v0.3.0

What's Changed

• fix for tf when creating cpu dataloader by @jperez999 in #222
• Create the necessary blocks/methods for ItemRetrieval evaluation by @sararb in #189
• Adding wrap_as_model to Block by @marcromeyn in #209
• chore: add PR doc previews by @mikemckiernan in #229
• Refactors and optimizes evaluation with ranking metrics by @gabrielspmoreira in #226
• Dataloader/targets by @marcromeyn in #195
• Break up core.py by @marcromeyn in #227
• Improvements in two-tower model and DCN by @gabrielspmoreira in #237
• Adding NCFModel as benchmark by @sararb in #230
• fix: Typo in workflow script by @mikemckiernan in #248
• Updates container testing by @albert17 in #234
• Specify encoding when reading csv file for ml-100k by @benfred in #249
• chore: Trigger on closed pull requests by @mikemckiernan in #251
• docs: Incremental improvements by @mikemckiernan in #193
• Set up automated docstring coverage checks by @karlhigley in #257
• Automatic setting of retrieval model top-k evaluation by @sararb in #238
• Fixing MLPBlock saving with regularizers by @marcromeyn in #264
• Check if valid data is merlin.io.dataset and then convert to BatchedDataset by @rnyak in #269
• Fix mypy issues & make MF return a RetrievalModel by @marcromeyn in #266
• Update Dataset schema when schema is passed in BatchedDataset by @marcromeyn in #265
• Fix small bug when shuffle is passed in .fit by @marcromeyn in #272
• Moving RetrievalModel._ensure_unique to utils by @marcromeyn in #267
• Fix bug in tower saving where all features were required by @marcromeyn in #275
• Move interrogate docstring coverage settings to pyproject.toml by @karlhigley in #276
• Fix MatrixFactorizationModel bug by @sararb in #280
• Implementation of DeepFM model by @sararb in #271
• Add intersphinx mapping for merlin-core by @benfred in #281
• Examples for Getting Started and Schema File by @bschifferer in #253
• Explore different ranking models by @rnyak in #256
• Item retrieval evaluation fixes by @gabrielspmoreira in #279
• [Doc] a hyperlink missing by @rhdong in #286
• docs: Add API documentation by @mikemckiernan in #212
• Exclude additional directories from docstring coverage req't by @karlhigley in #293
• fix evaluation loss equal to zero and add docstrings by @sararb in #294
• docs: Add nightly multi-version build by @mikemckiernan in #298
• fix: Do not rebuild on PR close by @mikemckiernan in #299
• Retrieval models (ALI-CCP)- Two-Tower model example by @rnyak in #262
• docs: Revise API page by @mikemckiernan in #305
• Exporting ranking models by @rnyak in #300
• Small fixes on Matrix Factorization by @gabrielspmoreira in #306
• first draft of advanced example notebook by @sararb in #295
• Fix default int64 dtype in index.py to avoid dtype errors in Retrieval model validation step by @rnyak in #307
• Specify encoding when reading csv file for ml-1m by @benfred in #310
• Example Readme by @bschifferer in #296
• fix categorical-ohe block by @sararb in #314
• Improving handling of data in examples + tests by @marcromeyn in #309
• quick fix in aliccp schema by @sararb in #323
• fix binary tag in Ali-CCP workflow by @sararb in #325
• updates from readme bash by @sararb in #303
• Pairwise losses fixes by @gabrielspmoreira in #317
• Upgrading black + enabling black on notebooks by @marcromeyn in #326
• docs: Add redirect page by @mikemckiernan in #329
• Fix the evaluation of sampled softmax-based tasks by @sararb in #315
• Fixing synthetic data-generation for aliccp-raw by @marcromeyn in #327
• Adding codespell + flake8-nb to pre-commit by @marcromeyn in #331
• remove barchart from example_utils by @rnyak in #334
• Fix 03-03-05 nbs wrt bug bash by @rnyak in #333
• Merlin models examples fixes by @gabrielspmoreira in #313
• Update NVTabular and merlin-core requirements for the release by @benfred in #347
• Report skipped tests in blossom CI by @benfred in #348
• Fixing error on retrieval model evaluation when using mixed_precision by @gabrielspmoreira in #337
• Automate pushing package to pypi by @benfred in #349

New Contributors

• @rhdong made their first contribution in #286

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0