Fedot v.0.4.0 has been released!

[nicl-nno]

Hi everyone!

We released a new major version of FEDOT - 0.4.0 It includes several large changes, features, and fixes.

The new version is available and can be imported via pip: pip install fedot==0.4.0

The most important changes:

Infrastructure:

• Docker version added;
• GPU support added;
• Requirements become more flexible

Optimizer:

• Evolutionary optimizer generalized to allow the application to the custom non-ML tasks
• Mutation schemes improved for a more explainable evolution process;
• History saving extended

Time series:

• Cross-validation for the time series implemented;
• Sparse lagged transformation for time series implemented to improve performance;

Common:

• API updated and simplified;
• Processing of categorical features improved;
• Fixes and improvements for the hyperparameters tuning;
• The ‘chain’ term is replaced with ‘pipeline’ for better understandability.

Utilities:

• Sensitivity analysis improved