Transformers4rec

What's Changed
* Use `copy-pr-bot` by ajschmidt8 in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/742
* add rapids infra by jperez999 in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/753
* Fix transformer and error on example when CI uses single-GPU by gabrielspmoreira in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/757
* Fix version for gdown by EmmaQiaoCh in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/767

New Contributors
* ajschmidt8 made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/742
* EmmaQiaoCh made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/767

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/compare/v23.08.00...v23.12.00

What’s Changed

🐜 Bug Fixes

- Fixing the projection layer when using weight tying and dim from Transformer output and item embedding differs gabrielspmoreira (689)

🚀 Features

- Fix the randomness in the stochastic_swap_noise tests sararb (707)

📄 Documentation

- update end-to-end example to use systems api radekosmulski (680)

🔧 Maintenance

- Add Transformers Torch Extras to install requirements oliverholworthy (699)
- Add Conda Package Publish Workflow oliverholworthy (688)
- Add workflows to check base branch and set stable branch oliverholworthy (694)
- Rename integration test job from `gpu-ci` to `gpu-ci-integration` oliverholworthy (687)
- Remove padding from NVTabular getting started example oliverholworthy (677)
- Update tag pattern in GitHub Workflows oliverholworthy (695)
- don't re-run github actions when PRs get closed nv-alaiacano (691)
- remove blossom github action nv-alaiacano (681)
- Add topk arg to return topk items and scores at inference step rnyak (678)
- Use `torch.testing.assert_close` to check model outputs oliverholworthy (686)

What’s Changed

🐜 Bug Fixes

- Update multi-gpu notebook to set cupy device edknv (675)
- Fix bug in get_output_sizes_from_schema with core-schema marcromeyn (663)
- Remove torch.squeeze() step from the model's forward method. sararb (659)
- Set device in dataloaders edknv (654)
- Fix the predictions returned by `Trainer.predict(..)` sararb (641)

🚀 Features

- Implemented sampled softmax for NextItemPredictionTask gabrielspmoreira (671)
- Add support for ragged inputs to model oliverholworthy (666)
- Allow Schema class from core to be used to create Trainer marcromeyn (642)
- Cleanup shapes in model.input_schema and output_schema rnyak (628)
- Allow Schema class from core to be used to create TabularSequenceFeatures marcromeyn (638)
- Allow Schema class from core to be used to create input-blocks marcromeyn (634)

📄 Documentation

- extend getting started serving example to serve NVT and TF4Rec model together rnyak (670)
- Cropped the table and addressed comments from previous PR nzarif (510)
- Update example notebooks to create schema object from merlin core rnyak (650)
- replace NVTabulardataloader with Merlindataloader rnyak (644)

🔧 Maintenance

- Update multi-gpu notebook to set cupy device edknv (675)
- add concurrency setting to stop tests when new commits get pushed to a PR nv-alaiacano (673)
- Switch to using 2 GPU action runners for multi-GPU testing karlhigley (665)
- Add workflow to check if base branch of pull request is development oliverholworthy (656)
- fix the ci script for new unit tests setup jperez999 (658)
- Add unit test for serving torchscript model example notebook rnyak (657)
- Separate notebook tests into their own tox environment nv-alaiacano (653)
- Update usage of `use_amp` to `use_cuda_amp` for transformers>=4.20 oliverholworthy (627)
- Update example notebooks to create schema object from merlin core rnyak (650)
- Update padding of ragged features to enable dataloader change oliverholworthy (647)
- fix model output_schema dims for BC/Regression task case rnyak (646)
- fix test_remove_consecutive_interactions unit test rnyak (643)
- replace NVTabulardataloader with Merlindataloader rnyak (644)
- Cleanup shapes in model.input_schema and output_schema rnyak (628)
- Migrate schema Tags to merlin.schema.Tags nv-alaiacano (632)
- Clean up imports in tests marcromeyn (626)

What's Changed

🐜 Bug Fixes

- Adjust serving notebook to account for underlying shape changes karlhigley (631)

🚀 Features

- Add docstrings and the parameter to row_groups_per_part to the MerlinDataLoader class sararb (590)
- Simplify getting-started ETL and fix serving with torch script notebook rnyak (604)

📄 Documentation

* Update README link - End-to-end pipeline with NVIDIA Merlin masoncusack (593)
* Fix multi-gpu documentation bbozkaya (591)
* Transformers4Rec Docs Restructure lgardenhire (428)
* add BC task script in readme rnyak (600)

🔧 Maintenance

* fix assert error in the test_soft_embedding unit test rnyak (595)
* Small fixes in getting-started ETL and training notebooks and fix tuple error in serving notebook rnyak (586)
* Fetch release branches so that we can figure out the release branch oliverholworthy (609)
* Add Jenkinsfile AyodeAwe (537)
* Change data_loader_engine to 'merlin' in examples edknv (580)
* adding workflow for gpu ci on gha runner jperez999 (585)

New Contributors
* lgardenhire made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/428
* masoncusack made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/593
* AyodeAwe made their first contribution in https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/pull/537

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/Transformers4Rec/compare/v0.1.16...v23.02.00