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<b>ICICLE Release 2025-12</b></div>
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The ICICLE team aims to build the next generation Cyberinfrastructure (CI) to render Artificial Intelligence (AI) more accessible to everyone and to drive its democratization further in solving larger societal problems.</div>
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It is with great pleasure that we announce <b><i>2025-12</i></b> release of ICICLE CI components.</div>
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This release includes the following components:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">New to ICICLE CI Catalog</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Software Architecture and Design</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><b><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/mlfieldplanner" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/mlfieldplanner" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAa4ccf80f-1e8a-a658-1db9-9821835a584b" href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/mlfieldplanner">ML
Field Planner v1.0.0</a></b></span></li><ul style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em;" data-line="14">
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A framework for analyzing ML pipelines and studying edge-to-center tradeoffs regarding function placement of ML.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Use Inspired Science</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Digital Agriculture</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><b><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/UAS-Orchestration-Engine" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/UAS-Orchestration-Engine" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe2ee1f2c-b35d-4f6c-0eba-5e30f38ca7ac" href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/UAS-Orchestration-Engine">UAS
Orchestration Engine v1.0</a></b></span></li><ul style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em;" data-line="20">
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An Orchestration Engine for Scalable, On-Demand AI Phenotyping from UAS Imagery in Agriculture</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Animal Ecology</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><b><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Smartfield-Backpack" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Smartfield-Backpack" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAd8379256-6f92-c404-e05c-387cb4a8ca4b" href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Smartfield-Backpack">Smartfield
Backpack v1.0.0</a></b></span></li><ul style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em;" data-line="24">
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A field-deployable multimodal data infrastructure that integrates autonomous sensing, edge computing, and drone-based platforms to address critical data acquisition challenges in animal ecology research.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">ICICLE CI Components Changelog</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Use Inspired Science</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Digital Agriculture</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><b><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://icicleai.tapis.io/#/harvest" title="https://icicleai.tapis.io/#/harvest" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA51e32c4e-cf03-5b8d-7f5d-76d7ac5173bc" href="https://icicleai.tapis.io/#/harvest">HARVEST
v1.3</a></b></span></li><ul style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em;" data-line="32">
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<div role="presentation" class="elementToProof">This new software release introduces a powerful Object Detection pipeline featuring Few-Shot Object Detection to enable models to identify objects accurately with very few training examples. It also includes an
advanced Image Annotator component to efficiently create the high-quality, labeled datasets necessary for training and enhanced Shapefile Generation with custom grid sizing and custom spray level thresholds for precision agriculture workflows.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Smart Foodsheds</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><b><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="4" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Food-Access-Model" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Food-Access-Model" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5c24b97b-1a42-de13-bbd5-17446c9cb392" href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/Food-Access-Model">Food
Equity Access Simulation Technology (FEAST) v0.4</a></b></span></li><ul style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em;" data-line="36">
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This release have UI imporvements to add store and minor bug fixes.</li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; direction: ltr;">
<div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(77, 170, 252);" role="presentation"><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="5" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://feast.pods.icicleai.tapis.io" title="https://feast.pods.icicleai.tapis.io/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf237b8af-6493-8100-d11c-7c8e3d98f46f" href="https://feast.pods.icicleai.tapis.io/">Deployed
now and running on Tapis Pods.</a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The ICICLE team is committed to delivering the best software and CI components. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future releases. A list of all ICICLE components can be found on our website under
</span><span style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="6" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software" title="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAff587b75-2a79-6801-b743-afeddadc9ea3" href="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software">CI
& Software</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please subscribe to </span><span style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="7" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss" title="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAd0c24596-591a-cb82-9084-b7824a16784b" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss">icicle-discuss</a></span><span style="color: black;"> and
post to discuss all installation/build problems, performance issues, features and other miscellaneous questions related to the different software and CI components of the ICICLE project. You are welcome to post patches and enhancements to the released components.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Subscribe to our mailing list </span><span style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="8" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-announce" title="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-announce" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAc1a1f269-fa27-78ba-294c-2c98a1984118" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-announce">icicle-announce</a></span><span style="color: black;"> to
stay up to date on the latest ICICLE news and releases.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please refer to the </span><span style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252);"><a style="color: rgb(77, 170, 252); margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="9" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2025-12" title="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2025-12" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAa24a4b04-5267-ff1a-7319-08f1f2b03785" href="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2025-12">ICICLE
AI Training Catalog</a></span><span style="color: black;"> for component documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Acknowledgements</span></div>
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<i>This release is brought to you by the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded AI institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE) (OAC 2112606)</i></div>
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