v0.4.0

Known Issues

• model.evaluate() gives much higher acc value for small batch size when we set validation_data int the model.fit() #373

What's Changed

• Fixing MF by applying L2-norm in the towers individually by @gabrielspmoreira in #353
• Ensure inferred embedding dim from feature cardinality is multiple of 8 by @gabrielspmoreira in #355
• Update advanced_example notebook by @sararb in #360
• Refactoring the evaluation of RetrievalModel by @marcromeyn in #352
• First design of popularity correction by @sararb in #362
• Fixes and improvements in embeddings export for MatrixFactorizationModel and TwoTowerModel by @gabrielspmoreira in #365
• Adding AlphaDropout support, which is recommended by selu activation by @gabrielspmoreira in #369
• Simplified TopKIndexBlock implementation and fixed intermittent inconsistency on retrieval models eval by @gabrielspmoreira in #370
• Evaluation metrics of a top-k recommender by @sararb in #371
• Adding unttests for example notebooks by @bschifferer in #377
• Adding option for embeddings_l2_reg, which is in particular critical for MF by @gabrielspmoreira in #381
• Creating a reg_factor for PopularityLogitsCorrection by @gabrielspmoreira in #386
• Adding unittests for Notebook 04 and 05 by @bschifferer in #385
• fix accessing item-id embeddings table based on IntDomain name by @sararb in #376
• Fix top-k recommender to return correct top-k relevant items. by @sararb in #389
• Update testbook tests to use absolute notebook paths by @karlhigley in #394
• Add missing features to Ali-ccp data generator by @rnyak in #399
• Fixes error with fit() with validation data by @gabrielspmoreira in #402
• Update README.rst by @bschifferer in #401
• Add unit test for 03_exploring_different_models by @rnyak in #405
• remove unneeded packages by @jperez999 in #412
• Use shuffle_df from merlin-core by @benfred in #413
• Adding CI for movielens notebooks by @bschifferer in #411
• Remove .python-version file by @karlhigley in #416
• Update the tags selection from the schema by excluding the target variable by @sararb in #397
• Create a basic conda recipe by @benfred in #420
• docs: Use sphinx-ext-toc to control examples by @mikemckiernan in #404

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0