Release 1.0 - 09/02/2019

Major Features

• Tuners and Assessors

  • Support Auto-Feature generator & selection -Issue#877 -PR #1387
    • Provide auto feature interface
    • Tuner based on beam search
    • Add Pakdd example
  • Add a parallel algorithm to improve the performance of TPE with large concurrency. -PR #1052
  • Support multiphase for hyperband -PR #1257

• Training Service

  • Support private docker registry -PR #755

• Engineering Improvements

  • Python wrapper for rest api, support retrieve the values of the metrics in a programmatic way PR #1318
  • New python API : get_experiment_id(), get_trial_id() -PR #1353 -Issue #1331 & -Issue#1368
  • Optimized NAS Searchspace -PR #1393
    • Unify NAS search space with _type -- "mutable_type"e
    • Update random search tuner
  • Set gpuNum as optional -Issue #1365
  • Remove outputDir and dataDir configuration in PAI mode -Issue #1342
  • When creating a trial in Kubeflow mode, codeDir will no longer be copied to logDir -Issue #1224

• Web Portal & User Experience

  • Show the best metric curve during search progress in WebUI -Issue #1218
  • Show the current number of parameters list in multiphase experiment -Issue1210 -PR #1348
  • Add "Intermediate count" option in AddColumn. -Issue #1210
  • Support search parameters value in WebUI -Issue #1208
  • Enable automatic scaling of axes for metric value in default metric graph -Issue #1360
  • Add a detailed documentation link to the nnictl command in the command prompt -Issue #1260
  • UX improvement for showing Error log -Issue #1173

• Documentation

  • Update the docs structure -Issue #1231
  • Multi phase document improvement -Issue #1233 -PR #1242
    • Add configuration example
  • WebUI description improvement -PR #1419

Bug fix

• (Bug fix)Fix the broken links in 0.9 release -Issue #1236
• (Bug fix)Script for auto-complete
• (Bug fix)Fix pipeline issue that it only check exit code of last command in a script. -PR #1417
• (Bug fix)quniform fors tuners -Issue #1377
• (Bug fix)'quniform' has different meaning beween GridSearch and other tuner. -Issue #1335
• (Bug fix)"nnictl experiment list" give the status of a "RUNNING" experiment as "INITIALIZED" -PR #1388
• (Bug fix)SMAC cannot be installed if nni is installed in dev mode -Issue #1376
• (Bug fix)The filter button of the intermediate result cannot be clicked -Issue #1263
• (Bug fix)API "/api/v1/nni/trial-jobs/xxx" doesn't show a trial's all parameters in multiphase experiment -Issue #1258
• (Bug fix)Succeeded trial doesn't have final result but webui show ×××(FINAL) -Issue #1207
• (Bug fix)IT for nnictl stop -Issue #1298
• (Bug fix)fix security warning
• (Bug fix)Hyper-parameter page broken -Issue #1332
• (Bug fix)Run flake8 tests to find Python syntax errors and undefined names -PR #1217