IBM Analog Hardware Acceleration Kit 0.2.0

Added

• Added more types of resistive devices: IdealResistiveDevice, LinearStep,
  SoftBounds, ExpStep, VectorUnitCell, TransferCompoundDevice,
  DifferenceUnitCell. (#14)
• Added a new InferenceTile that supports basic hardware-aware training
  and inference using a statistical noise model that was fitted by real PCM
  devices. (#25)
• Added a new AnalogSequential layer that can be used in place of Sequential
  for easier operation on children analog layers. (#34)

Changed

• Specifying the tile configuration (resistive device and the rest of the
  properties) is now based on a new RPUConfig family of classes, that is
  passed as a rpu_config argument instead of resistive_device to Tiles
  and Layers. Please check the aihwkit.simulator.config module for more
  details. (#23)
• The different analog tiles are now organized into a aihwkit.simulator.tiles
  package. The internal IndexedTiles have been removed, and the rest of
  previous top-level imports have been kept. (#29)

Fixed

• Improved package compatibility when using non-UTF8 encodings (version file,
  package description). (#13)
• The build system can now detect and use openblas directly when using the
  conda-installable version. (#22)
• When using analog layers as children of another module, the tiles are now
  correctly moved to CUDA if using AnalogSequential (or by the optimizer if
  using regular torch container modules). (#34)