CR Snapshot Update Request for Web Neural Network API - webnn

[dontcallmedom]

Document URLs

https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webnn/

Link to group's decision to request transition

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webmachinelearning-wg/2024Mar/0000.html

Link to previous Candidate Recommendation transition or update request

#491

Substantive changes

Since the initial Candidate Recommendation Snapshot, the Working Group has gathered further implementation experience and added new operations and data types needed for well-known transformers webmachinelearning/webnn#375. In addition, the group has removed selected features informed by this implementation experience: higher-level operations that can be expressed in terms of lower-level primitives in a performant manner, and support for synchronous execution. The group has also updated the specification to use modern authoring conventions to improve interoperability and precision of normative definitions and is developing a new feature, a webmachinelearning/webnn#482, to improve performance and interoperability between the WebNN, WebGPU APIs and purpose-built hardware for ML.

Any changes in requirements?

None

Wide Review of substantive changes

webmachinelearning/webnn#239 (updated TAG review requested a month ago, but still untriaged)

Issues status

There are 49 substantive issues, mostly related to integration with WebGPU, and improvements to the definitions of existing operations.

Formal Objections

None

Any changes in implementation information?

Active implementation work in Chromium, shipping behind a flag in Chrome and Edge
https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webnn-status/

Deadline for further comments

publication date + 6 months

Any changes in patent disclosures?

None

See Requirements for updating a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot for further information.

cc @anssiko

[plehegar]

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[plehegar]

(waiting on TAG session this Thursday)

[plehegar]

Was there a request sent to PING to review the changes since March 2023 ? I can't find such request.

[anssiko]

@plehegar, PING was informed in w3cping/privacy-request#96 (comment)

[plehegar]

@anssiko , without opening a new issue, this was missed by PING. I'll check with them.

[plehegar]

Please, in the future, open a new issue when you request a new review from horizontal groups.

[plehegar]

Transition approved.

[xueyuanjia]

draft transition received.

[dontcallmedom]

(for the record, I updated #592 (comment) to use Echdina's expected syntax, based on @xueyuanjia 's helpful guidance