SHOGUN changelog

Changelog History

• v2.1

  January 18, 2015

• v1.4 Changes

  July 05, 2019

  • 🛠 Bugfixes:
    
  • 🛠 Fix cookbook examples for website

• v1.3 Changes

  December 07, 2017

  🔋 Features

  • ⬇️ Drop all <math.h> function calls [Viktor Gal]
  • 👉 Use c++11 std::isnan, std:isfinite, std::isinf [Viktor Gal]

  🛠 Bugfixes

  • Port ipython notebooks to be python3 compatible [Viktor Gal]
  • 🏁 Use the shogun-static library on Windows when linking the interface library [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix python typemap when compiling with MSVC [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix ShogunConfig.cmake paths [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix meta example parser bug in parallel builds [Esben Sørig]

• v1.2 Changes

  November 29, 2017

  🛠 Bugfixes:

  • 🛠 Fix installation of examples on WIN32 [Viktor Gal]

• v1.1 Changes

  November 29, 2017

  🛠 Bugfixes

  • Install headers of GPL models when LICENSE_GPL_SHOGUN is enabled [Viktor Gal]
  • 🏗 Always turn on LIBSHOGUN_BUILD_STATIC when compiling with MSVC [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix ipython notebook errors [Viktor Gal]

• v1.0 Changes

  November 28, 2017

  🚀 This release is dedicated for Heiko's successful PhD defense!

  ➕ Add conda-forge packages, to get prebuilt binaries via the cross-platform conda package manager [Dougal Sutherland]

  Change interface cmake variables to INTERFACE_*

  🚚 Move GPL code to gpl submodule [Heiko Strathmann]

  🔋 Features

  • 0️⃣ Enable using BLAS/LAPACK from Eigen by default [Viktor Gal]
  • ➕ Add iterators to SGVector and SGMatrix [Viktor Gal]
  • Significantly lower the runtime of KernelPCA (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
  • 🔨 Refactor FisherLDA and LDA solvers (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
  • ➕ Add automated test for trained model serialization (GSoC '17) [Michele Mazzoni]
  • 0️⃣ Enable SWIG director classes by default [Viktor Gal]
  • Vectorize DotFeatures covariance/mean calculation [Michele Mazzoni]
  • 👌 Support for premature stopping of model training (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
  • ➕ Add support for observable variables (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
  • 👉 Use TFLogger to serialize observed variables for TensorBoard (GSoC '17) [Giovanni De Toni]
  • ⬇️ Drop CMath::dot and SGVector::dot and use linalg::dot [Viktor Gal]
  • ➕ Added class probabilities for BaggingMachine (GSoC '17) [Olivier Nguyen]

  🛠 Bugfixes

  • 🛠 Fix transpose bug in Ruby typemap for matrices [Elias Saalmann]
  • 🛠 Fix MKL detection and linking; use mkl_rt when available [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix Windows static linking [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix SWIG interface compilation on Windows [qcrist]
  • 🛠 Fix CircularBuffer bug that broke parsing of big CSV and LibSVM files #1991 [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix R interface when using clang to compile the interface [Viktor Gal]

• v0.0 Changes

  April 23, 2017

  • ➕ Add native MS Windows support [Viktor Gal]
  • 👍 Shogun requires the compiler to support C++11 features
  • 💻 Shogun cloud online: Jupyter notebook with Shogun from the browser, https://cloud.shogun.ml

  🔋 Features

  • 👍 LDA now supports 32, 64 and 128 bit floating point numbers [Chris Goldsworthy]
  • Add SHOGUN_NUM_THREADS enviroment variable to control the number of threads
    👉 used by the models in runtime [Viktor Gal]
  • ➕ Added Scala Interface to the build [Abhinav Rai]
  • Major re-writing and API changes in kernel statistical hypothesis
    ✅ testing framework, significant speed up in permutation test for
    quadratic time MMD, new kernel selection algorithms for quadratic time MMD [Soumyajit De]

  🛠 Bugfixes:

  • 🛠 Fix build error of R interface for R>=3.3.0, #3460 [Heiko Strathmann]
  • 👉 Make the code compatible with Eigen 3.3.0 [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix number of CPUs detected on Linux [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix multi-threading in KMeansBase [Viktor Gal]
  • 👉 Make ExponentialARDKernel thread-safe [Viktor Gal]
  • 👉 Make PRNG thread-safe [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix python interface when using libshogun compiled with OpenMP [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix CART to work with cross-validation [Fernando Iglesias]

  ⚡️ Cleanup, efficiency updates, and API Changes:

  • Port multi-threading to use OpenMP backend in Kernel [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix false sharing in EuclideanDistance [Viktor Gal]
  • 🛠 Fix out of source build of the whole project [Viktor Gal]
  • ➕ Add LIBSHOGUN cmake flag to turn off libshogun compilation [Viktor Gal]
  • 🏗 Export Shogun target with cmake to enable to build modular interfaces to a
    pre-compiled libshogun on the system without requiring to compile
    libshogun itself [Viktor Gal]

  Notes

  • 📚 Contains major rewrite and clean-up of developer documentation in doc/readme [Heiko Strathmann, Lea Götz]
  • Known issue: Octave multithreaded crashes, currently bindings are initialized single-threaded, #3772 [Heiko Strathmann]