Data beyond what can be seen in a notebook is stored directly in the notebook in the new release, which means it will still be accessible once it is reopened. Users will be pleased to hear that they can now set defaults for how many rows and columns should be displayed and that they can control a Dataset’s appearance better now. Taking a step back, the Wolfram team has also been busy reworking Datasets. Developers of complex recognition systems can therefore finally use machine learning or image processing capabilities on video, or do more simple stuff like extracting frame sequences or calculating all sorts of mean values. If that isn’t enough dimension already, the new releases are the first to actively support computations on video material. Those working in image processing get more help with additions like FindImageText, which detects text in an image and marks it, while audiophiles get SpeechInterpreter and SpeechCases to experiment with. The system now also comes with a symbolic NetGANOperator and a TrainingUpdateSchedule option, which are meant to, for example, allow general NetTrain functions in Wolfram to work with generative adversarial networks like those often used in unsupervised or reinforcement learning.Īpart from that, importing implementations of new neural nets should become a bit easier in the future, since v12.1 now supports ONNX, an open format to represent machine learning models. Users who regularly make use of the Wolfram neural net repository will find 25 new types of nets there, including popular but computationally complex language representation model BERT, and Generative Pretrained Transformer 2, which is used for text-generation systems.

Version 12.1 for example saw the addition of Julia and R to the collection of external languages, which means the system’s capabilities should be more accessible to data scientists now. The amount of new features detailed in a blog post by creator Stephen Wolfram is quite extensive, and has lots in store for those using either of the products to get to grips with machine learning.

Wolfram Research has released version 12.1 of its Wolfram programming language and the technical computing system Mathematica.

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