69 support for regression tasks and feature selection

[LaurenzBeck]

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💬 Description

This PR adds pipeline components to solve regression tasks to NiaAML. The additions have been implemented in such a way, that existing classification code does not have to be updated. -> This PR represents a minor version bump.

❗ Issue Links

Closes #69

🧪 How Has This Been Tested?

Unit tests have been added to

• test that the data readers can deal with continuous targets
• all the component factories work with the new components
• verify that the new classifiers run without errors
• test the overall regression pipeline optimization

✅ Checklist

• [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• [x] I have performed a self-review of my code
• [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

[LaurenzBeck]

I do not really get why the "NiaAML / build (macos-latest, 3.10) (pull_request)" action fails.

I had a look at the details and it is using poetry run pytest, even though the developer guide suggests using poetry run coverage run --source=niaaml -m unittest discover -b

I tried both locally and they both pass.

Do you know what I can do to make it pass in the github actions @firefly-cpp ?

[firefly-cpp]

I am still trying to figure out the macos problem. However, we may exclude 3.10 version of Python. What do you think?

[LaurenzBeck]

Please also add detailed instructions in the documentation about adding a new regressor to this package.

I added an example section and instructions in the README.md.

Do you want me to add the same passage to the sphynx documentation in docs/?

I am still trying to figure out the macos problem. However, we may exclude 3.10 version of Python. What do you think?

I don't think the problem is with the python version, but I may be wrong there. In my opinion supporting >=3.11 should be fine, as we are already approaching the 3.13 release :)

[firefly-cpp]

Please update also sphinx. Definitely, let's go for > 3.10.