Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library 2021.6

The release Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library 2021.6 introduces the following changes:

📚 Support Materials:

Kaggle kernels for Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn:

• Fast Feature Importance using scikit-learn-intelex
• [Tabular Playground Series - December 2021] Fast Feature Importance with sklearnex
• [Tabular Playground Series - December 2021] SVC with sklearnex 20x speedup
• [Tabular Playground Series - January 2022] Fast PyCaret with Scikit-learn-Intelex
• [Tabular Playground Series - February 2022] KNN with sklearnex 13x speedup
• Fast SVM for Sparse Data from NLP Problem
• Introduction to scikit-learn-intelex
• [Datasets] Fast Feature Importance using sklearnex
• [Tabular Playground Series - March 2022] Fast workflow using scikit-learn-intelex

🛠️ 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

🚨 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