[ASK] Stopped the support of new Tensorflow versions >= 2.16 and migrate to PyTorch

Description

We had so many problems with Tensorflow, in terms of security, breaking changes, etc, that the team decided to stop the support of Tensorflow over 2.16.

Here are some of the issues we had:

• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/2018
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/2072
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/2064
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/1565
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/pull/2017
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1883
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1969
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1915
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1825
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1560
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/1513
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/953
• https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/683

Other Comments

If a developer wants to add new code with TF dependencies, please consider this situation.

Migration to PyTorch

We are working to migrate all TF algos to PyTorch https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders/issues/2302