Spark NLP 4.4.4: Patch release

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📢 Overview

Spark NLP 4.4.4 🚀 is a patch release with bug fixes and other improvements. We want to thank our community for their valuable feedback, feature requests, and contributions. Our Models Hub now contains over 17,000+ free and truly open-source models & pipelines. 🎉

Spark NLP has a new home! https://sparknlp.org is where you can find all the documentation, models, and demos for Spark NLP. It aims to provide valuable resources to anyone interested in 100% open-source NLP solutions by using Spark NLP 🚀.

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⭐ New Features & Enhancements

• Add Warmup stage to loading all Transformers for word embeddings: ALBERT, BERT, CamemBERT, DistilBERT, RoBERTa, XLM-RoBERTa, and XLNet. This helps to reduce the first inference time and also validate importing external models from HuggingFace #13851
• Add new notebooks to import ZeroShot Classifiers for Bert, DistilBERT, and RoBERTa fine-tuned based on NLI datasets #13845

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix not being able to save models from XXXForSequenceClassitication and XXXForZeroShotClassification annotators #13842
• Fix pretrained pipelines that stopped working since the 4.4.2 release on PySpark 3.2 and 3.3 versions (adding 121 new pipelines were added) #13836

📓 New Notebooks

Notebooks	Colab	Colab
BertForZeroShotClassification	HuggingFace in Spark NLP - BertForZeroShotClassification
DistilBertForZeroShotClassification	HuggingFace in Spark NLP - DistilBertForZeroShotClassification
RoBertaForZeroShotClassification	HuggingFace in Spark NLP - RoBertaForZeroShotClassification

• You can visit Import Transformers in Spark NLP
• You can visit Spark NLP Examples for 100+ examples

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📖 Documentation

• Import models from TF Hub & HuggingFace
• Spark NLP Notebooks
• Models Hub with new models
• Spark NLP Articles
• Spark NLP in Action
• Spark NLP Documentation
• Spark NLP Scala APIs
• Spark NLP Python APIs

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❤️ Community support

• Slack For live discussion with the Spark NLP community and the team
• GitHub Bug reports, feature requests, and contributions
• Discussions Engage with other community members, share ideas,
  and show off how you use Spark NLP!
• Medium Spark NLP articles
• JohnSnowLabs official Medium
• YouTube Spark NLP video tutorials

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Installation

Python

#PyPI

pip install spark-nlp==4.4.4

Spark Packages

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x (Scala 2.12):

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp_2.12:4.4.4

GPU

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-gpu_2.12:4.4.4

Apple Silicon (M1 & M2)

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-silicon_2.12:4.4.4

AArch64

spark-shell --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:4.4.4

pyspark --packages com.johnsnowlabs.nlp:spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12:4.4.4

Maven

spark-nlp on Apache Spark 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and 3.4.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-gpu:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-gpu_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-silicon:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-silicon_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

spark-nlp-aarch64:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.johnsnowlabs.nlp</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-nlp-aarch64_2.12</artifactId>
    <version>4.4.4</version>
</dependency>

FAT JARs

• CPU on Apache Spark 3.x/3.1.x/3.2.x/3.3.x/3.4.x: https://s3.amazonaws.com/auxdata.johnsnowlabs.com/public/jars/spark-nlp-assembly-4.4.4.jar

• GPU on Apache Spark 3.0.x/3.1.x/3.2.x/3.3.x/3.4.x: https://s3.amazonaws.com/auxdata.johnsnowlabs.com/public/jars/spark-nlp-gpu-assembly-4.4.4.jar

• M1 on Apache Spark 3.0.x/3.1.x/3.2.x/3.3.x/3.4.x: https://s3.amazonaws.com/auxdata.johnsnowlabs.com/public/jars/spark-nlp-silicon-assembly-4.4.4.jar

• AArch64 on Apache Spark 3.0.x/3.1.x/3.2.x/3.3.x/3.4.x: https://s3.amazonaws.com/auxdata.johnsnowlabs.com/public/jars/spark-nlp-aarch64-assembly-4.4.4.jar

What's Changed

• Models hub by @maziyarpanahi in #13837
• FEATURE NMH-175: Add Copy to s3 on open source models [skip-test] by @KshitizGIT in #13844
• FEATURE NMH-175: Remove models with missing s3 [skip-test] by @KshitizGIT in #13847
• Resolve saving bug with multilabel parameter by @DevinTDHa in #13842
• SPARKNLP-815: Add examples for ZeroShotClassifiers by @DevinTDHa in #13845
• SPARKNLP 801 set up warmup for all embeddings by @maziyarpanahi in #13851
• Sparknlp 801 set up warmup for all embeddings classifiers by @maziyarpanahi in #13852

Full Changelog: 4.4.3...4.4.4