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Release Notes

NVIDIA Nsight DL Designer Release Notes.

Release notes and system requirements.

New Features

  • The Channel Inspector can display summary and per-channel statistics about a layer's output tensor: mean, minimum/maximum, standard deviation, and sparsity (percentage of tensor elements close to zero).

  • Output tensor shapes are now visible during editing.

  • ConverenceNG can now save network outputs as .npy files.

  • Users can now expand or collapse the parameters list of a layer glyph in the editor view.

  • In Channel Inspector, users can now toggle a checkbox to perform auto scale and shift of the channels.

  • Users can now save a template as a file that can be imported into another model.

We have added more data to network profiling reports:

  • Per-layer device memory footprints

  • Whole-network device memory footprint

  • Percentage view for inference timings

  • Layers' distance from the nearest input, for sorting by network depth

  • Template-level inference timings

NvNeural Changes

  • Plugin initialization has been refactored to reduce its reliance on translation-unit-scoped static initialization. The ExportPlugin framework now expects user plugin code to provide an implementation of the function void nvneural::plugin::InitializePluginTypes(). This function should call static ClassRegistry methods to make its export types visible to the client application.

  • The SkipConcatenation optimization has been rewritten. Custom concatenation layers should implement nvneural::IConcatenationLayer2 to participate in this optimization.

  • We added two new analysis layers: Saliency Generator and Saliency Mix. The Saliency Generator layer converts their input tensors into a single-channel tensor with the same H and W as their inputs. The Saliency Mix layer simply overlays saliency information (output of a Saliency Generator) onto another input tensor.

Known Issues

  • When you have a high resolution monitor and you set the DPI scaling at larger than 100%, you may see rendering corruptions inside the editor.

  • The DirectML exporter does not currently honor the apply_bias layer parameter during code generation.

  • Command lines containing spaces are not quoted correctly for copy/paste in dialog boxes.

Platform Support

NVIDIA Nsight Deep Learning Designer runs on the following systems:

Windows 10: 20H1 or newer

Linux: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or newer

GPU Support

NVIDIA Nsight Deep Learning Designer requires a NVIDIA Volta or newer GPU to run.

Recommended Display Driver

You must have a recent NVIDIA display driver installed on your system to run NVIDIA Nsight Deep Learning Designer. The following display drivers are recommended:

Windows: Release 472 or newer

Linux: Release 470 or newer

Notices

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