New Algorithms or improvements
- Vowpal Wabbit (VW) #452
- xDeepFM #453
- DKN #453
- NCF #392
- RBM #390
- FastAI Embedding dot Bias #411
- Optimization of SAR
New utilities or improvements
- Improved the performance of python splitters #517
- Added GPU utilities
- Added utilities for hyperparameter tuning
New Notebooks or improvements
- Improved o16n notebook with ALS, Movielens and Databricks #475
- Added a deep dive notebook on VW #452
- Improved notebook for hyperparameter tuning on Spark #444
- New notebook on FastAI Embedding dot Bias algo #411
- New notebook of deep dive on NCF #392
- New quick start notebook of RBM #390
- New deep dive notebook of RBM #390
- New quickstart notebook of xDeepFM with synthetic data
- New quickstart notebook of DKN with synthetic data
- New notebook on data transformation #384
Other features
- Fixed bugs in utilities, tests and notebooks
- Added an installation script for Databricks #457
- Changed installer from a bash to a python script #512
- Added a parameter to control pyspark version in the installer #461
- Optimized tests to be quicker #486
- New unit, smoke and integration tests for the new algos
- Added GPU test pipeline #408
- Improved Github metrics tracker #400