1.7.0

New Releases

• BlenderBot 3 is now available in ParlAI! (#4709, #4710, #4711, #4712, #4713, #4715, #4716, #4725, #4746, #4747, #4753).
  • Includes the code from the paper, "Learning New Skills after Deployment: Improving open-domain internet-driven dialogue with human feedback" (#4714)
  • Includes the code from the paper, "Learning from data in the mixed adversarial non-adversarial case: Finding the helpers and ignoring the trolls"
• The DIRECTOR Project + Agent code is available in ParlAI (#4597, #4602, #4603, #4605, #4607, #4738, #4701)
• [DialCrowd] Incorporate the DialCrowd crowdsourcing toolkit into ParlAI (#4387)

New Features

• The Decoder-Only Transformer agent is now available in ParlAI! (#4329)
• Beam N-Gram blocking is now supported on the GPU (#4633, #4721)
• The model chat mephisto crowdsourced task now supports emojis! (#4666)

Agent Fixes + Improvements

• Updates to Reranker, Pacer (#4469, #4473, #4488)
• Updates to RagAgent, FidAgent, and Search (#4470, #4503, #4631, #4765)
• Updates to HuggingFace agents (#4508)
• Updates to T5Agent (#4505)
• Updates to BertClassifierAgent (#4553)
• Updates to SeeKeR (#4634)
• Updates to TorchAgent, TorchGeneratorAgent, TorchClassifierAgent` (#4654, #4650, #4700, #4727, #4754, #4720)
• Updates to models from the WhoAmI project (#4742)

Bug fixes + Performance Improvements

• Script fixes script (#4054, #4482, #4496, #4572)
• [TorchScript] fixes (#4489, #4499, #4554), add torchscriptable classifier + BPE tokenizer (#4566),
• Train model supports setting seed (#4662)
• ParlaiParser Fix (#4507)
• Various crowdsourcing fixes + enhancements (#4551, #4560, #4577, #4625)
• Fix downloads of TOD models (#4647)
• Test fixes (#4749)

Datasets & Teachers & Mutators

• Added datasets:
  • SPOLIN Dataset (#4540)
  • Friends Dataset (#4568, #4678, #4693)
• Deprecate Auxiliary BST Teachers (#4513)
• Updates to HuggingFace dataset integration (#4516)
• Update LCCC Download Link (#4542)
• MultiWoz V22 Updates (#4565, #4656, #4695, #4752, #4757, #4761, #4762, #4736, #4764)
• Wizard of Internet Updates (#4576)
• SaferDialogues updates (#4623)
• Various mutators bugs (#4730)
• BAD Teacher updates (#4732)
• GoogleSGD updates (#4698)

Logging & Metrics

• Improvements to Weights & Biases integration (#4484, #4548, #4708)
• Include tensorboard logging in eval_model (#4497)
• TimerMetric fixes (#4536)
• Expose precision + recall metrics (#4670)

Developers & Documentation

• Various documentation updates (#4487, #4509, #4609, #4613, #4612, #4624, #4632, #4687, #4688, #4690, #4691, #4686, #4733)
• Various dependency + CI updates (#4481, #4506, #4514, #4483, #4524, #4523, #4522, #4521, #4529, #4532, #4562, #4564, #4590, #4608, #4593, #4615, #4671, #4677, #4759)
• Various linting, syntactic updates (#4684, #4718, #4728, #4731)