From 4a3b5a2ad3e9f5878d266e0fb0e7196e20e77220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jonyguo Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:12:56 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] update release notes for r0.7.0 --- RELEASE.md | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md index f95410273..dde0d0f1e 100644 --- a/RELEASE.md +++ b/RELEASE.md @@ -1,3 +1,113 @@ +# Release 0.7.0-beta + +## Major Features and Improvements +### MindSpore Training and Inference Framework +#### Ascend 910 +* New models + * TinyBert: a smaller and faster version of BERT using transformer distillation for natural language understanding on GLUE benchmark. + * SE-ResNet50: add Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks(SE-Blocks) to the resnet50 network to improve channel interdependencies for image classification on ImageNet 2012 dataset. + * Inception V3: the third version of Inception convolutional architectures for image classification on ImageNet 2012 dataset. +* Frontend and user interface + * Embedding operator high-level packaging to support segmented by field for Wide&Deep. + * Load multi-node checkpoint into single-process to support host-device hybrid inference. + * Support Concat/Tile/Strideslice distributed operators. + * Support cumulative gradient and batch training split. + * Support variable parameter input for Cell object. + * Parameter mixed calculation optimization for pynative mode. + * Deep Probabilistic Programming + * Support statistical distributions classes used to generate stochastic tensors. + * Support probabilistic inference algorithms. + * Support BNN layers used to construct BNN in Graph mode. + * Support interfaces for the transformation between BNN and DNN in Graph mode. + * Support uncertainty estimation to estimate epistemic uncertainty and aleatoric uncertainty. + * User interfaces change log + * change base class of parameter([!3473](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3473)) + * change binary to mindir([!4258](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4258)) + * change export from geir to air([!4269](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4269)) + * Init parameter data by default([!3967](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3967)) + * change IndexedSlices to RowTensor([!4031](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4031)) + * Must set or change parallel mode before any Initializer created([!4801](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4801)) +* Executor and performance optimization + * Minspore graph compilation process performance improved by 20%. + * Decoupling C++ and Python modules to achieve separate compilation of core modules. + * Serving module supports restful interface [POST]. +* Data processing, augmentation, and save format + * Support automatic data augmentation + * Support GNN distributed cache in single node + * Support ConcatDataset using distributed sampler + +#### Other Hardware Support +* GPU platform + * New model supported: VGG16, ResNet101, TinyBert, DeepFM. + * Support some distributed operators in ResNet50 and Wide&Deep. + * Support automatic parallel for Wide&Deep. + * Support function funcs[i](*inputs) (such as switch-case). + * Support distributed training with parameter server. + * Support GPU operator profiling. + * Performance optimization of the distributed training with allreduce. + * Performance optimization of the mixed precision training. + * Performance optimization of the pynative mode. + * Performance optimization of the convolution operator, batch normalization operator. +* CPU platform + * Support MobileNetV2 Re-Training: Re-train the network with different class number. + +### MindSpore Lite +* Converter + * Support third party model, including TFLite/Caffe/ONNX. + * Add 93 TFLite op. + * Add 24 Caffe op. + * Add 62 ONNX op. + * Add support for windows. + * Add 11 optimized passes, include fusion/const fold. + * Support aware-training and Post-training quantization. +* CPU + * Add 100+ops，support fp32, int8/uint8, FP16 ops + * Support fast convolution algorithms: Sliding Window, Img2col + Gemm, Strassen, Winograd + * Support assembly/neon instruction. + * Support CPU fp16 and sdot on ARM v8.2+. +* GPU + * Add 20+ ops for OpenCL. + * Support image2D/buffer format. + * Optimize online initialization time. + * add optimized convolution1X1/3X3/depthwise/convolution_transposed for OpenCL. +* Tool & example + * Add benchmark and TimeProfile tools. + * Add image classification and object detection Android Demo. + +## Bugfixes +* Models + * normalize the readme file([!5410](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5410)) + * fix a sink_size bug for transformer([!5393](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5393)) + * fix bool type optional for resnet50([!5363](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5363)) +* Python API + * improve interface '__bool__' for tensor([!4000](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4000)) + * fix GPU-ResizeNearestNeighbor([!3760](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3760)) + * fix topK multi dimention grad func([!3711](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3711)) + * fix scatterop error msg([!3699](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3699)) + * fix bug of cast dtype when using mix_presion in pynative mode([!3730](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3730)) +* Executor + * fix etsnet train error when UnsegmentSum's first input shape is (1,) ([!4573](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4573)) + * fix bug of result error in while control flow because of unsupporting for value reference ([!4103](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4103)) + * fix bug of the output tensor does not carry device data type ([!3774](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3774)) + * fix bug of avoiding multi attr value are eliminated in pynative mode ([!4225](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4225)) + * fix bug of AssignAdd unable to work normally in multi-cases ([!5171](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5171)) +* GPU platform + * improve the environment variable checking for nvcc compiler path ([!5140](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5140)) + * fix bug of error in cast operator conversion from fp16 to fp32 ([!4147](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4147)) + * fix bug of the array out of bound in case of make_tuple operator ([!5219](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5219)) +* Data processing and Pro + * fix GeneratorDataset time out([!3624](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3624)) + * fix concat operator get_dataset_size error([!4701](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4701)) + * fixing python validator for Repeat Op([!4366](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4366)) + +## Contributors +Thanks goes to these wonderful people: + +Adel, Alexey, andy, andy_wangrui, anthonyaje, anzhengqi, askmiao, avakh, baihuawei, bingyaweng, BowenK, buxue, caifubi, CaoJian, caozhou, Cathy, changzherui, chenfei, chengxianbin, chenhaozhe, chenjianping, chentingting, chenzomi, chenzupeng, chujinjin, cjh9368, Corleone, cristoval, danish, dengyutao, eric, Eric, ervinzhang, etone-chan, fangzehua, fary86, fuzhiye, gengdongjie, genglishuai, Giancarlo, gongdaguo, gukecai, guohongzilong, GuoMengHao, hangq, hanhaocheng, hanhuifeng2020, hanjun996, Harshvardhan, He, heleiwang, hesham, hexia, Hoai, hongxing, huangdongrun, huanghui, huangxinjing, islam_amin, Jesse, jianghui58, jiangzhiwen, jin-xiulang, jinyaohui, jjfeing, John, Jonathan, jonyguo, kai00, kingfo, kpy, kswang, laiyongqiang, leilei_snow, leopz, Li, liangzelang, lianliguang, lichen_101010, lichenever, lihongkang, lilei, limingqi107, ling, lingyunli63, linqingke, lirongzhen1, liubuyu, liuwenhao4, liuxiao78, liuxiao93, liuzhongkai, Lixia, lixian, liyong, lizhenyu, looop5, luoyang, lvchangquan, lvliang, lvwenyuan, lyvette, mahdi, Mahdi, mamba_ni, maning202007, Margaret_wangrui, mayang, meixiaowei, meng_chunyang, ms_yan, nhussain, panbingao, panfengfeng, panyifeng, Payne, Peilin, peixu_ren, pengyongrong, Pengyongrong, qianlong, qujianwei, root, shenwei41, shibeiji, simson, songhonglei413, Su, sunsuodong, suteng, tao_yunhao, TFbunny, tinazhang, tom__chen, tony_liu2, tronzhang, VectorSL, wandongdong, wangdongxu, wanghua, wangmin, wangshaocong, wangzhe, wanyiming, Wei, wenchunjiang, wilfChen, WilliamLian, wsc, wukesong, wuweikang, wuxuejian, wuyongkang, xiefangqi, xuanyue, Xun, xutianchun, xuyongfei, yanghaitao, yangjie159, YangLuo, yangruoqi713, yangyongjie, yangzhenzhang, yankai, yao_yf, yelihua, yeyunpeng, Yi, yoni, yoonlee666, yuchaojie, yujianfeng, yuximiao, zhangxuetong, zhaizhiqiang, Zhang, zhangxinfeng3, zhangxuetong, zhangyihui, zhangz0911gm, zhanke, zhanyuan, zhaodezan, zhaoting, zhaozhenlong, zhengjun10, zhongligeng, zhoufeng, zhousiyi, zhouyaqiang, zhouyuanshen, Zichun, Zirui, zjun, zongha, ZPaC, lijiaqi, liangchenghui, wangminggui + +Contributions of any kind are welcome! + + # Release 0.6.0-beta ## Major Features and Improvements @@ -207,11 +317,11 @@ Contributions of any kind are welcome! * Executor * Fix dropout，topK and addn errors in PyNative mode ([!1285](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1285), [!1138](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1138), [!1033](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1033)). * Fix memory leaks after execution in PyNatvie mode ([!1201](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1201)). - * Fix HCCL failure in some special scenes ([!1204](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1204), [!1252](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1252)). - * Fix SSD network when Select failed, cann't find kernel info([!1449](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1449)). - * Fix Topk operator selection strategy bug between aicore and aicpu([!1367](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1367)). - * Fix input memory size of 'assign' op unequal in control sink mode when assigning a data from one child graph to another child graph([!802](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/802)). - * Fix allreduce ir inconsistency([!989](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/989)). + * Fix HCCL failure in some special scenes ([!1204](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1204), [!1252](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1252)). + * Fix SSD network when Select failed, cann't find kernel info([!1449](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1449)). + * Fix Topk operator selection strategy bug between aicore and aicpu([!1367](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1367)). + * Fix input memory size of 'assign' op unequal in control sink mode when assigning a data from one child graph to another child graph([!802](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/802)). + * Fix allreduce ir inconsistency([!989](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/989)). * GPU platform * Fix summary for gradient collection ([!1364](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1364)) * Fix the slice operator ([!1489](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1489)) -- GitLab