VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit 9.5.0 on GitHub

Style Changes

This release includes some improvements to the style and naming conventions in VW. This includes using snake_case for all variable and class names, and converting most structs to classes. These style changes will be standardized and enforced in later releases.

Confidence Sequence Estimator

Confidence sequences have become the default estimators when evaluating policies in multi-model reductions such as AutoML and Epsilon Decay.

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Changes

Features

feat: integrate confidence sequences in automl and epsilon_decay by @bassmang in #4125
feat: add experimental to python by @bassmang in #4165
feat: Improve large actions multithreading. by @zwd-ms in #4158
feat: [epsilon decay] add initial epsilon option by @bassmang in #4170
feat: Model merging with delta objects by @byronxu99 in #4177
feat: Add ftrl to dump_weights_to_json and compat CIs by @bassmang in #4193

Fixes

fix: build issue for model merger tool by @jackgerrits in #4160
fix: remove experimental and fix up model version test by @bassmang in #4162
fix: test 67 windows failure by @bassmang in #4167
fix: one_of for loss_option by @bassmang in #4178
fix: Fix test 67 by @jackgerrits in #4194
fix: small build fixes for LAS on MacOS by @jackgerrits in #4202
fix: LAS unit test bug by @bassmang in #4210
fix: quake_inv_sqrt func for aarch64 test failure by @bassmang in #4217
fix: only remove ksvm dump_weights by @bassmang in #4195
fix: Add native runtime dependencies to nuspec by @lokitoth in #4216

Other Changes

chore: [LAS] code cleanup by @olgavrou in #4153
ci: Upgrade Ubuntu version used in CI pipelines by @byronxu99 in #4161
ci: check current VW wheel against most recent models by @bassmang in #4169
ci: Enable test 67 with ASan by @byronxu99 in #4176
refactor: Use github-action-benchmark for running benchmarks by @byronxu99 in #4152
docs: Update readme for benchmarks by @byronxu99 in #4181
ci: check model weights for gd-based tests for forward and backward compat by @bassmang in #4172
style: resolve style issues in allreduce project by @jackgerrits in #4187
refactor: cleanup includes by @jackgerrits in #4188
refactor: split sparse and dense parameters by @jackgerrits in #4190
refactor: move open_socket into details namespace by @jackgerrits in #4189
refactor: use operators for inequality instead of custom compare functions by @jackgerrits in #4192
refactor: remove unused type in allreduce by @jackgerrits in #4191
ci: settle on consistent style and add warnings for violation by @jackgerrits in #4183
style: fix style issues in config by @jackgerrits in #4198
style: don't warn on short variable names, add static constant rule by @jackgerrits in #4196
style: move action scores into VW namespace by @jackgerrits in #4199
style: update allreduce to snake_case by @jackgerrits in #4197
refactor: replace classes with structs for consistency by @bassmang in #4205
refactor: move ccb items into VW namespace by @jackgerrits in #4204
style: rename label_data to VW::simple_label by @jackgerrits in #4200
ci: Fix randomly failing .NET benchmarks by @byronxu99 in #4209
refactor: move several labels into VW namespace, style updates by @jackgerrits in #4206
style: apply more style fixes per clang-tidy by @jackgerrits in #4208
docs: only document public includes with doxygen by @jackgerrits in #4212
refactor: update structs to classes with public by @bassmang in #4215
style: style fixes in io project by @jackgerrits in #4201
refactor: No RapidJSON in header files by @byronxu99 in #4219
refactor: remove empty public: by @bassmang in #4220
chore: Update Version to 9.5.0 by @bassmang in #4221

Full Changelog: 9.4.0...9.5.0