Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.0

A list of key new and improved features since 13.3, including features experimental in 14.0.

Core Language

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Comap, ComapApply — apply lists of functions to an expression

ArgumentsOptions (updated), CheckArguments (updated) — support for operator forms

CountDistinct (updated) — now allows a comparison function to be given

TraceOriginal (updated) — finer-grained control over evaluation chains to include

Numbers

DigitSum — sum of decimal digits in an integer

RomanNumeral (updated), FromRomanNumeral (updated) — faster conversions with Roman numerals

Units & Quantities »

Improved performance of the Wolfram Language quantity framework.

UnitConvert (updated) — faster unit conversions

QuantityMagnitude (updated) ▪ CurrencyConvert (updated) ▪ CommonUnits (updated)

Unit Testing

IntermediateTest — create intermediate tests inside TestCreate

Mathematical Computation

Vector Calculus

NLineIntegrate — numerical vector line integrals

NSurfaceIntegrate — numerical vector surface integrals

Complex Analysis

NContourIntegrate — numerical complex contour integration

Integral Transforms

UnilateralConvolve — unilateral (AKA causal, one-sided) convolution

Difference and Differential Equations

TruncateSum — make it easy to work with infinite sum representations produced by DSolve and other functions

Support StateSpaceModel and TransferFunctionModel in place of equations.

DSolveValue (updated) ▪ RSolveValue (updated) ▪ RecurrenceTable (updated)

Special Functions »

BilateralHypergeometricPFQ — bilateral, i.e. doubly infinite, hypergeometric function

Equation Solving

NSolve (updated) — better support for large-scale equation solving, including a monodromy-based method for polynomial and holomorphic systems of equations

MaxRoots — limit the number of roots computed

Finite Fields »

Convenience functions for working with finite fields.

ToFiniteField, FromFiniteField — convert expressions to and from finite field versions

FiniteFieldIndex, FromFiniteFieldIndex — convert to and from the index representation

Matrix operations for finite field matrices.

Dot (updated) ▪ LinearSolve (updated) ▪ Inverse (updated) ▪ RowReduce (updated) ▪ NullSpace (updated) ▪ MatrixRank (updated) ▪ Det (updated) ▪ CharacteristicPolynomial (updated) ▪ LUDecomposition (updated)

Solving equations over finite fields.

Solve (updated) ▪ SolveValues (updated) ▪ Reduce (updated) ▪ FindInstance (updated) ▪ Resolve (updated)

Structured Matrices »

New structured matrix types.

SymmetricMatrix ▪ HermitianMatrix ▪ OrthogonalMatrix ▪ UnitaryMatrix

Support for TargetStructure in matrix constructors.

FourierDCTMatrix (updated) ▪ FourierDSTMatrix (updated) ▪ ReflectionMatrix (updated) ▪ RotationMatrix (updated) ▪ EulerMatrix (updated) ▪ HadamardMatrix (updated) ▪ RollPitchYawMatrix (updated) ▪ PauliMatrix (updated)

Matrix decompositions with TargetStructure support. Matrix decompositions are explicitly made to produce structured matrices such as triangular, orthogonal and diagonal.

QRDecomposition (updated) ▪ SingularValueDecomposition (updated) ▪ HessenbergDecomposition (updated) ▪ SchurDecomposition (updated)

Interval Matrices

Matrix functions of interval matrices.

Dot (updated) ▪ Inverse (updated) ▪ MatrixPower (updated) ▪ MatrixExp (updated)

Linear equation solving for interval matrices.

LinearSolve (updated) ▪ LUDecomposition (updated) ▪ CholeskyDecomposition (updated)

Eigen problems for interval matrices.

Eigenvalues (updated) ▪ Eigenvectors (updated) ▪ Eigensystem (updated) ▪ Det (updated) ▪ CharacteristicPolynomial (updated)

Machine Learning & Neural Networks »

Natural Language Processing »

TextSummarize — automatically produce different types of summarization

Neural Networks »

NetExternalObject (updated) — added CUDA support via TargetDevice option for ONNX

NormalizationLayer (updated) — added "GroupNumber" parameter

"ONNX" (updated) — improved import code, more models supported, faster import in some cases

Integrated Statistics & Machine Learning

Classify (updated), Predict (updated) — documentation update with more examples, notes and illustrations

LinearModelFit (updated), NonlinearModelFit (updated) — support for uncertainty in the response data

BayesianMinimization (updated), BayesianMaximization (updated) — progress reporting, more efficient continuation when history is provided

Wolfram Neural Net Repository »

New networks for image generation, speech-to-text conversion, object detection, etc.

"Wav2Vec2 Trained on Multiple Datasets" ▪ "Stable Diffusion V1" ▪ "X3D Video Action Classification Trained on Kinetics-400 Data" ▪ "YOLO V8 Classify Trained on ImageNet Competition Data" ▪ "YOLO V8 Detect Trained on MS-COCO Data" ▪ "OpenCLIP Multi-domain Feature Extractor Trained on DataComp-1B Data" ▪ "CoCa Image Captioning Nets Trained on LAION-2B Data"

High-Dimensional Visualization »

Plot all pairwise 2D projections of data.

PairwiseListPlot — array of pairwise list plots

PairwiseDensityHistogram — array of pairwise density histograms

PairwiseSmoothDensityHistogram — array of pairwise smooth density histograms

Compare all 1D projections of data.

PairwiseQuantilePlot — array of pairwise Q-Q plots

PairwiseProbabilityPlot — array of pairwise P-P plots

Astronomy

SolarEclipse — support for more than 70K eclipses and 50 new properties

NewMoon, FullMoon — dates of new moon and full moon

MoonPhaseDate — date of any phase of the Moon

LunationNumber, FromLunationNumber — continuous count of new moons

AstroSubpoint — find the location on Earth having a celestial object directly above

Geometry, Graphs & Graphics

Geometry »

High-fidelity geometric regions, compatible with CAD systems.

BezierCurve (updated), BSplineCurve (updated) — now geometric regions

BSplineSurface (updated) — now geometric regions

"STEP", "IGES" — standard industry CAD formats

PolyhedronData (updated) — 150+ new polyhedra, classes and properties

Better support of polygons for geometric relations.

RegionEqual (updated) — improve equality testing for 2D polygonal regions

RegionDisjoint (updated) ▪ RegionWithin (updated) ▪ RegionCongruent (updated) ▪ RegionSimilar (updated)

GeometricSolveValues — solve for a geometric quantity

Graphs

LayeredGraph, LayeredGraph3D — create a graph represented as a layered plot

GraphData (updated) — 80+ new graphs, classes and properties

Documentation updates with illustrations and more.

Trees »

TreeInsert, TreeDelete, TreeReplacePart, TreeMapAt, TreeMap (updated) — now support styling options

Graphics

Support for standard named texture mappings.

TextureMapping — specify named texture mappings

"Box" ▪ "Cubic" ▪ "Cylindrical" ▪ "Front" ▪ "Planar" ▪ "Spherical" ▪ "Stereographic"

Texture (updated) — now supports named texture mappings

Annulus (updated) ▪ Ball (updated) ▪ BSplineSurface (updated) ▪ Circle (updated) ▪ Circumsphere (updated) ▪ Cone (updated) ▪ ConicHullRegion (updated) ▪ Cuboid (updated) ▪ Cylinder (updated) ▪ Disk (updated) ▪ Ellipsoid (updated) ▪ FilledTorus (updated) ▪ GraphicsComplex (updated) ▪ Hexahedron (updated) ▪ Parallelepiped (updated) ▪ Parallelogram (updated) ▪ Polygon (updated) ▪ Polyhedron (updated) ▪ Prism (updated) ▪ Pyramid (updated) ▪ Rectangle (updated) ▪ Simplex (updated) ▪ Sphere (updated) ▪ Tetrahedron (updated) ▪ Torus (updated) ▪ Triangle (updated) ▪ Tube (updated)

Video, Image & Audio Computation

Image Processing »

A new generation of neural networks and flexible ways of specifying goals gives substantially more powerful segmentation capabilities used in a variety of functions.

ImageSegmentationComponents — segment an image into components

ImageSegmentationFilter — filters an image for the foreground components

ImageCases (updated) ▪ ImageContents (updated) ▪ RemoveBackground (updated) ▪ Inpaint (updated)

Powering of these functions by neural networks to detect where in an image text occurs and actually recognizing the content now allows for a higher success rate.

TextRecognize (updated) ▪ FindImageText (updated)