v0.8.5

What's Changed

• Add function to free GPU memory by @Infernaught in #3643
• ❗ Enable LLM fine-tuning tests when no quantization is specified by @arnavgarg1 in #3626
• Add check to ensure selected backend works with quantization for LLMs by @arnavgarg1 in #3646
• [CI] Use a torch-nightly-compatible version of torchaudio by @justinxzhao in #3644
• Set do_sample default to True by @Infernaught in #3641
• FIX: Failure in audio feature related test by @jimthompson5802 in #3651
• Remove unnecessary peft config updating by @Infernaught in #3642
• FIX: docker build error for ludwig-gpu by @jimthompson5802 in #3658
• Exclude getdaft on Windows by @carlogrisetti in #3629
• Add daft back for windows since the wheels are now officially published by @arnavgarg1 in #3663
• fix: The final batch of an epoch is skipped when batch size is 1 by @jeffkinnison in #3653
• Place metric functions for BLEU and Rogue on correct devices when using multiple GPUs by @arnavgarg1 in #3671
• Remove duplicate metrics by @Infernaught in #3670
• Increment epochs based on last_batch() instead of at the end of the train loop. by @justinxzhao in #3668
• [FEATURE] Support Merging LoRA Weights Into Base Model (Issue-3603) by @alexsherstinsky in #3649
• [FEATURE] Include Mistral-7B model in list of supported base models by @alexsherstinsky in #3674
• [MAINTENANCE] Partially reconcile type hints, fix some warnings, and fix comments in parts of the codebase. by @alexsherstinsky in #3673
• Improve error message for when an LLM base model can't be loaded. by @justinxzhao in #3675
• Fix eos_token and pad_token issue by @Infernaught in #3667
• FIX: error with nightly CI tests for test_resize_image by @jimthompson5802 in #3678
• [BUGFIX] Remove spurious test directory at the end of the test_llm.py::test_local_path_loading test run by @alexsherstinsky in #3680
• Add per-device logging to tensorboard by @Infernaught in #3677
• Fix dynamic generation config load during model.predict by @geoffreyangus in #3666
• [CI] Ensure that mlflow callback cleans up background-saving threads on trainer teardown. by @justinxzhao in #3683
• fix: temporarily remove config validation check for backend by @geoffreyangus in #3688
• fix: Failing test for backend with quantization by @arnavgarg1 in #3689
• [BUGFIX] Ensure that full base models and not only adapter weights get saved when merge_and_unload is set by @alexsherstinsky in #3679
• Add Ludwig Star History to README by @arnavgarg1 in #3696
• Use sphinx for all docstrings in api.py by @justinxzhao in #3693
• Fix binary variables being visualized as 0 and 1 by @Infernaught in #3691
• [MAINTENANCE] Fix the linting warnings in two backend component classes. by @alexsherstinsky in #3698
• [BUGFIX] Pin deepspeed<0.11, skip Horovod tests by @alexsherstinsky in #3700
• Unpin deepspeed following fix in v0.11.1 by @tgaddair in #3706
• Move on_epoch_end and epoch increment to after run_evaluation loop. by @justinxzhao in #3690
• Remove model_load_path from experiment by @Infernaught in #3707
• [FEATURE] Allow typehints without the quotes. by @alexsherstinsky in #3699

New Contributors

• @alexsherstinsky made their first contribution in #3649

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.8.5