v1.1.0

Breaking changes

• Removed dependence on APEX. --fp16-impl safe is the new standard (#3469)
• Change DialoGPT default to medium as that's the best results and most common setup (#3401)

Major new features

• Mutators are a new way to perform transformations on arbitrary datasets (#3448)
• Support for WandB (#3417)
• display_model now displays teacher-metrics, and world loggers store them (#3388, #3419)

Minor new features

• Make convenience script for dumping out chat to conversations format (#3354)
• Allow a variable number of transformer heads in distillation, and improved loss normalization (#3424, #3447, #3430)
• Better error messages when incorrectly providing a model zoo file (#3445)
• Add --no-backup option to vacuum. (#3431)
• Release BST human annotations (#3405)

Crowdsourcing changes

• Abstract class for compiling annotation results (#3422, #3423, #3464)
• Improvements to output format for some tasks (#3400, #3425)
• Configuration option for setting soft blocks (#3435)

Bug fixes

• [security] RCE fixed in chat services (#3402, #3429)
• Speedups when using conversation openers in self-chat (#3461)
• Speedups in metrics accumulation (#3474)
• Fix an error bounds error when manually applying vec2txt with --dict-tokenizer bytelevelbpe (#3437)
• Add pathmanager support to BERT agent (#3439)
• Fixes to Natural Questions (#3440, #3438)
• Remove a warning in --fp16-impl mem_efficient (#3443)
• Fix an issue with windows compatibility (#3428)
• Update data urls for Taskmaster-1 (-t taskmaster) (#3475)
• Fix a bug with terminal chat where the socket would close early (#3457)

Developer features

• New abstract method for ranking candidates in TorchGeneratorAgent (#3455)
• Improved type annotations and code cleanup (#3413, #3462, #3420)
• Various documentation immprovements (#3398, #3399, #3349, #3384, #3385, #3427, #3446, #3441)
• Test fixes (#3442, #3467)