Cortex Project Updates #55

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2 min readAug 5, 2020

Technical Updates 🤖

MRT & CVM R&D

1. Continued to update MRT developer documentation, adding introduction to new operator quantization and graph model conversion.
2. MRT added support for new operators: broadcast_like, reshape_like, IntanceNorm.
3. Organized the style-transfer code and retrained the model to ensure the reproducibility of the code, which has been uploaded to GitHub.
4. Researched and trained a facial detection neural network. The mAP is currently 81 and optimized continuously.
5. Drafted part of the CVM python documentation and outlined the structure of C++ documentation.
6. CVM added Python interface for reading NDArray; continued to optimize the formalization version code.

Cortex Full Node Development

1. TorrentFS added download mode.
2. Optimized performance of CVM virtual engine uint256 Fix size.
3. Added compatibility with fast sync mode.
4. Static compilation optimization and vm operation pointer optimization.
5. File upload progress optimization and partial optimization of miner code structure.
6. Adopted Goja instead of Otto as the Javascript interpreter in the full node console (Goja fixes Javascript array sorting errors and shows better performance than Otto).
7. Continued to optimize unit test code to increase coverage.

Miscellaneous

1. Adopted BFV encryption scheme based on the homomorphic encryption library SEAL, homomorphically encrypting the input data of mnist and implementing corresponding op; passed tests on input data of limited size.
2. Preliminary research on IPFS, Filecoin and PoRep; research on BGV/BFV technology, completing related introductory documentation.

On-chain Ecosystem

1. DeFi contract deployment and testing; research on relevant DeFi products in the market.

Community Updates 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

  • The backend development of the Cortex forum’s new version has entered the test phase. UI design and front-end development are in progress.
  • Cortex’s new official website’s front end is being built.
  • Multilingual translations of Cortex technical documentation and tutorials are underway.
  • Continue to collect, translate, and create original in-depth content, covering DeFi, AI, etc.

About Cortex 😇

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