The Apache MADlib team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MADlib version 1.16.
Highlights of the MADlib 1.16 release: New features: - Deep learning: support for Keras with TensorFlow backend with GPU - acceleration - Deep learning: utility to load model architectures and weights - Deep learning: preprocess images for gradient descent optimization algorithms - kd-tree method for k-nearest neighbors for faster approximate solution - Support for Greenplum 6 - Support for PostgreSQL 11 Bug fixes, including: - Jaccard distance was not releasing memory - MLP with minibatching on postgres fixed - MLP was not stopping after tolerance was reached - MLP warm start fixed - MLP with minibatch for integer dependent variable on PostgreSQL - Pivot: array_agg/distinct scaling issue on gpdb fixed - linregr_train with dependent variable a JSONB element fixed - MADLib 1.15 was not recognizing Postgres 10 declarative partitioned table - Encoding module with bigint fixed - SVM class_weight param fixed Other: - Simplified maintenance by removing online examples from sql functions - Improved performance for weakly connected components - SVD and other messaging improvements - max itemset size default in assoc rules changed to 10 The complete release notes can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/MADlib+1.16 You can download the source release and convenience binary packages from Apache MADlib's download page here: http://madlib.apache.org/download.html Alternatively, you can download through an ASF mirror near you: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/madlib/1.16 ---- Apache MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods for structured and unstructured data. The MADlib mission: to foster widespread development of scalable analytic skills, by harnessing efforts from commercial practice, academic research, and open-source development. We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at https://madlib.apache.org ---- Thank you, everyone who contributed to the MADlib 1.16 release. We look forward to continued community participation for the next release. Warm Regards, Domino Valdano