[Icicle-announce] Announcing ICICLE Release 2026-05

[Vyas, Amit]

ICICLE Release 2026-05
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.
It is with great pleasure that we announce 2026-05 release of ICICLE CI components.
This release includes the following components:
New to ICICLE CI Catalog
Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure
AI-for-CI

  *
SmartLabeler v0.1.0<https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/smart_labeler>
     *   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.
  *
ICICLE AI Chatbook v0.1.0<https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-chatbook>
     *   An interactive marimo notebook that turns the ICICLE AI Tapis services into a hands-on RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) playground.

CI-for-AI

  *
ICICLE AI Embedding Service v0.1.0<https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-embed-service>
     *   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.
  *
ICICLE AI Vector Database Service v0.1.0<https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/icicle-ai-vector-service>
     *   A FastAPI + Qdrant vector storage and retrieval service for the ICICLE AI Tapis tenant.

ICICLE CI Components Changelog
Use Inspired Science
Smart Foodsheds

  *   Food Flow Portal v1.2.0<https://github.com/ICICLE-ai/GNNFoodFlowPortal>
     *   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.

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 CI & Software<https://icicle.ai/cyberinfrastructure/software>
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Please refer to the ICICLE AI Training Catalog<https://icicle-ai.github.io/training-catalog/docs/tags/release-2026-05> for component documentation.
Acknowledgements
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)

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