Cornac

What's Changed

Models
* Support ANN search for existing models (549) tqtg
* Add Annoy to the list of supported ANN frameworks (556) tqtg
* Add Faiss to the list of supported ANN frameworks (555) tqtg
* Add ScaNN to the list of supported ANN frameworks (553) tqtg
* Add ANN search using HNSWLib (544) tqtg
* Add simple model serving (540) tqtg
* Add NCF_PyTorch models (536) hieuddo

Fixes
* Fix exception check for Cython migration to 3.0 (558) tqtg
* PyTorch_NCF fix, normalize running loss (537) hieuddo

Other changes
* Rename symbols to ensure consistency (565) lthoang
* Add unit test for flask serving (562) darrylong
* Make use of verbose setting in Experiment (564) tqtg
* Update next-basket evaluation (559) lthoang
* Docker version of production serving (551) darrylong
* Add clean command (554) tqtg
* Update FM supporting message (550) tqtg
* Remove exception checking for _dot() (552) tqtg
* Add production version of API serving (547) darrylong
* Add next-basket recommendation evaluation method (545) lthoang
* Add dependency install checks for Cython (548) darrylong
* Add PyTorch backend for MF (546) hieuddo
* Revamp Documentation (541) darrylong
* Add recommend() function for the base class of Recommender (538) tqtg
* Clean compiled cpp files (539) tqtg


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.0

What's Changed

New Models
* GCMC Implementation https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/524
* Add TriRank model https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/525
* Add LightGCN Model https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/526
* Add Learn to Rank user Preferences based on Phrase-level sentiment analysis across Multiple categories (LRPPM) model https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/527
* Implement NGCF https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/529

Enhancements
* Add transform function for Recommender https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/522
* Filter positive items for ranking evaluation https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/523
* Optimize LightGCN Model https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/531
* Change NGCF Batch Size Param https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/532

Bug Fixes
* Fix rank function of EFM and ComparERSub models https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/528
* Fix GCMC Invalid Key Error https://github.com/PreferredAI/cornac/pull/533

- Add HRDR model (518)
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Fix rank function for `ComparER_sub` (515, 520)
- Fix save and load functions for `NARRE` (517)
- Fix typos (516)
- Remove unused append function in `utils.fast_dict` (521)

- Specify numpy version for each Python version for wheel packaging compatibility

- Build with Ubuntu 20.04 to be more compatible with Google Colab

- Remove CircleCI and AppVeyor
- Support Python [3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11]