Release log

Major Improvements

Reader Prototype. Data can be read through C++ reader asynchronously with potentially higher performance.

ParallelExecutor. Significantly improve the multi-gpu performance over the previous solution.

Distributed Training. Major performance improvements and stability improvements.

Inplace Activation. Significantly reduce the GPU memory requirements and increase the batch size.

Operator Optimizations. Performance improvements of many operators.

Timeline Profiling. Allow to visualize performance as time series.

Calling cublas/cudnn library with wrong argument types.

Image Classification

Object Detection

OCR

Machine Translation

Text Classification

Language Model

Sequence Tagging