5.15. PopEF

3.1.0

New features

  • Added PopEF serialisation support for float8.

  • Added option to print tensor and feed data values and tensor shapes with popef_dump.

Bug Fixes

None

Other improvements

  • Extended documentation for PopEF module with additional examples.

Known issues

None

Compatibility changes

None

3.0.0

New features

  • Improve popef_dump usability.

    Several popef_dump improvements, mostly to improve output formatting and readability, and allow data filtering.

  • Add remote buffers support.

    Support for tensors stored in memory outside the IPU (remote buffers) that can be read and written by the IPU.

  • Add ModelBuilder Python bindings.

    Enables the use of Python bindings for the ModelBuilder class.

  • Add helper to convert PopEF dtypes to NumPy dtypes.

    Provides the ability to use PopEF data types as corresponding NumPy data types.

Bug Fixes

None

Other improvements

None

Known issues

None

Compatibility changes

None