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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased] - YYYY-MM-DD

Added

Changed

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

[v0.28.1] - 2023-06-12

Fixed

  • Fixed build with gcc 12. (#3925)
  • PyTorch: Fixed build on ROCm. (#3928)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed local_rank_op. (#3940)

[v0.28.0] - 2023-05-10

Added

  • TensorFlow: Added new get_local_and_global_gradients to PartialDistributedGradientTape to retrieve local and non-local gradients separately. (#3859)

Changed

  • Improved reducescatter performance by allocating output tensors before enqueuing the operation. (#3824)
  • TensorFlow: Ensured that tf.logical_and within allreduce tf.cond runs on CPU. (#3885)
  • TensorFlow: Added support for Keras 2.11+ optimizers. (#3860)
  • CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment variable is no longer passed to remote nodes. (#3865)

Fixed

  • Fixed build with ROCm. (#3839, #3848)
  • Fixed build of Docker image horovod-nvtabular. (#3851)
  • Fixed linking recent NCCL by defaulting CUDA runtime library linkage to static and ensuring that weak symbols are overridden. (#3867, #3846)
  • Fixed compatibility with TensorFlow 2.12 and recent nightly versions. (#3864, #3894, #3906, #3907)
  • Fixed missing arguments of Keras allreduce function. (#3905)
  • Updated with_device functions in MXNet and PyTorch to skip unnecessary cudaSetDevice calls. (#3912)

[v0.27.0] - 2023-02-01

Added

  • Keras: Added PartialDistributedOptimizer API. (#3738)
  • Added HOROVOD_SPARK_USE_LOCAL_RANK_GPU_INDEX environment variable to ignore GPU device indices assigned by Spark and always use local rank GPU device in Spark estimators. (#3737)
  • Added support for reducescatter arguments prescale_factor and postscale_factor and moved averaging into Horovod backend. (#3815)
  • Spark Estimator: Added support for custom data loaders in TorchEstimator. (#3787)
  • Spark Estimator: Added NVTabular data loader for TorchEstimator. (#3787)

Changed

  • Improved NCCL performance for fused allgather operations through padding for better memory alignment. (#3727)
  • Improved look-ahead tensor fusion buffer size estimates when allgather and other operations are mixed. (#3727)

Fixed

  • ROCm: Fixed GPU MPI operations support in build. (#3746)
  • PyTorch: Fixed linking order to avoid using Gloo from PyTorch dynamic libraries. (#3750)
  • Fixed memory leak in MPI_GPUAllgather. (#3727)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed deprecation warnings when building with TensorFlow 2.11. (#3767)
  • Keras: Added support for additional arguments to SyncBatchNormalization._moments(). (#3775)
  • Fixed version number parsing with pypa/packaging 22.0. (#3794)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed linking with nightly versions leading up to TensorFlow 2.12. (#3755)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed handling of tf.IndexedSlices types when scaling local gradients. (#3786)
  • Added missing MEMCPY_IN_FUSION_BUFFER timeline event for reducescatter. (#3808)
  • Fixed build of Docker image horovod-nvtabular. (#3817)
  • TensorFlow: Several fixes for allreduce and grouped allreduce handling of tf.IndexedSlices. (#3813)
  • Spark: Restricted PyArrow to versions < 11.0. (#3830)
  • TensorFlow: Resolved conflicts between multiple optimizer wrappers reusing the same gradient accumulation counter. (#3783)
  • TensorFlow/Keras: Fixed DistributedOptimizer with Keras 2.11+. (#3822)
  • PyTorch, ROCm: Fixed allreduce average on process sets. (#3815)

[v0.26.1] - 2022-10-14

Fixed

  • Fixed packaging import during install to occur after install_requires. (#3741)

[v0.26.0] - 2022-10-13

Added

  • Spark Estimator: Added support for custom data loaders in KerasEstimator. (#3603)
  • Spark Estimator: Added NVTabular data loader for KerasEstimator. (#3603)
  • Spark Estimator: Added gradient accumulation support to Spark torch estimator. (#3681)
  • TensorFlow: Added register_local_var functionality to distributed optimizers and local gradient aggregators. (#3695)
  • TensorFlow: Added support for local variables for BroadcastGlobalVariablesCallback. (#3703)
  • Enabled use of native ncclAvg op for NCCL allreduces. (#3646)
  • Added support for additional reduction operations for allreduce (min, max, product). (#3660)
  • Added 2D torus allreduce using NCCL. (#3608)
  • Added support for Petastorm reader level parallel shuffling. (#3665)
  • Added random seed support for Lightning datamodule to generate reproducible data loading outputs. (#3665)
  • Added support for int8 and uint8 allreduce and grouped_allreduce in TensorFlow. (#3649)
  • Added support for batched memory copies in GPUAllgather. (#3590)
  • Added support for batched memory copies in GPUReducescatter. (#3621)
  • Added hvd.grouped_allgather() and hvd.grouped_reducescatter() operations. (#3594)
  • Added warning messages if output tensor memory allocations fail. (#3594)
  • Added register_local_source and use_generic_names funtionality to DistributedGradientTape. (#3628)
  • Added PartialDistributedGradientTape() API for model parallel use cases. (#3643)
  • Spark/Lightning: Added reader_worker_count and reader_pool_type. (#3612)
  • Spark/Lightning: Added transformation_edit_fields and transformation_removed_fields param for EstimatorParams. (#3651)
  • TensorFlow: Added doc string for hvd.grouped_allreduce(). (#3594)
  • ROCm: Enabled alltoall. (#3654)

Changed

  • Default Petastorm reader pool is changed from process to thread for lower memory usage. (#3665)
  • Keras: Support only legacy optimizers in Keras 2.11+. (#3725)
  • Gloo: When negotiating, use gather rather than allgather. (#3633)
  • Use packaging.version instead of distutils version classes. (#3700)

Deprecated

  • Deprecated field shuffle_buffer_size from EstimatorParams. Use shuffle to enable shuffle or not. (#3665)

Removed

  • Build: Removed std::regex use for better cxxabi11 compatibility. (#3584)

Fixed

  • TensorFlow: Fixed the optimizer iteration increments when backward_passes_per_step > 1. (#3631)
  • Fixed FuseResponses() on BATCHED_D2D_PADDING edge cases for Reducescatter and/or ROCm. (#3621)
  • PyTorch: Fixed Reducescatter functions to raise HorovodInternalError rather than RuntimeError. (#3594)
  • PyTorch on GPUs without GPU operations: Fixed grouped allreduce to set CPU device in tensor table. (#3594)
  • Fixed race condition in PyTorch allocation handling. (#3639)
  • Build: Fixed finding nvcc (if not in $PATH) with older versions of CMake. (#3682)
  • Fixed reducescatter() and grouped_reducescatter() to raise clean exceptions for scalar inputs. (#3699)
  • Updated Eigen submodule to fix build on macOS with aarch64. (#3619)
  • Build: Correctly select files in torch/ directory to be hipified. (#3588)
  • Build: Modify regex match for CUDA|ROCm in FindPytorch.cmake. (#3593)
  • Build: Fixed ROCm-specific build failure. (#3630)

[v0.25.0] - 2022-06-20

Added

  • Added hvd.reducescatter() operation with implementations in NCCL, MPI, and Gloo. (#3299, #3574)
  • Added AMD GPU XLA Op Implementation. (#3486)
  • Added Horovod job to spin up distributed TensorFlow Data Service. (#3525)
  • Spark: Expose random seed as an optional parameter. (#3517)
  • Add Helm Chart. (#3546)
  • Elastic: Add elastic run API. (#3503)
  • Spark Estimator: Expose random seed for model training reproducibility. (#3517)
  • Spark Estimator: Add option whether to use GPUs at all. (#3526)
  • Spark Estimator: Expose parameter to set start method for multiprocessing. (#3580)

Changed

  • MXNet: Updated allreduce functions to newer op API. (#3299)
  • TensorFlow: Make TensorFlow output allocations asynchronous when using NCCL backend. (#3464)
  • TensorFlow: Clear locally accumulated gradient by assigning with zeros_like to avoid infinite gradient not correctly cleared up. (#3505)
  • Make HorovodVersionMismatchError subclass ImportError instead of just a standard Exception. (#3549)
  • Elastic: Catch any exception to prevent the discovery thread from silently dying. (#3436)
  • Horovodrun: Exit check_build (--check-build) via sys.exit to flush stdout. (#3272)
  • Spark: Use env to set environment vars in remote shell. (#3489)
  • Build: Avoid redundant ptx generation for maximum specified compute capability. (#3509)

Deprecated

  • MXNet: Deprecated average argument of allreduce functions. (#3299)
  • Public and internal APIs: deprecate use of np, min_np, max_np. Use num_proc, min_num_proc, and max_num_proc, respectively, instead. (#3409)
  • Horovodrun: Providing multiple NICS as comma-separated string via --network-interface is deprecated, use --network-interface multiple times or --network-interfaces instead. (#3506)
  • horovod.run: Argument network_interface with comma-separated string is deprecated, use network_interfaces with Iterable[str] instead. (#3506)

Fixed

  • Fallback to NCCL shared lib if static one is not found. (#3500
  • Spark/Lightning: Added missing tranform_spec for Petastorm datamodule. (#3543)
  • Spark/Lightning: Fixed PTL Spark example with checkpoint usage by calling save_hyperparameters(). (#3527)
  • Elastic: Fixed empty hostname returned from HostDiscoveryScript. (#3490)
  • TensorFlow 2.9: Fixed build for API change related to tensorflow_accelerator_device_info. (#3513)
  • TensorFlow 2.10: Bumped build partially to C++17. (#3558)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed gradient update timing in TF AggregationHelperEager. (#3496)
  • TensorFlow: Fixed resource NotFoundError in TF AggregationHelper. (#3499)

[v0.24.3] - 2022-04-21

Fixed

  • Make DBFSLocalStore support "file:/dbfs/...", implement get_localized_path. (#3510)

[v0.24.2] - 2022-03-10

Fixed

  • Setup: Require fsspec >= 2010.07.0 (#3451)
  • Fix ignored cuda arch flags (#3462

[v0.24.1] - 2022-03-03

Fixed

  • Extended CMake build script to often find CUDA even if nvcc is not in $PATH. (#3444)

[v0.24.0] - 2022-03-01

Added

  • Ray: Added elastic keyword parameters to RayExecutor API: This API supports both static (non-elastic) and elastic Horovod jobs. (#3190)
  • TensorFlow: Added in-place broadcasting of variables. (#3128)
  • Elastic: Added support for resurrecting blacklisted hosts. (#3319)
  • MXNet: Added support for MXNet async dependency engine. (#3242, #2963)
  • Spark/Lightning: Added history to lightning estimator. (#3214)

Changed

  • Moved to CMake version 3.13 with first-class CUDA language support and re-enabled parallelized builds. Uses a temporary installation of CMake if CMake 3.13 is not found. (#3261, #3371)
  • Moved released Docker image horovod and horovod-cpu to Ubuntu 20.04 and Python 3.8. (#3393)
  • Spark Estimator: Don't shuffle row groups if training data requires non-shuffle (#3369)
  • Spark/Lightning: Reduced memory footprint of async dataloader. (#3239)
  • Elastic: Improved handling NCCL errors under elastic scenario. (#3112)
  • Spark/Lightning: Do not overwrite model with checkpoint by default. (#3201)
  • Make checkpoint name optional so that user can save to h5 format. (#3411)

Deprecated

  • Deprecated ElasticRayExecutor APIs in favor of the new RayExecutor API. (#3190)

Removed

  • Spark: Removed h5py<3 constraint as this is not needed anymore for Tensorflow >2.5.0. (#3301)

Fixed

  • Elastic Spark: Fixed indices in initial task-to-task registration. (#3410)
  • PyTorch: Fixed GIL-related deadlock with PyTorch 1.10.1. (#3352)
  • PyTorch: Fixed finalization of ProcessSetTable. (#3351)
  • Fixed remote trainers to point to the correct shared lib path. (#3258)
  • Fixed imports from tensorflow.python.keras with tensorflow 2.6.0+. (#3403)
  • Fixed Adasum communicator init logic. (#3379)
  • Lightning: Fixed resume logger. (#3375)
  • Fixed the checkpoint directory structure for pytorch and pytorch lightning. (#3362)
  • Fixed possible integer overflow in multiplication. (#3368)
  • Fixed the pytorch_lightning_mnist.py example. (#3245, #3290)
  • Fixed barrier segmentation fault. (#3313)
  • Fixed hvd.barrier() tensor queue management. (#3300)
  • Fixed PyArrow "list index out of range" IndexError. (#3274)
  • Elastic: Fixed all workers sometimes failing on elastic Horovod failure. (#3264)
  • Spark/Lightning: Fixed setting limit_train_batches and limit_val_batches. (#3237)
  • Elastic: Fixed ElasticSampler and hvd.elastic.state losing some indices of processed samples when nodes dropped. (#3143)
  • Spark/Lightning: Fixed history metrics for estimator serialization. (#3216)
  • Ray: Fixed RayExecutor to fail when num_workers=0 and num_hosts=None. (#3210)
  • Spark/Lightning: Fixed checkpoint callback dirpath typo. (#3204)

[v0.23.0] - 2021-10-06

Added

  • Added process sets to concurrently run collective operations on subsets of Horovod processes in TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. (#2839, #3042, #3043, #3054, #3083, #3090)
  • Added XLA support for Allreduce via tf.function(jit_compile=True). (#3053)
  • Added fused buffer scaling and unpack/pack kernels on GPU. (#2973)
  • Added support for NCCL on CUDA 11.4. (#3182)
  • Added fp16 compression for MXNet. (#2987)
  • Added terminate_on_nan flag to Spark Lightning estimator. (#3088)
  • Added barrier() API to torch module to support simple synchronization among ranks and to achieve parity with PyTorch DDP and similar frameworks. #3139
  • Added params for customizing Tensorboard callback. (#3153)
  • Added hvd.cross_rank() for keras. (#3008)
  • Added barrier() API to torch module to support simple synchronization among ranks and to achieve parity with PyTorch DDP and similar frameworks. #3139

Changed

  • Implemented more asynchronous dependency handling on GPU. (#2963)
  • Ray: RayExecutor will now use the current placement group instead of always creating a new one. (#3134)
  • Lightning: turned off shuffling for validation dataset. (#2974)
  • Ray: RayExecutor will use the current placement group if one exists. (#3134)
  • Extended hvd.join() to return the last rank that joined. (#3097

Deprecated

Removed

  • Spark/Keras: remove bare Keras support. (#3191)

Fixed

  • Fix Horovod develop/editable install mode and incremental builds. (#3074)
  • Estimator/Lightning: use lightning datamodule. (#3084)
  • Fix Horovod Spark StringType and numpy type mapping issue. (#3146)
  • Fixed error in Keras LearningRateScheduler. (#3135)
  • Fixed bug in Lightning Profiler on Ray. (#3122)
  • Fixed torch op lazy release to prevent OOM in elastic training. (#3110)
  • Lightning: Fixed usage of the checkpoint callback. (#3186)
  • Fixed MPICH support to use Intel MPI's implementation. (#3148)
  • Fixed race condition in PyTorch async dataloader. (#3120)
  • Keras: Fixed learning rate scheduler. (#3142, #3135)

[v0.22.1] - 2021-06-10

Added

  • Estimator: added support for loading data from S3, GCS, ADLS, and other remote filesystems. (#2927)
  • Estimator: added custom Spark data loader interface. (#2938)
  • LightningEstimator: added support to supply a logger and associated parameter to control the frequency of logging. (#2926)
  • Estimator: added check to ensure all ranks have the same device type. (#2942)

Changed

  • Changed behavior from using TensorBoardLogger to now using it as a fallback if a logger is not supplied. (#2926)
  • Ray: disabled capturing child tasks in placement group. (#2920)

Fixed

  • Fixed hvd.tensorflow.keras.Compression, accidentally removed in v0.22.0. (#2945)
  • TorchEstimator: fixed usage of validation_steps in place of validation_steps_per_epoch. (#2918)
  • TensorFlow: fixed C++ API for TF v2.6.0. (#2932)
  • PyTorch: fixed sparse_allreduce_async for PyTorch v0.10.0. (#2965)

[v0.22.0] - 2021-05-18

Added

  • Added pytorch_lightning spark estimator which enables training pytorch_lightning models. (#2713)
  • Added NVTX tracing hooks for profiling with Nsight Systems. (#2723)
  • Added a generic num_workers API for RayExecutor (#2870)
  • Supports Ray Client without code changes. (#2882)
  • Supports inmemory cache option for Keras Estimator. (#2896)
  • Added FP16 support for GPU tensor in mxnet. (#2915)
  • Added response caching for allgather operations. (#2872)
  • Estimator: add petastorm reader_pool_type into constructor (#2903)

Changed

  • Changed alltoall to return the received splits as a second return value if non-uniform splits are sent. (#2631)
  • Changed RayExecutor to use Ray Placement Groups for worker colocation. (#2824)
  • Changed Inmemory dataloader usage for Torch Estimator with petastorm v0.11.0 release. (#2896)

Fixed

  • Changed RayExecutor to use Ray node ID to enable multi-container:single-host setups. (#2883)
  • Support sparse gradients aggregation in TF1 Keras. (#2879)
  • Respect global_step parameter for LegacyOptimizers when aggregating gradients. (#2879)
  • Fixed compatibility with PyTorch 1.9.0. (#2829)

[v0.21.3] - 2021-02-15

Added

  • Add groups parameter in DistributedOptimizer for custom allreduce groups. (#2523)

Removed

  • Removed num_groups parameter in DistributedOptimizer, replaced with groups. (#2523)

Fixed

  • Fixed worker desynchronization deadlock issue in TensorFlow 2.4. (#2647)
  • Deduped Keras LearningRateWarmupCallback log after gradual learning rate warmup. (#2661)

[v0.21.2] - 2021-02-08

Added

  • Added support for Intel(R) MPI in horovodrun. (#2374)
  • Add support for callbacks in Ray Elastic Executor. (#2639)
  • Added forwarding of stdout/stderr captured to driver over Gloo. (#2646)

Fixed

  • Fixed broadcast_optimizer_state to handle NoneType params for PyTorch 1.8. (#2624)
  • Fixed local_rank support for Ray. (#2596)
  • Fixed DL estimators to obtain the output df schema without sampling the input. (#2611)
  • Fixed wrong default for horovod.tensorflow.keras.allreduce average (#2627)

[v0.21.1] - 2021-01-06

Added

  • Added in-memory dataset caching param to TorchEstimator. (#2434)
  • Added val_batch_size param to the Estimator API. (#2505)
  • Added support for TorchScript modules when using TorchEstimator. (#2494)

Changed

  • Migrated to oneCCL aligned with oneAPI specification v1.0. (#2513)
  • Added knob to set cache hint for oneCCL allreduce. (#2560)
  • Renamed horovodrun arg --ccl-bgt-affinity to --thread-affinity. (#2562)
  • Changed default build parallelism from -j8 to -j1 to address potential race condition. (#2572)

Fixed

  • Fixed building Horovod for ROCm PyTorch with newer hipify script. (#2360)
  • Fixed "Executable class" support for Ray. (#2510)
  • Fixed TorchEstimator returning model without switching to eval mode. (#2517)
  • Remove ssh reliance for Ray elastic training. (#2528)
  • Fixed error handling for changing framework without reinstalling horovod. (#2529)
  • Fixed "Intermediate path does not exist" error with DBFSLocalStore. (#2526)
  • Avoid synchronization if workers are only shrinked in elastic mode. (#2514)
  • Fixed Ray resource test. (#2575)
  • Fixed usage of env variable HOROVOD_GLOO_TIMEOUT_SECONDS with horovodrun. (#2571)

[v0.21.0] - 2020-11-23

Added

  • Added support for backward_passes_per_step > 1 for TF Keras graph mode. (#2346)
  • Added support for backward_passes_per_step > 1 for TF Keras eager execution. (#2371)
  • Added support for backward_passes_per_step > 1 for TF LegacyOptimizer in graph mode. (#2401)
  • Added grouped allreduce to enable more efficient tensor fusion and deterministic training. (#2453)
  • Add support for specifying op and compression in horovod.tensorflow.keras.allreduce(). (#2423)
  • Adding support for batched D2D memcopy kernel on GPU. (#2435)
  • Added schema inference in Spark Estimator without sampling. (#2373)
  • Added Store.create("dbfs:/") mapping to DBFSLocalStore("/dbfs/..."). (#2376)

Changed

  • Changed Keras callbacks to require parameter initial_lr of LearningRateScheduleCallback and LearningRateWarmupCallback. (#2459)
  • Changed default cycle time from 5ms to 1ms and fusion threshold from 64MB to 128MB. (#2468)

Fixed

  • Fixed support for TensorFlow v2.4.0. (#2381)
  • Fixed averaging using CUDA half2 implementation one element half buffers. (#2375)
  • Fixed HOROVOD_THREAD_AFFINITY when using oneCCL. (#2350)
  • Added timeout to SSH check in horovodrun to prevent hanging. (#2448)
  • Added HOROVOD_GLOO_TIMEOUT_SECONDS value to error messages. (#2436)
  • Fixed race condition in dynamic timeline API. (#2341)
  • Fixed --log-hide-timestamp to apply to driver logs with Gloo. (#2388)
  • Fixed the search order of Eigen and Flatbuffers paths. (#2473)
  • Fixed type checks in TorchEstimator to correctly use isinstance(). (#2480)

[0.20.3] - 2020-10-01

Added

  • Added Elastic Ray integration. (#2291)

Changed

  • Removed dependency on SSH access for Ray. (#2275)

[0.20.2] - 2020-09-25

Fixed

  • Fixed building Horovod without HOROVOD_WITHOUT_MXNET when MXNet is not installed. (#2334)

[0.20.1] - 2020-09-25

Added

  • Added Databricks storage DBFSLocalStore and support for GPU-aware scheduling to horovod.spark Estimator. (#2234)
  • Added ElasticSampler and PyTorch Elastic ImageNet example. (#2297)
  • Added ability to dynamically start and stop timeline programmatically. (#2215)
  • Added support for Gloo on macOS. (#2254)
  • Exposed name argument to TensorFlow allreduce operation. (#2325)
  • Added option to strip outer name scope from Horovod ops in TensorFlow. (#2328)

Fixed

  • Fixed usage of VERBOSE=1 when setting custom MAKEFLAGS. (#2239)
  • Fixed bugs in Keras Elastic Callback classes. (#2289)
  • Fixed RelWithDebInfo build and made it the default with -03 optimizations. (#2305)
  • Fixed usage of tf.cond in TensorFlow alltoall gradient. (#2327)
  • Fixed allreduce averaging for TF IndexedSlices in ROCm path. (#2279)
  • Include stdexcept to handle certain compiler / frameworks that don't include it already. (#2238)
  • Fixed Debug builds by setting compiler options based on CMake build type. (#2263)
  • Skipped launching zero-sized send/recvs for NCCLAlltoall. (#2273)
  • Fixed missing run in tf keras elastic mode. (#2272)
  • Fixed loss function in TensorFlow2 elastic synthetic benchmark. (#2265)
  • Fixed usage of HOROVOD_MIXED_INSTALL env var in alltoall tests. (#2266)
  • Removed keras requirement from Ray example. (#2262)

[0.20.0] - 2020-09-02

Added

  • Added bare-metal elastic mode implementation to enable auto-scaling and fault tolerance. (#1849)
  • Added Elastic Horovod support for Spark auto-scaling. (#1956)
  • Added All-to-All operation for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. (#2143)
  • Added support for gradient_predivide_factor and averaging in Horovod backend. (#1949)
  • Added NCCL implementation of the allgather operation. (#1952)
  • Added HOROVOD_GPU_OPERATIONS installation variable to simplify enabling NCCL support for all GPU operations. (#1960)
  • Added TensorFlow implementation of SyncBatchNormalization layer. (#2075)
  • Added hvd.is_initialized() method. (#2020)
  • Added hvd.allgather_object function for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. (#2166)
  • Added hvd.broadcast_object function for MXNet. (#2122)
  • Added label_shapes parameter to KerasEstimator and TorchEstimator. (#2140)
  • Added optional modelCheckPoint callback to KerasEstimator params. (#2124)
  • Added ssh_identity_file argument to horovodrun. (#2201)
  • Added support for horovodrun on kubeflow/mpi-job. (#2199)
  • Added Ray integration. (#2218)

Changed

  • Moved horovod.run.runner.run to horovod.run. (#2099)
  • HOROVOD_THREAD_AFFINITY accepts multiple values, one for every Horovod rank (#2131)
  • Migrated build system for native libraries to CMake (#2009)

Deprecated

  • HOROVOD_CCL_BGT_AFFINITY is deprected. Use HOROVOD_THREAD_AFFINITY instead (#2131)

Removed

  • Dropped support for Python 2. (#1954)
  • Dropped support for TensorFlow < 1.15. (#2169)
  • Dropped support for PyTorch < 1.2. (#2086)

Fixed

  • Fixed MXNet allgather implementation to correctly handle resizing the output buffer. (#2092)
  • Fixed Keras Spark Estimator incompatibility with TensorFlow 1.15 due to tf.autograph. (#2069)
  • Fixed API compatibility with PyTorch 1.6. (#2051)
  • Fixed Keras API compatibility with TensorFlow 2.4.0. (#2178)
  • Fixed allgather gradient for TensorFlow 2 in cases where the tensor shape is not known during graph construction. (#2121)
  • Fixed running using Gloo with an imbalanced number of workers per host. (#2212)