Highlights

• Enable distributed XR-Transformer fine-tuning
• Enable the capability of large-batch prediction for ANN HNSW
• Release interactive hands-on tutorial materials

Enhancements

• Unit test for sorted_csc, sorted_csr by @chepingt in #139
• Unit test for csr_row_softmax by @houyuhan98 in #141
• Bump numpy from 1.21.0 to 1.22.0 by @dependabot in #145 #146
• Release the materials for the PECOS hands-on tutorial in KDD 2022 by @hallogameboy in #153 #154 #161
• Enable the capability of large-batch prediction for HNSW by @OctoberChang in #156
• Distributed XR-Transformer fine-tuning by @jiong-zhang in #144 #162

Bug Fixes

• Fix argument-passing issue in smat_util.sorted_csc by @jiong-zhang in #134
• Fix indptr overflow issue in block_diag_csr() by @OctoberChang in #136
• Fix the yum group install command in README by @hallogameboy in #138
• Change file names for windows compatibility by @YangyiLi001 in #143
• Avoid triggering CodeQL on push for Dependabot branches by @weiliw-amz in #148
• Fix Pypi release version error by @weiliw-amz in #163

Deprecation

• Deprecate imbalanced hierarchical K-means from clustering and semantic indexing by @hallogameboy in #151

New Contributors

• @chepingt made their first contribution in #139
• @houyuhan98 made their first contribution in #141
• @YangyiLi001 made their first contribution in #143
• @xiusic made their first contribution in #147

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0