v1.1.0

What's Changed

New Features

• Provide automatically built Sphinx documentation including installation instructions, theoretical background, tutorials, and API references at https://propulate.readthedocs.io/ by @mcw92 in #71
• Add comprehensive tutorials
  • Add example script for how to use Propulate for HPO / NAS of neural networks in PyTorch by @oskar-taubert in #75
  • Iss12 - Add simple example script without islands by @mcw92 in #54
  • Include benchmark functions from Propulate publication by @mcw92 in #69
• Introduce separate logging for Propulate optimizer, enabling using a separate logger within the loss function for, e.g., NAS by @coquelin77 in #73
• Introduce clean and more intuitive checkpointing
  • Iss44 - Create checkpoint path in Pollinator if not exists by @mcw92 in #51
• Add contribution guidelines by @mcw92 in #79
• Add typehints and clean and consistent docstrings by @mcw92 in #64
• Iss40 - Boundary-inclusive sampling for ordinal parameters by @mcw92 in #52
• Iss46 - Introduce evaluation time as Individual attribute #46 by @SMEISEN in #47

Maintenance

• More cleaned-up, structured, and refactored code, including consistent docstrings, type hints, and meaningful names for classes and variables
  • Introduce Propulator base class by @mcw92 in #74
  • Iss39 - Remove inter-island communicator by @mcw92 in #53

New Contributors

• @SMEISEN made their first contribution in #47

Full Changelog: 1.0.1...v1.1.0