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