recommenders

New algorithms or improvements

• SAR sparse multiplication modification due to a breaking change in scipy by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2083
• Remove LightFM from core package in #2122 #2144
• Modified 2 files to update newsrec model by @sumana-2705 in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2125

New utilities or improvemen...

New algorithms or improvements

• Implemented Spark item to item recommenders by @ChuyangKe in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1809
• Correct packaging commands in SARPlus workflow by @simonzhaoms in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1860
• New URL of Glove from Huggingface by @miguelgfierro in https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/...

New algorithms or improvements

• Reduce iterations of W&D to reduce the integration tests time in https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/pull/1698
• Implementation of most frequent recommendation in https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/pull/1666
• Implement time_now for sarplus in #1719 #1721
• Add a fast failure in SAR+ if the similarity metric is not within the options in https://...

New algorithms or improvements

• SASRec and SSEPT in Tensorflow 2.x in https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/pull/1530 #1621 #1678
• RBM Code Cleanup, model save and other additions in #1599 #1618 #1622
• Overwrite older test file in NCF deep dive to avoid bug in https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/pull/1674
• SAR+ improvement and bug fixes #1636 #1644 #1680 #1671
• NCF improveme...

Backwards incompatible changes

• TensorFlow upgrade to 2.6.1 / 2.7 #1574 , #1565 , #1540

New algorithms or improvements

• Improve algos visibility #1542
• LightGBM test improvement #1531
• Fix Surprise and Python 3.7 #1540
• TF-IDF runtime enhancement changes #1571
• Add Spark 3.x support for SARplus #1566

New utilities or improvements

• Upgrade to Spark v3 #1555 , #1549 , #1...