Released the SciSharp.TensorFlow.Redist. It's a migration from Microsoft.ML.TensorFlow.Redist. ML.NET team will not maintain the package since ML.NET v1.3.0.

src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Graphs/Graph.cs

@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         
         public Graph()
         {
-            c_api_util.DownloadLibrary();
-
             _handle = c_api.TF_NewGraph();
             Status = new Status();
             _nodes_by_id = new Dictionary<int, ITensorOrOperation>();
@@ -118,8 +116,6 @@ namespace Tensorflow
 
         public Graph(IntPtr handle)
         {
-            c_api_util.DownloadLibrary();
-
             _handle = handle;
             Status = new Status();
             _nodes_by_id = new Dictionary<int, ITensorOrOperation>();

src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Status/Status.cs

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ namespace Tensorflow
 
         public Status()
         {
-            c_api_util.DownloadLibrary();
             _handle = c_api.TF_NewStatus();
         }
 

src/TensorFlowNET.Core/TensorFlowNET.Core.csproj

@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ Learn more about .NET AI: https://medium.com/scisharp</Description>
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Google.Protobuf" Version="3.8.0" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Google.Protobuf" Version="3.9.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="NumSharp" Version="0.10.3" />
+    <PackageReference Include="SciSharp.TensorFlow.Redist" Version="1.14.0" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>

src/TensorFlowNET.Core/tf.cs

@@ -62,14 +62,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             context.default_execution_mode = Context.EAGER_MODE;
         }
 
-        public static string VERSION
-        {
-            get
-            {
-                c_api_util.DownloadLibrary();
-                return c_api.StringPiece(c_api.TF_Version());
-            }
-        }
+        public static string VERSION => c_api.StringPiece(c_api.TF_Version());
 
         public static Session Session()
         {

test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TensorFlowNET.Examples.csproj

@@ -22,11 +22,4 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\src\TensorFlowNET.Core\TensorFlowNET.Core.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
-
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <Reference Include="NumSharp.Core">
-      <HintPath>..\..\..\..\NumSharp\src\NumSharp.Core\bin\Debug\netstandard2.0\NumSharp.Core.dll</HintPath>
-    </Reference>
-  </ItemGroup>
-
 </Project>