[ENH] Add categorical feature encoding for GFO adapters #210
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To Resolve #136
This PR adds automatic categorical feature handling for GFO-based optimizers by encoding non-numeric search space dimensions to consecutive integers internally, then decoding them back when evaluating the objective and returning results.
Changes:
np.unique_categorical_mappingsfor decodingbest_params_capability:categoricaltag with value "encoded" to_BaseGFOadapter