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From: jonyguo <guozhijian@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:12:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] update release notes for r0.7.0
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+# Release 0.7.0-beta
+
+## Major Features and Improvements
+### MindSpore Training and Inference Framework
+#### Ascend 910
+* New models
+ * TinyBert: a smaller and faster version of BERT using transformer distillation for natural language understanding on GLUE benchmark.
+ * SE-ResNet50: add Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks(SE-Blocks) to the resnet50 network to improve channel interdependencies for image classification on ImageNet 2012 dataset.
+ * Inception V3: the third version of Inception convolutional architectures for image classification on ImageNet 2012 dataset.
+* Frontend and user interface
+ * Embedding operator high-level packaging to support segmented by field for Wide&Deep.
+ * Load multi-node checkpoint into single-process to support host-device hybrid inference.
+ * Support Concat/Tile/Strideslice distributed operators.
+ * Support cumulative gradient and batch training split.
+ * Support variable parameter input for Cell object.
+ * Parameter mixed calculation optimization for pynative mode.
+ * Deep Probabilistic Programming
+ * Support statistical distributions classes used to generate stochastic tensors.
+ * Support probabilistic inference algorithms.
+ * Support BNN layers used to construct BNN in Graph mode.
+ * Support interfaces for the transformation between BNN and DNN in Graph mode.
+ * Support uncertainty estimation to estimate epistemic uncertainty and aleatoric uncertainty.
+ * User interfaces change log
+ * change base class of parameter([!3473](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3473))
+ * change binary to mindir([!4258](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4258))
+ * change export from geir to air([!4269](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4269))
+ * Init parameter data by default([!3967](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3967))
+ * change IndexedSlices to RowTensor([!4031](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4031))
+ * Must set or change parallel mode before any Initializer created([!4801](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4801))
+* Executor and performance optimization
+ * Minspore graph compilation process performance improved by 20%.
+ * Decoupling C++ and Python modules to achieve separate compilation of core modules.
+ * Serving module supports restful interface [POST].
+* Data processing, augmentation, and save format
+ * Support automatic data augmentation
+ * Support GNN distributed cache in single node
+ * Support ConcatDataset using distributed sampler
+
+#### Other Hardware Support
+* GPU platform
+ * New model supported: VGG16, ResNet101, TinyBert, DeepFM.
+ * Support some distributed operators in ResNet50 and Wide&Deep.
+ * Support automatic parallel for Wide&Deep.
+ * Support function funcs[i](*inputs) (such as switch-case).
+ * Support distributed training with parameter server.
+ * Support GPU operator profiling.
+ * Performance optimization of the distributed training with allreduce.
+ * Performance optimization of the mixed precision training.
+ * Performance optimization of the pynative mode.
+ * Performance optimization of the convolution operator, batch normalization operator.
+* CPU platform
+ * Support MobileNetV2 Re-Training: Re-train the network with different class number.
+
+### MindSpore Lite
+* Converter
+ * Support third party model, including TFLite/Caffe/ONNX.
+ * Add 93 TFLite op.
+ * Add 24 Caffe op.
+ * Add 62 ONNX op.
+ * Add support for windows.
+ * Add 11 optimized passes, include fusion/const fold.
+ * Support aware-training and Post-training quantization.
+* CPU
+ * Add 100+ops，support fp32, int8/uint8, FP16 ops
+ * Support fast convolution algorithms: Sliding Window, Img2col + Gemm, Strassen, Winograd
+ * Support assembly/neon instruction.
+ * Support CPU fp16 and sdot on ARM v8.2+.
+* GPU
+ * Add 20+ ops for OpenCL.
+ * Support image2D/buffer format.
+ * Optimize online initialization time.
+ * add optimized convolution1X1/3X3/depthwise/convolution_transposed for OpenCL.
+* Tool & example
+ * Add benchmark and TimeProfile tools.
+ * Add image classification and object detection Android Demo.
+
+## Bugfixes
+* Models
+ * normalize the readme file([!5410](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5410))
+ * fix a sink_size bug for transformer([!5393](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5393))
+ * fix bool type optional for resnet50([!5363](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5363))
+* Python API
+ * improve interface '__bool__' for tensor([!4000](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4000))
+ * fix GPU-ResizeNearestNeighbor([!3760](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3760))
+ * fix topK multi dimention grad func([!3711](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3711))
+ * fix scatterop error msg([!3699](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3699))
+ * fix bug of cast dtype when using mix_presion in pynative mode([!3730](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3730))
+* Executor
+ * fix etsnet train error when UnsegmentSum's first input shape is (1,) ([!4573](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4573))
+ * fix bug of result error in while control flow because of unsupporting for value reference ([!4103](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4103))
+ * fix bug of the output tensor does not carry device data type ([!3774](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3774))
+ * fix bug of avoiding multi attr value are eliminated in pynative mode ([!4225](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4225))
+ * fix bug of AssignAdd unable to work normally in multi-cases ([!5171](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5171))
+* GPU platform
+ * improve the environment variable checking for nvcc compiler path ([!5140](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5140))
+ * fix bug of error in cast operator conversion from fp16 to fp32 ([!4147](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4147))
+ * fix bug of the array out of bound in case of make_tuple operator ([!5219](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/5219))
+* Data processing and Pro
+ * fix GeneratorDataset time out([!3624](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/3624))
+ * fix concat operator get_dataset_size error([!4701](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4701))
+ * fixing python validator for Repeat Op([!4366](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/4366))
+
+## Contributors
+Thanks goes to these wonderful people:
+
+Adel, Alexey, andy, andy_wangrui, anthonyaje, anzhengqi, askmiao, avakh, baihuawei, bingyaweng, BowenK, buxue, caifubi, CaoJian, caozhou, Cathy, changzherui, chenfei, chengxianbin, chenhaozhe, chenjianping, chentingting, chenzomi, chenzupeng, chujinjin, cjh9368, Corleone, cristoval, danish, dengyutao, eric, Eric, ervinzhang, etone-chan, fangzehua, fary86, fuzhiye, gengdongjie, genglishuai, Giancarlo, gongdaguo, gukecai, guohongzilong, GuoMengHao, hangq, hanhaocheng, hanhuifeng2020, hanjun996, Harshvardhan, He, heleiwang, hesham, hexia, Hoai, hongxing, huangdongrun, huanghui, huangxinjing, islam_amin, Jesse, jianghui58, jiangzhiwen, jin-xiulang, jinyaohui, jjfeing, John, Jonathan, jonyguo, kai00, kingfo, kpy, kswang, laiyongqiang, leilei_snow, leopz, Li, liangzelang, lianliguang, lichen_101010, lichenever, lihongkang, lilei, limingqi107, ling, lingyunli63, linqingke, lirongzhen1, liubuyu, liuwenhao4, liuxiao78, liuxiao93, liuzhongkai, Lixia, lixian, liyong, lizhenyu, looop5, luoyang, lvchangquan, lvliang, lvwenyuan, lyvette, mahdi, Mahdi, mamba_ni, maning202007, Margaret_wangrui, mayang, meixiaowei, meng_chunyang, ms_yan, nhussain, panbingao, panfengfeng, panyifeng, Payne, Peilin, peixu_ren, pengyongrong, Pengyongrong, qianlong, qujianwei, root, shenwei41, shibeiji, simson, songhonglei413, Su, sunsuodong, suteng, tao_yunhao, TFbunny, tinazhang, tom__chen, tony_liu2, tronzhang, VectorSL, wandongdong, wangdongxu, wanghua, wangmin, wangshaocong, wangzhe, wanyiming, Wei, wenchunjiang, wilfChen, WilliamLian, wsc, wukesong, wuweikang, wuxuejian, wuyongkang, xiefangqi, xuanyue, Xun, xutianchun, xuyongfei, yanghaitao, yangjie159, YangLuo, yangruoqi713, yangyongjie, yangzhenzhang, yankai, yao_yf, yelihua, yeyunpeng, Yi, yoni, yoonlee666, yuchaojie, yujianfeng, yuximiao, zhangxuetong, zhaizhiqiang, Zhang, zhangxinfeng3, zhangxuetong, zhangyihui, zhangz0911gm, zhanke, zhanyuan, zhaodezan, zhaoting, zhaozhenlong, zhengjun10, zhongligeng, zhoufeng, zhousiyi, zhouyaqiang, zhouyuanshen, Zichun, Zirui, zjun, zongha, ZPaC, lijiaqi, liangchenghui, wangminggui
+
+Contributions of any kind are welcome!
+
+
# Release 0.6.0-beta
## Major Features and Improvements
@@ -207,11 +317,11 @@ Contributions of any kind are welcome!
* Executor
* Fix dropout，topK and addn errors in PyNative mode ([!1285](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1285), [!1138](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1138), [!1033](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1033)).
* Fix memory leaks after execution in PyNatvie mode ([!1201](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1201)).
- * Fix HCCL failure in some special scenes ([!1204](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1204), [!1252](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1252)).
- * Fix SSD network when Select failed, cann't find kernel info([!1449](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1449)).
- * Fix Topk operator selection strategy bug between aicore and aicpu([!1367](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1367)).
- * Fix input memory size of 'assign' op unequal in control sink mode when assigning a data from one child graph to another child graph([!802](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/802)).
- * Fix allreduce ir inconsistency([!989](https://gitee.com/mindspore/dashboard/projects/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/989)).
+ * Fix HCCL failure in some special scenes ([!1204](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1204), [!1252](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1252)).
+ * Fix SSD network when Select failed, cann't find kernel info([!1449](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1449)).
+ * Fix Topk operator selection strategy bug between aicore and aicpu([!1367](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1367)).
+ * Fix input memory size of 'assign' op unequal in control sink mode when assigning a data from one child graph to another child graph([!802](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/802)).
+ * Fix allreduce ir inconsistency([!989](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/989)).
* GPU platform
* Fix summary for gradient collection ([!1364](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1364))
* Fix the slice operator ([!1489](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/pulls/1489))