What’s New

This document outlines features and improvements from each release.

v1.2.0 (March 13, 2020)

• Supporting features released with SAS Viya 3.5

• APIs for Image embeddings

• Survival analysis support

• More example notebooks

• Various bug fixes

v1.1.2 (August 13, 2019)

• Updating and expanding the documentation

• Various bug fixes

v1.1.1 (August 05, 2019)

• New speech-to-text APIs that enables us doing language model post processing

• APIs for Image captioning

• More example notebooks

• Updated weights (located: http://support.sas.com/documentation/prod-p/vdmml/zip/index.html) supporting new version of ONNX

• Various bug fixes

v1.1.0 (July 16, 2019)

• New layers: transpose convolution and group convolution

• New architectures: U-Net, MobileNet, and ShuffleNet

• Supporting FasterRCNN for object detection

• Supporting image segmentation

• Various bug fixes

• Improved documentation

• Improved code coverage

v1.0.2 (March 16, 2019)

• Various bug fixes

• A new way of creating models

• Multi-step forecasting

v1.0.1 (December 04, 2018)

• Various bug fixes

• ONNX import and export support

• Re-organization of examples

v1.0.0 (October 26, 2018)

• Text, audio, and time series support in addition to image

• APIs for RNN based tasks: text classification, text generation, and sequence labeling

• APIs for object detection

• APIs for time series processing and modeling

• APIs for processing audio files and creating speech recognition models

• Additional pre-defined network architectures such as DenseNet, DarkNet, Inception, and Yolo

with enhanced data visualization and metadata handling