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# singa-incubating-2.0.0 Release Notes

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SINGA is a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep
learning models over large datasets.

This release includes following features:

  * Core components
    * [SINGA-434] Support tensor broadcasting
    * [SINGA-370] Improvement to tensor reshape and various misc. changes related to SINGA-341 and 351

  * Model components
    * [SINGA-333] Add support for Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format
    * [SINGA-385] Add new python module for optimizers
    * [SINGA-394] Improve the CPP operations via Intel MKL DNN lib
    * [SINGA-425] Add 3 operators , Abs(), Exp() and leakyrelu(), for Autograd 
    * [SINGA-410] Add two function, set_params() and get_params(), for Autograd Layer class
    * [SINGA-383] Add Separable Convolution for autograd
    * [SINGA-388] Develop some RNN layers by calling tiny operations like matmul, addbias.
    * [SINGA-382] Implement concat operation for autograd    
    * [SINGA-378] Implement maxpooling operation and its related functions for autograd
    * [SINGA-379] Implement batchnorm operation and its related functions for autograd

  * Utility functions and CI
    * [SINGA-432] Update depdent lib versions in conda-build config
    * [SINGA-429] Update docker images for latest cuda and cudnn
    * [SINGA-428] Move Docker images under Apache user name

  * Documentation and usability
    * [SINGA-395] Add documentation for autograd APIs
    * [SINGA-344] Add a GAN example
    * [SINGA-390] Update installation.md
    * [SINGA-384] Implement ResNet using autograd API
    * [SINGA-352] Complete SINGA documentation in Chinese version
      

  * Bugs fixed
    * [SINGA-431] Unit Test failed - Tensor Transpose
    * [SINGA-422] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named "_singa_wrap"
    * [SINGA-418] Unsupportive type 'long' in python3.  
    * [SINGA-409] Basic `singa-cpu` import throws error
    * [SINGA-408] Unsupportive function definition in python3
    * [SINGA-380] Fix bugs from Reshape