Lightwood

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_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

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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)

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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)

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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

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Optimizations for an average 7.5x speedup with little to no accuracy loss include:
- 1145
- 1146
- 1147

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Features
- TabTransformers mixer 1115
- Faster gluon ts mixer inference 1110
- Gluon static feats 1120

Fixes
- Bump statsforecast==1.4.0 1113
- Bump pytorch to 1.13 1114
- Fix ICP softmax error 1117
- Fixes for GluonTS trainer 1119
- Bound pandas requirement 1122

Other
- Improved quickstart example, Update README.md 1112

[Benchmarks](http://benchmarks.mindsdb.com:9107/compare/best/019df037d03b8c72545f3d3447f225ba7bb82fbe)