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Author: Anirudh Subramanian <anirudh2...@ufl.edu>
AuthorDate: Fri Jun 15 00:15:06 2018 +0000
Add NEWS and README
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MXNet Change Log
================
+## 1.2.1
+### Deprecations
+- An incorrect [usage](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11091)
of `save_params` was advertised in the gluon book which led to MXNet users
depending on the incorrect usage and developing a hack around it. A change was
made to the internal structure of the `.params` file saved by `save_params` to
resolve a bug. This led to user scripts with the above mentioned hack to break.
To fix this, `save_params` and `load_params` APIs have been reverted to
previous format and marked a [...]
+
+### Bug Fixes
+- Fixed MKLDNN bugs (#10613, #10021, #10616, #10764, #10591, #10731, #10918,
#10706, #10651, #10979).
+- Fixed Scala Inference Memory leak (#11216).
+- Fixed Cross Compilation for armv7 (#11054).
+
+### Performance Improvements
+- Reduced memory consumption from inplace operation for ReLU activation
(#10847).
+- Improved `slice` operator performance by 20x (#11124).
+- Improved performance of depthwise convolution by using cudnnv7 if available
(#11076).
+- Improved performance and memory usage of Conv1D, by adding back cuDNN
support for Conv1D (#11270). This adds a known issue: The cuDNN convolution
operator may throw `CUDNN_STATUS_EXECUTION_FAILED` when `req == "add"` and
`cudnn_tune != off` with large inputs(e.g. 64k channels). If you encounter this
issue, please consider setting `MXNET_CUDNN_AUTOTUNE_DEFAULT` to 0.
+
## 1.2.0
### New Features - Added Scala Inference APIs
- Implemented new [Scala Inference
APIs](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNetScalaInferenceAPI)
which offer an easy-to-use, Scala Idiomatic and thread-safe high level APIs for
performing predictions with deep learning models trained with MXNet (#9678).
Implemented a new ImageClassifier class which provides APIs for classification
tasks on a Java BufferedImage using a pre-trained model you provide (#10054).
Implemented a new ObjectDetector class which provides APIs for [...]
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for hackers.
What's New
----------
+* [Version 1.2.1
Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.1) - MXNet
1.2.1 Release.
* [Version 1.2.0
Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.0) - MXNet
1.2.0 Release.
* [Version 1.1.0
Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.1.0) - MXNet
1.1.0 Release.
* [Version 1.0.0
Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.0.0) - MXNet
1.0.0 Release.
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