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  • Improved the usability of examples and tutorials

Bug-fixes

  • Fix Fixed I/O multiprocessing for too many open file handles (#8904), race condition (#8995), deadlock (#9126).

  • Fix Fixed image IO integration with OpenCV 3.3 (#8757).

  • Fix Fixed Gluon block printing (#8956).

  • Fix Fixed float16 argmax when there is negative input. (#9149)

  • Fix Fixed random number generator to ensure sufficient randomness. (#9119, #9256, #9300)

  • Fix Fixed custom op multi-GPU scaling (#9283)

  • Fix Fixed gradient of gather_nd when duplicate entries exist in index. (#9200)

 

New Features

Added support

  • Added `sparse.dot(dense, csr)` operator (#8938)

API Changes

  • Added zero gradients to rounding operators including `rint`, `ceil`, `floor`, `trunc`, and `fix` (#9040)

  • Added `use_global_stats` in `nn.BatchNorm` (#9420)
  • Added `axis` argument to `SequenceLast`, `SequenceMask` and `SequenceReverse` operators (#9306)
  • Added `lazy_update` option for standard `SGD` & `Adam` optimizer with `row_sparse`

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  • gradients (#9468, #9189)

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Depreciations

Performance

 

  • Improved GPU inference speed by 20% when batch _ size =is 1 (#9055)
  • Improved `SequenceLast` operator speed

 

Known Issues

 

  • "Predict with pre-trained models" tutorial is broken


 

How to build MXNet

Please follow the instructions at https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html

List of submodules used by Apache MXNet (Incubating) and when they were updated last

Submodule:: Last updated by MXNet:: Last update in submodule

  1. cub@:: Jul 31, 2017 :: Jul 31, 2017
  2. dlpack@: May 20, 2017 :: Oct 30, 2017
  3. dmlc-core@: Jan 16, 2017 :: Jan 17, 2017
  4. mshadow@: December 19, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
  5. nnvm@: Dec 9, 2017 :: Jan 10, 2017
  6. ps-lite@: Nov 21, 2017 :: Jan 2, 2017