v1.13.4

Minor fix to 1.13.3, please see release notes there.

v1.13.3

TODO(afrozm): Document more.

• Various PRs.
• Development on TRAX

v1.13.2

• jax, jaxlib moved to extras in setup.py

PRs:
fixed get_standardized_layers spelling, thanks @cbockman in #1529
serving utils fixes - Thanks @Drunkar ! in #1495
Fixing a checkpoint name bug in #1487, thanks @lzhang10

Enhancements:

• DeepMind Math dataset.
• VideoGlow paper added to T2T Papers.
• Mixture Transformer
• A very basic PPO implementation in TRAX.
• More TRAX and RL changes.

Bugs:
Correct flat CIFAR modality to not consider 0 as padding

v1.13.1

Bug Fixes:

• RL fixes for Model Based RL in #1505 - thanks @koz4k
• Serving util corrections in #1495 by @Drunkar -- thanks!
• Fix step size extraction in checkpoints by @lzhang10 in #1487 -- thanks!

v1.13.0

** Modalities refactor: Thanks to Dustin, all modalities are now an enum and just functions, making it easier to understand what's happening in the model. Thanks Dustin!

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Atari using T2T, please find a nice writeup in at https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor/blob/master/tensor2tensor/rl/README.md -- thanks a lot to all the authors! @lukaszkaiser @mbz @piotrmilos @blazejosinski Roy Campbell @konradczechowski @doomie Chelsea Finn @koz4k Sergey Levine @rsepassi George Tucker and @henrykmichalewski !

TRAX = T2T + [JAX](https://github.com/google/jax) - please try out and give us feedback at #1478

New Models:

• Evolved Transformer, thanks @stefan-it for adding the paper in #1426
• textCNN model by @ybbaigo in #1421

Documentation and Logging:

• MultiProblem by @cwbeitel in #1399
• ML Enginge logging in #1390 by @lgeiger

Thanks again @cwbeitel and @lgeiger -- good docs and logging goes a long way for understandability.

Bugs fixed:

• t2t_decoder checkpoint fix in #1471 by @wanqizhu
• xrange fix for py3 by in #1468 @lgeiger
• Fixing COCO dataset in #1466 by @hbrylkowski
• Fix math problems by @artitw
• Decoding rev problems enzh by @googlehjx on #1389
• And honourable mentions to @qixiuai , #1440

Many many thanks @wanqizhu @lgeiger @hbrylkowski @artitw @googlehjx and @qixiuai for finding and fixing these and sorry for missing anyone else -- this is really really helpful.

Code Cleanups:

• Registry refactor and optimizer registry by @jackd in #1410 and #1401
• Numerous very nice cleanup PRs ex: #1454 #1451 #1446 #1444 #1424 #1411 #1350 by @lgeiger

Many thanks for the cleanups @jackd and @lgeiger -- and sorry if I missed anyone else.

v.1.12.0

Summary of changes:

PRs:

• A lot of code cleanup thanks a ton to @lgeiger ! This goes a long way with regards to code maintainability and is much appreciated. Ex: PR #1361 , #1350 , #1344 , #1346 , #1345 , #1324
• Fixing LM decode, thanks @mikeymezher - PR #1282
• More fast decoding by @gcampax, thanks! - PR #999
• Avoid error on beam search - PR #1302 by @aeloyq , thanks!
• Fix invalid list comprehension, unicode simplifications, py3 fixes #1343, #1318 , #1321, #1258 thanks @cclauss !
• Fix is_generate_per_split hard to spot bug, thanks a lot to @kngxscn in PR #1322
• Fix py3 compatibility issues in PR #1300 by @ywkim , thanks a lot again!
• Separate train and test data in MRPC and fix broken link in PR #1281 and #1247 by @ywkim - thanks for the hawk eyed change!
• Fix universal transformer decoding by @artitw in PR #1257
• Fix babi generator by @artitw in PR #1235
• Fix transformer moe in #1233 by @twilightdema - thanks!
• Universal Transformer bugs corrected in #1213 by @cfiken - thanks!
• Change beam decoder stopping condition, makes decode faster in #965 by @mirkobronzi - many thanks!
• Bug fix, problem_0_steps variable by @senarvi in #1273
• Fixing a typo, by @hsm207 in PR #1329 , thanks a lot!

New Model and Problems:

• New problem and model by @artitw in PR #1290 - thanks!
• New model for scalar regression in PR #1332 thanks to @Kotober
• Text CNN for classification in PR #1271 by @ybbaigo - thanks a lot!
• en-ro translation by @lukaszkaiser !
• CoNLL2002 Named Entity Recognition problem added in #1253 by @ybbaigo - thanks!

New Metrics:

• Pearson Correlation metrics in #1274 by @luffy06 - thanks a lot!
• Custom evaluation metrics, this was one of the most asked features, thanks a lot @ywkim in PR #1336
• Word Error Rate metric by @stefan-falk in PR #1242 , many thanks!
• SARI score for paraphrasing added.

Enhancements:

• Fast decoding !! Huge thanks to @aeloyq in #1295
• Fast GELU unit
• Relative dot product visualization PR #1303 thanks @aeloyq !
• New MTF models and enhacements, thanks to Noam, Niki and the MTF team
• Custom eval hooks in PR #1284 by @theorm - thanks a lot !

RL:
Lots of commits to Model Based Reinforcement Learning code by @konradczechowski @koz4k @blazejosinski @piotrmilos - thanks all !

v1.11.0

PRs:

• Bug fixes in the insight server thanks to @haukurb !
• Fix weights initialization in #1196 by @mikeymezher - thanks !
• Fix Universal Transformer convergence by @MostafaDehghani and @rllin-fathom in #1194 and #1192 - thanks !
• Fix add problem hparams after parsing the overrides in #1053 thanks @gcampax !
• Fixing error of passing wrong dir in #1185 by @stefan-falk , thanks !

New Problems:

• Wikipedia Multiproblems by @urvashik - thanks !
• New LM problems in de, fr, ro by @lukaszkaiser - thanks !

RL:

• Continual addition to Model Based RL by @piotrmilos , @konradczechowski @koz4k and @blazejosinski !

Video Models:

• Many continual updates thanks to @mbz and @MechCoder - thanks all !

v1.10.0

NOTE:

• MTF code in Tensor2Tensor has been moved to github.com/tensorflow/mesh - thanks @dustinvtran

New Problems:

• English-Setswana translation problem, thanks @jaderabbit

New layers, models, etc:

• Add Bayesian feedforward layer, thanks @dustinvtran
• Lots of changes to the RL pipeline, thanks @koz4k , @blazejosinski , @piotrmilos , @lukaszkaiser , @konradczechowski
• Lots of work on video mdoels, thanks @mbz , @MechCoder
• Image transformer with local1d and local 2d spatial partitioning, thanks @nikiparmar @vaswani

Usability:

• Support DistributionStrategy in Tensor2Tensor for multi-GPU, thanks @smit-hinsu !
• Pass data_dir to feature_encoders, thanks @stefan-falk
• variable_scope wrapper for avg_checkpoints, thanks @Mehrad0711
• Modalities cleanup, thanks @dustinvtran
• Avoid NaN while adding sinusoidal timing signals, thanks @peakji
• Avoid a ascii codec error in CNN/DailyMail, thanks @shahzeb1
• Allow exporting T2T models as tfhub modules, thanks @cyfra

v1.9.0

PRs accepted:
Cleaning up the code for gru/lstm as transition function for universal transformer. Thanks @MostafaDehghani !
Clipwrapper by @piotrmilos !
Corrected transformer spelling mistake - Thanks @jurasofish!
Fix to universal transformer update weights - Thanks @cbockman and @cyvius96 !
Common Voice problem fixes and refactoring - Thanks @tlatkowski !
Infer observation datatype and shape from the environment - Thanks @koz4k !

New Problems / Models:

• Added a simple discrete autoencoder video model. Thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• DistributedText2TextProblem, a base class for Text2TextProblem for large-datasets. Thanks @afrozenator!
• Stanford Natural Language Inference problem added StanfordNLI in stanford_nli.py. Thanks @urvashik !
• Text2TextRemotedir added for problems with a persistent remote directory. Thanks @rsepassi !
• Add a separate binary for vocabulary file generation for subclasses of Text2TextProblem. Thanks @afrozenator!
• Added support for non-deterministic ATARI modes and sticky keys. Thanks @mbz !
• Pretraining schedule added to MultiProblem and reweighting losses. Thanks @urvashik !
• SummarizeWikiPretrainSeqToSeq32k and Text2textElmo added.
• AutoencoderResidualVAE added, thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• Discriminator changes by @lukaszkaiser and @aidangomez
• Allow scheduled sampling in basic video model, simplify default video modality. Thanks @lukaszkaiser !

Code Cleanups:

• Use standard vocab naming and fixing translate data generation. Thanks @rsepassi !
• Replaced manual ops w/ dot_product_attention in masked_local_attention_1d. Thanks @dustinvtran !
• Eager tests! Thanks @dustinvtran !
• Separate out a video/ directory in models/. Thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• Speed up RL test - thanks @lukaszkaiser !

Bug Fixes:

• Don't daisy-chain variables in Universal Transformer. Thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• Corrections to mixing, dropout and sampling in autoencoders. Thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• WSJ parsing only to use 1000 examples for building vocab.
• Fixed scoring crash on empty targets. Thanks David Grangier!
• Bug fix in transformer_vae.py

Enhancements to MTF, Video Models and much more!

v1.8.0

Introducing MeshTensorFlow - this enables training really big models O(Billions) of parameters.

Models/Layers:

• Layers Added: NAC and NALU from https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00508 Thanks @lukaszkaiser !
• Added a sparse graph neural net message passing layer to tensor2tensor.
• Targeted dropout added to ResNet. Thanks @aidangomez !
• Added VQA models in models/research/vqa_*
• Added Weight Normalization layer from https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07868.

Datasets/Problems:

• MSCoCo paraphrase problem added by @tlatkowski - many thanks!
• VideoBairRobotPushingWithActions by @mbz !

Usability:

• Code cleaup in autoencoder, works both on image and text. Thanks @lukaszkaiser
• Set the default value of Text2TextProblem.max_subtoken_length to 200, this prevents very long vocabulary generation times. Thanks @afrozenator
• Add examples to distributed_training.md, update support for async training, and simplify run_std_server codepath. Thanks @rsepassi !
• Store variable scopes in T2TModel; add T2TModel.initialize_from_ckpt. Thanks @rsepassi !
• Undeprecate exporting the model from the trainer Thanks @gcampax !
• Doc fixes, thanks to @stefan-it :)
• Added t2t_prune: simple magnitude-based pruning script for T2T Thanks @aidangomez !
• Added task sampling support for more than two tasks. Thanks @urvashik !

Bug Fixes:

• Override serving_input_fn for video problems.
• StackWrapper eliminates problem with repeating actions. Thanks @blazejosinski !
• Calculated lengths of sequences using _raw in lstm.py
• Update universal_transformer_util.py to fix TypeError Thanks @zxqchat !

Testing:

• Serving tests re-enabled on Travis using Docker. Thanks @rsepassi !

Many more fixes, tests and work on RL, Glow, SAVP, Video and other models and problems.