0.18.0

✨ Highlights ✨

Two-stage ranking pipeline — first-stage candidate generation + second-stage reranking is now available in RecTools, fully compatible with our fit / recommend paradigm.

Added

• Two-stage candidate ranking system with CandidateRankingModel and supporting classes (CandidateGenerator, CandidateFeatureCollector, Reranker, CatBoostReranker, PerUserNegativeSampler) (#296)

Changed

• Used pm-implicit instead of implicit for Python>=3.10 to support Cuda 12.x (#298)

All contributors

@blondered @olesyabulgakova @chezou @feldlime