NNI v1.1 Release

Release 1.1 - 10/23/2019

Major Features

• New tuner: PPO Tuner
• View stopped experiments
• Tuners can now use dedicated GPU resource (see gpuIndices in tutorial for details)
• Web UI improvements
  • Trials detail page can now list hyperparameters of each trial, as well as their start and end time (via "add column")
  • Viewing huge experiment is now less laggy
• More examples
  • EfficientNet PyTorch example
  • Cifar10 NAS example
• Model compression toolkit - Alpha release: We are glad to announce the alpha release for model compression toolkit on top of NNI, it's still in the experiment phase which might evolve based on usage feedback. We'd like to invite you to use, feedback and even contribute

Fixed Bugs

• Multiphase job hangs when search space exhuasted (issue #1204)
• nnictl fails when log not available (issue #1548)