Intel Model Zoo v1.8.0

New Topologies and Models:

• New pre-trained model for SSD-MobileNet with more optimizations
• BERT (FP32) Inference for Language Translation

New in TensorFlow Serving:

• InceptionV3
• ResNet50v1.5
• Transformer-LT (Official)
• SSD-MobileNet

New Tutorials:

• TensorFlow – BERT Large BFloat16 Training
• TensorFlow Serving – Installation Guide
• TensorFlow Serving – General Best Practices
• TensorFlow Serving – InceptionV3 and ResNet50v1.5
• TensorFlow Serving – SSD-MobileNet and R-FCN
• TensorFlow Serving – Transformer-LT (Official)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed MLpref GNMT with TensorFlow 2.x version
• Fixed SSD-ResNet34 FP32 Inference libGL.so.1 import error
• Fixed unit tests and linting
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements.

DL frameworks (TensorFlow):

Intel Model Zoo v1.8.0 is validated on the following TensorFlow versions:

• Intel Optimizations for TensorFlow v2.2
• Intel Optimizations for TensorFlow serving v2.2

Supported Configurations:

Intel Model Zoo v1.8.0 is validated on the following operating system:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Python 3.6
• Docker Server v19+
• Docker Client v18+