TensorLayer 1.8.6rc2

Changelog

Added

• API:
  • tl.alphas and tl.alphas_like added following the tf.ones/zeros and tf.zeros_like/ones_like (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #580)
  • tl.lazy_imports.LazyImport to import heavy libraries only when necessary (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• CI Tool:
  • Stale Probot added to clean stale issues (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #573)
  • Changelog Probot Configuration added (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #637)
  • Travis Builds now handling a matrix of TF Version from TF==1.6.0 to TF==1.8.0 (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #644)
  • CircleCI added to build and upload Docker Containers for each PR merged and tag release (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #648)
• Decorator:
  • tl.decorators API created including deprecated_alias and private_method (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #660)
  • tl.decorators API enriched with protected_method (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)
• Docker:
  • Containers for each release and for each PR merged on master built (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #648)
  • Containers built in the following configurations (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #648):
    • py2 + cpu
    • py2 + gpu
    • py3 + cpu
    • py3 + gpu
• Documentation:
  • Clean README (by @luomai in #677)
  • Release semantic version added on index page (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #633)
  • Optimizers page added (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #636)
  • AMSGrad added on Optimizers page added (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #636)
• Layer:
  • ElementwiseLambdaLayer added to use custom function to connect multiple layer inputs (by @One-sixth in #579)
  • AtrousDeConv2dLayer added (by @2wins in #662)
• Optimizer:
  • AMSGrad Optimizer added based on On the Convergence of Adam and Beyond (ICLR 2018) (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #636)
• Setup:
  • Creation of installation flaggs all, all_cpu, and all_gpu (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #660)
• Test:
  • test_utils_predict.py added to reproduce and fix issue #288 (by @2wins in #566)
  • Layer_DeformableConvolution_Test added to reproduce issue #572 with deformable convolution (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #573)
  • Array_Op_Alphas_Test and Array_Op_Alphas_Like_Test added to test tensorlayer/array_ops.py file (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #580)
  • test_optimizer_amsgrad.py added to test AMSGrad optimizer (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #636)
  • test_logging.py added to insure robustness of the logging API (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #645)
  • test_decorators.py added (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #660)
• Tutorials:
  • tutorial_tfslim has been introduced to show how to use SlimNetsLayer (by @2wins in #560).

Changed

• Tensorflow CPU & GPU dependencies moved to separated requirement files in order to allow PyUP.io to parse them (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #573)
• The document of LambdaLayer for linking it with ElementwiseLambdaLayer (by @zsdonghao in #587)
• RTD links point to stable documentation instead of latest used for development (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #633)
• TF Version older than 1.6.0 are officially unsupported and raises an exception (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #644)
• Readme Badges Updated with Support Python and Tensorflow Versions (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #644)
• TL logging API has been consistent with TF logging API and thread-safe (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #645)
• Relative Imports changed for absolute imports (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #657)
• tl.files refactored into a directory with numerous files (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #657)
• tl.files.voc_dataset fixed because of original Pascal VOC website was down (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #657)
• extra requirements hidden inside the library added in the project requirements (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #657)
• requirements files refactored in requirements/ directory (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #657)
• README.md and other markdown files have been refactored and cleaned. (by @zsdonghao @DEKHTIARJonathan @luomai in #639)
• Ternary Convolution Layer added in unittest (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #658)
• Convolution Layers unittests have been cleaned & refactored (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #658)
• All the tests are now using a DEBUG level verbosity when run individualy (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #660)
• tf.identity as activation is ignored, thus reducing the size of the graph by removing useless operation (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• argument dictionaries are now checked and saved within the Layer Base Class (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• Layer Base Class now presenting methods to update faultlessly all_layers, all_params, and all_drop (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)
• Input Layers have been removed from tl.layers.core and added to tl.layers.inputs (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)
• Input Layers are now considered as true layers in the graph (they represent a placeholder), unittests have been updated (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)
• Layer API is simplified, with automatic feeding prev_layer into self.inputs (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)

Deprecated

• tl.layers.TimeDistributedLayer argurment args is deprecated in favor of layer_args (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)

Removed

• assert() calls remove and replaced by raise AssertionError() (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• tl.identity is removed, not used anymore and deprecated for a long time (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• All Code specific to TF.__version__ < "1.6" have been removed (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)

Fixed

• Issue #498 - Deprecation Warning Fix in tl.layers.RNNLayer with inspect (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #574)
• Issue #498 - Deprecation Warning Fix in tl.files with truth value of an empty array is ambiguous (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #575)
• Issue #565 related to tl.utils.predict fixed - np.hstack problem in which the results for multiple batches are stacked along axis=1 (by @2wins in #566)
• Issue #572 with tl.layers.DeformableConv2d fixed (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #573)
• Issue #664 with tl.layers.ConvLSTMLayer fixed (by @dengyueyun666 in #676)
• Typo of the document of ElementwiseLambdaLayer (by @zsdonghao in #588)
• Error in tl.layers.TernaryConv2d fixed - self.inputs not defined (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #658)
• Deprecation warning fixed in tl.layers.binary._compute_threshold() (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #658)
• All references to tf.logging replaced by tl.logging (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #661)
• Duplicated code removed when bias was used (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #667)
• tensorlayer.third_party.roi_pooling.roi_pooling.roi_pooling_ops is now lazy loaded to prevent systematic error raised (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #675)
• Tutorial:
  • tutorial_word2vec_basic.py saving issue #476 fixed (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #635)
  • All tutorials tested and errors have been fixed (by @DEKHTIARJonathan in #635)

Dependencies Update

• Update pytest from 3.5.1 to 3.6.0 (by @DEKHTIARJonathan and @pyup-bot in #647)
• Update progressbar2 from 3.37.1 to 3.38.0 (by @DEKHTIARJonathan and @pyup-bot in #651)
• Update scikit-image from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0 (by @DEKHTIARJonathan and @pyup-bot in #656)

Contributors

@lgarithm @DEKHTIARJonathan @2wins @One-sixth @zsdonghao @luomai