v0.9.4

v0.9.4 release

Known issues

• Short options like -m and -t do fail in Python 3.8. Use --model and --task

New project/paper releases

• Safety recipes project (#3190, #3199)
• Gender bias project (#3171, #3146, #3131))
• Multimodal Blender Bot (#3152, #3151, #3144)
• LIGHT Quests project (#3153, #3156)

Major MTurk changes

• [Removal] Deleting 2/3 of MTurk (#3161)
• [Upgrade] Porting ACUTE-Eval task to Hydra (#3103)
• [Task] Adding option for file with annotation indices per conversation and other features to turn annotations static (#3154, #3142)
• [Docs] AcceptabilityChecker doc (#3124)

New Features

• [ParlAI] Adding tensorboard_logdir argument to TensorboardLogger. (#3184)
• [ParlAI] [TGA] Return text for all beams (#3123, #3179)
• [ParlAI] Using the parlai color (#3137)
• [ParlAI] Add a --version flag to the parlai command #3163 (#3164)
• [Task] Improvements to Taskmaster-2 (#3135, #3134, #3129)
• [Task] Flag to enable polarity categories in ImageChat (#3132)
• [Model] Allow Polyencoder to resize token embs (#3194)

Bug Fixes

• [Model] Fix GPT-2 generation when using batchsize >1
• [ParlAI] Show subcommand help error messages on parse error in supercommand. (#3196)
• [ParlAI] Fixes to --init-model options and --init-opt. (#3162, #3112)
• [ParlAI] Update requests version (#3155)
• [HuggingFace/GPT2] Check directory depending on size param for gpt2 files (#3158)
• [Docs] Correct swapped README links (#3166)
• [Task] ConvAI2: Bug fix in convai2:normalized NormalizedTeacher (#3168)
• [Task] COCO: Make sure folder is always created when unzipping COCO (#3143)

Developer notes & Tests

• [Tests] New/fixed tests (#3167, #3117, #3114, #3082)
• [Feature] Add ability for Metrics to add metrics from another Metrics object (#3145)
• [Docs] Comments in AbstractWrapperTeacher.act() (#3160)
• [Docs] Documentation improvements to poly-encoder (#3159)
• [Quality] distributed_eval now mimics distributed_train (#3157)
• [Quality] Add "fb" option to autoformat script for parlai_fb (#3165)