TensorFlow 2.20 has been released! For ongoing updates related to the multi-backend Keras, please note that all news and releases, starting with Keras 3.0, are now published directly on keras.io. You can find a complete list of all changes in the full release notes on GitHub.
The tf.lite module will be deprecated with development for on-device inference moving to a new, independent repository: LiteRT. The new APIs are available in Kotlin and C++. This code base will decouple from the TensorFlow repository and tf.lite will be removed from future TensorFlow Python packages, so we encourage migration of projects to LiteRT to receive the latest updates. More details to follow.
As announced at Google I/O ‘25, LiteRT improves upon TFLite, particularly for NPU and GPU hardware acceleration and performance for on-device ML and AI applications.
LiteRT provides a unified interface for Neural Processing Units (NPUs), removing the need to navigate vendor-specific compilers or libraries. This approach avoids many device-specific complications, boosts performance for real-time and large-model inference, and minimizes memory copies through zero-copy hardware buffer usage.
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