2025-11-21: Rust extensions (PyO3) added as alternative to C++ pybind11 extensions
- Ported rANS entropy coding (encoder/decoder) from C++ to Rust
- Ported pmf_to_quantized_cdf operation to Rust
- Build with maturin:
cd tinify/rust_exts && maturin develop --release - Python wrappers auto-select Rust or C++ backend
2023-02-26: CompressAI now supports Point Cloud Compression using various models
2022-11-27: CompressAI now includes sadl_codec, which enables to run c++ inteference with full integer operations
2021-12-23: Compressai v1.2.0 now includes video bench pipeline and the Scale-Space-Flow model [Agustsson et al. 2020] The license has been changed BSD-3-Clause-Clear
2021-03-05: CompressAI is now available on PyPI!
2021-01-26: Experimental multi-GPU support
aux_parameterswas dropped to support data parallel- see the updated example/train.py
- use
load_pretrainedto convertstate_dicts to the new format
2020-06-21: First release of CompressAI !