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• Fix Some out-of-date unit tests by @C1rN09 in #586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

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