v0.32.0

v0.32.0 Sep. 1, 2021

Enhancements

• Allow string for engine parameter for AutoMLSearch#2667
• Add ProphetRegressor to AutoML #2619
• Integrated DefaultAlgorithm into AutoMLSearch #2634
• Removed SVM "linear" and "precomputed" kernel hyperparameter options, and improved default parameters #2651
• Updated ComponentGraph initalization to raise ValueError when user attempts to use .y for a component that does not produce a tuple output #2662
• Updated to support Woodwork 0.6.0 #2690
• Updated pipeline graph() to distingush X and y edges #2654
• Added DropRowsTransformer component #2692
• Added DROP_ROWS to _make_component_list_from_actions and clean up metadata #2694

Fixes

• Updated Oversampler logic to select best SMOTE based on component input instead of pipeline input #2695
• Added ability to explicitly close DaskEngine resources to improve runtime and reduce Dask warnings #2667
• Fixed partial dependence bug for ensemble pipelines #2714
• Updated TargetLeakageDataCheck to maintain user-selected logical types #2711

Changes

• Replaced SMOTEOversampler, SMOTENOversampler and SMOTENCOversampler with consolidated Oversampler component #2695
• Removed LinearRegressor from the list of default AutoMLSearch estimators due to poor performance #2660

Documentation Changes

• Updated documentation to make parallelization of AutoML clearer #2667

Testing Changes

• Removes the process-level parallelism from the test_cancel_job test #2666
• Installed numba 0.53 in windows CI to prevent problems installing version 0.54 #2710

Breaking Changes

• Renamed the current top level search method to search_iterative and defined a new search method for the DefaultAlgorithm #2634
• Replaced SMOTEOversampler, SMOTENOversampler and SMOTENCOversampler with consolidated Oversampler component #2695
• Removed LinearRegressor from the list of default AutoMLSearch estimators due to poor performance #2660