NEWS.txt

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Release Notes
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Theano 0.10.0beta3 (20th of September, 2017)
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This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes to prepare the upcoming release candidate.

We recommend that every developer updates to this version.

Highlights:
 - conda packages now available and updated in our own conda channel ``mila-udem``.
   To install it: ``conda install -c mila-udem/label/pre theano pygpu``

 - Improved elemwise operations

   - Speed-up elemwise ops based on SciPy
   - Fixed memory leak related to elemwise ops on GPU

 - Improved pickling and tests in debug mode
 - Fixed pygpu detection
 - Bug fixes, crash fixes, warning improvements and documentation updates

A total of 69 people contributed to this release since 0.9.0, see list below.

Interface changes:
 - Removed op ``ExtractDiag`` from ``theano.tensor.nlinalg``, now only in ``theano.tensor.basic``

Convolution updates:
 - Added dilated causal convolutions for 2D

New features:
 - Implemented ``topk`` and ``argtopk`` on CPU and GPU
 - Added ``unravel_index`` and ``ravel_multi_index`` functions on CPU
 - Implemented ``max()`` and ``min()`` functions for booleans and unsigned integers types

Others:
 - Added ``R_op()`` for ``ZeroGrad``
 - Added description for rnnblock

Commiters since 0.9.0:
 - Frederic Bastien
 - João Victor Tozatti Risso
 - Arnaud Bergeron
 - Steven Bocco
 - Mohammed Affan
 - amrithasuresh
 - Pascal Lamblin
 - Reyhane Askari
 - Alexander Matyasko
 - Simon Lefrancois
 - Adam Becker
 - Shawn Tan
 - Vikram
 - Gijs van Tulder
 - Thomas George
 - Andrei Costinescu
 - Faruk Ahmed
 - Boris Fomitchev
 - Zhouhan LIN
 - Aleksandar Botev
 - jhelie
 - xiaoqie
 - Tegan Maharaj
 - Matt Graham
 - Cesar Laurent
 - Gabe Schwartz
 - Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera
 - Tim Cooijmans
 - Anirudh Goyal
 - Saizheng Zhang
 - Yikang Shen
 - vipulraheja
 - Florian Bordes
 - Sina Honari
 - erakra
 - Chiheb Trabelsi
 - Shubh Vachher
 - Daren Eiri
 - Joseph Paul Cohen
 - Laurent Dinh
 - Mohamed Ishmael Diwan Belghazi
 - Jeff Donahue
 - Ramana Subramanyam
 - Bogdan Budescu
 - Dzmitry Bahdanau
 - Ghislain Antony Vaillant
 - Jan Schlüter
 - Nan Jiang
 - Xavier Bouthillier
 - fo40225
 - wyjw
 - Aarni Koskela
 - Adam Geitgey
 - Adrian Keet
 - Adrian Seyboldt
 - Anmol Sahoo
 - Chong Wu
 - Holger Kohr
 - Jayanth Koushik
 - Lilian Besson
 - Lv Tao
 - Michael Manukyan
 - Murugesh Marvel
 - NALEPA
 - Zotov Yuriy
 - dareneiri
 - lrast
 - morrme
 - naitonium