v0.6.0
In this release, we added support for time series forecasting task and NLP model fine tuning. Also, we have made a large number of feature & performance improvements.
- data split by 'time' for time-ordered data, and by 'group' for grouped data.
- support parallel trials and random search in
AutoML.fit()
API. - support warm-start in
AutoML.fit()
by using previously found start points. - support constraints on training/prediction time per model.
- new optimization metric: ROC_AUC for multi-class classification, MAPE for time series forecasting.
- utility functions for getting normalized confusion matrices and multi-class ROC or precision-recall curves.
- automatically retrain models after search by default; options to disable retraining or enforce time limit.
- CFO supports hierarchical search space and uses points_to_evaluate more effectively.
- variation of CFO optimized for unordered categorical hps.
- BlendSearch improved for better performance in parallel setting.
- memory overhead optimization.
- search space improvements for random forest and lightgbm.
- make stacking ensemble work for categorical features.
- python 3.9 support.
- experimental support for automated fine-tuning of transformer models from huggingface.
- experimental support for time series forecasting.
- warnings to suggest increasing time budget, and warning to inform users there is no performance improvement for a long time.
Minor updates
- make log file name optional.
- notebook for time series forecasting.
- notebook for using AutoML in sklearn pipeline.
- bug fix when training_function returns a value.
- support fixed random seeds to improve reproducibility.
- code coverage improvement.
- exclusive upper bounds for hyperparameter type randint and lograndint.
- experimental features in BlendSearch.
- documentation improvement.
- bug fixes for multiple logged metrics in cv.
- adjust epsilon when time per trial is very fast.
Contributors
- @sonichi
- @qingyun-wu
- @int-chaos
- @liususan091219
- @Yard1
- @bnriiitb
- @su2umaru
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- @sek788432
- @ekzhu
- @anshumandutt
- @yue-msr
- @sadtaf
- @fzanartu
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- @hanhanwu
- @PardeepRassani
- @gianpdomiziani
- @stepthom
- @anhnht3
- @zzheng93
- @flippercy
- @luizhemelo
- @nabalamu
- @lostmygithubaccount
- @suryajayaraman