Release Notes for Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library

 What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL functionality:
  • DPC++ sparse GEMM and GEMV primitives.
  • Data type support in read function.
  • Online distributed PCA. 
  • Sparsity support for logloss function primitive.
• Introduced new Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • Incremental Linear Regression( IncrementalLinearRegression ) interface.
  • Incremental Empirical Covariance (IncrementalEmpiricalCovariance) interface to patch_map.
• Bug fixes:
  • oneDAL:
    • sycl barrier() deprecation alternative.
    • Distributed PCA singular values computation fix.
    • Fix event dependencies for PCA infer on all supported Intel® GPU. See the link to the oneDAL System Requirements.
  • Extension for Scikit-learn*:
    • Fix Intel® Distribution for Python* and Intel® Data Parallel Control libraries F-contiguous data processing.

 What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL functionality:
  • k-Means sparsity support
  • Online support of distributed Covariance algorithm
  • Added inner_iterations_count result option to LogisticRegression
• Introduced new Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • model_selection in sklearnex namespace
  • SPMD backend library is separated from dpc backend
  • PCA algorithm is moved out of preview namespace
• Improved Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* performance for the following algorithms:
  • PCA
• Deprecation Notice for future releases:
  • Sklearn estimators in onedal4py LinReg and k-Means algorithms is deprecated for usage
• Bug fixes:
  • oneDAL:
    • Fix FPK exports on Windows
    • Fix csr_accessor crash when moving data from USM or host memory to host memory
    • Fix 'test_patching' routines for intelex-only sklearnex estimators
    • Update sklearnex init based on SPMD backend changes
    • Fix import error by adding conditional check of OFF_ONEDAL_IFACE flag when importing onedal

What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL functionality:
  • Optional results in k-Means inference
  • GPU support of SVD method of PCA algorithm
• Improved oneDAL performance for the following algorithms:
  • k-Means
• Introduced new Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • Incremental Covariance algorithm
  • Logistic Regression algorithm is moved out of preview namespace
  • SPMD interfaces support: Logistic Regression, Covariance
  • Enabled scikit-learn 1.4 support
• Bug fixes:
  • oneDAL:
    • Fix FPK exports on Windows
    • Replace deprecated sycl::abs to sycl::fabs
  • Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn*:
    • Adjusted n_jobs parameter setting
    • Updated DPCPP detection in setup
    • Fix of k-Means SPMD timeout
    • Correct disabling of CatBoost SHAP
    • Fix LocalOutlierFactor kneighbors method

Notes

For the 2024.2 release, the Third Party Programs file has been included as a section in this product’s release notes rather than as a separate text file.

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 What's New

• New oneDAL functionality:
  • Enabled distributed computations for LogisticRegression algorithm
  • Basic statistics algorithm for sparse data
• Added new parameters to oneDAL algorithms:
  • Bias parameter to Covariance algorithm
• Improved oneDAL performance for the following algorithms:
  • DBSCAN
  • Distributed version of kNN
• New Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • SHAP support for symmetric CatBoost models
  • Added oneDAL LinReg and Covariance hyperparameters API
  • Added LogisticRegression interface to preview section
  • Initial support of n_jobs parameter

 What's New

• New oneDAL functionality:
  • Introduced Logistic Regression algorithm
  • Introduced online algorithms support: Moments of Low Order, PCA, Linear Regression
  • Introduced dispatching in oneAPI covariance algorithm
• New Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • Linear Regression and ensemble algorithms are moved out of preview namespace
  • Added Python 3.12 support for daal4py and Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn* packages
• New Model Builders functionality:
  • SHAP calculation is added to GBT regression

Support Materials

Created Kaggle kernels for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:

• PS-S3-Ep23-with-scikit-learn-intelex
• pss3e23 fusion_model with scikit-learn-intelex
• PS S3E25: Faster regression tuning with sklearnex

Articles:

• Faster XGBoost*, LightGBM, and CatBoost Inference on the CPU

 Adoption

• TPOT2 AutoML integration

Removals and ABI compatibility

• The compression functionality in the oneDAL library is deprecated. Starting with the 2024.0 release, oneDAL does not support the compression functionality
• The DAAL CPP SYCL Interfaces in the oneDAL library are deprecated. Starting with the 2024.0 release, oneDAL does not support the DAAL CPP SYCL Interfaces
• The Java* interfaces in the oneDAL library are deprecated. Starting with the 2024.0 release, oneDAL does not support these Java* interfaces
• ABI compatibility is broken as part of the 2024.0 release of oneDAL. The library’s major version is incremented to two to enforce the relinking of existing applications

Library Engineering

• Compressed sparse rows (CSR) accessor has been changed and moved from detail namespace. The support of USM memory was added into this class
• Centralized parameters selection library has been introduced in the release

What's New

• Introduced new Intel® oneDAL functionality:
  • Online algorithms support: Covariance
  • Structure of arrays (SOA) Tables
• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • DBSCAN and SPMD DBSCAN algorithms

Deprecation Notice for future releases

• The following algorithms in DAAL Interfaces in the oneDAL library are deprecated: k-Means, Covariance, PCA, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Random Forest, kNN, SVM, DBSCAN, Low-order moments. Starting with the 2025.0 release, oneDAL will not support these algorithms in DAAL Interfaces
• ABI compatibility is to be broken as part of the 2025.0 release of oneDAL. The library’s major version is to be incremented to three to enforce the relinking of existing applications

Directory Layout

Directory layout is improved across all products to streamline installation and setup.

The Unified Directory Layout is implemented in 2024.0. If you have multiple toolkit versions installed, the Unified layout ensures that your development environment contains the correct component versions for each installed version of the toolkit.

The directory layout used before 2024.0, the Component Directory Layout, is still supported on new and existing installations.

For detailed information about the Unified layout, including how to initialize the environment and advantages with the Unified layout, refer to Use the setvars and oneapi-vars Scripts with Linux and Use the setvars and oneapi-vars Scripts with Windows.

Deprecation Notice 

• The compression functionality in the oneDAL library is deprecated. Starting with the 2024.0 release, oneDAL will not support the compression functionality
• The DAAL CPP SYCL Interfaces in the oneDAL library are deprecated. Starting with the 2024.0 release, oneDAL will not support the DAAL CPP SYCL Interfaces
• The Java* interfaces in the oneDAL library are marked as deprecated. The future releases of the oneDAL library may no longer include support for these Java* interfaces
• ABI compatibility is to be broken as part of the 2024.0 release of oneDAL. The library’s major version is to be incremented to two to enforce the relinking of existing applications
• macOS* support is deprecated for oneDAL. The 2023.x releases are the last to provide it

Library Engineering

• CSR tables interface have been changed and moved from detail namespace

What's New

• Introduced new Intel® oneDAL functionality:
  • Distributed KMeans++ algorithm
  • Logistic Loss objective algorithm
• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • NaN(missing values) support was added to Model Builders
• Improved performance for the following Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn algorithms:
  • Model Builders performance have been improved up to 2x

What's New

• Introduced new Intel® oneDAL functionality:
  • Distributed Linear Regression, kNN, PCA algorithms
• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • Enabled PCA, Linear Regression, Random Forest algorithms and SPMD policy as preview
  • Scikit-learn 1.2 support
  • sklearn_is_patched() function added to validate status of algorithms patching
• Improved performance for the following Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn algorithms:
  • t-SNE for “Burnes-Hut” algorithm
  • SVM algorithm for single row inference

Known Issues 

• In certain conditions DAAL SYCL interface might hang with L0 backend – please use oneDAL DPC interfaces instead. If older interfaces are required OpenCL backend can be used as workaround.

Library Engineering

• Reduced the size of Intel® oneDAL library by approximately ~30%
• Enabled NuGet distribution channel for Intel® oneDAL on Linux and MacOS

Support Materials

The following additional materials were created:  

•  Accelerating Barnes-Hut t-SNE Algorithm by Efficient Parallelization on Multi-Core CPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11506

Deprecation Notice 

• DAAL data compression functionality is deprecated and would be removed in 2024.0 release
• oneDAL make and Visual studio examples are deprecated – please use CMake based examples instead
• DAAL cpp_sycl interfaces are deprecated and would be removed in 2024.0 release

What's New

• Introduced new Intel® oneDAL functionality: 
  • DPC++ interface for Linear Regression algorithm

Known Issues

• Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn SVC.fit and KNN.fit do not support GPU
• Most Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn sycl examples fail when using GPU context

• Running the Random Forest algorithm with versions 2021.7.1 and 2023.0 of scikit-learn-intelex on the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, formerly Cascade Lake may result in an 'Illegal instruction' error.

  • No workaround is currently available for this issue.

  • Recommendation: Use an older version of scikit-learn-intelex until the issue is fixed in a future release.

Deprecation Notice

• The sequential version of oneDAL was deprecated starting the 2023.0 version. Please use TBB capabilities to limit the thread count if execution on single core is required
• Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library KDB* Samples were deprecated in the open source distribution
• Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library Hadoop* Samples on macOS were deprecated in the open source distribution
• Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library Spark* Samples on macOS were deprecated in the open source distribution

What's New

• Get more functionality and productivity for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn with Minkowski and Chebyshev distances in kNN and acceleration of the t-SNE algorithm.
• For oneDAL, take advantage of the new LinReg algorithm and distributed PCA algorithm.
• This release is immediately available through the Intel® Developer Zone. It will be available through repositories at a later date.

Deprecation Notice

zlib and bzip2 methods of compression were deprecated. They are dispatched to the lzo method starting the 2022.3.1 version.

There are no updates for the 2022.3 release. Please refer to the 2022.2 release notes.

Library Engineering  

• Reduced the size of oneDAL python run-time package by approximately 8%
• Added Python 3.10 support for daal4py and Intel(R) Extension for Scikit-learn packages

Support Materials  

Created Kaggle kernels for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:

• Fast Feature Importance using scikit-learn-intelex
• [TPS-DEC] Fast Feature Importance with sklearnex
• [TPS-Dec]SVC with sklearnex 20x speedup
• [TPS-Jan] Fast PyCaret with Scikit-learn-Intelex
• [TPS-Feb] KNN with sklearnex 13x speedup
• Fast SVM for Sparse Data from NLP Problem
• Introduction to scikit-learn-intelex
• [Datasets] Fast Feature Importance using sklearnex
• [TPS-Mar] Fast workflow using scikit-learn-intelex

What's New  

• Improved performance of oneDAL algorithms:
  • Optimized data conversion for tables with column-major layout in host memory to tables with row-major layout in device memory
  • Optimized the computation of Minkowski distances in brute-force kNN on CPU
  • Optimized Covariance algorithm
  • Added DPC++ column-wise atomic reduction
• Introduced new oneDAL functionality:
  • KMeans distributed random dense initialization
  • Distributed PcaCov
  • sendrecv_replace communicator method
• Added new parameters to oneDAL algorithms:
  • Weights in Decision Forest for CPU
  • Cosine and Chebyshev distances for KNN on GPU
• Improved performance for the following Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn algorithms:
  • t-SNE for “Burnes-Hut” algorithm

• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • Manhattan, Minkowski, Chebyshev and Cosine distances for KNeighborsClassifier and NearestNeighbors with “brute” algorithm
• Fixed the following issues in Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • An issue with the search of common data type in pandas DataFrame
  • Patching overhead of finiteness checker for specific small data sizes
  • Incorrect values in a tree visualization with plot_tree function in RandomForestClassifier
  • Unexpected error for device strings in {device}:{device_index} format while using config context
• The sequential version of oneDAL will be deprecated starting in the next release

The release introduces the following changes: 

Library Engineering

• Reduced the size of oneDAL library by approximately ~15%.

Support Materials

The following additional materials were created:

• oneDAL samples:
  • oneCCL-based distributed K-means, Covariance and DBSCAN samples
  • MPI samples for Basic Statistics and Decision Forest
• Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn samples:
  • demo samples of the Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn usage with the performance comparison to original Scikit-learn for ElasticNet, K-means, Lasso Regression, Linear regression, and Ridge Regression
  • demo samples of the Modin usage
• daal4py samples:
  • an example of Catboost converter usage
• Kaggle kernels for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Sep 2021] Ridge with sklearn-intelex 2x speedup
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Oct 2021] Fast AutoML with Intel Extension for Scikit-learn
  • [Titanic – Machine Learning from Disaster] AutoML with Intel Extension for Sklearn
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Nov 2021] AutoML with Intel® Extension
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Nov 2021] Log Regression with sklearnex 17x speedup

What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL functionality: 
  • Distributed algorithms for Covariance, DBSCAN, Decision Forest, Low Order Moments
  • oneAPI interfaces for Linear Regression, DBSCAN, KNN
• Improved error handling for distributed algorithms in oneDAL in case of compute nodes failures
• Improved performance for the following oneDAL algorithms:
  • Louvain algorithm
  • KNN and SVM algorithms on GPU
• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn: 
  • Scikit-learn 1.0 support
• Fixed the following issues:
  • Stabilized the results of Linear Regression in oneDAL and Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn
  • Fixed an issue with RPATH on MacOS 

The release introduces the following changes: 

Library Engineering

• Introduced new functionality for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn*:
  • Enabled patching for all Scikit-learn applications at once:
    • You can enable global patching via command line:
      • python -m sklearnex.glob patch_sklearn
    • Or via code:
      • from sklearnex import patch_sklearn
      • patch_sklearn(global_patch=True)
    • Read more in Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn documentation. 
  •  Added the support of Python 3.9 for both Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn and daal4py. The packages are available from PyPI and the Intel Channel on Anaconda Cloud.
• Introduced new oneDAL functionality:
  • Added pkg-config support for Linux, macOS, Windows and for static/dynamic, thread/sequential configurations of oneDAL applications.
  • Reduced the size of oneDAL library by approximately ~30%.

Support Materials

The following additional materials were created:

• Samples:
  • Added demo samples comparing the usage of Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn and the original Scikit-learn for KNN, Logistic Regression, SVM and Random Forest algorithms
• Anaconda blogs:
  • Scikit-learn Speed-up with Intel and Anaconda
• Medium blogs:
  • Save Time and Money with Intel Extension for Scikit-learn
• Oracle blogs:
  • Accelerate your model build process with the Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn
• Kaggle kernels:
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Jun 2021] Fast LogReg with scikit-learn-intelex
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Jun 2021] AutoGluon with sklearnex
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Jul 2021] Fast RandomForest with sklearnex
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Jul 2021] RF with Intel Extension for Scikit-learn
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Jul 2021] Stacking with scikit-learn-intelex
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Aug 2021] NuSVR with Intel Extension for Sklearn
  • [Predict Future Sales] Stacking with scikit-learn-intelex
  • [House Prices - Advanced Regression Techniques] NuSVR sklearn-intelex 4x speedup

What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL functionality: 
  • General:
    • Basic statistics (Low order moments) algorithm in oneDAL interfaces
    • Result options for kNN Brute-force in oneDAL interfaces: using a single function call to return any combination of responses, indices, and distances
  • CPU:
    • Sigmoid kernel of SVM algorithm
    • Model converter from CatBoost to oneDAL representation
    • Louvain Community Detection algorithm technical preview
    • Connected Components algorithm technical preview
    • Search task and cosine distance for kNN Brute-force
  • GPU:
    • The full range support of Minkowski distances in kNN Brute-force
• Improved oneDAL performance for the following algorithms:
  • CPU:
    • Decision Forest training and prediction
    • Brute-force kNN
    • KMeans
    • NuSVMs and SVR training
• Introduced new functionality in Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • General:
    • Enabled the global patching of all Scikit-learn applications
    • Provided an integration with dpctl for heterogeneous computing (the support of dpctl.tensor.usm_ndarray for input and output)
    • Extended API with set_config and get_config methods. Added the support of target_offload and allow_fallback_to_host options for device offloading scenarios
    • Added the support of predict_proba in RandomForestClassifier estimator
  • CPU:
    • Added the support of Sigmoid kernel in SVM algorithms
  • GPU
    • Added binary SVC support with Linear and RBF kernels
• Improved the performance of the following scikit-learn estimators via scikit-learn patching:
  • SVR algorithm training
  • NuSVC and NuSVR algorithms training
  • RandomForestRegression and RandomForestClassifier algorithms training and prediction
  • KMeans
• Fixed the following issues:
  • General:
    • Fixed an incorrectly raised exception during the patching of Random Forest algorithm when the number of trees was more than 7000.
  • CPU:
    • Fixed an accuracy issue in Random Forest algorithm caused by the exclusion of constant features.
    • Fixed an issue in NuSVC Multiclass.
    • Fixed an issue with KMeans convergence inconsistency.
    • Fixed incorrect work of train_test_split with specific subset sizes. 
  • GPU:
    • Fixed incorrect bias calculation in SVM.

Known Issues

• GPU:
  • For most algorithms, performance degradations were observed when the 2021.4 version of Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler was used. 
  • Examples are failing when run with Visual Studio Solutions on hardware that does not support double precision floating-point operations.

The release introduces the following changes: 

Library Engineering

• Introduced a new Python package, Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn*. The scikit-learn-intelex package contains scikit-learn patching functionality that was originally available in daal4py package. All future updates for the patches will be available only in Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn. We recommend using scikit-learn-intelex package instead of daal4py.
  • Download the extension using one of the following commands:
    • pip install scikit-learn-intelex
    • conda install scikit-learn-intelex -c conda-forge
  • Enable Scikit-learn patching:
    • from sklearnex import patch_sklearn
    • patch_sklearn()
• Introduced optional dependencies on DPC++ runtime to daal4py. To enable DPC++ backend, install dpcpp_cpp_rt package. It reduces the default package size with all dependencies from 1.2GB to 400 MB.
• •    Added the support of building oneDAL-based applications with /MD and /MDd options on Windows. The -d suffix is used in the names of oneDAL libraries that are built with debug run-time (/MDd).

Support Materials

The following additional materials were created:

• Medium blogs:
  • Superior Machine Learning Performance on the Latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
  • Leverage Intel Optimizations in Scikit-Learn (SVM Performance Training and Inference)
  • Optimizing CatBoost Performance
  • Performance Optimizations for End-to-End AI Pipelines
  • Optimizing the End-to-End Training Pipeline on Apache Spark Clusters
• Kaggle kernels:
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Apr 2021] RF with Intel Extension for Scikit-learn
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Apr 2021] SVM with Intel Extension for Scikit-learn
  • [Tabular Playground Series - Apr 2021] SVM with scikit-learn-intelex
• Samples that illustrate the usage of Intel Extension for Scikit-learn

What's New

• Introduced new oneDAL and daal4py functionality: 
  • CPU:
    • SVM Regression algorithm
    • NuSVM algorithm for both Classification and Regression tasks
    • Polynomial kernel support for all SVM algorithms (SVC, SVR, NuSVC, NuSVR)
    • Minkowski and Chebyshev distances for kNN Brute-force
    • The brute-force method and the voting mode support for kNN algorithm in oneDAL interfaces
    • Multiclass support for SVM algorithms in oneDAL interfaces
    • CSR-matrix support for SVM algorithms in oneDAL interfaces
    • Subgraph Isomorphism algorithm technical preview
    • Single Source Shortest Path (SSSP) algorithm technical preview
• Improved oneDAL and daal4py performance for the following algorithms:
  • CPU:
    • Support Vector Machines training and prediction
    • Linear, Ridge, ElasticNet, and LASSO regressions prediction
  • GPU:
    • Decision Forest training and prediction
    • Principal Components Analysis training 
• Introduced the support of scikit-learn 1.0 version in Intel Extension for Scikit-learn. The 2021.3 release of Intel Extension for Scikit-learn supports the latest scikit-learn releases: 0.22.X, 0.23.X, 0.24.X and 1.0.X.
• Introduced new functionality for Intel Extension for Scikit-learn:
  • General:
    • The support of patch_sklearn for all algorithms
  • CPU:
    • Acceleration of SVR estimator
    • Acceleration of NuSVC and NuSVR estimators
    • Polynomial kernel support in SVM algorithms
• Improved the performance of the following scikit-learn estimators via scikit-learn patching:
  • SVM algorithms training and prediction
  • Linear, Ridge, ElasticNet, and Lasso regressions prediction
• Fixed the following issues:
  • General:
    • Fixed binary incompatibility for the versions of numpy earlier than 1.19.4
    • Fixed an issue with a very large number of trees (> 7000) for Random Forest algorithm.
    • Fixed patch_sklearn to patch both fit and predict methods of Logistic Regression when the algorithm is given as a single parameter to patch_sklearn
  • CPU:
    • Improved numerical stability of training for Alternating Least Squares (ALS) and Linear and Ridge regressions with Normal Equations method
    • Reduced the memory consumption of SVM prediction
  • GPU:
    • Fixed an issue with kernel compilation on the platforms without hardware FP64 support

Known Issues

• Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn and daal4py packages installed from PyPI repository can’t be found on Debian systems (including Google Collab). Mitigation: add “site-packages” folder into Python packages searching before importing the packages:

import sys  import os  import site  sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(site.getsitepackages()[0]), "site-packages")) 

The release introduces the following changes: 

Library Engineering

• Enabled new PyPI distribution channel for daal4py:
  • Four latest Python versions (3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9) are supported on Linux, Windows and MacOS.
  • Support of both CPU and GPU is included in the package.
  • You can download daal4py using the following command: pip install daal4py
• Introduced CMake support for oneDAL examples

Support Materials

The following additional materials were created:

• Medium blogs:
  • Intel Gives Scikit-Learn the Performance Boost Data Scientists Need
  • From Hours to Minutes: 600x Faster SVM
  • Improve the Performance of XGBoost and LightGBM Inference
  • Accelerate Kaggle Challenges Using Intel AI Analytics Toolkit
• Kaggle kernels:
  • Accelerate scikit-learn algorithms using daal4py
  • Fast SVC using daal4py for NLP
  • Fast SVC using daal4py for MNIST
  • Fast KNN using daal4py for MNIST
  • [daal4py] TF-IDF with OvR SVM: What's Cooking

​What's New

•  Introduced new oneDAL and daal4py functionality:  
  • CPU:
    • Hist method for Decision Forest Classification and Regression, which outperforms the existing exact method
    • Bit-to-bit results reproducibility for: Linear and Ridge regressions, LASSO and ElasticNet, KMeans training and initialization, PCA, SVM, Logistic Regression, kNN Brute Force method, Decision Forest Classification and Regression
  • GPU:
    • Multi-node multi-GPU algorithms: K-means (batch and online), Covariance (batch and online), Low order moments (batch and online) and PCA
    • Sparsity support for SVM algorithm
• Improved oneDAL and daal4py performance for the following algorithms:
  • CPU:
    • Decision Forest training Classification and Regression
    • Support Vector Machines training and prediction
    • Logistic Regression, Logistic Loss and Cross Entropy for non-homogeneous input types
  • GPU:
    • Decision Forest training Classification and Regression
    • All algorithms with GPU kernels (as a result of migration to Unified Shared Memory data management)
• Reduced performance overhead for oneAPI C++ interfaces on CPU and oneAPI DPC++ interfaces on GPU
• Added technical preview features in Graph Analytics:
  • CPU:
    • Local and Global Triangle Counting
• Introduced new functionality for scikit-learn patching through daal4py:
  • CPU:
    • Patches for four latest scikit-learn releases: 0.21.X, 0.22.X, 0.23.X and 0.24.X
    • Acceleration of roc_auc_score function
    • Bit-to-bit results reproducibility for: LinearRegression, Ridge, SVC, KMeans, PCA, Lasso, ElasticNet, tSNE, KNeighborsClassifier, KNeighborsRegressor, NearestNeighbors, RandomForestClassifier, RandomForestRegressor
• ​Improved performance of the following scikit-learn estimators via scikit-learn patching:
  • CPU:
    • RandomForestClassifier and RandomForestRegressor scikit-learn estimators: training and prediction
    • Principal Component Analysis (PCA) scikit-learn estimator: training 
    • Support Vector Classification (SVC) scikit-learn estimators: training and prediction
    • Support Vector Classification (SVC) scikit-learn estimator with the probability==True parameter: training and prediction
• Fixed the following issues:
  • Scikit-learn patching:
    • Improved accuracy of RandomForestClassifier and RandomForestRegressor scikit-learn estimators
    • Fixed patching issues with pairwise_distances
    • Fixed the behavior of the patch_sklearn and unpatch_sklearn functions
    • Fixed unexpected behavior that made accelerated functionality unavailable through scikit-learn patching if the unput was not of float32 or float64 data types. Scikit-learn patching now works with all numpy data types.
    • Fixed a memory leak that appeared when DataFrame from pandas was used as an input type
    • Fixed performance issue for interoperability with Modin
• daal4py:
  • GPU:
    • Fixed the crash of SVM and kNN algorithms on Windows
• oneDAL:
  • CPU:
    • Improved accuracy of Decision Forest Classification and Regression
  • GPU:
    • Improved accuracy of KMeans algorithm
    • Improved stability of Linear Regression and Logistic Regression algorithms

​​Known Issues

• oneDAL vars.sh script does not support kornShell

The release introduces the following changes: 

The release contains all functionality of Intel® DAAL. See Intel® DAAL release notes for more details. 

Library Engineering

• Renamed the library from Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library to oneAPI Data Analytics Library and changed the package names to reflect this. 
• Deprecated 32-bit version of the library. 
• Introduced Intel GPU support for both OpenCL and Level Zero backends. 
• Introduced Unified Shared Memory (USM) support 

What's New

• Introduced new Intel® DAAL and daal4py functionality:
  • GPU:
    • Batch algorithms: K-means, Covariance, PCA, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, Random Forest Classification and Regression, Gradient Boosting Classification and Regression, kNN, SVM, DBSCAN and Low-order moments 
    • Online algorithms: Covariance, PCA, Linear Regression and Low-order moments 
    • Added Data Management functionality to support DPC++ APIs: a new table type for representation of SYCL-based numeric tables (SyclNumericTable) and an optimized CSV data source 
• Improved oneDAL and daal4py performance for the following algorithms: 
  • CPU: 
    • Logistic Regression training and prediction 
    • k-Nearest Neighbors prediction with Brute Force method 
    • Logistic Loss and Cross Entropy objective functions
• Added Technical Preview Features in Graph Analytics:

  • CPU:

    • Undirected graph without edge and vertex weights (undirected_adjacency_array_graph), where vertex indices can only be of type int32 
    • Jaccard Similarity Coefficients for all pairs of vertices, a batch algorithm that processes the graph by blocks 

• Aligned the library with oneDAL Specification 1.0 for the following algorithms: 
  • CPU/GPU: 
    • K-means, PCA, Random Forest Classification and Regression, kNN and SVM 
• Introduced new functionality for scikit-learn patching through daal4py: 
  • CPU: 
    • Acceleration of NearestNeighbors and KNeighborsRegressor scikit-learn estimators with Brute Force and K-D tree methods 
    • Acceleration of TSNE scikit-learn estimator 
  • GPU:

    • Intel GPU support in scikit-learn for DBSCAN, K-means, Linear and Logistic Regression 

• Improved performance of the following scikit-learn estimators via scikit-learn patching:

  • CPU:

    • LogisticRegression fit, predict and predict_proba methods 
    • KNeighborsClassifier predict, predict_proba and kneighbors methods with “brute” method 

Known Issues

• oneDAL DPC++ APIs does not work on GEN12 graphics with OpenCL backend. Use Level Zero backend for such cases. 
• train_test_split in daal4py patches for Scikit-Learn* can produce incorrect shuffling on Windows* 
• The following daal4py examples do not work on Intel® Iris Xe MAX with float64 compute mode:
  • gradient_boosted_regression_batch
  • decision_forest_classification_batch
  • decision_forest_regression_batch
  • bf_knn_classification_batch
  • dbscan_batch
  • svm_batch
  • sklearn_sycl.py
  • kmeans_batch

           Run daal4py examples using float32 compute mode instead:

1. Use np.float32 data type for input data. To do this, add parameter t=np.float32 to the readcsv function used in the examples.
2. Set the parameter fptype to float in the algorithm object constructor: fptype='float'.
3. Switch on float64 software emulation on Intel® Iris Xe MAX

• K-Means example in daal4py (examples/sycl/kmeans_batch.py) produces different results on GPU and CPU. To avoid failures, comment assert statements that compare GPU results and classic results in the example.
• DBSCAN example in daal4py (examples/sycl/dbscan_batch.py) hangs when it is running on CPU with data wrapped in sycl_buffer. To avoid hangs, do not pass sycl_buffer objects to DBSCAN on CPU.