Released on **12 August 2024**• View on [Gitlab](https://gitlab.teklia.com/atr/pylaia/-/releases/1.1.1)
### Breaking changes
- The [nnutils](https://gitlab.teklia.com/atr/nnutils/) library is no longer maintained and is only compatible with Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8. As such its dependency has been removed. The `crnn.use_masks` parameter has been removed. It is still supported to keep the compatibility with older training configuration but will be ignored.
### Feature
- The number of worker processes created in dataloaders is now exposed through the `data.num_workers` parameter.
- There is a new command to run basic checks and compute statistics on your training dataset. Learn more about it in [the documentation](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/usage/datasets/).
- Pretraining is now available. Load the weights of a previous checkpoint using the `train.pretrain` parameter when fine-tuning a model on a new dataset. Learn more about it in [the documentation](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/usage/training/#resume-training-from-a-checkpoint).
- When training on a small dataset, freezing some of the layers can help with model convergence. The `train.freeze_layers` parameter supports freezing:
- convolutional layers,
- recurrent layers,
- linear layers.
- Proper support for right-to-left (RTL) languages is now available. Enable it using the `data.reading_order` argument both during [training](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/usage/training/#train-on-right-to-left-reading-order) and [decoding](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/usage/prediction/#predict-on-right-to-left-data).
### Dependencies
- Bumped [pytorch-lightning](https://pypi.org/project/pytorch-lightning/) to version `1.4.2`.
- Bumped [textdistance](https://pypi.org/project/textdistance/) to version `4.6.1`.
### Misc
- A deprecation warning from jsonargparse was fixed.
- The package's metadata are now stored in `pyproject.toml` as per [PEP-0621](https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/).
- PyLaia now uses [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/) for linting and formatting.
## 1.1.0
Released on **22 December 2023**• View on [Gitlab](https://gitlab.teklia.com/atr/pylaia/-/releases/1.1.0)
