diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 116a702615..dd2c4a71f3 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ repos:
     - id: check-merge-conflict
     - id: detect-private-key
     - id: trailing-whitespace
-    - id: no-commit-to-branch
\ No newline at end of file
+    # - id: no-commit-to-branch
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/flaml/automl/automl.py b/flaml/automl/automl.py
index c086584aae..72fea04d75 100644
--- a/flaml/automl/automl.py
+++ b/flaml/automl/automl.py
@@ -3051,6 +3051,55 @@ def is_to_reverse_metric(metric, task):
             del self._state.groups, self._state.groups_all, self._state.groups_val
         logger.setLevel(old_level)
 
+    def visualize(
+        self,
+        type="learning_curve",
+        automl_instance=None,
+        plot_filename=None,
+        log_file_name=None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        """
+        type: The type of the plot. The default visualization type is the learning curve.
+        automl_instance: An flaml AutoML instance.
+        plot_filename: str | File name
+        log_file_name: str | Log file name
+        """
+        try:
+            import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "The visualization functionalitye requires installation of matplotlib. "
+                "Please run pip install flaml[visualization]"
+            )
+
+        if type == "feature_importance":
+            plt.barh(self.feature_names_in_, self.feature_importances_)
+            plt.savefig("{}.png".format(plot_filename))
+            plt.close()
+        elif type == "learning_curve":
+            from flaml.data import get_output_from_log
+
+            log_file_name = kwargs.get("log_file_name")
+            if not log_file_name:
+                log_file_name = self._settings.get("log_file_name")
+            print("log", log_file_name)
+            if not log_file_name:
+                logger.warning("Please provide a search history log file.")
+            (
+                time_history,
+                best_valid_loss_history,
+                valid_loss_history,
+                config_history,
+                metric_history,
+            ) = get_output_from_log(filename=log_file_name, time_budget=240)
+            plt.title("Learning Curve")
+            plt.xlabel("Wall Clock Time (s)")
+            plt.ylabel("Validation Accuracy")
+            plt.scatter(time_history, 1 - np.array(valid_loss_history))
+            plt.step(time_history, 1 - np.array(best_valid_loss_history), where="post")
+            plt.savefig("{}".format(plot_filename))
+
     def _search_parallel(self):
         if self._use_ray is not False:
             try:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 82ca7c5018..b798035c29 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
             "rouge_score",
             "hcrystalball==0.1.10",
             "seqeval",
+            "matplotlib",
             "pytorch-forecasting>=0.9.0,<=0.10.1",
             "mlflow",
             "pyspark>=3.0.0",
@@ -110,6 +111,7 @@
             "hcrystalball==0.1.10",
             "pytorch-forecasting>=0.9.0",
         ],
+        "visualization": ["matplotlib"],
         "benchmark": ["catboost>=0.26", "psutil==5.8.0", "xgboost==1.3.3"],
     },
     classifiers=[
diff --git a/test/automl/test_visualization.py b/test/automl/test_visualization.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97190951af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/automl/test_visualization.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from flaml import AutoML
+from flaml.data import load_openml_dataset
+
+
+def test_fi_lc():
+    X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = load_openml_dataset(
+        dataset_id=1169, data_dir="./"
+    )
+    settings = {
+        "time_budget": 10,  # total running time in seconds
+        "metric": "accuracy",  # can be: 'r2', 'rmse', 'mae', 'mse', 'accuracy', 'roc_auc', 'roc_auc_ovr',
+        # 'roc_auc_ovo', 'log_loss', 'mape', 'f1', 'ap', 'ndcg', 'micro_f1', 'macro_f1'
+        "task": "classification",  # task type
+        "log_file_name": "airlines_experiment.log",  # flaml log file
+        "seed": 7654321,  # random seed
+    }
+    automl = AutoML(**settings)
+    automl.fit(X_train=X_train, y_train=y_train)
+    automl.visualize(type="feature_importance", plot_filename="feature_importance")
+    automl.visualize(type="learning_curve", plot_filename="learning_curve")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_fi_lc()