Recommenders Files

New algorithms or improvements

• Implemented Spark item to item recommenders by @ChuyangKe in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1809
• Correct packaging commands in SARPlus workflow by @simonzhaoms in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1860
• New URL of Glove from Huggingface by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1949
• Bug in Deeprec tests and adding more tests by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1957
• Make early_stopping a callable in LightGBM by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1967
• Update Hybrid algo classification to align with Recommenders book and Aggarwal by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2050
• Fixed bug when reading dataset with timestamp for sasrec model by @gazon1 in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2052
• Catch import error separately for SUMModel by @SimonYansenZhao in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2077
• Fixed error in fastai in nightly by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2068

New utilities or improvements

• Optimized Python splitters by @ChuyangKe in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1802
• Replace append with pd.concat by @gro1m in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1811
• Python generalized ndcg by @ChuyangKe in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1812
• Simplify eval args by @AdityaSoni19031997 in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1828
• CVE-2007-4559 Patch by @TrellixVulnTeam in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1835
• New notebook executor [#1865] [#2048] [#2031]
• Restricting cornac to 1.15.1 for issue with 1.15.4 by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1934
• Refactor ranking metric map to be the same as Spark's by @loomlike in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2004
• Correct MIND user behavior history construction by @thaiminhpv in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2054
• Merged two concats into one by @daviddavo in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2075

New notebooks or improvements

• Minor change in lightgcn_deep_dive.ipynb by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1814
• Removed unused import by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1824
• Benchmark movielens in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1831 [#1846]
• Fix error Wide and Deep by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1854
• Update xDeepFM notebook and fix test error by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1850
• Rerun and clean dataprep notebooks by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1873
• typo fixes wrt notebook by @AdityaSoni19031997 in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1836
• Update multinomial_vae.py by @kone807 in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1916
• Review CPU notebooks in quick start with Python 3.9 by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1944
• Rerun and clean notebooks https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1947 [#1950]
• Update DKN notebook by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1959

Other features

• Explicitly list references in the pull request template by @simonzhaoms in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1798
• Improve README.md in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1805 [#1827] [#1906] [#1871] [#1912] [#2058] [#2053]
• Improve SETUP in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1920 [#1926] [#1923]
• Miguel/remove ado by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1820
• Optimize tests in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1823 [#1819] [#1808] [#1837] [#1907] [#1911]
• Refactor tests into new categories reviewed by Eric Gamma in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1989 [#1822]
• Remove pull_request_target by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1840
• AzureML test improvements [#1842] [#1845] [#1844] [#1855] [#1863] [#1864] [#1897] [#1885] [#2009] [#1797] [#2069] [#2059]
• Workflow dispatch for manually trigger SAR+ tests by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1880
• Update the Python version support [#1901] [#1974] [#1988] [#1937]
• Fix pyspark test bugs in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1909 [#1899]
• Fix GPU test bugs in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1886 [#2046] [#1995] [#2045]
• Fix CPU test bugs in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1879 [#1882] [#2033] [#2037] [#1797]
• Remove deprecated utilities in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1917 [#1935] [#1982]
• Remove non essential deps by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1939 [#1938] [#1952] [#1971]
• Remove non essential files [#1799] [#1979] [#1993] [#2007] [#2000]
• Moving to the Linux Foundation [#1970] [#1977] [#1978] [#2003] [#2008] [#1976]
• Typos [#1984] [#1866]
• Merging the extra_requires examples into the core package by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1987
• Security alerts and issues with Tensorflow in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2017 [#2071] [#2022]
• New documentation with Jupyter book in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2051 [#2078]
• Fix issues with pandera by @anargyri in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2061 [#2062]

New Contributors

• @gro1m made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1811
• @TrellixVulnTeam made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1835
• @kone807 made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1916
• @henningsway made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1984
• @SimonYansenZhao made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1988
• @thaiminhpv made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2054
• @gazon1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2052

Full Changelog: https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/compare/1.1.1...1.2.0