Released: Nov 14, 2018
7.0 中的更新
特性
NET Core and .NET Standard support
- Support for .NET Core 1.1 and 2.1.
- Support for .NET Standard 1.3 and 2.0.
- Support for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.0, 4.72 and later.
Linear algebra
- Major enhancements
- Broadcasting vectors in matrix operations.
- Enable Conditional Numerical Reproducibility option for native libraries.
- Upgraded native libraries to Intel® Math Kernel Library version 2019 Update 0.
- Upgraded managed linear algebra library to LAPACK 3.7.0.
- Improved range and accuracy of matrix exponential.
- Vector Map methods that include index as delegate argument.
- New matrix decompositions
- Generalized Eigenvalue Decomposition.
- Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD).
- Sparse singular value decomposition.
- RQ decomposition, QL decomposition, and LQ decomposition.
- Access to 'thin' version of the orthogonal factor Q in a QR decomposition.
- Compute factors of symmetric and Hermitian indefinite decomposition.
- Performance improvements
- Improved performance for level 2 managed sparse BLAS.
- Improved performance for various vector operations.
- The threshold for parallel execution of vector maps can now be configured.
Mathematics
- General improvements
- The generic Operations<T> class has been optimized to eliminate nearly all overhead for the most frequently used operations on the most common argument types.
- ParallelOptions is now exposed for all algorithms to enable cancellation and other scenarios.
- Combinatorial iterators to enumerate all combinations, permutations, and Cartesian products of sets of items.
- New overloads for numerical integration methods that take Interval objects to specify bounds.
- Inverse hyperbolic functions for decimal and quad precision numbers.
- Optimization
- The NonlinearProgram class has a new constructor that accepts variable names.
- Symbolic constraints that are linear in the variables are now recognized as such.
- The Nonlinear Program solver can now recover when it encounters an infeasible subproblem.
- Up to 30% improvement in the performance of the Linear Program solver
- Limited Memory BFGS Optimizer.
- LeastSquaresOptimizer base class for nonlinear least squares algorithms.
- Trust Region Reflexive algorithm for nonlinear least squares.
- Trust Region Reflexive algorithm option in nonlinear curve fitting.
- Improved documentation for nonlinear least squares algorithms.
- Special functions
- Jacobi elliptic functions.
- Zeros of Bessel and Airy functions.
- The performance and accuracy of Bessel functions of the first and second kind has been improved.
- Polygamma function.
- Modified Bessel functions of real order.
- "Partial application" functions for incomplete and regularized Gamma and Beta functions.
- Zernike polynomials.
Statistics and data analysis
- Data access library
- Data Access Library providing a unified API for reading and writing data frames, matrices, and vectors.
- Reading and writing R's .rda/.rdata and .rds files.
- JSON serialization.
- Other supported formats include: delimited text (CSV, TSV...), fixed-width text, Matrix Market, Matlab®, stata®
- Statistical models
- Use R-style model formulas to specify statistical models.
- Partial Least Squares (PLS) models.
- Linear Discriminant Analysis.
- Kernel Density Estimation.
- Binomial Generalized Linear Model can now be used with count data.
- Two-way ANOVA: support for Type I, Type II, and Type III sums of squares.
- New ConditionalVariances property on GARCH models.
- The performance of ARIMA model fitting has been improved.
- Nicer Summarize for statistical models.
- Hypothesis tests
- Augmented Dickey-Fuller test.
- Cramer-von Mises Goodness-of-fit test.
- Tests for outliers: Grubbs' test, Generalized ESD test.
- Data analysis
- New aggregators: Range, Mode, CountUnique.
- Improved support for custom aggregators based on accumulators.
- R-style variations of quantiles.
- LOESS and LOWESS smoothing.
- More categorical encodings: Backward difference, Forward difference, Helmert, reverse Helmert, orthogonal polynomial encoding.
- Non-central chi-square, non-central F, non-central beta, and non-central t distributions.
- Anderson Darling distribution is now public.