MMEngine Release V0.5.0

v0.5.0 (01/20/2023)

Highlights

• Add BaseInferencer to provide a general inference interface
• Provide ReduceOnPlateauParamScheduler to adjust learning rate by metric
• Deprecate support for Python3.6

New Features & Enhancements

• Deprecate support for Python3.6 by @HAOCHENYE in #863
• Support non-scalar type metric value by @mzr1996 in #827
• Remove unnecessary calls and lazily import to speed import performance by @zhouzaida in #837
• Support ReduceOnPlateauParamScheduler by @LEFTeyex in #819
• Disable warning of subprocess launched by dataloader by @HAOCHENYE in #870
• Add BaseInferencer to provide general interface by @HAOCHENYE in #874

Bug Fixes

• Fix support for Ascend device by @wangjiangben-hw in #847
• Fix Config cannot parse base config when there is . in tmp path, etc. tmp/a.b/c by @HAOCHENYE in #856
• Fix unloaded weights will not be initialized when using PretrainedIinit by @HAOCHENYE in #764
• Fix error package name defined in PKG2PROJECT by @HAOCHENYE in #872

Docs

• Fix typos in advanced_tutorials/logging.md by @RangeKing in #861
• Translate CN train_a_gan to EN by @yaqi0510 in #860
• Update fileio.md by @Xiangxu-0103 in #869
• Add Chinese documentation for inferencer. by @HAOCHENYE in #884

Contributors

A total of 8 developers contributed to this release. Thanks @LEFTeyex, @RangeKing, @yaqi0510, @Xiangxu-0103, @wangjiangben-hw, @mzr1996, @zhouzaida, @HAOCHENYE.

New Contributors

• @yaqi0510 made their first contribution in #860
• @LEFTeyex made their first contribution in #819

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

MMEngine Release V0.4.0

Highlights

• Registry supports importing modules automatically
• Upgrade the documentation and provide the English documentation
• Provide ProfileHook to profile the running process

New Features & Enhancements

• Add conf_path in PetrelBackend by @sunyc11 in #774
• Support multiple --cfg-options. by @mzr1996 in #759
• Support passing arguments to OptimWrapper.update_params by @twmht in #796
• Make get_torchvision_model compatible with torch 1.13 by @HAOCHENYE in #793
• Support flat_decay_mult and fix bias_decay_mult of depth-wise-conv in DefaultOptimWrapperConstructor by @RangiLyu in #771
• Registry supports importing modules automatically. by @RangiLyu in #643
• Add profiler hook functionality by @BayMaxBHL in #768
• Make TTAModel compatible with FSDP. by @HAOCHENYE in #611

Bug Fixes

• hub.get_model fails on some MMCls models by @C1rN09 in #784
• Fix BaseModel.to and BaseDataPreprocessor.to to make them consistent with torch.nn.Module by @C1rN09 in #783
• Fix creating a new logger at PretrainedInit by @xiexinch in #791
• Fix ZeroRedundancyOptimizer ambiguous error with param groups when PyTorch < 1.12.0 by @C1rN09 in #818
• Fix MessageHub set resumed key repeatedly by @HAOCHENYE in #839
• Add progress argument to load_from_http by @austinmw in #770
• Ensure metrics is not empty when saving best checkpoint by @zhouzaida in #849

Docs

• Add contributing.md by @HAOCHENYE in #754
• Add gif to 15 min tutorial by @HAOCHENYE in #748
• Refactor documentations and translate them to English by @zhouzaida in #786
• Fix document link by @MambaWong in #775
• Fix typos in EN contributing.md by @RangeKing in #792
• Translate data transform docs. by @mzr1996 in #737
• Replace markdown table with html table by @HAOCHENYE in #800
• Fix wrong example in Visualizer.draw_polygons by @lyviva in #798
• Fix docstring format and rescale the images by @zhouzaida in #802
• Fix failed link in registry by @zhouzaida in #811
• Fix typos by @shanmo in #814
• Fix wrong links and typos in docs by @shanmo in #815
• Translate save_gpu_memory.md by @xin-li-67 in #803
• Translate the documentation of hook design by @zhouzaida in #780
• Fix docstring format by @zhouzaida in #816
• Translate registry.md by @xin-li-67 in #817
• Update docstring of BaseDataElement by @Xiangxu-0103 in #836
• Fix typo by @Xiangxu-0103 in #841
• Update docstring of structures by @Xiangxu-0103 in #840
• Translate optim_wrapper.md by @xin-li-67 in #833
• Fix link error in initialize tutorial. by @HAOCHENYE in #843
• Fix table in initialized.md by @HAOCHENYE in #844

Contributors

A total of 16 developers contributed to this release. Thanks @BayMaxBHL, @RangeKing, @Xiangxu-0103, @xin-li-67, @twmht, @shanmo, @sunyc11, @lyviva, @austinmw, @xiexinch, @mzr1996, @RangiLyu, @MambaWong, @C1rN09, @zhouzaida, @HAOCHENYE

New Contributors

• @sunyc11 made their first contribution in #774
• @RangeKing made their first contribution in #792
• @lyviva made their first contribution in #798
• @twmht made their first contribution in #796
• @shanmo made their first contribution in #814
• @xiexinch made their first contribution in #791

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.4.0

MMEngine Release V0.3.2

New Features & Enhancements

• Send git errors to subprocess.PIPE by @austinmw in #717
• Add a common TestRunnerTestCase to build a Runner instance. by @HAOCHENYE in #631
• Align the log by @HAOCHENYE in #436
• Log the called order of hooks during training process by @songyuc in #672
• Support setting eta_min_ratio in CosineAnnealingParamScheduler by @cir7 in #725
• Enhance compatibility of revert_sync_batchnorm by @HAOCHENYE in #695

Bug Fixes

• Fix distributed_training.py in examples by @PingHGao in #700
• Format the log of CheckpointLoader.load_checkpoint by @HAOCHENYE in #685
• Fix bug of CosineAnnealingParamScheduler by @fangyixiao18 in #735
• Fix add_graph is not called bug by @shenmishajing in #632
• Fix .pre-commit-config-zh-cn.yaml pyupgrade-repo github->gitee by @BayMaxBHL in #756

Docs

• Add English docs of BaseDataset by @GT9505 in #713
• Fix BaseDataset typo about lazy initialization by @MengzhangLI in #733
• Fix typo by @zhouzaida in #734
• Translate visualization docs by @xin-li-67 in #692

Contributors

@austinmw @BayMaxBHL @shenmishajing @xin-li-67 @songyuc @PingHGao @MengzhangLI @cir7 @GT9505 @fangyixiao18 @zhouzaida @HAOCHENYE

MMEngine Release V0.3.1

Highlights

Fix error when saving best checkpoint in ddp-training

New Features & Enhancements

• Replace print with print_log for those functions called by runner by @HAOCHENYE in #686

Docs

• Refine Chinese tutorials by @Xiangxu-0103 in #694
• Add MMEval in README by @sanbuphy in #669
• Fix error URL in runner docstring by @HAOCHENYE in #668
• Fix error evaluator type name in evaluator.md by @sanbuphy in #675
• Fix typo in utils.md @sanbuphy in #702

Bug Fixes

• Fix error when saving best checkpoint in ddp-training by @HAOCHENYE in #682

Contributors

@Xiangxu-0103 @sanbuphy @HAOCHENYE

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

MMEngine Release V0.3.0

Highlights

• Support running on Ascend chip.
• Support torch ZeroRedundancyOptimizer.
• Fix error calculation of eta_min in CosineRestartParamScheduler.

New Features & Enhancements

• Support running on Ascend chip by @wangjiangben-hw in #572
• Support torch ZeroRedundancyOptimizer by @nijkah in #551
• Add non-blocking feature to BaseDataPreprocessor by @shenmishajing in #618
• Add documents for clip_grad, and support clip grad by value. by @HAOCHENYE in #513
• Add ROCm info when collecting env by @zhouzaida in #633
• Add a function to mark the deprecated function. by @HAOCHENYE in #609
• Call register_all_modules in Registry.get() by @HAOCHENYE in #541
• Deprecate _save_to_state_dict implemented in mmengine by @HAOCHENYE in #610
• Add ignore_keys in ConcatDataset by @BIGWangYuDong in #556

Docs

• Fix cannot show changelog.md in chinese documents. by @HAOCHENYE in #606
• Fix Chinese docs whitespaces by @C1rN09 in #521
• Translate installation and 15_min by @xin-li-67 in #629
• Refine chinese doc by @Tau-J in #516
• Add MMYOLO link in README by @Xiangxu-0103 in #634
• Add MMEngine logo in docs by @zhouzaida in #641
• Fix docstring of BaseDataset by @HAOCHENYE in #656
• Fix docstring and documentation used for hub.get_model by @zengyh1900 in #659
• Fix typo in docs/zh_cn/advanced_tutorials/visualization.md by @MambaWong in #616
• Fix typo docstring of DefaultOptimWrapperConstructor by @triple-Mu in #644
• Fix typo in advanced tutorial by @cxiang26 in #650
• Fix typo in Config docstring by @sanbuphy in #654
• Fix typo in docs/zh_cn/tutorials/config.md by @Xiangxu-0103 in #596
• Fix typo in docs/zh_cn/tutorials/model.md by @C1rN09 in #598

Bug Fixes

• Fix error calculation of eta_min in CosineRestartParamScheduler by @Z-Fran in #639
• Fix BaseDataPreprocessor.cast_data could not handle string data by @HAOCHENYE in #602
• Make autocast compatible with mps by @HAOCHENYE in #587
• Fix error format of log message by @HAOCHENYE in #508
• Fix error implementation of is_model_wrapper by @HAOCHENYE in #640
• Fix VisBackend.add_config is not called by @shenmishajing in #613
• Change strict_load of EMAHook to False by default by @HAOCHENYE in #642
• Fix open encoding problem of Config in Windows by @sanbuphy in #648
• Fix the total number of iterations in log is a float number. by @jbwang1997 in #604
• Fix pip upgrade CI by @HAOCHENYE in #622

Contributors

A total of 26 developers contributed to this release.
Thanks @okotaku @xin-li-67 @nijkah @shenmishajing @triple-Mu @cxiang26 @Xiangxu-0103 @sanbuphy @austinmw @yhna940 @Zhengfei-0311 @liuyanyi @vansin @MambaWong @wangjiangben-hw @zengyh1900 @Tau-J @BIGWangYuDong @jbwang1997 @C1rN09 @RangiLyu @HAOCHENYE @zhouzaida @Dai-Wenxun @Z-Fran @MengzhangLI

New Contributors

• @shenmishajing made their first contribution in #618
• @Xiangxu-0103 made their first contribution in #596
• @Tau-J made their first contribution in #516
• @wangjiangben-hw made their first contribution in #572
• @triple-Mu made their first contribution in #644
• @sanbuphy made their first contribution in #648
• @Z-Fran made their first contribution in #639
• @BIGWangYuDong made their first contribution in #556
• @zengyh1900 made their first contribution in #659

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

MMEngine Release V0.2.0

Highlights

• Refactor FileIO to provide a more unified interface without BC breaking.
• Add SMDDP backend and support running on AWS.
• Add the base model for test time augmentation.
• Support converting BN to SyncBN during distributed data-parallel training.

New Features & Enhancements

• Add SMDDP backend and support running on AWS by @austinmw in #579
• Refactor FileIO to provide a more unified interface without BC breaking @zhouzaida in #533
• Add test time augmentation base model by @HAOCHENYE in #538
• Use torch.lerp\_() to speed up EMA by @RangiLyu in #519
• Support converting BN to SyncBN by config by @HAOCHENYE in #506
• Support defining metric name in wandb backend by @okotaku in #509
• Add dockerfile by @zhouzaida in #347

Bug Fixes

• Fix LogProcessor does not smooth loss if the name of loss doesn't start with loss by @liuyanyi in
  #539
• Fix failed to enable detect_anomalous_params in MMSeparateDistributedDataParallel by @HAOCHENYE in #588
• Fix CheckpointHook behavior unexpected if given filename_tmpl argument by @C1rN09 in #518
• Fix error argument sequence in FSDP by @HAOCHENYE in #520
• Fix uploading image in wandb backend @okotaku in #510
• Fix loading state dictionary in EMAHook by @okotaku in #507
• Fix circle import in EMAHook by @HAOCHENYE in #523
• Fix unit test could fail caused by MultiProcessTestCase by @HAOCHENYE in #535
• Remove unnecessary "if statement" in Registry by @MambaWong in #536
• Fix _save_to_state_dict by @HAOCHENYE in #542
• Support comparing NumPy array dataset meta in Runner.resume by @HAOCHENYE in #511
• Use get instead of pop to dump runner_type in build_runner_from_cfg by @nijkah in #549
• Upgrade pre-commit hooks by @zhouzaida in #576
• Delete the error comment in registry.md by @vansin in #514
• Fix Some out-of-date unit tests by @C1rN09 in #586
• Fix typo in MMFullyShardedDataParallel by @yhna940 in #569
• Update Github Action CI and CircleCI by @zhouzaida in #512
• Fix unit test in windows by @HAOCHENYE in #515
• Fix merge ci & multiprocessing unit test by @HAOCHENYE in #529

Docs

• Fix API files of English documentation by @zhouzaida in #525
• Fix typo in instance_data.py by @Dai-Wenxun in #530
• Fix the docstring of the model sub-package by @zhouzaida in #573
• Fix a spelling error in docs/zh_cn by @cxiang26 in #548
• Fix typo in docstring by @MengzhangLI in #527
• Update config.md by @Zhengfei-0311 in #562

Contributors

A total of 15 developers contributed to this release.
Thanks @nijkah @austinmw @okotaku @cxiang26 @yhna940 @liuyanyi @MambaWong @Zhengfei-0311 @Dai-Wenxun @vansin @C1rN09 @MengzhangLI @zhouzaida @HAOCHENYE @RangiLyu

New Contributors

• @nijkah made their first contribution in #549
• @okotaku made their first contribution in #510
• @cxiang26 made their first contribution in #548
• @MambaWong made their first contribution in #536
• @Zhengfei-0311 made their first contribution in #562
• @austinmw made their first contribution in #579
• @yhna940 made their first contribution in #569
• @liuyanyi made their first contribution in #539
• @MengzhangLI made their first contribution in #527

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

MMEngine Release V0.1.0

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