RE: Release plan - MXNET 1.3

2018-08-21 Thread Zhao, Patric
Hi Roshani, Good notes :) Several items about the performance and MKL-DNN in the below, please help take a review. @Da, Alex, if anything about MKL-DNN is missed, feel free to add. *Performance improvement +Support for dot(dns, csr) = dns and dot(dns, csr.T) = dns on CPU https://github.com/ap

Re: Consolidating developer guide in one place (cwiki preferred)

2018-08-21 Thread sandeep krishnamurthy
+1 Thanks Lin and Aaron. I agree website to cover all user facing documentation and a separate consolidated and organized developer focussed docs in one place (cwiki). Note: Permissions on cwiki is currently not well managed with many people having full admin rights to edit/create/delete pages. S

Re: Design Proposal: SVRG Optimization in MXNet Python Module

2018-08-21 Thread sandeep krishnamurthy
Hello Stephanie, Welcome to the Apache MXNet community! Thanks for sharing the design document. Design and proposal looks great to me. SVRG will definitely be very useful in certain problems with an objective of coming up with an vector that is close to optimum. Following are my notes based on ou

Re: Consolidating developer guide in one place (cwiki preferred)

2018-08-21 Thread Lin Yuan
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your answer. I think it's a very worthwhile effort to move all the developer related content from mxet.io website to a dedicated developer site. Would you like to initiate this effort? Best, Lin On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 3:47 PM Haibin Lin wrote: > +1 > > On Wed, Aug 15, 20

Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3

2018-08-21 Thread Roshani Nagmote
Hi, Thank you everyone for helping to clear release blockers. CI tests were failing so we delayed RC by some time. But now the tests are passing and we are ready to cut the release branch. I have drafted release notes here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28incubat