v0.3.4 - 2019-12-24

With this release we introduce a BTBSession class. This class represents the process of selecting
and tuning several tunables until the best possible configuration fo a specific scorer is found.
We also have improved and fixed some minor bugs arround the code (described in the issues below).

New Features

• BTBSession that makes BTB more user friendly.

Internal Improvements

Improved unittests, removed old dependencies, added more MLChallenges and fixed an issue with
the bound methods.

Resolved Issues

• Issue #145: Implement BTBSession.
• Issue #155: Set defaut to None for CategoricalHyperParam is not possible.
• Issue #157: Metamodel _MODEL_KWARGS_DEFAULT becomes mutable.
• Issue #158: Remove mock dependency from the package.
• Issue #160: Add more Machine Learning Challenges and more estimators.

0.3.3 - 2019-12-11

Fix a bug where creating an instance of Tuner ends in an error.

Internal Improvements

Improve unittests to use spec_set in order to detect errors while mocking an object.

Resolved Issues

• Issue #153: Bug with tunner logger message that avoids creating the Tunner.

0.3.2 - 2019-12-10

With this release we add the new benchmark challenge MLChallenge which allows users to
perform benchmarking over datasets with machine learning estimators, and also some new
features to make the workflow easier.

New Features

• New MLChallenge challenge that allows performing crossvalidation over datasets and machine
  learning estimators.
• New from_dict function for Tunable class in order to instantiate from a dictionary that
  contains information over hyperparameters.
• New default value for each hyperparameter type.

Resolved Issues

• Issue #68: Remove btb.tuning.constants module.
• Issue #120: Tuner repr not helpful.
• Issue #121: HyperParameter repr not helpful.
• Issue #141: Imlement propper logging to the tuning section.
• Issue #150: Implement Tunable from_dict.
• Issue #151: Add default value for hyperparameters.
• Issue #152: Support None as a choice in CategoricalHyperPrameters.

0.3.1 - 2019-11-25

With this release we introduce a benchmark module for BTB which allows the users to perform a benchmark over a series of challenges.

New Features

• New benchmark module.
• New submodule named challenges to work toghether with benchmark module.

Resolved Issues

• Issue #139: Implement a Benchmark for BTB

v0.3.0 2019-11-11

With this release we introduce an improved BTB that has a major reorganization of the project
with emphasis on an easier way of interacting with BTB and an easy way of developing, testing and
contributing new acquisition functions, metamodels, tuners and hyperparameters.

New project structure

The new major reorganization comes with the btb.tuning module. This module provides everything
needed for the tuning process and comes with three new additions Acquisition, Metamodel and
Tunable. Also there is an update to the Hyperparamters and Tuners. This changes are meant
to help developers and contributors to easily develop, test and contribute new Tuners.

New API

There is a slightly new way of using BTB as the new Tunable class is introduced, that is meant
to be the only required object to instantiate a Tuner. This Tunable class represents a
collection of HyperParams that need to be tuned as a whole, at once. Now, in order to create a
Tuner, a Tunable instance must be created first with the hyperparameters of the
objective function.

New Features

• New Hyperparameters that allow an easier interaction for the final user.
• New Tunable class that manages a collection of Hyperparameters.
• New Tuner class that is a python mixin that requieres of Acquisition and Metamodel as
  parents. Also now works with a single Tunable object.
• New Acquisition class, meant to implement an acquisition function to be inherit by a Tuner.
• New Metamodel class, meant to implement everything that a certain model needs and be inherit
  by the Tuner.
• Reorganization of the selection module to follow a similar API to tuning.

Resolved Issues

• Issue #131: Reorganize the project structure.
• Issue #133: Implement Tunable class to control a list of hyperparameters.
• Issue #134: Implementation of Tuners for the new structure.
• Issue #140: Reorganize selectors.

v0.2.5

Bug Fixes

• Issue #115: HyperParameter subclass instantiation not working properly

v0.2.4

Internal Improvements

• Issue #62: Test for None in HyperParameter.cast instead of HyperParameter.__init__

Bug fixes

• Issue #98: Categorical hyperparameters do not support None as input
• Issue #89: Fix the computation of avg_rewards in BestKReward

Bugfix release

Bug fixes

• Issue #74: ParamTypes.STRING tunables do not work

0.2.0

New Features

• New Recommendation module
• New HyperParameter types
• Improved documentation and examples
• Fully tested Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 compatibility
• HyperParameter copy and deepcopy support
• Replace print statements with logging

Internal Improvements

• Integrated with Travis-CI
• Exhaustive unit testing
• New implementation of HyperParameter
• Tuner builds a grid of real values instead of indices
• Resolve Issue #29: Make args explicit in __init__ methods
• Resolve Issue #34: make all imports explicit

Bug fixes

• Fix error from mixing string/numerical hyperparameters
• Inverse transform for categorical hyperparameter returns single item

Bugfix release

Bugfixing release that covers two small bugs:

• #47: Add missing requirements in v0.1.1 setup.py
• #46: Error on v0.1.1: 'GP' object has no attribute 'X'