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Release 1.7

• Release manager: @chicm-ms
• Code freeze date: 7.1
• Demo and retrospective date: 7.3
• Release and next iteration plan date: 7.8

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Planned Items

• use new interface to implement the removed NAS examples @QuanluZhang use new interface to implement the removed NAS examples #2311 test: @tabVersion
• NASUI @ultmaster test: @tabVersion
  --- NASUI bugs, UT
  issue: saw a warning message on web UI: graph too large. ( no fix)
• Add Support for NAS Open Benchmarks Add Support for NAS Open Benchmarks #2506 @ultmaster test: @jun Wei Sun
  issue: 1. generated file in docker can not be deleted outside.
• Guidelines to handle large files in codeDir Guidelines to handle large files in codeDir #2364 @ultmaster test: @lin Bin
  tested file size, not tested: file numbers
• merge parameter utils Provide a wrapper for get_next_parameter() to update namespace automatically #2437 TBD @ultmaster PR Add shortcut to merge parameter into base setup #2540 test: @chicm-ms
• WebUI @lvybriage
  • Enhancement to trial duration display Enhancement to trial duration display #1489 PR [WebUI] fix issue#1489: Enhancement to trial duration display #2523 @colorjam
  • during and intermediate results pictures update, issue to create issue. 6/5 [WebUI] fix issue#2530: duration and intermediate results pictures don't update #2531 @Lijiaoa
  • Support nested experiment more friendly Support nested experiment more friendly #2513 6/11 6/15 pr Support nested experiment more friendly #2554 @QuanluZhang
    issues: to fix, PR [bug bash] Rm default key from table column(because had "Default" column) #2635
  • Hyper-parameter Hyperparameter graph: val_loss as metric #1483 one week 6/19, pr 6/22 Show final result keys in hyper-parameter graph #2586 @QuanluZhang
  • minior webui table style issues by @QuanluZhang 6/17 PR fix metric style #2571 @QuanluZhang
• update pai storage, issue Update PAI storage  #2331 @SparkSnail (PAI 1.01 released) PR Support paiStorageConfigName #2536 test: @QuanluZhang
  feedback: provide log info in nnimanager.log/webui for large file while uploading... @SparkSnail : issue/pr
• AML integration @SparkSnail test: @jun Wei Sun
  issue:
  1. conda is required in docker if user docker not specified. to fix
  2. version check caused by manually built image
  3. document picture not same as external users' azure UI. to fix.
  PR fix docker in aml #2633 review: chicm-ms
• register user's tuner as build-in tuner (@chicm-ms )( 5.15 ) (Install builtin tuners #2439 ) , test: @ultmaster
  doc PR: Fix custom tuner doc #2628
• finalize the homepage migration to readthedoc @leckie-chn finalize the homepage migration to readthedoc #2312 (4.24) test: @chicm-ms
• Reuse OpenPAI jobs to run multiple trials Reuse OpenPAI jobs to run multiple trials #2521 test: @SparkSnail
  issue: failed to submit job if nniManagerIP is not set. to fix
• Add OpEvo example #PR 2549 test: @QuanluZhang
  to update doc: add an picture

Model compression TODOs:

• 1. Model speedup support resnet ( concat, add, conv2d group > 1) 6/10 6/17 @zheng-ningxin test: @chicm-ms
  to do next release: inception, densenet
• 2. Fix bug for model graph with shared nn.Module TorchModuleGraph: graph construct error when the model has shared layers #2485 @zheng-ningxin test: @chicm-ms
• 4. Support more pruning algorithms Auto pruners #2490 @suiguoxin test: @colorjam
  issue: to fix example model next release.
• 5. Model sensitivity analysis tool Analysis utils #2435 @zheng-ningxin test: @chicm-ms
• lottery ticket pruner, add exporting winning ticket @chicm-ms PR Update lottery ticket example #2559 @colorjam
• flops calculation for model compression and NAS @colorjam 6/8 PR Add flops and params counter #2535 to schedule a meeting to discuss PR Add flops and params counter #2535 test: @ultmaster
  issue: thop warning message, to fix

Bugs

• nodejs OOM when make build nodejs OOM when make build #2475 (@liuzhe-lz ) PR submitted test: @chicm-ms
  how to reproduce: ask niyan

TODO:
demo at feature code freeze from next release. record demo video

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Released: https://github.com/microsoft/nni/releases/tag/v1.7