Lightwood

Hotfix:

- Bound and update some dependencies.
- Action to release on PyPI any GitHub release, not only when pushing to stable.

Changelog

Features
- M1 support 1091
- [ENH] Improved sktime-based mixer interface and customization 1099
- [ENH] Dynamic mixer weights for numerical ensembles 1100
- [ENH] Automated parallelism check for encoder training 1083
- [feat] add special dispatch for bestof ensemble 1107

Fixes
- [hotfix] remove repeated dep in reqs.txt 1097
- [fix] Improved nltk messaging and check for no available mixers 1101
- [fix] single mixer usage in tsse ensemble 1104
- [fix] Lazy analysis - only compute mixer predictions if required 1105
- [feat] lazy explain when there are no blocks in line 1108

Benchmarks
http://benchmarks.mindsdb.com:9107/compare/best/1062ee8021aacf42b6cf0381a519277b155e2620

Changelog
Note: due to refactors, this version is not backwards compatible.

Features
N/A

Fixes
- Add requirements_dev.txt 1084

Other
- [Refactor] Move evaluation logic into separate package 1089
- [Benchmarks](http://benchmarks.mindsdb.com:9107/compare/best/cbd48482c250fc0d52c895129b0b174f7a8e2228)

Changelog

Features
- XGBoost mixer (1066)
- Store global insights inside predictor object (1074)
- Force infer_row in bulk ts predictions (1075)

Fixes

Other
- Bump transformers to 4.21.0 (1070)
- Bump sktime 0.14.0 (1077)
- Lightgbm-based mixers are now optional (1080)

Changelog:

Features:
- [ENH] Custom output distributions in GluonTS mixer (1042)
- [ENH] Restores py3.7 support (1039)

Bug fixes:
- [Fix] Parameters to be optimized (1035)

Others:
- [Maint] Migrate to type_infer (1024)
- [Test] Improve time series test (1041)

Features
- Argument to override device setting 1004
- Implement a RandomForest mixer 1017
- [ENH] ICP: aggregated sum over horizon 995
- Add lightwood library version to predictor 1018
- Add GluonTS mixer 1019
- Improve random forest mixer 1031
- Simpler TS evaluation 1032

Fixes
- Added original amount of columns 1014
- Fix supported python version spec >=3.7,<3.10 1015
- Fix wrong time-series alignment and add WA for StatsForcastAutoARIMA 1022
- Fix: workaround for StatsForecastAutoARIMA 1025
- Fix: gluonts improvements 1030

Other
- Add test for forecast offset alignment 1023
- Remove n-hits & prophet from default mixer list 1028

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Thanks to alexandre-dz-oscore riadhlaabidi jaredc07 akhildevelops adripo bachng2017 for contributing to this release!