def get_model(with_pipeline=False):
    """Get a multi-layer perceptron model.

    Optionally, put it in a pipeline that scales the data.

    """
    model = NeuralNetClassifier(MLPClassifier)
    if with_pipeline:
        model = Pipeline([
            ('scale', FeatureUnion([
                ('minmax', MinMaxScaler()),
                ('normalize', Normalizer()),
            ])),
            ('select', SelectKBest(k=N_FEATURES)),  # keep input size constant
            ('net', model),
        ])
    return model
Get a multi-layer perceptron model.

    Optionally, put it in a pipeline that scales the data.