Re: new website, docs code freeze

2019-09-27 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
I’ve heard existing users are in general happy with the new site’s modern appearance. The biggest issue is that the search bar is now hidden way too deep in the python api page, where only experienced users can locate. We might need a search button on the navbar. Best, Zhi > On Sep 26, 2019,

Re: Stopping nightly releases to Pypi

2019-12-02 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Separating the nightly wheels from PYPI certainly can reduce our turnaround time for processing new packages, overall I am in favor of this proposal. However, one question is that would external private server causing problems when you are trying to pin a nightly version of MXNet in Conda pip en

[apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 1) (#17263)

2020-01-09 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
## Description This is the part 1 of Gluon Data API extension and fixes, which mainly focus on cleaning up diverging usage of mxnet module/gluon. Through long time evolution, there's currently two streams of data loading conventions implemented in mxnet - Iterator: mxnet.io.DataIter(https://git

[apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 2) (#17269)

2020-01-10 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
## Description This is the part 2 of Gluon Data API extension and fixes, which mainly focus on speed up the current data loading pipeline using gluon dataset and dataloader. ## Motivation The current data loading pipeline is the major bottleneck for many training tasks. We can summarize the ent

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 2) (#17269)

2020-01-10 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
@szha @eric-haibin-lin @sxjscience @szhengac Request for comments regarding NLP dataloading -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/17269#issuecomment-573242957

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 1) (#17263)

2020-01-10 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
The old iterators will get a special gluon dataset wrapper which has no length and forbids random accessing or sampling from dataloader, they keep their original arguments during iteration -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] MXNet 2.0 API Deprecation (#17676)

2020-04-14 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
In the long run, gluon vision model zoo will be maintained in GluonCV and therefore mxnet.gluon.vision.model_zoo should be deprecated to avoid duplicate maintenance efforts in 2.0 -- You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 2) (#17269)

2020-05-12 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
closed by #17841 -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/17269#issuecomment-627676975

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [mxnet 2.0][item 4.8][RFC] Gluon Data API Extension and Fixes(Part 2) (#17269)

2020-05-12 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Closed #17269. -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/17269#event-3329858545

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc1

2020-07-22 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
+1 binding. Tested - build - gluoncv unittests - gluoncv training examples Best, Zhi > On Jul 22, 2020, at 12:30 AM, Tao Lv wrote: > > +1 (binding) > > > > - Untar the source code package; > > - Build from source code with makefile, USE_BLAS=mkl, USE_MKLDNN=1; > > - Check mx.__version__;

Re: [VOTE] Subscribe dev@ to Github Activities

2018-07-17 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
+1 We NEED to bring valuable discussions to a centralized place (@dev for example) rather than scattered single threads. Per filter options, there are a lot we can do to improve the SNR. Zhi On 2018/07/17 16:26:01, Sheng Zha wrote: > Hi Anirudh, > > 1. You need exactly one filter to filter o

Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3

2018-08-07 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
I strongly suggest to track this PR https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11908 in 1.3 release which fixed the usability issue for lower end machines that don’t have as large shared memory space as ec2 instances. Best, - Zhi >

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-01 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
-1. Please include all 3rd party dependencies, GitHub won’t automatically do that. BTW, Per user request in forum, I found this PR(https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12118 ) is not included in 1.3 rc0, I recommend to cherry-pic

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-02 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
/incubator-mxnet/releases/download/1.3.0.rc0/apache-mxnet-src-1.3.0.rc0-incubating.tar.gz > > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=73630468 > > > -sz > > On 2018/09/01 22:08:48, "Joshua Z. Zhang"wrote: > > -1. Please

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-04 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
I have contacted some friends in industry, they claim that some controller PCs are still on win7 and have no plan to upgrade in near future, so I would strongly go -1. In terms of build system on Windows 7, MS does give warnings in VS 2015, but with compatibility mode, we can still install it

Re: [Announce] Upcoming Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.4.0 release

2018-11-29 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Hi, I would like to bring a critical performance and stability patch of existing gluon dataloader to 1.4.0: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13447 . This PR is finished, waiting for CI to pass. Steffen, could you help me add

Re: Embedded World 2019 Robotics Demo

2019-02-27 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Played with the demo closely today, and it looks awesome with the real robot arms! -Zhi > On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:03 PM, Thomas DELTEIL > wrote: > > Just tweeted two videos about it: > https://twitter.com/thdelteil/status/1101012275991764993 > https://twitter.com/thdelteil/status/1101012034051

Re: [Announcement] New Committer - Patric Zhao

2019-03-15 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Congrats Patrick! Zhi > > On Mar 15, 2019 at 10:46 PM, (mailto:marco.g.ab...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > Congratulations, great to have you on board! > > -Marco > > Lv, Tao Aschrieb am Fr., 15. März 2019, 15:38: > > > Wow, congratulation Patric!

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.1.rc0

2019-05-02 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
+1 (non-binding) Build from source with cuda/cudnn. - All tests passed - GluonCV unittest scripts passed - GluonCV training scripts passed - No issue with python multiprocessing Best, Zhi > On May 2, 2019, at 11:34 AM, kellen sunderland > wrote: > > +1 (non-binding) > > I checked TRT integr

Re: [Announcement] New Committer - Lai Wei

2019-08-04 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Congrats Lai, well deserved! -Zhi > On Aug 3, 2019, at 11:53 PM, Qing Lan wrote: > > Congrats Lai! > > > From: Kshitij Kalambarkar > Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2019 0:19 > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Announcement] New Committer - Lai Wei >

Re: [Announcement] New Committer - Junru Shao

2019-09-08 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
Well deserved Junru, welcome! -Zhi > On Sep 8, 2019, at 7:04 PM, Yuan Tang wrote: > > Welcome Junru! > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 9:21 PM Lin Yuan wrote: > >> Congratulations! >> >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 8:14 PM Sheng Zha wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Please join me in welcoming Junru Sha