Hi all,
We are happy to announce the 0.5 release of Analytics Zoo <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/>, a unified Analytics + AI platform for *distributed TensorFlow, Keras & BigDL on Apache Spark*; some of the notable new features in this release are: - tfpark <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/0.5.1/#ProgrammingGuide/tensorflow/>: distributed TensorFlow for Apache Spark - Support Keras <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/0.5.1/#APIGuide/TFPark/model/> and TensorFlow Estimator <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/0.5.1/#APIGuide/TFPark/estimator/> APIs - Built-in NLP models <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/0.5.1/#APIGuide/TFPark/text-models/> (including NER, Intent Extraction and POS Tagging) - Premade BERT estimators <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/0.5.1/#APIGuide/TFPark/bert-classifier/> (e.g., BERT Classifier) - Model Inference improvement, including - Int8 <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/tree/branch-0.5/zoo/src/main/scala/com/intel/analytics/zoo/examples/vnni> (DL Boost/VNNI) inference support based on BigDL and OpenVINO - Distributed, streaming inference <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/tree/branch-0.5/apps/model-inference-examples> using Spark Streaming and Apache Flink - Additional built-in models for BigDL, including fine-tuning pipeline for SSD <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/tree/branch-0.5/zoo/src/main/scala/com/intel/analytics/zoo/examples/objectdetection/finetune/ssd>, Transformer <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/tree/branch-0.5/pyzoo/zoo/examples/attention>, BERT <https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/blob/branch-0.5/pyzoo/zoo/pipeline/api/keras/layers/self_attention.py#L226>, etc. - Support for BigDL 0.8.0; please see the download page <https://analytics-zoo.github.io/master/#release-download/> for the supported versions and releases. For more details, you may refer to the project website at https://github.com/intel-analytics/analytics-zoo/ Thanks, -Jason
