NNI v1.6 Release

Release 1.6 - 5/26/2020

Major Features

New Features and improvement

• support __version__ for SDK version
• support windows dev install
• Improve IPC limitation to 100W
• improve code storage upload logic among trials in non-local platform

HPO Updates

• Improve PBT on failure handling and support experiment resume for PBT

NAS Updates

• NAS support for TensorFlow 2.0 (preview) TF2.0 NAS examples
• Use OrderedDict for LayerChoice
• Prettify the format of export
• Replace layer choice with selected module after applied fixed architecture

Model Compression Updates

• Model compression PyTorch 1.4 support

Training Service Updates

• update pai yaml merge logic
• support windows as remote machine in remote mode Remote Mode

Web UI new supports or improvements

• Show trial error message
• finalize homepage layout
• Refactor overview's best trials module
• Remove multiphase from webui
• add tooltip for trial concurrency in the overview page
• Show top trials for hyper-parameter graph

Bug Fix

• fix dev install
• SPOS example crash when the checkpoints do not have state_dict
• Fix table sort issue when experiment had failed trial
• Support multi python env (conda, pyenv etc)