Recommenders 0.2.0

New Algorithms or improvements

• Vowpal Wabbit (VW) #452
• xDeepFM #453
• DKN #453
• NCF #392
• RBM #390
• FastAI Embedding dot Bias #411
• Optimization of SAR

New utilities or improvements

• Improved the performance of python splitters #517
• Added GPU utilities
• Added utilities for hyperparameter tuning

New Notebooks or improvements

• Improved o16n notebook with ALS, Movielens and Databricks #475
• Added a deep dive notebook on VW #452
• Improved notebook for hyperparameter tuning on Spark #444
• New notebook on FastAI Embedding dot Bias algo #411
• New notebook of deep dive on NCF #392
• New quick start notebook of RBM #390
• New deep dive notebook of RBM #390
• New quickstart notebook of xDeepFM with synthetic data
• New quickstart notebook of DKN with synthetic data
• New notebook on data transformation #384

Other features

• Fixed bugs in utilities, tests and notebooks
• Added an installation script for Databricks #457
• Changed installer from a bash to a python script #512
• Added a parameter to control pyspark version in the installer #461
• Optimized tests to be quicker #486
• New unit, smoke and integration tests for the new algos
• Added GPU test pipeline #408
• Improved Github metrics tracker #400