DJL v0.17.0 release

[zachgk]

Key Features

• Adds linux AArch64 support for PyTorch
• Upgrades Engine Releases
  • XGBoost version 1.6.0 (#1624)
  • PaddlePaddle version 2.2.2 (#1601)
  • ONNXRuntime version 1.11.0 (#1602)
  • PyTorch version 1.11.0 (#1583)
  • Apache MXNet version 1.9.0 (#1429)
• Newly Added Datasets
  • PennTreebank dataset (#1580)
  • WikiText-2 dataset (#1545)
• Support freezing parameters for transfer learning (#1544)

Enhancement

• Upgrade djl-bench to 0.15.0 (#1476)
• Add SessionOptions support for OnnxRuntime (#1479)
• Device Name parsing (#1490)
• arena allocator setter (#1510)
• Upgrade native build mxnet version (#1517)
• Refactor ml extension support (#1521)
• Parse default device with Device.fromName (#1529)
• Upgrade dependency versions (#1533)
• release Update document version to 0.16.0 (#1536)
• Bump up version to 0.17.0 (#1537)
• Building DJL For aarch64 (#1526)
• api Make resource loading compatible with java9 module (#1541)
• pytorch Allows multiple native jars to package into fat jar (#1543)
• Add document with installation instructions (#1548)
• Separate AbstractSymbolBlock from AbstractBlock (#1555)
• Add better error message for libstdc++ tf errors (#1570)
• basicdataset Add Stanford Question Answering Dataset (#1554)
• xgb Set default missing value to NaN (#1571)
• allow empty batch data (#1569)
• pytorch Allows load libtroch from pip installation package (#1577)
• HF Tokenizer: get charspans (#1584)
• benchmark Allows benchmark run on aarch64 for PyTorch (#1591)
• add pytorch cuDNN acceleration (#1592)
• add troubleshoot issue (#1600)
• add paddle CU110 (#1604)
• Update badge (#1610)
• ONNXRuntime add tensorRT option (#1611)
• api Refactor metrics API (#1613)
• api Fixes metric dimension (#1614)
• bom Update bom dependency (#1615)
• pytorch Use precxx11 build for aarch64 native library (#1619)
• pytorch use precxx11 for aarch64 (#1620)
• Update inference_performance_optimization.md (#1621)
• Fix testFreezeParameters for multi-gpu (#1623)
• Support gather of pytorch (#1622)

Documentation and Examples

• Update README for 0.15.0 release (#1477)
• Update README to use 0.16.0-SNAPSHOT version (#1486)
• typo fix (#1519)
• docs Fixes dataset document. (#1523)
• jupyter remove unecessary maven import (#1540)
• examples Update maven pom file dependency version (#1546)
• Add release note to README (#1565)
• update pytorch build instruction on android (#1630)
• bump up versioning (#1633)
• update android package versions (#1635)
• docs Update pytorch and paddle version (#1634)

Breaking Changes

• Custom symbol blocks should extend AbstractSymbolBlock instead of AbstractBlock

Bug Fixes

• Fix flaky test for tensorflow 2.7.0 on GPU (#1475)
• Fixes topK items for DetectedObjects and make it configurable to Classifications (#1478)
• Fix load native library failure on Android (#1485)
• Adding huggingface tokenizer extension to BOM (#1487)
• Fixes #1149, fix NPE bug (#1492)
• Fix djl site vue version (#1495)
• Fixes MLP example code in README (#1497)
• Fixes jni dependency in README document (#1513)
• Fixes memory leak in hybrid engine (#1518)
• Fix the version issue reported from get-pip.py (#1530)
• Fix FastText JNI build (#1531)
• api Fixes loading BlockFactory bug (#1547)
• tensorflow Fixes tensorflow session always on gpu(0) bug (#1558)
• xgb Fixes missing anonymous classes (#1572)
• examples Fix ImageClassification invalid probability (#1575)
• fix naming (#1581)
• ONNXRuntime fix naming (#1608)
• basicdataset Fixed out of bound limit (#1599)
• api Avoid NPE in Metric.toString() (#1626)
• integration Enable gather unit test for windows (#1638)
• Add rpath fix to Native Publish PyTorch (#1639)
• api Fixes JDK 18 compiler warnings (#1640)

Contributors

• @AKAGIwyf
• @andreabrduque
• @dandansamax
• @frankfliu
• @hd1080p
• @KexinFeng
• @lanking520
• @patins1
• @sindhuvahinis
• @WHALEEYE
• @zachgk

New Contributors

• @sindhuvahinis made their first contribution in typo fix #1519
• @KexinFeng made their first contribution in Fix the python version bug in the benchmark workflow files #1530
• @hd1080p made their first contribution in Building DJL For aarch64 #1526
• @dandansamax made their first contribution in [basicdataset] Add WikiText-2 dataset #1545
• @WHALEEYE made their first contribution in [basicdataset] Add Stanford Question Answering Dataset #1554
• @patins1 made their first contribution in allow empty batch data #1569
• @AKAGIwyf made their first contribution in [basicdataset] Add PennTreebank dataset #1580

Full Changelog: 750c153...v0.17.0

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