Lightwood

Changelog
Features
- [ENH] Add test method to lightwood predictors 1206
- [ENH] Weighted regression 1210
Fixes
- [Fix] Check horizon in SkTime mixer 1202
- [Fix] Manage and pin dependencies with Poetry 1209
- [Fix] Remove unused dependencies 1212
- [Fix] Doc build CI secret
Other
- [Docs] Add documentation for Unit mixer 1204
- [Fix] Updated docs link 1205
- [Fix] Remove RnnEncoder 1203

Changelog

_Note: this release was overdue, the actual package version has been up in PyPI since December 25th, 2023._

Fixes

- Fix extra requirements
- Bump deps (1201)

Changelog

_Note: this release was long overdue, the actual package version has been up in PyPI since October 26th, 2023._

Features
- Improve documentation of device-related methods and docs regarding GPU usage 1185
- New ts defaults & XGBoostArrayMixer 1191

Fixes
- Fix type hint 1193

Other
- Bump neuralforecast requirement 1195
- Update statsforecast & sktime 1197

Changelog

Features
- Abort if there are no valid input features 1175
- Additional checks for categorical TS 1176
- Efficient TS predict 1179

Fixes
- Filter encoder args in code from jsonai 1177

Other
- Add support for Python 3.10 & 3.11 1181
- Separate json_ai/codegen modules 1183

[Benchmarks](http://benchmarks.mindsdb.com:9107/compare/best/815372fbf39cd54ce3cc88186cb497b040047fe7)

Changelog

Enhancements & features
* [ENH] Embedding mode 1163
* [ENH] Improve `transform_timeseries` 1164
* [ENH] Various improvements 1168
* [ENH] Efficient `nhits` finetune 1171

Fixes
* [FIX] Fix for `transform_timeseries` multiprocessing 1169

[Benchmarks](http://benchmarks.mindsdb.com:9107/compare/best/9eadd1472e78102408c48e420940b7513b644db2)

Changelog

This release features an improved time series pipeline which yields improved runtimes. Depending on the dataset size, this can be anywhere from `5x` to `> 100x`.

Features
N/A

Fixes
- [FIX] black version 1152
- [FIX] More code formatter checks 1154
- [FIX] Optimized datetime encoder 1155
- [FIX] GluonTS mixer type error 1159
- [ENH] Improved none checks, remove STLs 1161
- [ENH] Vectorized __make_predictions in TS transforms 1162
- [ENH] Faster TS transforms 1156

Other
- [Refactor] Rename MP flag 1153