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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

  Planned Items

• [x] use new interface to implement the removed NAS examples @QuanluZhang #2311 test: @tabVersion
• [x] NASUI @ultmaster test: @tabVersion --- NASUI bugs, UT issue: saw a warning message on web UI: graph too large. ( no fix)
• [x] Add Support for NAS Open Benchmarks #2506 @ultmaster test: @Jun Wei Sun issue: 1. generated file in docker can not be deleted outside.
• [x] Guidelines to handle large files in codeDir #2364 @ultmaster test: @Lin Bin tested file size, not tested: file numbers
• [x] merge parameter utils #2437 TBD @ultmaster PR #2540 test: @chicm-ms
• [x] WebUI @lvybriage
  • [x] Enhancement to trial duration display https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues/1489 PR #2523 @colorjam
  • [x] during and intermediate results pictures update, issue to create issue. 6/5 #2531 @Lijiaoa
  • [x] Support nested experiment more friendly https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues/2513 ~6/11~ 6/15 pr #2554 @QuanluZhang issues: to fix, PR #2635
  • [x] Hyper-parameter https://github.com/Microsoft/nni/issues/1483 one week 6/19, pr 6/22 #2586 @QuanluZhang
  • [x] minior webui table style issues by @QuanluZhang 6/17 PR #2571 @QuanluZhang
• [x] update pai storage, issue #2331 @SparkSnail (PAI 1.01 released) PR #2536 test: @QuanluZhang feedback: provide log info in nnimanager.log/webui for large file while uploading... @SparkSnail : issue/pr
• [x] 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 #2633 review: chicm-ms
• [x] register user's tuner as build-in tuner (@chicm-ms )( 5.15 ) (#2439 ) , test: @ultmaster doc PR: #2628
• [x] finalize the homepage migration to readthedoc @leckie-chn #2312 (4.24) test: @chicm-ms
• [x] Reuse OpenPAI jobs to run multiple trials #2521 test: @SparkSnail issue: failed to submit job if nniManagerIP is not set. to fix
• [x] Add OpEvo example #PR 2549 test: @QuanluZhang to update doc: add an picture

Model compression TODOs:

• [x] 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
• [x] 2. Fix bug for model graph with shared nn.Module #2485 @zheng-ningxin test: @chicm-ms
• [x] 4. Support more pruning algorithms #2490 @suiguoxin test: @colorjam issue: to fix example model next release.
• [x] 5. Model sensitivity analysis tool #2435 @zheng-ningxin test: @chicm-ms
• [x] lottery ticket pruner, add exporting winning ticket @chicm-ms PR #2559 @colorjam
• [x] flops calculation for model compression and NAS @colorjam 6/8 PR #2535 to schedule a meeting to discuss PR #2535 test: @ultmaster issue: thop warning message, to fix

Bugs

• [ ] 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