v1.2.0

This is a major release with many new features.

Highlights

• autogen subpackage in preview: text generation optimization, including support for ChatGPT and GPT-4.
• Spark dataframe and SynapseML support in preview.
• Holt-Winters exponential smoothing for time series forecasting.
• Task class abstraction for easier task-specific development.

What's Changed

• precommit: end-of-file-fixer by @Borda in #929
• adding precommit check by @Borda in #930
• Bump http-cache-semantics from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /website by @dependabot in #913
• adding openai documentation by @liususan091219 in #938
• improve max_valid_n and doc by @sonichi in #933
• Update doc and notebook by @skzhang1 in #946
• ChatGPT support by @sonichi in #942
• Extract task class from automl by @markharley in #857
• fix delete in TransformersEstimator, so to remove the ckpt not found warning in PR 940 by @liususan091219 in #950
• Support spark dataframe as input dataset and spark models as estimators by @thinkall in #934
• gpt-4 support; openai workflow fix; model str; timeout; voting by @sonichi in #958
• more tolerant time limit for test_overtime by @levscaut in #960
• Adding a test function for OpenAI completion in flaml by @qingyun-wu in #951
• Noctus contribute by @AyeshGK in #961
• add timeout to openai create by @thinkall in #973
• ci: concurrency by @Borda in #931
• Bump eta from 1.12.3 to 2.0.0 in /website by @dependabot in #941
• Bump webpack from 5.74.0 to 5.76.1 in /website by @dependabot in #952
• Bump @sideway/formula from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 in /website by @dependabot in #963
• Add Holt-Winters exponential smoothing by @coffepowered in #962
• autogen subpackage by @sonichi in #968

New Contributors

• @AyeshGK made their first contribution in #961

Full Changelog: v1.1.3...v1.2.0