Thanks Berthold. Overall, the draft looks good to me. Few minor additions:
New Builtin Functions - Deep learning builtin functions: avg_pool and avg_pool_backward - assert New Layers in the NN library: - Average pooling - Upsampling - Low-rank fully connected Thanks, Niketan Pansare IBM Almaden Research Center E-mail: npansar At us.ibm.com http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-npansar From: "Berthold Reinwald" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 03/28/2018 04:02 PM Subject: Draft Release Notes 1.1.0 Please add/update below release note draft prior to putting it on our website. Please also go to the JIRA release notes link at the end, and update version/status if necessary. Thanks. * Release Notes - SystemML - Version SystemML 1.1 New Capabilities/Features - Dense matrix blocks >16GB, and operations - Support bitwise operators not, and, or, xor, & LShift, Rshift - Additional ParFor result aggregation operations - UDFs callable in expressions - zero rws/columns matrices - Extended Caffe2DML and Keras2DML APIs New Builtin Functions - ifelse() Performance Improvements - Ultra-sparse operations Internals - Single-precision support for native conv2d and mm operations. - Consolidate replicated compilation chain - Generalize Binary Operations to (vector, matrix) Operands - Use common thread pool Bug Fixes - in APIs, performance bugs, optimizer, runtime, GPU backend, Spark backend. Experimental - Codegen Deprecate - Support for Spark 2.1/2.2 (make switch to newer ANTLR version) Detailed JIRA release notes are here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_secure_ReleaseNote.jspa-3Fversion-3D12342282-26styleName-3DText-26projectId-3D12319522-26Create-3DCreate-26atl-5Ftoken-3DA5KQ-2D2QAV-2DT4JA-2DFDED-257C2e97f76f75a466564dba2a7d0bec5ca06bffd66e-257Clout&d=DwIFAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=HzVC6v79boGYQrpc383_Kao_6a6SaOkZrfiSrYZVby0&m=fku28ex5cFV8MRqEKRuh-_I3UTefK_Qx_YXQD9UfoWU&s=K6GTOjWQiV6jki5_tkBF1tXLL2SM2Jta2ZXFdjBYbQw&e= Regards, Berthold Reinwald IBM Almaden Research Center office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 e-mail: [email protected]
