1.18.106

[1.18.106]

Added

• Added an optional time limit for stopping training. The training will stop at the next checkpoint after reaching the time limit.

[1.18.105]

Added

• Added support for a possibility to have a custom metrics logger - a function passed as an extra parameter. If supplied, the logger is called during training.

[1.18.104]

Changed

• Implemented an attention-based copy mechanism as described in Jia, Robin, and Percy Liang. "Data recombination for neural semantic parsing." (2016).
• Added a <ptr\d+> special symbol to explicitly point at an input token in the target sequence
• Changed the decoder interface to pass both the decoder data and the pointer data.
• Changed the AttentionState named tuple to add the raw attention scores.

[1.18.103]

Added

• Added ability to score image-sentence pairs by extending the scoring feature originally implemented for machine
  translation to the image captioning module.

[1.18.102]

Fixed

• Fixed loading of more than 10 source vocabulary files to be in the right, numerical order.

[1.18.101]

Changed

• Update to Sacrebleu 1.3.6

[1.18.100]

Fixed

• Always initializing the multiprocessing context. This should fix issues observed when running sockeye-train.

[1.18.99]

Changed

• Updated to MXNet 1.4.1

[1.18.98]

Changed

• Converted several transformer-related layer implementations to Gluon HybridBlocks. No functional change.