Major updates

Neural Architecture Search

• Improve NAS 2.0 (Retiarii) Framework (Alpha Release)

  • Support local debug mode (#3476)
  • Support nesting ValueChoice in LayerChoice (#3508)
  • Support dict/list type in ValueChoice (#3508)
  • Improve the format of export architectures (#3464)
  • Refactor of NAS examples (#3513)
  • Refer to here <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues/3301>__ for Retiarii Roadmap

Model Compression

• Support speedup for mixed precision quantization model (Experimental) (#3488 #3512)
• Support model export for quantization algorithm (#3458 #3473)
• Support model export in model compression for TensorFlow (#3487)
• Improve documentation (#3482)

nnictl & nni.experiment

• Add native support for experiment config V2 (#3466 #3540 #3552)
• Add resume and view mode in Python API nni.experiment (#3490 #3524 #3545)

Training Service

• Support umount for shared storage in remote training service (#3456)
• Support Windows as the remote training service in reuse mode (#3500)
• Remove duplicated env folder in remote training service (#3472)
• Add log information for GPU metric collector (#3506)
• Enable optional Pod Spec for FrameworkController platform (#3379, thanks the external contributor @mbu93)

WebUI

• Support launching TensorBoard on WebUI (#3454 #3361 #3531)
• Upgrade echarts-for-react to v5 (#3457)
• Add wrap for dispatcher/nnimanager log monaco editor (#3461)

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug of FLOPs counter (#3497)
• Fix bug of hyper-parameter Add/Remove axes and table Add/Remove columns button conflict (#3491)
• Fix bug that monaco editor search text is not displayed completely (#3492)
• Fix bug of Cream NAS (#3498, thanks the external contributor @AliCloud-PAI)
• Fix typos in docs (#3448, thanks the external contributor @OliverShang)
• Fix typo in NAS 1.0 (#3538, thanks the external contributor @ankitaggarwal23)