v0.11.0

What’s Changed

🐜 Bug Fixes

• Fix the inference of transformer-based models trained with masked language modeling @sararb (#909)
• Making InputBlockV2(..., embeddings) deprecated and adjusting tests to use categorical arg @gabrielspmoreira (#880)
• Preventing silent error when evaluating V1 retrieval models (TwoTower, MF) @gabrielspmoreira (#892)
• Fix loading of TwoTowerModel with context query variable @oliverholworthy (#887)
• Enable sequence-testing synthetic data to be generated with different sequence lengths @oliverholworthy (#882)
• Enable concat of sequence features with InputBlockV2 @oliverholworthy (#883)
• Make path optional in get_booking @marcromeyn (#874)
• fix dtype error due to date column in ecommerce-session-based-next-item-prediction-for-fashion nb @rnyak (#921)
• Fix the serialization of SequenceSummary block @sararb (#927)
• Use tf.function for list column operations @edknv (#938)

🚀 Features

• Save output schema of model and add save method to Encoder @oliverholworthy (#886)
• Add the support of different thresholds k in the TopkEncoder @sararb (#869)

📄 Documentation

• Update retrieval notebook to new api @rnyak (#900)
• Add Reference to Transformer4Rec for PyTorch support @bschifferer (#903)
• docs: Add calver to semver banner @mikemckiernan (#865)
• docs: Add basic SEO configuration @mikemckiernan (#864)
• update drafter to work on tags only and update cpu ci to target branch @jperez999 (#901)
• Session-based example using dressipi dataset and XLNet architecture @rnyak (#849)
• Adding Multi-GPU Data Parallel Example @bschifferer (#855)
• T4rec use case @radekosmulski (#853)
• Do not copy source to docs output @mikemckiernan (#888)

🔧 Maintenance

• Support tuple return type from model pre and update test to use this @oliverholworthy (#890)
• Use merlin-dataloader package @edknv (#845)
• update drafter to work on tags only and update cpu ci to target branch @jperez999 (#901)
• Add skip if transformers not available for next item prediction notebook test @oliverholworthy (#899)
• Skip retrieval_with_hpo notebook test when optuna is not installed @edknv (#897)
• Update test of lazy adam notebook to only run when GPU available @oliverholworthy (#894)
• Remove tensorflow dependencies from requirements/dev.txt @oliverholworthy (#895)
• Add test for retrieval model with transformer block @oliverholworthy (#833)
• Pin fiddle to 0.2.2 so that tests run with pip install @oliverholworthy (#872)
• Pass task="binary" to binary metrics to handle latest torchmetrics @oliverholworthy (#920)
• Publish Release Draft on release branch builds @oliverholworthy (#925)
• Update branch name extraction for tag builds @oliverholworthy (#972)

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.11.0