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<span style="font-weight: 600;">ICICLE Release 2026-05</span></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>2026-05</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;">AI-for-CI</span></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/smart_labeler" id="OWA6c77ca59-ba40-b1f5-4fe5-4d75fd938583" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/smart_labeler" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/smart_labeler" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;"><b>SmartLabeler
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A 7-step HPC-backed pipeline for few-shot object detection — from interactive image annotation through class support generation, proposal visualization, and Tapis-powered job execution — built to work across any research domain.</li></ul>
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<a href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-chatbook" id="OWA1345c4e7-c737-b0b5-4811-6e2af948a327" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-chatbook" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-chatbook" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;"><b>ICICLE
AI Chatbook v0.1.0</b></a></div>
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An interactive marimo notebook that turns the ICICLE AI Tapis services into a hands-on RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) playground.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">CI-for-AI</span></div>
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<a href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-embed-service" id="OWA04b8317c-b909-d0ff-811e-85594364c357" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-embed-service" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-embed-service" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;"><b>ICICLE
AI Embedding Service v0.1.0</b></a></div>
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A FastAPI service that turns text into embedding vectors using Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B (GGUF quantized) via llama-cpp-python, designed for the ICICLE AI Tapis tenant.</li></ul>
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<a href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-vector-service" id="OWA89e42b5e-0037-621c-31fb-a1c7f64791c9" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-vector-service" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-vector-service" data-linkindex="3" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;"><b>ICICLE
AI Vector Database Service v0.1.0</b></a></div>
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A FastAPI + Qdrant vector storage and retrieval service for the ICICLE AI Tapis tenant.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">ICICLE CI Components Changelog</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199);" role="presentation"><a href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/GNNFoodFlowPortal" id="OWAde10f008-60c8-c27d-2f09-2684ffdb2d09" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/GNNFoodFlowPortal" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/GNNFoodFlowPortal" data-linkindex="4" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;"><b>Food
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A Web-based visualization portal for exploring and interacting with predicted food flows generated by the GNNFoodFlow models, this release includes the links to other food system softwares and performance improvements.</li></ul>
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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(72, 160, 199);"><a href="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software" id="OWA29287f81-2038-e678-9fea-588804c91134" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software" data-linkindex="5" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;">CI
& Software</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please subscribe to </span><span style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199);"><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss" id="OWA6fa243b6-9749-175d-c79a-48eae10db761" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/icicle-discuss" data-linkindex="6" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;">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;">Please refer to the </span><span style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199);"><a href="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2026-05" id="OWAa844255a-d4bb-73cd-ee4a-ef1e27c9d3a0" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2026-05" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-href="https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2026-05" data-linkindex="8" style="color: rgb(72, 160, 199); margin: 0px;">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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