Lava Deep Learning 0.3.0

The lava-dl library version 0.3.0 now enables inference for trained spiking networks seamlessly on CPU or Loihi 2 backends and can leverage Loihi 2’s convolutional network compression and graded spike features for improved memory usage and performance.

New Features and Improvements

• Added Loihi 2 support in lava-dl NetX utilizing Loihi 2 convolution support and graded spikes (PR #88, #107).
• Added a tutorial demonstrating PilotNet application running on Intel Loihi 2 (PR #107).
• Added accelerated training of recurrent topologies in lava-dl SLAYER (PR #103)
• Added Transposed Convolution and Unpool support in lava-dl SLAYER (PR #80)

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Improved lava-dl SLAYER codebase with bugfixes and additional documentation (PR #78, #105)

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes in this release

Known Issues

• Issue training with GPU for lava-dl-slayer on Windows machine.

What's Changed

• Remove unnecessary imports by @Tobias-Fischer in #56
• Update mnist.py by @uslumt in #71
• Updated notebooks with new hyperparameters and typo fixes by @bamsumit in #76
• Add pilotnet integration tests by @mgkwill in #79
• Slayer fixes by @bamsumit in #78
• Changes to lava-dl to reflect api changes in lava 0.4.0 by @bamsumit in #88
• Added ConvT and Unpool block for neurons by @alexggener in #80
• Update ci-build.yml, Remove redundant poetry updates by @mgkwill in #89
• Recurrent mechanic by @timcheck in #103
• Bump nbconvert from 6.5.0 to 6.5.1 by @dependabot in #93
• fix bug of block.AbstractInput by @fangwei123456 in #105
• Loihi Tutorials by @bamsumit in #107
• Add conda install instructions with intel-numpy by @mgkwill in #91
• Version 0.3.0 by @mgkwill in #109

New Contributors

• @Tobias-Fischer made their first contribution in #56
• @uslumt made their first contribution in #71
• @alexggener made their first contribution in #80
• @timcheck made their first contribution in #103
• @dependabot made their first contribution in #93
• @fangwei123456 made their first contribution in #105

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