
     "tensorboard>=2.0,<3.0",
     "typing-extensions",
     "torchvision>=0.8.0",
     "ifbo>=0.3.10",
     "botorch>=0.12",
-    "gpytorch==1.13.0",
+    "pandas>=2.0,<3.0",
+    "networkx>=2.6.3,<3.0",
+    "nltk>=3.6.4,<4.0",
+    "matplotlib>=3.0,<4.0",
+    "more-itertools",
+    "portalocker>=2.0,<3.0",
+    # "numpy>=1.0,<2.0",        # included in tensorboard (>=1.12.0), botorch (>1.7), ifbo (<2)
+    # "scipy>=1.13.1",          # included in configspace (*), botorch,grakel (>= 1.6.0), results in (2.2.3)
+    # "torch>=2.0.1",           # included in ifbo (>=1.9.0), botorch (>=2.0.1), torchvision (2.5.1)
+    # "seaborn>=0.13,<0.14",    # removed any seaborn appearance, therefore not needed anymore
+    # "gpytorch==1.13.0",       # included in botorch (1.13.0)
 ]
 
 [project.urls]