Merge pull request #4134 from nouiz/news

Update NEWS_DEV.txt

Merge pull request #4134 from nouiz/news
830544b1 · abergeron · 0900b662 · 10869000 · 830544b1 · 830544b1
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Arnaud Bergeron <abergeron@gmail.com> <abergeron@gmail.com>
 <abergeron@gmail.com> <anakha@kami.(none)>
 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde-Farley <dwf@cs.toronto.edu>
 David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde Farley <dwf@cs.toronto.edu>
+David Warde-Farley <wardefar@iro.umontreal.ca> David Warde-Farley <d.warde.farley@gmail.com>
 Douglas Eck <douglas.eck@gmail.com> eckdoug@localhost <eckdoug@localhost>
 Douglas Eck <douglas.eck@gmail.com> eckdoug@waits.local <eckdoug@waits.local>
 Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com> dumitru@deepnets.mtv.corp.google.com <dumitru@deepnets.mtv.corp.google.com>
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> bastienf@bikat.iro.umontreal.ca <bastienf@bik
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> bastienf@ldapk3.scinet.utoronto.ca <bastienf@ldapk3.scinet.utoronto.ca>
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> nouiz <nouiz@nouiz.org>
 Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> Frederic <nouiz@nouiz.org>
+Frederic Bastien <nouiz@nouiz.org> Frédéric Bastien <frederic.bastien@gmail.com>
 Grégoire <gregoire.mesnil@gmail.com> Grégoire <gregoire.mesnil@laposte.net>
 Guillaume Desjardins <guillaume.desjardins@gmail.com> desjagui <devnull@localhost>
 Guillaume Desjardins <guillaume.desjardins@gmail.com> desjagui@atchoum.iro.umontreal.ca <desjagui@atchoum.iro.umontreal.ca>
@@ -93,3 +95,65 @@ Xavier Glorot <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca> glorotxa <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca>
 Xavier Glorot <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca> glorotxa@timide.iro.umontreal.ca <glorotxa@timide.iro.umontreal.ca>
 Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca> bengioy@bengio-mac.local <bengioy@bengio-mac.local>
 Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> SinaHonari <sina2222@gmail.com>
+Sina Honari <honaris@iro.umontreal.ca> Sina Honari <honaris@eos21.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> --global <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@bart2.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> carriepl <carriepl@users.noreply.github.com>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@grincheux.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@leprof.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@chai.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@eos3.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@bart2.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> Pierre Luc Carrier <carriepl@bart3.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> pl <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com>
+Pierre Luc Carrier <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com> carriepl <carrier.pierreluc@gmail.com>
+Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun@gmail.com> Kyunghyun Cho <kyunghyuncho@Kyunghyuns-MacBook-Pro.local>
+Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun@gmail.com> Kyunghyun Cho <kyunghyuncho@kyunghyuns-mbp.sf.umontreal.ca>
+Li Yao <yaoli.email@gmail.com> Li Yao <li.yao@umontreal.ca>
+Li Yao <yaoli.email@gmail.com> Li Yao <yaoli@iro>
+Li Yao <yaoli.email@gmail.com> yaoli <yaoli.email@gmail.com>
+Li Yao <yaoli.email@gmail.com> Li <you@yourdomain.example.com>
+Dmitrii Serdiuk <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com> dima <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com>
+Dmitrii Serdiuk <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com> dmitriy-serdyuk <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com>
+Dmitrii Serdiuk <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com> serdyuk <serdyuk.dmitriy@gmail.com>
+Francesco Visin <fvisin@gmail.com> Francesco <fvisin@users.noreply.github.com>
+Francesco Visin <fvisin@gmail.com> fvisin <fvisin@gmail.com>
+Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca>
+Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca>
+Sebastien Jean <jeasebas@iro.umontreal.ca> sebastien-j <sebastien.jean@mail.mcgill.ca>
+Chienli Ma <maqianlie@gmail.com> Chienli Ma(马千里) <maqianlie@gmail.com>
+Chienli Ma <maqianlie@gmail.com> ChienliMa <maqianlie@gmail.com>
+Ziye Fan <fanziye.cis@gmail.com> FanZiye(t13m) <fanziye.cis@gmail.com>
+Iban Harlouchet <iban.harlouchet@gmail.com> Iban Harlouchet <harlouci@eos3.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Caglar <ca9lar@gmail.com> Caglar <caglar@users.noreply.github.com>
+Alexandre de Brebisson <adbrebs@gmail.com> AdeB <adbrebs@gmail.com>
+Roy Xue <xljroy@gmail.com> Lijun Xue <xljroy@gmail.com>
+Bart van Merrienboer <bart.vanmerrienboer@gmail.com> Bart van Merriënboer <bart.vanmerrienboer@gmail.com>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> kelvinxu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@leto01.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos1.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos16.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@bart5.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos13.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos7.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos18.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Kelvin Xu <iamkelvinxu@gmail.com> Kelvin Xu <xukelvin@eos20.iro.umontreal.ca>
+jojolalpin <jojolalpin@gmail.com> jojolalpin <jojolalpin gmail>
+Mehdi Mirza <memirzamo@gmail.com> Mehdi Mirza <memimo@users.noreply.github.com>
+Mehdi Mirza <memirzamo@gmail.com> memimo <memirzamo@gmail.com>
+Andre Holzner <Andre.Georg.Holzner@cern.ch> Andre Holzner <holzner@pb-d-128-141-148-222.cern.ch>
+Andre Holzner <Andre.Georg.Holzner@cern.ch> andreh <andreh@localhost>
+Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@gmail.com> Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@users.noreply.github.com>
+Moslem Kazemi <moslemk@gmail.com> Mo <moslemk@gmail.com>
+Alex Lamb <alex6200@gmail.com> AlexLamb <alex6200@gmail.com>
+Alex Lamb <alex6200@gmail.com> DeathMonster666 <alex6200@gmail.com>
+Lucas Beyer <lucasb.eyer.be@gmail.com> lucasb-eyer <lucasb.eyer.be@gmail.com>
+Iulian Vlad Serban <julianserban@gmail.com> Iulian Vlad Serban <serbaniv@eos2.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Iulian Vlad Serban <julianserban@gmail.com> Iulian Vlad Serban <serbaniv@bart7.iro.umontreal.ca>
+Mathieu Germain <mathieu.germain@gmail.com> Mathieu Germain <mathieu.germain2@usherbrooke.ca>
+abalkin <abalkin@enlnt.com> abalkin <abalkin>
+abalkin <abalkin@enlnt.com> abalkin <serpent.speak@gmail.com>
+abalkin <abalkin@enlnt.com> Alexander Belopolsky <abalkin@enlnt.com>
+John Schulman <john.d.schulman@gmail.com> joschu <john.d.schulman@gmail.com>
+Xavier Bouthillier <xavier.bouthillier@gmail.com> Xavier Bouthillier <xavier.bouthillier@umontreal.ca>
+Xavier Bouthillier <xavier.bouthillier@gmail.com> Xavier Bouthillier/ <xavier.bouthillier@gmail.com>
--- a/NEWS_DEV.txt
+++ b/NEWS_DEV.txt
@@ -4,17 +4,10 @@
 DRAFT Release Notes
 ===================

-git log -p rel-0.6rc3... |grep Merge|grep '#' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | replace "#" "* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/"
+git log -p rel-0.7... |grep Merge|grep '#[0123456789]' |cut -f 8 -d ' ' | sed 's\#\* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/\'

-git shortlog -sn rel-0.6rc3..
+git shortlog -sn rel-0.7..

-Done up to PR 1608
-* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/1608
-
-* https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/1591 # need info
-
-Interface change:
- - theano.tensor.signal.conv2d(2d,2d) output 2d answer. (Frederic B., reported by Alexander Izvorski)


 Theano Development version
@@ -25,29 +18,242 @@ NEWS.txt:
 We recommend that everybody update to this version.

 Highlights:
+- Python 2 and 3 support with the same code base
+- Faster optimization
+- New GPU back-end
+   - Float16 new back-end (need cuda 7.5)
+   - Multi dtypes
+   - Multi-GPU support in the same process
+- Integration of CuDNN for better GPU performance
+- Many Scan improvements (execution speed up, ...)
+- optimizer=fast_compile moves computation to the GPU.
+- Better convolution on CPU and GPU. (CorrMM, cudnn, 3d conv, more parameter)
+- Interactive visualization of graphs with d3viz
+- cnmem (better memory management on GPU)
+- BreakpointOp
+- Multi-GPU for data parallism via Platoon (https://github.com/mila-udem/platoon/)


-Committers for this dev version only:
+A total of 135 people contributed to this release, see the list at the bottom.


-A total of X people contributed to this release.
-People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.
-
 Installation:
+- Better blas detection
+- Fixes for more recent software and OS versions
+- Support Anaconda on Windows

 Bug fixes:
+- GpuJoin now supports negative axis
+- Fix GpuCumsum for negative axis

 Interface Deprecation (a warning is printed):
+- Deprecate Param class, use In instead

 Interface Changes:
+- Rename DownsampleFactorMax to Pool.
+- tensor.stack now uses the same interface as numpy.stack
+- optimizer=fast_compile moves computation to the GPU
+- Raise the user stack trace more frequently.
+- Change dev version numbering to follow the PEP 404
+

 New Interface (reuses existing functionality):
+- theano.tensor.nnet.relu
+- theano.tensor.nnet.elu
+- BatchNormalization.
+- MaxAndArgmax support axis=None
+- Add theano.tensor.compress (equivalent of numpy.compress)
+- theano.tensor.signal.downsamples.max_pool_2d_same_size
+- COp
+- __props__
+
+New features
+- tensor.unique
+- map_variables
+- erfcx
+- mgrid, ogrid
+- allclose
+- BreakpointOp
+- Make bincount work on GPU
+- SolveOp on GPU
+- Optional optimization remove_all_assert
+- AllocEmpty
+- LogSoftmax, for stability optimization when the crossentropy optimization does not apply.
+- theano.tensor.repeat works on GPU
+- BatchedDot on the GPU and faster on the CPU.
+- Faster batched_tensordot and make it work on GPU.
+- SoftmaxGrad grad
+- 3d conv via CorrMM on the GPU
+- CPU Max Pool support of padding and strides!=windows size
+- theano.function() now accepts a dict for the outputs. When doing this, the function will return a dict. Helpful to keep track of which output is what.
+- Warn for unknown or misspelled theano config variables
+- theano.tensor.tile update (accept symbolic reps, work on GPU)
+- scan how have a strict flag. If set to True, this make scan building faster and could make execution faster.
+- theano.tensor.signal.conv2d(2d,2d) output 2d answer
+

 Speed-ups:
+- Faster SetSubtensor on the GPU.
+- Support more reduction pattern on the GPU.
+- More graph optimization
+- Faster graph optimization
+- GpuCrossentropySoftmaxArgmax1HotWithBias
+

 Crash/no return fixes:
+- Fix crash in the assert op grad
+- Fix curand crash on Mac
+- Multiple Fix scan crashes
+- Finish to update all Op.grad() implementation to the new interface

 Others:
+- Support ARM processor.
+- Better tests
+- Code clean up.
+- Doc updates
+- doctest and sphinx test in travis
+- More tests tagged as slow
+- Better same_shape implementation
+- More op with c code to lower overhead
+- Custom pickler for SharedVariable theano.misc.pkl_utils.{dump,load}
+- function_dump to help us reproduce user error during compilation
+- assert_no_cpu_op
+- pep8, flake8
+- Better error messages
+- On non-default modes, reduce the number of allocation when allow_gc=False
+- Better lock

-Todo for the final release:
- * update the NEWS.txt file.
+
+Committers for this dev version only:
+- Frederic Bastien
+- Arnaud Bergeron
+- Pierre Luc Carrier
+- Iban Harlouchet
+- Pascal Lamblin
+- Chienli Ma
+- David Warde-Farley
+- Amjad Almahairi
+- Tim Cooijmans
+- Christof Angermueller
+- Nicolas Ballas
+- Ziye Fan
+- Caglar
+- Sina Honari
+- Roy Xue
+- hantek
+- Mohammad Pezeshki
+- Melanie Ducoffe
+- Alexandre de Brebisson
+- Harm de Vries
+- Alex Lamb
+- Ramana.S
+- Saizheng Zhang
+- Francesco Visin
+- Ying Zhang
+- Bart van Merrienboer
+- Cesar Laurent
+- Jan Schlüter
+- Xavier Bouthillier
+- Iulian Vlad Serban
+- Samira Shabanian
+- Sigurd Spieckermann
+- Dmitrii Serdiuk
+- Kelvin Xu
+- Li Yao
+- Sebastien Jean
+- Thomas Mesnard
+- Seon-Wook Park
+- Dustin Webb
+- Mikhail Korobov
+- orhanf
+- Daniel Renshaw
+- Julien Rebetez
+- Sean Lee
+- TimSalimans
+- Andre Holzner
+- Gijs van Tulder
+- Guillaume Alain
+- Julien Demouth
+- Markus Beissinger
+- Mehdi Mirza
+- Moslem Kazemi
+- Saxenauts
+- skaae
+- Anatoly Belikov
+- Diogo Moitinho de Almeida
+- Kashif Rasul
+- Laurent Dinh
+- Rémy Léone
+- gw0 [http://gw.tnode.com/]
+- mronian
+- vesis84
+- Benni
+- JesseLivezey
+- Marius Killinger
+- Matt Graham
+- Matthew Willson
+- Piotr Frankowski
+- Stefan Krastanov
+- vdumoulin
+- Luke Metz
+- Anish Shah
+- Balázs Hidasi
+- Colin Raffel
+- Cory Lorenz
+- Doug
+- Jesse Livezey
+- John Salvatier
+- John Zedlewski
+- Jonathan Ho
+- Kaixhin
+- Liang-Chi Hsieh
+- Lucas Beyer
+- Marc-Alexandre Cote
+- Martin Arjovsky
+- Matthias Kümmerer
+- Sirisha Rambhatla
+- Vincent Michalski
+- briancheung
+- ivdorelian
+- jan-matthis
+- jojolalpin
+- joncrall
+- peterjsadowski
+- scottsievert
+- Étienne Simon
+- A. Flaxman
+- AlOa
+- Albert Zeyer
+- Andrea
+- Andy Jiang
+- Balázs
+- Ben Poole
+- Brian Cheung
+- Christophe Van Gysel
+- Claude Coulombe
+- Clay McLeod
+- Dario Garcia
+- Jakob Lombacher
+- Jakub Sygnowski
+- Joao Felipe Santos
+- John Arevalo
+- Jonas Degrave
+- Martin Thoma
+- Mathieu Germain
+- Matthew Koichi Grimes
+- Michael Eickenberg
+- Michael Opitz
+- Paul Hollensen
+- Prayag Verma
+- Saatvik Shah
+- Sergei Lebedev
+- Vik Kamath
+- Wei Ouyang
+- Yi-Lin Juang
+- Yurii Shevchuk
+- Zach Dwiel
+- dan
+- eulerreich
+- jotterbach
+- rolf
+- wuaalb