singa-incubating-0.3.0 Release Notes
SINGA is a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep learning models over large datasets. It is designed with an intuitive programming model based on the layer abstraction. SINGA supports a wide variety of popular deep learning models.
This release includes following features:
GPU Support
- [SINGA-131] Implement and optimize hybrid training using both CPU and GPU
- [SINGA-136] Support cuDNN v4
- [SINGA-134] Extend SINGA to run over a GPU cluster
- [SINGA-157] Change the priority of cudnn library and install libsingagpu.so
Remove Dependences
- [SINGA-156] Remove the dependency on ZMQ for single process training
- [SINGA-155] Remove zookeeper for single-process training
Python Binding
- [SINGA-126] Python Binding for Interactive Training
Other Improvements
- [SINGA-80] New Blob Level and Address Level Math Operation Interface
- [SINGA-130] Data Prefetching
- [SINGA-145] New SGD based optimization Updaters: AdaDelta, Adam, AdamMax
Bugs Fixed
- [SINGA-148] Race condition between Worker threads and Driver
- [SINGA-150] Mesos Docker container failed
- [SIGNA-141] Undesired Hash collision when locating process id to worker…
- [SINGA-149] Docker build fail
- [SINGA-143] The compilation cannot detect libsingagpu.so file