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id: RELEASE_NOTES_2.0.0 title: Apache SINGA-incubating-2.0.0 Release Notes

SINGA is a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep learning models over large datasets.

This release includes following features:

• Core components

  • [SINGA-434] Support tensor broadcasting
  • [SINGA-370] Improvement to tensor reshape and various misc. changes related to SINGA-341 and 351

• Model components

  • [SINGA-333] Add support for Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format
  • [SINGA-385] Add new python module for optimizers
  • [SINGA-394] Improve the CPP operations via Intel MKL DNN lib
  • [SINGA-425] Add 3 operators , Abs(), Exp() and leakyrelu(), for Autograd
  • [SINGA-410] Add two function, set_params() and get_params(), for Autograd Layer class
  • [SINGA-383] Add Separable Convolution for autograd
  • [SINGA-388] Develop some RNN layers by calling tiny operations like matmul, addbias.
  • [SINGA-382] Implement concat operation for autograd
  • [SINGA-378] Implement maxpooling operation and its related functions for autograd
  • [SINGA-379] Implement batchnorm operation and its related functions for autograd

• Utility functions and CI

  • [SINGA-432] Update depdent lib versions in conda-build config
  • [SINGA-429] Update docker images for latest cuda and cudnn
  • [SINGA-428] Move Docker images under Apache user name

• Documentation and usability

  • [SINGA-395] Add documentation for autograd APIs
  • [SINGA-344] Add a GAN example
  • [SINGA-390] Update installation.md
  • [SINGA-384] Implement ResNet using autograd API
  • [SINGA-352] Complete SINGA documentation in Chinese version

• Bugs fixed
  • [SINGA-431] Unit Test failed - Tensor Transpose
  • [SINGA-422] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named “_singa_wrap”
  • [SINGA-418] Unsupportive type ‘long’ in python3.
  • [SINGA-409] Basic singa-cpu import throws error
  • [SINGA-408] Unsupportive function definition in python3
  • [SINGA-380] Fix bugs from Reshape