NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0

Highlights

• Training
  • Blackwell and Grace Blackwell support
  • Pipeline parallel support for distillation
  • Improved NeMo Framework installation
• Export & Deploy
  • vLLM export for NeMo 2.0
• Evaluations
  • Integrate lm-eval-harness
• Collections
  • LLM
    • DAPT Example and best practices in nemo 2.0
    • [NeMo 2.0] Enable Tool Learning and add a tutorial
    • Support GPT Embedding Model (Llama 3.2 1B/3B)
    • Qwen2.5, Phi4 (via AutoModel)
    • SFT for Llama 3.3 model (via AutoModel)
    • Support BERT Embedding Model with NeMo 2.0
    • DeepSeek SFT & PEFT Support
  • MultiModal
    • Clip
    • SP for NeVA
    • CP for NeVA
    • Intern-VIT
• Automodel
  • Preview release.
  • PEFT and SFT support for LLMs available via Hugging Face’s AutoModelForCausalLM.
  • Support for Hugging Face-native checkpoints (full model and adapter only).
  • Support for distributed training via DDP and FSDP2.
• ASR/TTS
  • Lhotse: TPS-free 2D bucket estimation and filtering
  • Update model outputs to make all asr outputs to be in consistent format
  • Sortformer Release Model

Detailed Changelogs:

ASR

Changelog

• removed the line which caused a problem in nfa_tutorial by @Ssofja :: PR: #11710
• TPS-free 2D bucket estimation and filtering by @pzelasko :: PR: #11738
• Update transcribe_utils.py by @stevehuang52 :: PR: #11984
• Sortformer Diarizer 4spk v1 model PR Part 4: Sortformer Documents and Notebook Tutorials by @tango4j :: PR: #11707
• fix the issue during batched inference of Sortformer diarizer by @tango4j :: PR: #12047
• changed asr models outputs to be consistent by @Ssofja :: PR: #11818
• chore: Update notebooks by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12161
• add ctc segmentation by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12312
• clean up VAD tutorial by @stevehuang52 :: PR: #12410
• copy from main by @nithinraok :: PR: #12423
• ci: Disable ASR tests for now (#12443) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12466
• ASR_CTC_Language_Finetuning.ipynb bugfix by @lilithgrigoryan :: PR: #12538

TTS

Changelog

• Add New Transformer Backbone for TTS Models by @blisc :: PR: #11911
• changed asr models outputs to be consistent by @Ssofja :: PR: #11818
• chore: Update notebooks by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12161

NLP / NMT

Changelog

• Use explicit imports from megatronllm_deployable.py by @janekl :: PR: #11705
• Bug fix minor bug in TRT-LLM deployment by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #11714
• gpt moe perf scripts by @malay-nagda :: PR: #11760
• Bump mcore by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11740
• Enable packed seqs for validation by @jiemingz :: PR: #11748
• Revert Mcore update since it caused regression by @pablo-garay :: PR: #11791
• Fix Gemma2 Attention Init Args by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11792
• Add null tokenizer by @erhoo82 :: PR: #11789
• Fix DistCP inference issue by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11801
• Add BERT Embedding Models E5 Recipe by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11787
• Add rope scaling configs for NeMo 1 by @BoxiangW :: PR: #11807
• Fix calculating num_available_samples by @huvunvidia :: PR: #11830
• fix sentencepiece tokenizer special tokens by @akoumpa :: PR: #11811
• add chat sft dataset to support agent tool calling by @chenrui17 :: PR: #11759
• Revert "Revert Mcore update since it caused regression (#11791)" by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11799
• fix checkpoint load issue by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11859
• Fix nemo 1 packed sequence TE version error by @cuichenx :: PR: #11874
• enable loading older TE checkpoints by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11930
• ci: Use single runner machines for unit tests by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11937
• llm performance scripts by @malay-nagda :: PR: #11736
• [MoE] add expert tensor parallelism support for NeMo2.0 MoE by @gdengk :: PR: #11880
• add exception when loading ckpt saved by TE < 1.13 by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11988
• remove renormalize_blend_weights flag by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11975
• Llama3.2 1B Embedding Model Support by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11909
• Weekly bump by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11896
• Debug Apex distributed optimizer to handle Transformer Engine 2.0 by @timmoon10 :: PR: #12004
• throw MegatronOptimizerModule warning only with mcore models by @akoumpa :: PR: #12085
• fix nmt dataclass issue by @dimapihtar :: PR: #12081
• Propogate dp last changes from mcore by @ryantwolf :: PR: #12012
• Add error message when downloading failed. by @yuanzhedong :: PR: #12139
• interface for asymmetric pipeline schedule by @erhoo82 :: PR: #12039
• chore: Update notebooks by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12161
• Cherrypick #12382, #12415 and #12424 by @cuichenx :: PR: #12425
• ASR_CTC_Language_Finetuning.ipynb bugfix by @lilithgrigoryan :: PR: #12538

Text Normalization / Inverse Text Normalization

Changelog

• surface attn_implementation option by @akoumpa :: PR: #11873
• attn_implementation eager fallback by @akoumpa :: PR: #12060

NeMo Tools

Changelog

• build: Add sox to SDE by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11882
• add ctc segmentation by @ko3n1g :: PR: #12312

Export

Changelog

• Bug fix minor bug in TRT-LLM deployment by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #11714
• In-framework deployment NeMo 2.0 nemo_export.py test by @janekl :: PR: #11749
• Fix starcoder2 missing bias in nemo2 config for TRTLLM by @meatybobby :: PR: #11809
• Autodetect dtype on exporting to TensorRT-LLM by @janekl :: PR: #11907
• PTQ & TRT-LLM updates related to upcoming PyTorch 25.01 bump by @janekl :: PR: #11941
• Run Flake8 for nemo.export module by @janekl :: PR: #11728
• Skip initialization in hf export by @cuichenx :: PR: #12136
• update export io call by @akoumpa :: PR: #12144
• add default kwargs for trtllm model runner by @pablo-garay :: PR: #12248
• cherry-pick: fix[export]: reshard model correctly handles extra_state when it's a tensor (#12132) by @terrykong :: PR: #12335

Bugfixes

Changelog

• added required instalation for sox to process mp3 file by @Ssofja :: PR: #11709
• removed the line which caused a problem in nfa_tutorial by @Ssofja :: PR: #11710
• Bug fix minor bug in TRT-LLM deployment by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #11714

Uncategorized:

Changelog

• Allow using vocab size from config by @shanmugamr1992 :: PR: #11718
• Fix baseline recipes by @erhoo82 :: PR: #11725
• Update changelog for r2.1.0 by @github-actions[bot] :: PR: #11745
• ci: Fix changelog generator by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11744
• Fix 'http_port' parameter name in DeployPyTriton usages and update .qnemo compress=True path by @janekl :: PR: #11747
• Conversion NeMo and HF checkpoint script for T5 by @huvunvidia :: PR: #11739
• Add BERT Embedding Models by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11737
• Add server ready check before starting evaluation by @athitten :: PR: #11731
• only install bitsandbytes on x86 by @akoumpa :: PR: #11781
• [Bugfix] Skip processing if extra_state loads as None by @janekl :: PR: #11778
• chore(beep boop 🤖): Bump MCORE_TAG=4dc8977... (2025-01-07) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11768
• make progress printer compatible with PTL v2.5.0 by @ashors1 :: PR: #11779
• Fix Mistral Conversion Issue by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11786
• build: Fix build-arg by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11815
• Lora ckpt in HF format for NeMo AutoModel by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #11712
• 8x22b seq len by @malay-nagda :: PR: #11788
• Bugfix for output_generation_logits in tensorrtllm by @athitten :: PR: #11820
• handle mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 tokenizer correctly by @akoumpa :: PR: #11839
• remove tensorstore pin in requirements*.txt by @pstjohn :: PR: #11777
• Do not load context for model transform in llm inference by @hemildesai :: PR: #11751
• update nemo2sftpeft tutorial container verison by @HuiyingLi :: PR: #11832
• Latest News updated for Cosmos by @lbliii :: PR: #11806
• Removes tensorstore 0.1.45 pin from requirements_deploy.txt by @pstjohn :: PR: #11858
• ci: Prune dangling images by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11885
• Disable tests that download datasets from web by @akoumpa :: PR: #11878
• Add context_logits for eval accuracy calculation in case of multi token prediction tasks by @athitten :: PR: #11753
• add dataset_root to SpecterDataModule by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11837
• Support both Path and str for APIs by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11865
• Run nsys callback on GBS not on MBS by @akoumpa :: PR: #11861
• ci: Set bump-branch to weekly by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11889
• chore: Update mcore-tag-bump-bot.yml by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11891
• ci: Bump Mcore in weekly PR by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11897
• check restore_config first by @akoumpa :: PR: #11890
• LinearAdapter: propagate args to _init_adapter by @akoumpa :: PR: #11902
• NeMo 2.0 fp8 conversion by @Laplasjan107 :: PR: #11845
• nemo ux expert tensor parallel by @akoumpa :: PR: #11903
• Add CP support to Neva in NeMo2 by @yaoyu-33 :: PR: #11850
• build: Move dependencies by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11790
• Add Flux and Flux Controlnet Support to Diffusion folder by @Victor49152 :: PR: #11794
• ci: Adjust bump mcore workflow by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11918
• ci: Small fix to bump workflow by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11919
• Revert #11890 and add a test that would have caught the error by @cuichenx :: PR: #11914
• ci: Adjust input argument by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11921
• Create test_phi3.py by @mayani-nv :: PR: #11843
• Enable NeMo importer and loading dist CKPT for training by @Victor49152 :: PR: #11927
• build: Pin triton by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11938
• Add sharding for speechlm and vlm by @BoxiangW :: PR: #11876
• Update torch load for load from disk by @thomasdhc :: PR: #11963
• Add options to add mp_policy and parallel_fn for NeMo automodel fsdp2 by @BoxiangW :: PR: #11956
• ci: Add coverage reports by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11912
• Add batching support for evaluation by @athitten :: PR: #11934
• add use_fast option by @akoumpa :: PR: #11976
• improve error and debug messages in model connector by @cuichenx :: PR: #11979
• [checkpoint][docs] Fix typos in dist checkpointing docs by @ananthsub :: PR: #1...

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc3

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc3 (2025-02-25)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc2

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc2 (2025-02-17)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc1

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc1 (2025-02-04)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc0

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.2.0rc0 (2025-02-02)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0

Highlights

• Training
  • Fault Tolerance
    • Straggler Detection
    • Auto Relaunch
• LLM & MM
  • MM models
    • Llava-next
    • Llama 3.2
  • Sequence Model Parallel for NeVa
  • Enable Energon
  • SigLIP (NeMo 1.0 only)
  • LLM 2.0 migration
    • Starcoder2
    • Gemma 2
    • T5
    • Baichuan
    • BERT
    • Mamba
    • ChatGLM
  • DoRA support
• Export
  • Nemo 2.0 base model export path for NIM
  • PTQ in Nemo 2.0
• ASR
  • Timestamps with TDT decoder
  • Timestamps option with .transcribe()

Detailed Changelogs:

ASR

Changelog

• [Fix] Fixed sampler override and audio_key in prepare_audio_data by @anteju :: PR: #10980
• Akoumparouli/mixtral recipe fix r2.0.0 by @akoumpa :: PR: #10994
• TDT compute timestamps option and Extra Whitespace handling for SPE by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #10875
• ci: Switch to CPU only runner by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11035
• Fix timestamps tests by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #11053
• ci: Pin release freeze by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11143
• Fix RNN-T loss memory usage by @artbataev :: PR: #11144
• Added deprecation notice by @Ssofja :: PR: #11133
• Fixes for Canary adapters tutorial by @pzelasko :: PR: #11184
• add ipython import guard by @nithinraok :: PR: #11191
• Self Supervised Pre-Training tutorial Fix by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #11206
• update the return type by @nithinraok :: PR: #11210
• Timestamps to transcribe by @nithinraok :: PR: #10950
• [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045
• Beam search algorithm implementation for TDT models by @lilithgrigoryan :: PR: #10903
• Update import 'pytorch_lightning' -> 'lightning.pytorch' by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11252
• Remove pytorch-lightning by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11306
• update hypothesis when passed through cfg by @nithinraok :: PR: #11366
• Revert "update hypothesis when passed through cfg" by @pablo-garay :: PR: #11373
• Fix transcribe speech by @nithinraok :: PR: #11379
• Lhotse support for transcribe_speech_parallel by @nune-tadevosyan :: PR: #11249
• Sortformer Diarizer 4spk v1 model PR Part 1: models, modules and dataloaders by @tango4j :: PR: #11282
• Removing unnecessary lines by @nune-tadevosyan :: PR: #11408
• Support for initializing lhotse shar dataloader via field: list[path] mapping by @pzelasko :: PR: #11460
• New extended prompt format for Canary, short utterances inference fix, and training micro-optimizations by @pzelasko :: PR: #11058
• Fixing Multi_Task_Adapters.ipynb by replacing canary2 with canary_custom by @weiqingw4ng :: PR: #11636

TTS

Changelog

• [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045
• Add T5TTS by @blisc :: PR: #11193
• Update import 'pytorch_lightning' -> 'lightning.pytorch' by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11252
• Remove pytorch-lightning by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11306
• Add nvidia/low-frame-rate-speech-codec-22khz model on docs by @Edresson :: PR: #11457

NLP / NMT

Changelog

• Move collectiob.nlp imports inline for t5 by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10877
• Use a context-manager when opening files by @akoumpa :: PR: #10895
• Packed sequence bug fixes by @cuichenx :: PR: #10898
• ckpt convert bug fixes by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10878
• remove deprecated ci tests by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10922
• Update T5 tokenizer (adding additional tokens to tokenizer config) by @huvunvidia :: PR: #10972
• Add support and recipes for HF models via AutoModelForCausalLM by @akoumpa :: PR: #10962
• gpt3 175b cli by @malay-nagda :: PR: #10985
• Fix for crash with LoRA + tp_overlap_comm=false + sequence_parallel=true by @vysarge :: PR: #10920
• Update BaseMegatronSampler for compatibility with PTL's _BatchProgress by @ashors1 :: PR: #11016
• add deprecation note by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11024
• Update ModelOpt Width Pruning example defaults by @kevalmorabia97 :: PR: #10902
• switch to NeMo 2.0 recipes by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10948
• NeMo 1.0: upcycle dense to moe by @akoumpa :: PR: #11002
• Gemma2 in Nemo2 with Recipes by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11037
• Add Packed Seq option to GPT based models by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11100
• Fix MCoreGPTModel import in llm.gpt.model.base by @hemildesai :: PR: #11109
• TP+MoE peft fix by @akoumpa :: PR: #11114
• GPT recipes to use full te spec by @JimmyZhang12 :: PR: #11119
• Virtual pipeline parallel support for LoRA in NLPAdapterModelMixin by @vysarge :: PR: #11128
• update nemo args for mcore flash decode arg change by @HuiyingLi :: PR: #11138
• Call ckpt_to_weights_subdir from MegatronCheckpointIO by @ashors1 :: PR: #10897
• [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045
• fix(export): GPT models w/ bias=False convert properly by @terrykong :: PR: #11255
• Use MegatronDataSampler in HfDatasetDataModule by @akoumpa :: PR: #11274
• Add T5TTS by @blisc :: PR: #11193
• ci: Exclude CPU machines from scan by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11300
• Revert "fix(export): GPT models w/ bias=False convert properly" by @terrykong :: PR: #11301
• remove redundant docs by @sharathts :: PR: #11302
• Update import 'pytorch_lightning' -> 'lightning.pytorch' by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11252
• Add attention_bias argument in transformer block and transformer layer modules, addressing change in MCore by @yaoyu-33 :: PR: #11289
• Remove pytorch-lightning by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11306
• Update T5 attention-mask shapes to be compatible with all attention-backend in new TE versions by @huvunvidia :: PR: #11059
• Add support for restoring from 2.0 checkpoint in 1.0 by @hemildesai :: PR: #11347
• Fix Gemma2 Attention Args by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11365
• mlm conversion & tiktokenizer support by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11349
• [Nemo1] Generate sharded optimizer state dicts only if needed for saving by @ananthsub :: PR: #11451
• add hindi tn/itn coverage by @mgrafu :: PR: #11382
• chore(beep boop 🤖): Bump MCORE_TAG=67a50f2... (2024-11-28) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11427
• Handle exception when importing RetroGPTChunkDatasets by @guyueh1 :: PR: #11415
• Update restore from config for gpt type continual training in NeMo1 by @yaoyu-33 :: PR: #11471
• ci: Re-enable L2_Megatron_LM_To_NeMo_Conversion by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11484
• Apply packed sequence params change for fused rope compatibility by @ananthsub :: PR: #11506
• Huvu/tiktoken tokenizer update by @huvunvidia :: PR: #11494

Text Normalization / Inverse Text Normalization

Changelog

• Adding support for LightningDataModule inside Fabric-API by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10879
• Add registry to register all needed classes with artifacts in nemo.lightning.io by @hemildesai :: PR: #10861
• Update import 'pytorch_lightning' -> 'lightning.pytorch' by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11252
• Remove pytorch-lightning by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11306
• add hindi tn/itn coverage by @mgrafu :: PR: #11382

Export

Changelog

• Update engine build step for TRT-LLM 0.13.0 by @janekl :: PR: #10880
• Nemo 2.0 ckpt support in TRT-LLM export by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #10891
• Fix TRTLLM parallel_embedding by @meatybobby :: PR: #10975
• Export & deploy updates (part I) by @janekl :: PR: #10941
• Add doc-strings to import & export + improve logging by @marcromeyn :: PR: #11078
• NeMo-UX: fix nemo-ux export path by @akoumpa :: PR: #11081
• Fix TRTLLM nemo2 activation parsing by @meatybobby :: PR: #11062
• Support exporting Nemotron-340B for TensorRT-LLM by @jinyangyuan-nvidia :: PR: #11015
• vLLM Hugging Face exporter by @oyilmaz-nvidia :: PR: #11124
• Fix export of configuration parameters to Weights and Biases by @soluwalana :: PR: #10995
• Change activation parsing in TRTLLM by @meatybobby :: PR: #11173
• Remove builder_opt param from trtllm-build for TensorRT-LLM >= 0.14.0 by @janekl :: PR: #11259
• fix(export): GPT models w/ bias=False convert properly by @terrykong :: PR: #11255
• fix(export): update API for disabling device reassignment in TRTLLM for Aligner by @terrykong :: PR: #10863
• Add openai-gelu in gated activation for TRTLLM export by @meatybobby :: PR: #11293
• Revert "fix(export): GPT models w/ bias=False convert properly" by @terrykong :: PR: #11301
• Adding alinger export by @shanmugamr1992 :: PR: #11269
• Export & deploy updates (part II) by @janekl :: PR: #11344
• Introducing TensorRT lazy export and caching option with trt_compile() by @borisfom :: PR: #11266
• fix: export converts properly if no model_prefix by @terrykong :: PR: #11477

Bugfixes

Changelog

• Change default ckpt name by @maanug-nv :: PR: #11277
• Fix patching of NeMo tokenizers for correct Lambada evaluation by @janekl :: PR: #11326

Uncategorized:

Changelog

• ci: Use Slack group by @ko3n1g :: PR: #10866
• Bump Dockerfile.ci (2024-10-14) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #10871
• Fix peft resume by @cuichenx :: PR: #10887
• call post_init after altering config values by @akoumpa :: PR: #10885
• Late import prettytable by @maanug-nv :: PR: #10912
• Bump Dockerfile.ci (2024-10-17) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #10919
• Warning for missing FP8 checkpoint support for vLLM deployment by @janekl :: PR: #10906
• Fix artifact saving by @hemildesai :: PR: #10914
• Lora improvement by @cuichenx :: PR: #10918
• Huvu/t5 nemo2.0 peft by @huvunvidia :: PR: #10916
• perf recipes and Mcore DistOpt params by @malay-nagda :: PR: #10883
• ci: Fix cherry pick team by @ko3n1g :: PR: #10945
• Fix requirements for MacOS by @artbataev :: PR: #10930
• Fix nemo 2.0 recipes by @BoxiangW :: PR: #10915
• Akoumparouli/nemo ux fix dir or string artifact by @akoumpa :: PR: #10936
• Fix typo in docstring by @ashors1 :: PR: #10955
• [Nemo CICD] Remove deprecated tests by @pablo-garay :: PR: #10960
• Restore NeMo 2.0 T5 pretraining CICD test by @huvunvidia :: PR: #10952
• Convert perf plugin env vars to strings by @hemildesai :: PR: #10947
• disable ...

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0rc2

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0rc2 (2024-12-21)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0rc1

Prerelease: NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0rc1 (2024-12-20)

NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.1.0rc0

[🤠]: Howdy folks, let's release NeMo `r2.1.0` ! (#11556)

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NVIDIA Neural Modules 2.0.0

Highlights

Large language models & Multi modal

• Training
  • Long context recipe
  • PyTorch Native FSDP 1
• Models
  • Llama 3
  • Mixtral
  • Nemotron
• NeMo 1.0
  • SDXL (text-2-image)
  • Model Opt
    • Depth Pruning (docs)
    • Logit based Knowledge Distillation (docs)

Export

• TensorRT-LLM v0.12 integration
• LoRA support for vLLM
• FP8 checkpoint

ASR

• Parakeet large (ASR with PnC model)
• Added Uzbek offline and Gregorian streaming models
• Optimization feature for efficient bucketing to improve bs consumption on GPUs

Detailed Changelogs

ASR

Changelog

• add parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m model by @nithinraok :: PR: #10461
• fix asr finetune by @stevehuang52 :: PR: #10508
• replace unbiased with correction by @nithinraok :: PR: #10555
• Update Multi_Task_Adapters.ipynb by @pzelasko :: PR: #10600
• Fix asr warnings by @nithinraok :: PR: #10469
• Fix typo in ASR RNNT BPE model by @pzelasko :: PR: #10742
• TestEncDecMultiTaskModel for canary parallel by @karpnv :: PR: #10740
• fix chunked infer by @stevehuang52 :: PR: #10581
• training code for hybrid-autoregressive inference model by @hainan-xv :: PR: #10841
• remove stacking operation from batched functions by @lilithgrigoryan :: PR: #10524
• Add lhotse fixes for rnnt model training and WER hanging issue with f… by @nithinraok :: PR: #10821
• Fix ASR tests by @artbataev :: PR: #10794
• [Fix] Fixed sampler override and audio_key in prepare_audio_data by @anteju :: PR: #10980
• [WIP] Add docs for NEST SSL by @stevehuang52 :: PR: #10804
• Akoumparouli/mixtral recipe fix r2.0.0 by @akoumpa :: PR: #10994
• TDT compute timestamps option and Extra Whitespace handling for SPE by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #10875
• ci: Switch to CPU only runner by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11035
• Fix timestamps tests by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #11053
• ci: Pin release freeze by @ko3n1g :: PR: #11143
• Fix RNN-T loss memory usage by @artbataev :: PR: #11144
• Added deprecation notice by @Ssofja :: PR: #11133
• Fixes for Canary adapters tutorial by @pzelasko :: PR: #11184
• add ipython import guard by @nithinraok :: PR: #11191
• Self Supervised Pre-Training tutorial Fix by @monica-sekoyan :: PR: #11206
• update the return type by @nithinraok :: PR: #11210
• Timestamps to transcribe by @nithinraok :: PR: #10950
• [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045
• Beam search algorithm implementation for TDT models by @lilithgrigoryan :: PR: #10903

TTS

Changelog

• Fix asr warnings by @nithinraok :: PR: #10469
• Make nemo text processing optional in TTS by @blisc :: PR: #10584
• [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045

NLP / NMT

Changelog

• Bump Dockerfile.ci (2024-09-09) by @ko3n1g :: PR: #10423

• MCORE interface for TP-only FP8 AMAX reduction by @erhoo82 :: PR: #10437

• Remove Apex dependency if not using MixedFusedLayerNorm by @cuichenx :: PR: #10468

• Add missing import guards for causal_conv1d and mamba_ssm dependencies by @janekl :: PR: #10429

• Update doc for fp8 trt-llm export by @Laplasjan107 :: PR: #10444

• set mock in GPTDatasetConfig by @akoumpa :: PR: #10435

• Remove running validating after finetuning by @huvunvidia :: PR: #10560

• Extending modelopt spec for TEDotProductAttention by @janekl :: PR: #10523

• Fix mb_calculator import in lora tutorial by @BoxiangW :: PR: #10624

• .nemo conversion bug fix by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10598

• Updating modelopt spec for Mixtral by @janekl :: PR: #10660

• Require setuptools>=70 and update deprecated api by @thomasdhc :: PR: #10659

• Akoumparouli/fix get tokenizer list by @akoumpa :: PR: #10596

• [McoreDistOptim] fix the naming to match apex.dist by @gdengk :: PR: #10707

• [fix] Ensures disabling exp_manager with exp_manager=null does not error by @terrykong :: PR: #10651

• [feat] Update get_model_parallel_src_rank to support tp-pp-dp ordering by @terrykong :: PR: #10652

• feat: Migrate GPTSession refit path in Nemo export to ModelRunner for Aligner by @terrykong :: PR: #10654

• [MCoreDistOptim] Add assertions for McoreDistOptim and fix fp8 arg specs by @gdengk :: PR: #10748

• Fix for crashes with tensorboard_logger=false and VP + LoRA by @vysarge :: PR: #10792

• Adding init_model_parallel to FabricMegatronStrategy by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10733

• Moving steps to MegatronParallel to improve UX for Fabric by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10732

• Adding setup_megatron_optimizer to FabricMegatronStrategy by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10833

• Make FabricMegatronMixedPrecision match MegatronMixedPrecision by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10835

• Fix VPP bug in MegatronStep by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10847

• Expose drop_last in MegatronDataSampler by @farhadrgh :: PR: #10837

• Move collectiob.nlp imports inline for t5 by @marcromeyn :: PR: #10877

• Use a context-manager when opening files by @akoumpa :: PR: #10895

• Packed sequence bug fixes by @cuichenx :: PR: #10898

• ckpt convert bug fixes by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10878

• remove deprecated ci tests by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10922

• Adithyare/oai chat completion by @arendu :: PR: #10785

• Update T5 tokenizer (adding additional tokens to tokenizer config) by @huvunvidia :: PR: #10972

• Add support and recipes for HF models via AutoModelForCausalLM by @akoumpa :: PR: #10962

  • gpt3 175b cli by @malay-nagda :: PR: #10985
  • Fix for crash with LoRA + tp_overlap_comm=false + sequence_parallel=true by @vysarge :: PR: #10920
  • Update BaseMegatronSampler for compatibility with PTL'''s _BatchProgress by @ashors1 :: PR: #11016
  • add deprecation note by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11024
  • Update ModelOpt Width Pruning example defaults by @kevalmorabia97 :: PR: #10902
  • switch to NeMo 2.0 recipes by @dimapihtar :: PR: #10948
  • NeMo 1.0: upcycle dense to moe by @akoumpa :: PR: #11002
  • Update mcore parallelism initialization in nemo2 by @yaoyu-33 :: PR: #10643
  • Gemma2 in Nemo2 with Recipes by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11037
  • Add Packed Seq option to GPT based models by @suiyoubi :: PR: #11100
  • Fix MCoreGPTModel import in llm.gpt.model.base by @hemildesai :: PR: #11109
  • TP+MoE peft fix by @akoumpa :: PR: #11114
  • GPT recipes to use full te spec by @JimmyZhang12 :: PR: #11119
  • Virtual pipeline parallel support for LoRA in NLPAdapterModelMixin by @vysarge :: PR: #11128
  • update nemo args for mcore flash decode arg change by @HuiyingLi :: PR: #11138
  • Call ckpt_to_weights_subdir from MegatronCheckpointIO by @ashors1 :: PR: #10897
  • fix typo by @dimapihtar :: PR: #11234
  • [Doc fixes] update file names, installation instructions, bad links by @erastorgueva-nv :: PR: #11045
  • fix(export): GPT models w/ bias=False convert properly by @terrykong :: PR: #11255