WebML WG Teleconference – 5 December 2024 - 15:00-16:00 UTC

Note: This meeting series was pushed forward by one week to avoid overlap with Thanksgiving (November 28, 2024) and Christmas.


Latest version: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md



WebML WG Teleconference – 5 December 2024 - 15:00-16:00 UTC

<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#webml-wg-teleconference--5-december-2024---1500-1600-utc>
See the timezone table …
San Francisco   Thu, 5 December 2024    07:00
Boston  Thu, 5 December 2024    10:00
London  Thu, 5 December 2024    15:00
Berlin  Thu, 5 December 2024    16:00
Helsinki        Thu, 5 December 2024    17:00
Shanghai        Thu, 5 December 2024    23:00
Tokyo   Fri, 6 December 2024    00:00
UTC     Thu, 5 December 2024    15:00 UTC



Other locations: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20241205T15



Logistics
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#logistics>

  *   Chair: Anssi
  *   Scribe: ? (see howto<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/scribe-howto.md>, volunteers welcome!)
  *   IRC: irc://irc.w3.org:6667/#webmachinelearning

  *   IRC web client: https://irc.w3.org/?channels=#webmachinelearning

  *   Joining instructions: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/internal-webmachinelearning/2023Jun/0000.html

  *   Minutes: https://www.w3.org/2024/12/05-webmachinelearning-minutes.html


Agenda
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#agenda>

ℹ️ WebNN Operator Update Wave 3
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F-webnn-operator-update-wave-3>


Review spec PR for Wave 3 operators and new data types, discuss implementation experience (across WebNN backends, frameworks), address any open questions.


  *   Data reorganization: gatherElements, scatterElements, gatherND, scatterND, tile
  *   Elementwise unary: sign
  *   Elementwise binary: logicalAnd, logicalOr, logicalXor, (notEqual)
  *   Elementwise trinary: dequantizeLinear, quantizeLinear
  *   New data types: uint4, int4


References:

  *   ⨀ webmachinelearning/webnn#375<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/375>
  *   ⛙ PR to be added
  *   📁 22 Sep 2024 TPAC presentation<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2024Sep/att-0014/WebNN_Operator_Update_Wave_3.pdf>
  *   ✅ 17 Oct 2024 resolution<https://www.w3.org/2024/10/17-webmachinelearning-minutes.html#1152>

ℹ️ MLTensor specification updates
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F-mltensor-specification-updates>


The MLTensor design in the explainer form is now being converted to specification prose.


Review related spec PRs:

  *   ☰ mltensor-explainer.md<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/main/mltensor-explainer.md>
  *   ⛙ MLTensor methods webmachinelearning/webnn#787<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/pull/787>
  *   ⛙ MLContext refresh webmachinelearning/webnn#786<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/pull/786>


Discuss associated or intertwined issues:

  *   ⨀ Timelines webmachinelearning/webnn#529<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/529>
  *   ⨀ Non-fatal errors webmachinelearning/webnn#778<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/778>
  *   ⨀ Multiple devices webmachinelearning/webnn#350<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/350>
  *   ⨀ Ctor vs factory webmachinelearning/webnn#697<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/697>

ℹ️ WebML Community Group new deliverables kick off
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F-webml-community-group-new-deliverables-kick-off>


Announce charter review results and discuss next steps for the new task-specific APIs. Explainers:

  *   Translator and Language Detector APIs<https://github.com/WICG/translation-api>
  *   Writing Assistance APIs<https://github.com/WICG/writing-assistance-apis>
  *   Prompt API<https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/prompt-api>

ℹ️ Other issues
<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/blob/main/telcons/2024-12-05-wg-agenda.md#%E2%84%B9%EF%B8%8F-other-issues>


Agenda to be updated closer to the meeting with 🏷️ feature request<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/labels/feature%20request> 🏷️ operator specific<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/labels/operator%20specific> and 🏷️ interop<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/labels/interop> issues as deemed appropriate.


 Important

Please suggest issue(s) and PR(s) you'd like to see discussed on this teleconference in this issue: #29<https://github.com/webmachinelearning/meetings/issues/29>