Keras Core 0.1.7 release

Highlights

• Add ops keras.random.shuffle, keras.ops.image.map_coordinates
• Add support for tf.SparseTensor with TensorFlow backend (same level of support as legacy tf.keras)
• Make Discretization layer backend agnostic
• Bug fixes and performance improvements (in particular significantly reduced memory usage during training for JAX)

What's Changed

• Make jax2tf import conditional by @nkovela1 in #911
• Separate the metrics variables from non-trainable variables. by @qlzh727 in #910
• Update jax trainer function to save memory buffer. by @qlzh727 in #897
• [GHA] fix several codecov issues by @kiukchung in #912
• Add example to fine-tune TorchVision models using Keras by @soumik12345 in #909
• Refactor merging layers tests as parametrized tests. by @hertschuh in #913
• Add ops.random.shuffle by @james77777778 in #907
• Add ops.map_coordinates by @james77777778 in #906
• Makes ops.split in torch consistent with other backends by @james77777778 in #914
• Add: MultipleChoice with Transfer Learning example by @awsaf49 in #884
• Update test_case.py by @PatReis in #917
• Fix JAX RNN backend issue. by @qlzh727 in #924
• Adds JAX version checking for Export by @nkovela1 in #923
• make discretization backend agnostic by @divyashreepathihalli in #896
• Memory optimization for jax trainer. by @qlzh727 in #888
• [*.py] Standardise docstring usage of "Default to" by @SamuelMarks in #921
• Fix the inconsistency in affine_transform between numpy and jax by @james77777778 in #926
• Add support for Tensorflow SparseTensors: merging layers. by @hertschuh in #925
• fix torch error for bincount by @divyashreepathihalli in #927
• Refactor torch's affine_transform by @james77777778 in #929
• Increase test coverage + Fix save_model_to_hdf5 + Improve is_remote_path + Fix is_remote_path by @Faisal-Alsrheed in #900
• Slice serialization by @gleize in #932
• Some dtype fixes by @fchollet in #935
• Hacky fix for dictionary output with tf 2.14 by @mattdangerw in #933

New Contributors

• @awsaf49 made their first contribution in #884
• @PatReis made their first contribution in #917
• @SamuelMarks made their first contribution in #921

Full Changelog: v0.1.6...v0.1.7