v0.5.0

What’s Changed

⚠ Breaking Changes

• Required changes to get Rank example test passing @jperez999 (#182)

🐜 Bug Fixes

• Specify is_ragged=False explicitly in the Feast tests @karlhigley (#184)
• feast should return np.float32 not np.float by default @nv-alaiacano (#178)
• Fix the importorskip for Torch tests @karlhigley (#175)
• revert change that renamed output schema @nv-alaiacano (#172)
• Revert "Allow selection of multiple outputs with SampleSoftmax" @nv-alaiacano (#171)
• Allow selection of multiple outputs with SampleSoftmax @nv-alaiacano (#155)
• Clean up model input signature handling for tuples @karlhigley (#152)
• SoftmaxSampling should produce the same output dtype as the input @nv-alaiacano (#154)

🚀 Features

• Add properties for input and output schemas to Ensemble @karlhigley (#197)
• Add preliminary support for serving PyTorch models with TorchScript @karlhigley (#167)
• Add Operator for Implicit Models @oliverholworthy (#134)
• Allow selection of multiple outputs with SampleSoftmax @nv-alaiacano (#155)
• Pass model kwargs through to operator from_config methods @oliverholworthy (#158)
• Allow merlin.models.xgb.XGBoost in PredictForest @benfred (#146)
• Load models from a model registry rather than path @nv-alaiacano (#149)

📄 Documentation

• Update the logos in the examples @bschifferer (#188)
• add xgboost serving example @radekosmulski (#157)

🔧 Maintenance

• Fix versioneer to get accurate version numbers @benfred (#198)
• Move requirements files to a requirements sub-directory @karlhigley (#193)
• introduce cascading timeout for tritonserver launch @jperez999 (#192)
• Mark example notebook tests to make them skippable in other repos @karlhigley (#185)
• Skip "serving ranking models" example test on CPU @karlhigley (#191)
• Add extra requirements files to setup.py as optional installs @karlhigley (#189)
• Remove importorskip("tritonclient") from the tests @karlhigley (#190)
• Add tritonclient as a test dependency @karlhigley (#187)
• add testenv to run merlin tests @nv-alaiacano (#183)
• Required changes to get Rank example test passing @jperez999 (#182)
• use container sitepackages for jenkins tests @nv-alaiacano (#180)
• add test for QueryFeast.from_feature_view @nv-alaiacano (#179)
• Fix the importorskip for Torch tests @karlhigley (#175)
• Organize the tests directory more clearly @karlhigley (#170)
• Enable gRPC port to be specified in run_triton_server and check if already running @oliverholworthy (#141)
• Build the documents with tox @mikemckiernan (#168)
• install more libraries in test environment @nv-alaiacano (#166)
• Update versioneer from 0.21 to 0.23 @oliverholworthy (#165)
• Fix importorskip in Feast tests @karlhigley (#163)
• Mark Feast tests with pytest.importorskip @karlhigley (#162)
• use tox for github CI steps @nv-alaiacano (#161)
• Add unit tests for QueryFeast op @nv-alaiacano (#160)
• Update precommit hook package versions @karlhigley (#150)