seq2pat 2.0.0

Major:

• Update CI test environment to Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and drop support for Python 3.7
• Update installation requirement to Python 3.8+
• Update CI test environment to drop support for Windows-latest tests

seq2pat 1.4.0

Major:

• Enable running Seq2Pat on batches of sequences in parallel
• Add a usage example notebook to show how batch processing is called
• Enrich documentations and comments relevant to batch processing and a few tests
• Explicitly require that input integer sequences only contain positive integers

seq2pat 1.3.4

Minor:

• Fix a build error in release 1.3.3, which is reported by using the Visual Studio build tools

seq2pat 1.3.3

Major:

• Add a built-in maximum span constraint on items' indices to simplify and speed up usages
• A fix to use original gap value instead of abs gap value in Check_gap() in build_mdd.cpp
• Update unit tests where the built-in constraint may change the mining results

seq2pat 1.3.2

Minor:

• Refactor encodings generation component as Pat2Feat

seq2pat 1.3.1

Minor:

• Set the default behavior of drop_pattern_frequency in encoding to be True

seq2pat 1.3.0

Major:

• Add one-hot encodings, by mining patterns locally (csp_local.py) or globally
  (csp_global.py) in each sequence
• Add Dichotomic Pattern Mining notebook, running on sample data
• Clean up variables in backend