BigDL v0.1.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-06-16 // almost 7 years ago
  • Release Notes

    • API Change

    ๐Ÿ“ฆ 1. Use bigdl as the top level package name for all bigdl python module โšก๏ธ 2. Allow user to change the model in the optimizer

    1. Allow user to define a model in python API
    2. Allow user to invoke BigDL scala code from python in 3rd prject
    3. Allow user to use BigDL random generator in python
    4. Allow user to use forward/backward method in python
    5. Add BiRnn layer to python ๐Ÿšš 8. Remove useless CriterionTable layer
    • โœจ Enhancement
    1. Load libjmkl.so in the class load phase ๐Ÿ‘ 2. Support python 3.5
    2. Initialize gradient buffer at the start of backward to reduce the memory usage
    3. Auto pack python dependency in yarn cluster mode
    • ๐Ÿ› Bug Fix

    โšก๏ธ 1. Fix optimizer continue without failure after retry maximum number

    1. Fix LookupTable python API throw noSuchMethod error
    2. Fix an addmv bug for 1x1 matrix
    3. Fix lenet python example error
    4. Fix python load text file encoding issue ๐ŸŽ 6. Fix HardTanh performance issue
    5. Fix data may distribute unevenly in vgg example when input partition is too large
    6. Fix a bug in SpatialDilatedConvolution
    7. Fix a bug in BCECriterion loss function
    8. Fix a bug in Add layer
    9. Fix runtime error when run BigDL on Pyspark 1.5