Release 0.7 - 4/29/2019

Major Features

• Support NNI on Windows
  • NNI running on windows for local mode
• New advisor: BOHB
  • Support a new advisor BOHB, which is a robust and efficient hyperparameter tuning algorithm, combines the advantages of Bayesian optimization and Hyperband
• Support import and export experiment data through nnictl
  • Generate analysis results report after the experiment execution
  • Support import data to tuner and advisor for tuning
• Designated gpu devices for NNI trial jobs
  • Specify GPU devices for NNI trial jobs by gpuIndices configuration, if gpuIndices is set in experiment configuration file, only the specified GPU devices are used for NNI trial jobs.
• Web Portal enhancement
  • Decimal format of metrics other than default on the Web UI
  • Hints in WebUI about Multi-phase
  • Enable copy/paste for hyperparameters as python dict
  • Enable early stopped trials data for tuners.
• NNICTL provide better error message
  • nnictl provide more meaningful error message for yaml file format error

Bug fix

• Unable to kill all python threads after nnictl stop in async dispatcher mode
• nnictl --version does not work with make dev-instal
• All trail jobs status stays on 'waiting' for long time on PAI platform