Hello,
It has come to our attention that the Compute Library v23.02 release contains the following erratum:
* Missing .bazelrc file for experimental Bazel builds
This erratum has now been rectified in the latest commit of the main branch on the GitHub release repository: cfb1c3035cbfc31a2fe8491c7df13e911698e2b6
Please use this commit if you rely on the new experimental Bazel build for Compute Library.
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Hello,
The 23.02 release of Compute Library is out and comes with a collection of improvements and new features.
Source code and prebuilt binaries are available at: https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v23.02
Highlights of the release:
v23.02 Public major release
* New features:
* Rework the experimental dynamic fusion interface by identifying auxiliary and intermediate tensors, and specifying an explicit output operator.
* Add the following operators to the experimental dynamic fusion API:
* GpuAdd, GpuCast, GpuClamp, GpuDepthwiseConv2d, GpuMul, GpuOutput, GpuPool2d, GpuReshape, GpuResize, GpuSoftmax, GpuSub.
* Add SME/SME2 kernels for GeMM, Winograd convolution, Depthwise convolution and Pooling.
* Add new CPU operator AddMulAdd for float and quantized types.
* Add new flag ITensorInfo::lock_paddings() to tensors to prevent extending tensor paddings.
* Add experimental support for CPU only Bazel and CMake builds.
* Performance optimizations:
* Optimize CPU base-e exponential functions for FP32.
* Optimize CPU StridedSlice by copying first dimension elements in bulk where possible.
* Optimize CPU quantized Subtraction by reusing the quantized Addition kernel.
* Optimize CPU ReduceMean by removing quantization steps and performing the operation in integer domain.
* Optimize GPU Scale and Dynamic Fusion GpuResize by removing quantization steps and performing the operation in integer domain.
* Update the heuristic for CLDepthwiseConvolutionNative kernel.
* Add new optimized OpenCL kernel to compute indirect convolution:
* ClIndirectConv2dKernel
* Add new optimized OpenCL kernel to compute transposed convolution:
* ClTransposedConvolutionKernel
* Update recommended/minimum NDK version to r20b.
* Various optimizations and bug fixes.
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Hello,
The 22.11 release of Compute Library is out and comes with a collection of improvements and new features.
Source code and prebuilt binaries are available at: https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v22.11
Release v22.11 · ARM-software/ComputeLibrary<https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v22.11>
Public major release Documentation (API, changelogs, build guide, contribution guide, errata, etc.) available here: https://arm-software.github.io/ComputeLibrary/v22.11/github.com<http://github.com/>
Highlights of the release:
* New features:
* Add new experimental dynamic fusion API.
* Add CPU batch matrix multiplication with adj_x = false and adj_y = false for FP32.
* Add CPU MeanStdDevNorm for QASYMM8.
* Add CPU and GPU GELU activation function for FP32 and FP16.
* Add CPU swish activation function for FP32 and FP16.
* Performance optimizations:
* Optimize CPU bilinear scale for FP32, FP16, QASYMM8, QASYMM8_SIGNED, U8 and S8.
* Optimize CPU activation functions using LUT-based implementation:
* Sigmoid function for QASYMM8 and QASYMM8_SIGNED.
* Hard swish function for QASYMM8_SIGNED.
* Optimize CPU addition for QASYMM8 and QASYMM8_SIGNED using fixed-point arithmetic.
* Optimize CPU multiplication, subtraction and activation layers by considering tensors as 1D.
* Optimize GPU depthwise convolution kernel and heuristic.
* Optimize GPU Conv2d heuristic.
* Optimize CPU MeanStdDevNorm for FP16.
* Optimize CPU tanh activation function for FP16 using rational approximation.
* Improve GPU GeMMLowp start-up time.
* Various optimizations and bug fixes.
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Hello,
The 22.08 release of Compute Library is out and comes with a collection of improvements and new features.
Source code and prebuilt binaries are available at: <https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v22.08>
Release v22.08 · ARM-software/ComputeLibrary<https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v22.05>
Public major release Documentation (API, changelogs, build guide, contribution guide, errata, etc.) available here: https://arm-software.github.io/ComputeLibrary/v22.08/
Highlights of the release:
* Add Dynamic Fusion of Elementwise Operators: Div, Floor, Add.
* Optimize the gemm_reshaped_rhs_nly_nt OpenCL kernel using the arm_matrix_multiply extension available for Arm® Mali™-G715 and Arm® Mali™-G615.
* Add support for the arm_matrix_multiply extension in the gemmlowp_mm_reshaped_only_rhs_t OpenCL kernel.
* Expand GPUTarget list with missing Mali™ GPUs product names: G57, G68, G78AE, G610, G510, G310.
* Extend the direct convolution 2d interface to configure the block size.
* Update ClConv2D heuristic to use direct convolution.
* Use official Khronos® OpenCL extensions:
* Add cl_khr_integer_dot_product extension support.
* Add support of OpenCL 3.0 non-uniform workgroup.
* Cpu performance optimizations:
* Add LUT-based implementation of Hard Swish and Leaky ReLU activation function for aarch64 build.
* Optimize Add layer by considering the input tensors as 1D array.
* Add fixed-format BF16, FP16 and FP32 Neon™ GEMM kernels to support variable weights.
* Add experimental support for native builds for Windows on Arm®.
* Build flag interpretation change: arch=armv8.6-a now translates to -march=armv8.6-a CXX flag instead of march=armv8.2-a + explicit selection of feature extensions.
* armv7a with Android build will no longer be tested or maintained.
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Hello,
The 21.08 release of Compute Library is out and comes with a collection of improvements and new features.
Source code and prebuilt binaries are available at: https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v21.08
Highlights of the release:
* Exposes new Compute Library interface to ease integration with other frameworks.
* Supports fat binary build for armv8.2-a via fat_binary build flag.
* Adds CPU discovery capabilities.
* Adds a reduced core library build arm_compute_core_v2.
* Improves LWS (Local-Workgroup-Size) heuristic in OpenCL for GeMM, Direct Convolution and Winograd Transformations when OpenCL tuner is not used.
And more, see the changelog at ComputeLibrary v21.08 Documentation<https://arm-software.github.io/ComputeLibrary/v21.08/> for more details.
Best regards,
Michele
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Hello,
The 21.05 release of Compute Library is out and comes with a collection of improvements and new features.
Source code and prebuilt binaries are available at: https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary/releases/tag/v21.05
Highlights of the release:
* Follows up on previous release by porting CPU/GPU kernels to the new Compute Library interface.
* Deprecates OpenGL ES and computer vision functions support.
* Optimizes FP16 support on OpenCL.
* Optimizes a variety of functions on CPU.
And more, see the changelog<https://arm-software.github.io/ComputeLibrary/v21.05/versions_changelogs.xh…> for more details.
Best regards,
Michele
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