Lava Optimization 0.2.3

Lava Optimization v0.2.3 Release Notes

December 14, 2022

New Features and Improvements

• New neuron model for OptimizationSolver provides substantial performance improvements on QUBO problems. (PR #138 & PR #141 & PR #145 & PR #146).
• Improved SolverTuner interface and functionality, allowing for arbitrary hyper-parameters search spaces and stopping conditions. (PR #123)
• Improved profiling utils can now measure energy consumption of OptimizationSolver running on Loihi 2. (PR #131 in lava & PR #137 in lava)

Bug Fixes and Other Changes

• Updated docstrings for Bayesian solver. (PR #130 in lava)
• Fixed typos in documentation. (PR #134 in lava)
• Automatically cancel older CI runs of a PR if a newer one was started due to a push. (PR #135 in lava)
• Removed unused pre- and post- hook calls in the OptimizationSolver. (PR #144 in lava)

Breaking Changes

• The SolverTuner API has been updated.
• The QUBO solver now requires a different set of hyperparameters.

Known Issues

• No known issues in this release.

Thanks to our Contributors

• Intel Labs Lava Developers
• Georg Reich @1b15 made their first contribution in #134

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3